Mental health chatbot Woebot gets $90m boost
Irish-founded Woebot built a chatbot that can bond with users and help them reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.
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These are the 4 common personalities that derail leadership
Executive coach Kristoffer Carter says that if you’re willing to show up a little differently and embrace some discomfort, there are simple practice…
Facebook Tightens Up and Clarifies Policies on Promotion of Prescription Drugs
Facebook tightened up its ad policies and enforcement related to promoting prescription drugs on its platform. The social network reaffirmed that the …
How a 3D-printed graft could speed healing of ruptured eardrums
The PhonoGraft acts as a medium for the patient’s own eardrum tissue to grow over and repair itself.
Amazon launches HealthLake in general availability
Amazon launched a new big data analytics service for health care providers, HealthLake, in general availability.
P&G Ventures highlights ‘second skin’ microbiome product in virtual innovation challenge
P&G Ventures named "second skin" startup Nanospun Technologies as the winner of its Virtual Innovation Challenge.
Facebook drops funding for interface that reads the brain
The spring of 2017 may be remembered as the coming-out party for Big Tech’s campaign to get inside your head. That was when news broke of Elon Muskâ…
It's Easy to Know What Your Gut Is Telling You. But What About Your Vagina?
Vaginal infections are common, not well understood, and highly uncomfortable for women. Priyanka Jain and Laine Bruzek have launched at-home testing s…
7 Women's Health Tech Startups to Watch in 2021 and Beyond
A burgeoning industry aims to tackle a range of women's health concerns.
Rest stop telehealth, a data aggregator gets buy-in, & the EHR time drain
A top complaint of primary care docs is the way that electronic health records have sucked up increasing amounts of their time.
How AI can enable better health care outcomes
AI in health care can reduce medical waste and over-testing, cut costs, and improve diagnostics and patient care, a Transform panel agreed.
This startup just created a fast, accurate COVID test that only needs saliva and links to an app
We’re entering a phase in the COVID-19 pandemic where transmission is going to go through the roof because of the Delta variant. But as vaccinations…
Opinion: Ignoring mental health infrastructure will be a costly mistake
President Biden's ambitious infrastructure plan has a glaring omission: It makes no effort to redress the awful reality that the U.S. has the worst me…
‘IT leaders need to understand that the world has changed’
Code42’s Jadee Hanson discusses the security challenges posed by collaboration tools and how security leaders need to re-evaluate their strategies.
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How to Delegate Work and Be a More Productive Leader
Too many business owners lose their health and productivity by refusing to delegate. Here's how to do better.
Birth control via wearables gets a major stamp of approval from the FDA
A proof-of-concept study shows the use of wearables with the hormone-free birth control app Natural Cycles can better predict ovulation.
For years, an…
Transform 2021: Healthcare’s key topics
VB EVENT: Join healthcare leaders at Transform 2021, the industry’s premier AI digital event. Transform gathers thought and action leaders from Life…
Galway medtech Vetex Medical acquired in deal worth up to $47m
Minnesota medtech provider Surmodics adds Vetex Medical’s ReVene device to its portfolio of products tackling the removal of blood clots.
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Ireland and EU to collaborate on research into public health crises
The multidisciplinary programme will see 25 researchers awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship.
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Are pharma mergers bad for biotech?
That’s the question facing the Federal Trade Commission right now, and the answer is wildly different depending on who you ask.
21 ways medical digital twins will transform health care
Digital twins are close to reality, as a wide array of medical use cases show, from personalized medicine to medical device development.
Deep Science: Keeping AI honest in medicine, climate science and vision
This week, we'll explore a number of projects aimed at identifying or confirming bias or cheating behaviors in machine learning systems, or failures i…
Health risk app takes top prize at Trinity’s new AI accelerator
Empeal won the Alsessor AI competition for its app that merges health risk assessments and personalised health programmes.
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Virtual Reality Meditation Apps – TRIPP Shares a Gamifies Experience with Breathing Exercises (TrendHunter.com)
(TrendHunter.com) TRIPP is a virtual reality meditation app that helps to gamify calming experiences with interactive breathing exercises, psychedelic…
Pharma firm Ipsen to invest €25m in Irish facility
France’s Ipsen has been active in Ireland for 30 years and plans to expand the manufacturing capacity at its Blanchardstown plant.
