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(William Hook/Flickr) Engineers and physiologists at Northwestern University in Chicago developed an algorithm to improve the way health and wellness apps on smartphones track a user’s physical movements. Professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation Konrad Kording, with colleagues Stephen Antos and Mark Albert, published an advance version of their findings online in the . . . → Read More: Algorithm Improves Activity Tracking for Wellness Apps  Comments are closed  New products  biomedical, computer science, engineering, mathematics, medical device, physical sciences, software, university (National Institutes of Health) A psychologist at University of Missouri in Columbia found the design of software used by physicians influences their choice of diagnostic tests when admitting new patients to hospitals, with implications for the quality of patient care and health care costs. Victoria Shaffer in Missouri’s Department of Health Sciences, with . . . → Read More: Software Design Found to Influence Lab Test Choices Comments are closed New products, Regulations biomedical, computer science, engineering, health care, software Lymphocyte (National Cancer Institute) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an antibody designed to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia, when taken with chemotherapy. Obinutuzumabm — developed and marketed as the brand name Gazyva by the biotechnology company Genentech, a division of Roche in South San Francisco, California — is the first . . . → Read More: FDA Approves Leukemia Treatment, First Breakthrough Therapy Comments are closed Regulations biomedical, biotechnology, cancer, clinical trials, FDA, pharmaceuticals (Yale School of Medicine/Wikimedia Commons) A new challenge on InnoCentive is looking for new ways to encourage physicians to prescribe anticoagulant drugs other than the commonly used warfarin for decreasing the formation of blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation. The competition has a total purse of $7,500 and a deadline of 27 . . . → Read More: Strategy Sought to Encourage New Anticoagulant Prescriptions Comments are closed Finance behavioral science, biomedical, challenge, heart disease, pharmaceuticals Emery Brown (Mass. Institute of Technology) Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and medical researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston developed and tested in lab animals a system connecting the brain to a drug infusion device that automatically controls anesthesia drugs administered to patients in a drug-induced coma. The team led by . . . → Read More: Automated System Developed to Monitor Drug-Induced Comas Comments are closed New products biomedical, engineering, FDA, life sciences, mathematics, medical device, pharmaceuticals, preclinical, software, university |
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