Fish-inspired sensor tracks how human heart tissue responds to disease and treatment

Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ...
IEEE

Predicting Medical Device Life Expectancy and Estimating Remaining Useful Life Using a Data-Driven Multimodal Framework

Abstract: Accurately predicting the life expectancy of medical devices is crucial in optimizing healthcare operations, managing costs, and ensuring patient safety. Medical devices in clinical ...

Modular coatings customize hydrogel implants to boost adhesion and limit fibrosis

Researchers led by Jiawei Yang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and ...
Nature

CRISPR’s next act: the companies editing the epigenome to treat disease

In late 2021, Amber Salzman interviewed for a job that she had no intention of taking. A relatively new start-up company, called Epicrispr Biotechnologies, was looking for a chief executive, and it ...
News Media Blogs

Selling Organs to Make Ends Meet: How Poverty Drives the Illegal Organ Trade and the Ethicality of Legalization

Artist Credit: Paula Yaniz Macia ’28, Washington and Lee University In 2013, 121,272 Americans were on the waitlist for an organ transplant, yet only 14,257 people donated their organs (Wright 2015).
The New York Times

Have a Thorny Medical Question? Your Doctor May Be Using A.I. for That.

OpenEvidence, a fast-growing start-up, is using artificial intelligence to help doctors find answers to clinical questions for diagnosis and treatment. OpenEvidence, a fast-growing start-up, is using ...
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Evolving Health Information–Seeking Behavior in the Context of Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Alexa: Interview Study Using the Think-Aloud Protocol

Alexa was viewed as convenient but limited, particularly for in-depth health queries. Platform choice was influenced by the seriousness of the health issue, context of use, and prior experience.
WVTM 13

Cullman woman is first patient to receive medical cannabis in Alabama

WVTM 13 NEWS STARTS NOW WITH BREAKING NEWS. I’M GOING TO BE DRIVING HOME THINKING ABOUT AND KNOWING THAT MY LIFE IS NEVER GOING TO BE THE SAME, NOR WILL ALABAMA. AN HISTORIC DAY IN OUR STATE. FOR THE ...
IEEE

Semi-Supervised Medical Hyperspectral Image Segmentation Using Adversarial Consistency Constraint Learning and Cross Indication Network

Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging technology is considered a new paradigm for high-precision pathological image segmentation due to its ability to obtain spatial and spectral information of the detected ...