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A hospital algorithm designed to predict a deadly condition misses most cases
Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images The biggest electronic health record company in the United States, Epic Systems, claims it can solv…
Google’s health care data-sharing partnership is a problem
These kinds of data sharing agreements aren’t innocent. And we need to raise awareness of the real risks they pose.
Google searches for new measure of skin tones to curb bias in products
Alphabet's Google told Reuters this week it is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones.
How to Support the Mental Health of Artists
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Why Health Care Needs to Be About Much More Than Treating IllnessÂ
Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling says when his company focused its purpose on raising the standards of community health, positive business results…
How to Transform Your Company's Culture
Executives from Heineken and Verizon share how to change your employees' habits and mindsets in a positive way.
Too few women get to invent — that’s a problem for women’s health
MacArthur Genius and MIT professor Linda Griffith has built an epic career as a scientist and inventor, including growing a human ear on a mouse. She …
23andMe Shares Pop On Nasdaq
Share are trading up over 20 percent from the open at $11.13 per share.
Form Health Secures $12M Series A For Obesity Telemedicine Platform
The company is creating a multidisciplinary approach with behavior therapy and the application of medical care, which can include pharmaceuticals.
India’s healthcare workers are busting misinformation on WhatsApp
Bharti Kamble putting up a WhatsApp status on the temperature range of the human body. The backbone of India’s rural healthcare system is now tasked…
Mayo Clinic Patients Can Now Access Their Health Records From Their iPhones
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The Mayo Clinic has launched support for the Apple Health Records function, allowing patients to add their medical records to the app…
New Artificial Skin Can Bruise When Hit, Just Like The Real Thing
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A team of engineers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a new type of artificial skin that bruises when hit.…
Digital Vaccination Retail Initiatives – Walmart is Offering Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Records (TrendHunter.com)
(TrendHunter.com) Walmart has announced that it will be offering pharmacy account holders with access to a digital COVID-19 vaccine record to help the…
Report: There are toxic chemicals in more than half of makeup brands
And almost none were listed on ingredient labels. But many such products are advertised as ‘long-lasting’ or ‘wear-resistant.’
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With iOS 15, Apple reveals just how far Health has come — and how much further it can go
Apple’s recent Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote was packed with new features for iPhones, Macs and iPads — and like it has done pret…
Pharma is winning the big business popularity contest
Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images It used to be easy to hate pharmaceutical companies. Between soaring drug costs and the…
Apple’s new health features bring new focus to elder care technology
Apple Apple’s new health features will be available for anyone with an iPhone. But two of the tools announced at WWDC 2021, walking steadiness and 
Clinical trials are better, faster, cheaper with big data
Clinical trials have never been more in the public eye than in the past year, as the world watched the development of vaccines against covid-19, the d…
Why tech companies still haven’t fixed our ‘broken’ healthcare system
Despite entrenched dysfunction, David Vivero writes, there’s hope for the future of healthcare. And it stems from an unlikely place: the federal gov…
Apple wants to own the interface between you and your doctor
The company has announced an array of features that will pit it against medical records giant Epic.
This week Apple revealed a mix of health features…
Business leaders need to map out strategies for the next five years
Shrewd business leaders need to imagine what the next five years would look like and create strategies to accomplish those goals.
Managing Health From Home: LetsGetChecked Raises $150M Series D
It's customer care platform incorporates telehealth services, pharmacy capabilities and expanded at-home testing to provide care for patients with chr…
Apple announces new features to share health data with doctors, track trends over time
Apple announced several new health features for its devices on Monday, including a way for users to share medical data directly with a doctor.
Apple announces watchOS 8 with new health features
Vjeran Pavic Apple has just announced watchOS 8, the latest version of the company’s smartwatch platform for the Apple Watch. The new software succe…
New Microsoft trial sees health data encoded in a piece of glass
As part of the tech giant’s Project Silica, data from a surgical robotics company was stored on a piece of glass roughly the size of a drink coaster…
