August 13, 2021 Uncontrolled gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) management has been associated with poor neonatal outcomes such as increased birth weight, macrosomia, and neonatal hypoglycemia. Fetal size is used to guide the management of gestational diabetes. However, aggressive glucose control may lead to small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants, placing them at an increased risk for adverse outcomes; … Read more
August 10, 2021 The consequences can be dire. Preterm birth is the leading cause of infant death, and surviving preemies can develop short and long-term complications including those affecting the lungs, heart, and brain. However, Mira Moufarrej says it does not have to be that way. T he 26-year-old Stanford bioengineering graduate student developed simple … Read more
August 06, 2021 Dive Insight: The concept of an SBOM has been under discussion for years within the federal government. FDA in 2018 issued a Medical Device Safety Action Plan noting the agency was considering requiring firms to develop SBOMs as part of premarket submissions and make them available to customers and users “so that … Read more
August 03, 2021 The medtech industry is broadly supportive of Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology (MCIT), which will mean breakthrough medical devices automatically get Medicare reimbursement on the day they receive FDA clearance or approval. AdvaMed CEO Scott Whitaker said the policy is “good government” and “good common sense,” arguing it is logical to facilitate … Read more
July 29, 2021 The UK electronics start-up Rockley Photonics, which has developed a silicon photonics platform that can monitor a person’s blood using infrared light, suggests in the filing that the next-generation sensors needed for those new health monitoring features could be incorporated into the Apple Watch as soon as 2022. First reported in The Telegraph, the SEC document details Rockley’s … Read more
July 27, 2021 DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña hailed Denver Chicano, proprietor of PatchMed Cosmetics Trading, for developing the perforated coco patch “Vermac”. “This company is amazing because I witnessed how they succeeded with their product lines,” he said. Chicano, who served as a nurse at the Burn Unit of the Philippine … Read more
July 20, 2021 Half of the nearly 200 million people who suffer from CAD (Coronary Artery Disease ) initially check in with chest pain. And doctors typically turn to either functional stress testing or CT coronary angiography (CTCA) for their initial analyses. Despite thousands of clinical trials, including the well-known PROMISE and SCOT-HEART investigations, the … Read more
July 16, 2021 The two-step test, which combines a newly developed disease risk factor score with conventional blood screening for virus antibodies, was more than 92% accurate at identifying those who would experience serious illness, the data showed. The test can be administered during COVID-19 screening to help guide treatment before the most severe symptoms … Read more
July 14, 2021 The app, which is still in the prototype phase, was shown in an NIH-funded study to be able to accurately distinguish between toddlers with and without autism by analyzing their eye movements while viewing social stimuli. The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, was funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Child Health … Read more
July 08, 2021 Those infected with the coronavirus have higher levels of a specific type of protein associated with inflammation in their urine than those who did not have the virus, the scientists said. In addition, amounts of these proteins, called cytokines, were higher in patients with pre-existing chronic health conditions, such as high blood … Read more