At CES, digital health gadgets gave me a detailed accounting of my flaws and failures
(By Megan Thielking for ST A T) LAS VEGAS — I have 905 pores, 20 wrinkles, and a face that
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Medical Technology
Researchers lay groundwork for drugs to cure C. diff
(By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Federally funded research published this week could offer scientists the building blocks
Read MoreWhat researchers thought they knew about Alzheimer’s disease is changing
Researchers thought they knew about Alzheimer’s disease but a new brain scanning technique is proven them wrong. The scan could
Read MoreA Reality Check On Artificial Intelligence: Are Health Care Claims Overblown?
(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News) Health products powered by artificial intelligence, or AI, are streaming into our lives,
Read MoreHe Jiankui, who created world’s first CRISPR’d babies, sentenced to three years in prison
(By Andrew Joseph for ST A T) A Chinese court on Monday sentenced He Jiankui, the scientist who made the
Read MoreReports Of Patients’ Deaths Linked To Heart Devices Lurk Below Radar
(By Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News) The Food and Drug Administration continues to file thousands of reports of patients’
Read MoreElectronic Health Records Creating A ‘New Era’ Of Health Care Fraud
(By Fred Schulte and Erika Fry, Fortuna for Kaiser Health News) Derek Lewis was working as an electronic health records
Read MoreA Veteran Started Vaping THC To Cope With Chronic Pain. Then He Got Very Sick
(By Marlene Harris-Taylor, Ideastream for Kaiser Health News) As vaping has grown more popular in recent years, the trend has
Read MoreFDA warns Conformis for failing to meet sterilization standards
(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review ) The FDA sent a warning letter to Conformis, a Billerica, Mass.-based devicemaker
Read MoreResearch using brains-in-a-dish forces a radical rethinking of Huntington’s disease
(By Sharon Begley for ST A T) Even allowing for the fact that these were lilliputian brains, they were not
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