Are We Close To Creating Synthetic Humans?
In an article published in Thursday’s edition of the journal Science, George Church, a geneticist at Harvard University, states a
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Medical Technology
What We Are Not Hearing
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a comprehensive report on how to bring about more accessible and
Read MoreHearing Aids Should They Be Deregulate?
The Food and Drug Administration held a public workshop on hearing aid regulations which was enacted to protect the hearing
Read MoreInventing A Machine That Spits Out Drugs In A Whole New Way
(By Martha Bebinger, WBUR for Kaiser Health News) In a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all the work
Read MoreBreathalyzer Test is Not Just for Alcohol Anymore
Joseph Azzarelli, MIT student and Ph.D. candidate, won the MIT Entrepreneurship Competition with a simple breathalyzer test that could diagnose
Read MoreZika Virus Test Approval by FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization to Quest Diagnostics Inc. to sell the first commercially developed diagnostic
Read More$250 Million for Cancer Immunotherapy
Sean Parker, founder of Napster and founding president of Facebook is giving $250 million to six cancer centers nationwide for
Read MoreCan Smartphones Diagnose Cancer?
Currently there are more than 165,000 smartphone apps on health and wellness available for you to download but some are
Read MoreThe Role of Technology in Managing Diabetes
The number of Americans dealing with diabetes, coupled with the even larger number of Americans with prediabetes conditions, is so enormous
Read MoreThe Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) & Alternative Payment Models (APMs): Delivery System Reform, Medicare Payment Reform, & the MACRA
(Source – CMS.gov) How does the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) reform Medicare payment? The MACRA
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