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Seventh Sense Biosystems Unveils New Name: YourBio Health; Raises $21m Funding to Help Fuel Growth
Seventh Sense Biosystems, Inc., developers of the world’s first painless push-button blood collection device, announced today its new corporate name, YourBio Health, Inc., which reflects the company’s focus on putting health information in the hands of the individual. YourBio Health enables individuals to collect a blood sample and receive the results via a secure website from the ...
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EPA selects eight universities to help improve public health data and research
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today, its selection of academic partners for the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) University Challenge, a project designed to find innovative ways to increase public awareness of toxic chemical releases in their communities and around the country. “For more than 25 years, EPA has gathered critical environmental data to provide ...
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Register now for KT Connects - Knowledge translation and public engagement: Using theory to build practice during the COVID-19 crisis
Join us for another exciting KT Connects with Dr. Emily Rempel as she explores and shares lessons from the COVID-19 infodemic to create more effective knowledge translation response in times of crisis. Dr. Emily Rempel is a Red River Métis and White critical social researcher and a Knowledge Translation Lead at the BC Centre for Disease Control. Her work focuses on equity, public ...
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Toxicity Atlas presentation CCA Conference
Last Friday, Medstoner Silvia presented the main findings of her first manuscript at the 5th Cancer Center Amsterdam (CCA) Conference! The manuscript entitled “A roadmap to use non-structured data to discover multi-target cancer vulnerabilities” highlights the lack of consistency in the currently available public data and discusses the importance of extracting information from ...
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ELEVET Elevates Veterinarian Care Nationwide by Offering HD StethVet® HD Medical’s New EKG-Enabled Intelligent Stethoscope
ELEVET Technologies of Worthington, OH and HD Medical, Inc. of Silicon Valley, CA today announce they have signed a distribution agreement. According to the terms of the agreement, ELEVET will offer HD StethVet® to the veterinarian community nationwide. HD Steth is an intelligent stethoscope with integrated EKG; this provides instantaneous insights from evidence-based medical diagnosis of an ...
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New grants to measure progress of environmental programs in protecting human health
EPA has awarded 10 grants totaling $5 million to universities, state departments of public health and one research institute to develop a new generation of markers or indicators that measure progress in environmental programs in protecting human health. The new projects were awarded through EPA’s Science To Achieve Results research program, and will help environmental managers evaluate the ...
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Clip Health (formerly Luminostics) Announces Company Rebranding, Immediate Product Pipeline
Clip Health™, a fast-growing healthtech company and diagnostics innovator, today announced its DBA name change and company rebrand from its corporate name Luminostics, Inc. “Clip Health, as a name, aligns with our products’ central value of delivering speedy, easy-to-obtain access to your health data, thereby trimming inefficiencies in healthcare delivery”, said ...
By Clip Health
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Clip Health (formerly Luminostics) Announces Company Rebranding, Immediate Product Pipeline
Clip Health™, a fast-growing healthtech company and diagnostics innovator, today announced its DBA name change and company rebrand from its corporate name Luminostics, Inc. “Clip Health, as a name, aligns with our products’ central value of delivering speedy, easy-to-obtain access to your health data, thereby trimming inefficiencies in healthcare delivery”, said ...
By Clip Health
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Health & Wellness: What Urinalysis Could Say About Your Well-being
Most people would agree that only looking at your bank account once a year is a bad idea, yet when we look at our own health, the only data many of us collect is from a once-a-year checkup, in which doctors will run a series of laboratory tests. These tests are a single data point describing the very dynamic systems that are our bodies, which change throughout the year. In order to start ...
By Fluxergy
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How Do We Fill The Data Gap In Virtual Care?
Telehealth use skyrocketed in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic when many health providers were forced to deliver services remotely. Although telehealth visits have dropped from their peak in 2020, they remain elevated even as many patients return to in-person care, according to the results of an analysis by Epic Research and the Kaiser Family Foundation. Survey results show that ...
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Unilever Selects Cority to Bring Greater Visibility and Efficiency to COVID-19 Response and Recovery
Cority, the most trusted provider of environmental, health, safety, and quality (EHSQ) management software today announced that Unilever, one of the world’s leading consumer goods companies, has chosen Cority to help support employee health management, control risk of an outbreak, streamline return to work, and ensure business continuity through the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and Canada. ...
By Cority
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AventaMed selected as Test Case for RWE by NESTcc
The National Evaluation System for health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc), an initiative of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), announces twelve new Test-Cases which leverage Real-World Evidence (RWE) and address key priorities for medical device stakeholders. These Test-Cases are intended to accelerate NESTcc’s progress and provide proof of concept for NESTcc’s ...
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Emory University research links functional thyroid disease, PFOA exposure
Excessive perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) exposure appears to be associated with thyroid disease, according to new research. A study by Kyle Steenland, environmental health professor at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, tracking the disease within a large high-exposure group concludes that the chemical “was associated with incident functional thyroid disease.” ...
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Innovative AI Technology Aids Personalized Care for Diabetes Patients Needing Complex Drug Treatment
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501, Hitachi), University of Utah Health (U of U Health), and Regenstrief Institute, Inc. (Regenstrief) today announced the development of an AI method to improve care for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who need complex treatment. One in 10 adults worldwide have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but a smaller number require multiple medications to control blood ...
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MassChallenge announces 30 digital health companies to join its 2019 cohort
At the end of the program the startups will get a chance to compete for more than $200,000 in prize money. Last week MassChallenge HealthTech unveiled the 30 digital health startups that will make up its 2019 cohort. The program gives the startups co-working office space and a tailored curriculum, with the primary goal of connecting startups to advisors, investors, pilots and research ...
By Epihunter NV
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Why Innovation in Blood Testing Matters
Why should payers care about clinical laboratory testing? Clinical laboratory testing plays an essential role in the delivery of health care. From early detection and diagnosis of disease to individualized treatment plans based on a person’s unique biology, medical care depends on accurate and timely health data. Seventy percent of medical decisions depend on lab test results, so making ...
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Asthma Awareness Month Resources
Asthma is a serious, sometimes life-threatening respiratory disease that affects the quality of life for millions of Americans. Although there is no cure for asthma yet, asthma can be controlled through medical treatment and management of environmental triggers. May is Asthma Awareness Month. This is part of EPA’s ongoing effort to increase public awareness of the asthma epidemic and ...
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Data making a difference: the world-leading data bank behind life-changing research
The Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank holds a wealth of anonymised data collected from people in Wales over the past 30 years. This data comes from health and social care, care homes, registers and audits, specialist services and surveys, which can be anonymously linked to provide a clear picture of the health and social care setting in Wales. SAIL data has been used widely ...
By MediWales
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Living close to heavy traffic strongly linked to heart disease deaths
A strong link between long-term exposure to vehicle pollution and deaths from heart disease and lung cancer has been found in a study of over a million individuals. The researchers say their results are relevant to European policymaking relating to air quality. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are both air pollutants emitted by vehicles and are found in higher ...
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How Remote Patient Monitoring Enhances Telehealth
The demand for telehealth in the United States has grown considerably in the past ten years. In 2017, patients were waiting an average of nearly 30 days to see their doctor, whose accessibility is growing increasingly scarce. It’s little wonder that from 2010-2017, the use of telehealth in hospitals increased from 35% to 76%, with nearly every state Medicaid program covering various ...
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