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
July 06, 2021 Developed by a team at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, the test is call Urine Prostate Seq test, or UPSeq for short. It collects a urine sample from men after a digital rectal exam and uses genomic sequencing to analyze the liquid. Researchers say UPSeq could be faster, cheaper and … Read more
July 01, 2021 A trial by doctors at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London has found that the test — called the basophil activation test (BAT) — is close to 100 per cent accurate at spotting nut allergies. Allergic reactions occur when the immune system overreacts to a trigger —usually food, medication or an … Read more
June 29, 2021 Kids grappling with this issue have structural changes in their brain, which may account for behavioral problems such as inattention or hyperactivity, experts wrote Tuesday in Nature Communications. The study — funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, among others — is the largest of its kind, incorporating images from more … Read more