brain injury News
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New Smart Helmet Could Spot Concussions in Real-Time
Smart helmets with embedded brainwave monitoring technology will automate the detection of concussions for caregivers on the sidelines. There is a high unmet need that is not properly addressed by motion sensors which have proven to be clinically unreliable in monitoring brain injury. Find out more about NoMo technology (here). ...
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WVXU: Local Company’s Brain Scanner Can Quickly Detect Damage, Which Could Help The Military And Beyond
More than 400,000 military personnel have suffered at least one traumatic brain injury in the last two decades. Long-term consequences for patients may have been better if doctors could more quickly have diagnosed the situation and treated it. Now there appears to be a solution and it involves the Norwood company Sense Neuro Diagnostics. ...
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LOK Corporation and Sense Neuro Diagnostics Announce Commercial Partnership Focused on International Market
(August 17, 2021—Montreal, Canada and Cincinnati, Ohio) LOK Corporation, a manufacturing agent that helps companies develop and manage their international distribution network and Sense Neuro Diagnostics, a medical technology company focused on improving outcomes for stroke and brain injury patients today announced a commercial partnership to bring innovative brain scanners being developed ...
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CincyInno: Cincinnati startup lands multimillion dollar military contract
Sense Neuro Diagnostics, founded in 2014 by four University of Cincinnati physicians, said the $2.43 million, 18-month award from the U.S. Department of Defense will accelerate development of a new rapid, noninvasive brain scanner that can detect and continuously monitor traumatic brain injury in a battlefield or field environment. TBI, for short, is a signature wound of recent wars. There have ...
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Sense announces strategic collaboration with healthcare catalyst Inflect Health
Sense Neuro Diagnostics, a medical technology company focused on improving outcomes for stroke and brain injury patients, today announced a strategic collaboration with Inflect Health, the new nationwide, multispecialty investment and innovation hub formed by Vituity. As part of this new relationship, Inflect Health will provide Sense access to its robust network of frontline physicians and ...
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TechOhio: This Cincinnati Startup is Creating a Non-Invasive Way to Diagnose and Monitor Stroke and Brain Injuries.
When someone suffers a stroke, time to proper care is critical. As Sense Neuro CTO and medical co-founder George Shaw, MD tells TechOhio, “not all hospitals are comprehensive stroke centers where they have the techniques to treat different types of strokes. You might be taken to the wrong hospital if EMS can’t determine what kind of stroke it is. If you need to be transferred from one ...
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NFL & GE Announce Six Final Winners of $10 Million Head Health Challenge
Innovations are advancing the understanding and diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury Breakthrough ideas include: point-of-care blood test to rapidly detect the presence of mild and moderate brain trauma; biomarkers that indicate how the brain reacts following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and a method to identify which brain areas become disconnected after injury GE (NYSE: GE) and the ...
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BrainScope Receives $4.5 Million Department of Defense Contract to Add Ocular Assessment to Future Concussion Products
BrainScope today announced that it has been awarded a research contract by the United States Department of Defense (DOD) valued at $4.5 million to create and integrate ocular capabilities into its handheld, multi-parameter mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and concussion products. BrainScope’s initial product in the market, BrainScope One, is the first FDA-cleared medical device to offer ...
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Minneapolis Barber Lynn Lehman to receive Judd Jacobson memorial award
Disability can happen to any one, at any time. Lynn Lehman of Minneapolis knows this from personal experience. In April 1995, Lehman, was a busy single mom, and a barber/owner of Clipper Cuts on West Broadway in North Minneapolis. While driving to her mother's house to pick up her kids, a van in front of Lehman swerved to avoid a car driving the wrong way on 35W. Lehman's car was hit head-on by ...
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BrainScope Honors Veterans Day and Supports U.S. Army Deployment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Concussion Assessment Devices
BrainScope®, a medical neuro-technology company focused on concussion and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) assessment, announced today that it has fulfilled orders for over 170 BrainScope One handheld devices and over 7,500 individual patient headsets to U.S. Army bases across the world. U.S. Army medics and clinicians continue to receive the training necessary to support the assessment of ...
