Research

Virtual Reality could Help to Reduce Pain for People with Nerve Injuries

We all feel physical pain in different ways, but people with nerve injuries often have a dysfunctional pain suppression system, making them particularly prone to discomfort.

Now researchers have uncovered that virtual reality (VR) can reduce types of pain typically seen in patients with nerve injuries - and that VR can boost the dysfunctional pain suppression system, giving people with chronic pain a possible game-changing hope.

Mobility Data Used to Respond to COVID-19 can Leave out Older and Non-White People

Information on individuals' mobility - where they go as measured by their smartphones - has been used widely in devising and evaluating ways to respond to COVID-19, including how to target public health resources. Yet little attention has been paid to how reliable these data are and what sorts of demographic bias they possess.

Using AI to Assess Surgical Performance

More than one million operations are performed in Switzerland every year. A surgeon's skill has a direct impact on the outcome of the operation. Training and experience, as well as momentary fatigue and other influencing factors all play a role. At present, skill is tested by experts, either directly during an operation or by evaluating video footage. This approach is very costly and only a limited number of experts are available.

How to Make All Headphones Intelligent

How do you turn "dumb" headphones into smart ones? Rutgers engineers have invented a cheap and easy way by transforming headphones into sensors that can be plugged into smartphones, identify their users, monitor their heart rates and perform other services.

Vaccine Development Software Shows Promise in Influenza Effort, could Help Defeat Coronavirus

A novel computer algorithm that could create a broadly reactive influenza vaccine for swine flu also offers a path toward a pan-influenza vaccine and possibly a pan-coronavirus vaccine as well, according to a new paper published in Nature Communications.

Automatic Adverse Drug Reaction Extraction from Electronic Health Records

Patients' electronic health records convey crucial information. The application of natural language processing techniques to these records may be an effective means of extracting information that may improve clinical decision making, clinical documentation and billing, disease prediction and the detection of adverse drug reactions.

New Tool Reveals Security and Privacy Issues with Contact Tracing Apps

Researchers have developed a tool to identify security and privacy risks associated with COVID-19 contact tracing apps.

COVIDGuardian, the first automated security and privacy assessment tool, tests contact tracing apps for potential threats such as malware, embedded trackers and private information leakage.

Research News

Virtual Reality could Help to Reduce Pain for People with Nerve Injuries

Mobility Data Used to Respond to COVID-19 can Leave out Older and Non-White People

Using AI to Assess Surgical Performance

How to Make All Headphones Intelligent

Vaccine Development Software Shows Promise in Influenza Effort, could Help Defeat Coronavirus

Automatic Adverse Drug Reaction Extraction from Electronic Health Records

New Tool Reveals Security and Privacy Issues with Contact Tracing Apps

More eHealth News ...

Latest Business News

Latest Research News

Latest Conferences News

Latest Jobs