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BrainScope and Aon Secure IP-based Deal Funding Full Expansion of Commercial Activities and Pursuit of New Indications for BrainScope’s Next-Gen Medical Device Platform
Brain-assessment device innovator BrainScope, and Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, today announced the completion of an intellectual property-based funding arrangement. The funding arrangement provides BrainScope with up to $35 million in capital to fund the full expansion of its commercial activities as well as to develop new clinical applications on its ...
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BrainScope Completes Agreement with 18,000 Member Yankee Alliance
BrainScope today announced a new system-wide agreement with Yankee Alliance to make BrainScope’s innovative point-of-care neuro-technology system available to the 18,000 members, including over 5000 outpatient facilities and senior centers, in Yankee Alliance. BrainScope is the only FDA cleared medical device that aids in the objective triage of head injured patients for suspected mild ...
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Over 30% Reduction in Unnecessary Head CT Scans When Integrating FDA-Cleared BrainScope One
BrainScope announced today the publication of a study conducted by physicians at Washington University Barnes Jewish Medical Center in St. Louis in the peer-reviewed journal The American Journal of Emergency Medicine entitled “Reduction in unnecessary CT scans head-injury in the emergency department using an FDA cleared device." The study demonstrated that the FDA-cleared BrainScope One ...
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Ride 2 Recovery and GE Veterans Network launch new program to help veterans with traumatic brain injuries, post traumatic stress and depression
The GE Veterans Network (GEVN) and Ride 2 Recovery (R2R) have kicked off a new program that is designed to generate awareness and support for America’s healing heroes who have returned from military service with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), Post Traumatic Stress (PTS), depression and other wounds. “This is an exciting partnership that will combine the passion, commitment, and ...
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Newronika Raises an 8.4M EUR Series-A Round
Newronika, a spin-off of world-class neurological research centers Policlinico of Milan and University of Milan, has raised an 8.4 million Euros Series-A round. The investment was led by French venture capital fund Omnes together with existing investors Innogest Capital and Indaco Venture Partners SGR ("Indaco SGR") on behalf of Indaco Ventures I and Atlante Ventures funds. F3F and an undisclosed ...
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UT Health San Antonio offers summer program for people with aphasia
The news of actor Bruce Willis’ aphasia diagnosis is drawing attention to a condition that is fairly common but not well understood by the general public. Aphasia is a condition that affects a person’s ability to communicate. People with aphasia can have difficulty understanding or expressing themselves verbally, in writing — or both. “Most people haven’t heard of ...
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Motus Nova voted `Most Innovative Tech Company of 2019` by TAG for Increasing Access to Stroke Rehab with Affordable Robotic Devices for at Home Use
Stroke affects more than 15 million people worldwide. Direct access to clinically proven therapies and a full recovery is out of reach for most survivors leading to a lifetime of impairment. "Our mission is to deliver neuro-rehab in every home through robotic exoskeletons guided by AI. Latin for 'movement anewed', Motus Nova envisions a world where survivors of stroke live without impairment. We ...
By Motus Nova
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BrainScope Receives Prix Galien Award Nomination for Its Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment Product
BrainScope today announced its second consecutive nomination for the 2018 Annual Prix Galien USA Awards for “Best Medical Technology" product. Its flagship BrainScope One product is a multi-modal, comprehensive, handheld capability to help clinicians objectively and rapidly assess and triage head injured patients directly at the point of care. BrainScope’s innovative technology ...
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TIKOMED’S ILB® restores brain energy metabolism following severe traumatic brain injury in the rat demonstrated in data published by the journal Antioxidants
A new study on TIKOMED’s lead drug candidate, ILB®, addressing one of the underlying causes of neurodegeneration in acute and chronic diseases was published in Antioxidants today. The data from the rodent model studying severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI), showed that a single post-injury injection of ILB® has beneficial effects on the metabolic damages caused by sTBI. “This ...
By TIKOMED AB
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Unique mentoring project assists job seekers with disabilities
Diane Forsberg, sales and marketing manager at The Capital Grille in downtown Minneapolis, had an idea. She learned about a mentorship program offered by Darden Restaurants, parent company of The Capital Grille which gives people with disabilities valuable work skills. So, Forsberg contacted Courage Center to see if their clients would be interested in participating in a Disability Mentoring Day ...
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