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Fitbit, Google Cloud unveil wearable data analytics service for healthcare
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Fitbit, Google Cloud unveil wearable data analytics service for healthcare

By Emily Olsen September 27, 2022 12:10 pm Photo: MStudioImages/Getty Images On Tuesday, Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud announced they’re launching a new service to help healthcare and life science organizations utilize data from wearables. The company said that Device Connect for Fitbit allows patients to make their Fitbit data available to providers, giving these patients control...

Growing Human Kidneys in a Lab – Scientists Have Made a Significant Breakthrough
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Growing Human Kidneys in a Lab – Scientists Have Made a Significant Breakthrough

By BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL SEPTEMBER 25, 2022 Human kidney ureteric bud organoids derived from stem cells and stained for different proteins. Credit: Bonventre Lab/Brigham and Women’s Hospital A Key Step Forward One in nine adults worldwide has some kind of kidney disease, and kidney failure is becoming more common everywhere. Growing functional kidney tissue in a...

Ultrasound can be used to move, reposition or break up kidney stones, all while the patient is awake, a new study finds
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Ultrasound can be used to move, reposition or break up kidney stones, all while the patient is awake, a new study finds

by University of Washington Procedure diagrams of use in the ED or clinic as performed in this study (left) and as envisioned by our National Aeronautics and Space Administration sponsors for use in space travel (right). Credit: Carol Marinelli and Kim Reading. A new technique which combines the use of two ultrasound technologies may offer...

Multifunctional Fluorescent Nanodiamonds for HeLa Cell Drug Delivery
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Multifunctional Fluorescent Nanodiamonds for HeLa Cell Drug Delivery

By Bhavna Kaveti Aug 24 2022 Reviewed by Susha Cheriyedath, M.Sc. Fluorescent nanodiamonds have unique optical and chemical properties and were individually applied as nanocarriers for drug delivery and free radical quantum sensors. An article published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces presented multifunctional fluorescent nanodiamonds for drug delivery and real-time detection of free radicals....

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HOW AI CAN WORSEN HEALTH CARE DISPARITIES

Those data sources are not representative and/or are based on data from current unequal care, says Price, a member of the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation. In a recent article in Science, Price and colleagues Ana Bracic of Michigan State University and Shawneequa Callier of George Washington University say these disparities are happening despite efforts in medicine by physicians and health systems...

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TRANS ADULTS HAVE 39% CHANCE OF DISABILITY BY AGE 55

The paper by Madeline Smith-Johnson, a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Rice University sociology department, appears in the journal Health Affairs. “I’m really interested in LGBTQ elders, and as I think about aging and the different types of things that expose people to faster biological aging at a younger chronological age, the first...

Team finds a promising medication for sleep apnea
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Team finds a promising medication for sleep apnea

by Flinders University Illustration of obstruction of ventilation. Credit: Habib M’henni / public domain Targeting a condition suffered by nearly a billion people worldwide, a new study from Flinders University has shown a drug previously used to treat depression can reduce obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity. While not yet identifying a cure, the authors say...

When endings approach, people choose the familiar over the novel
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When endings approach, people choose the familiar over the novel

by American Psychological Association Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When people believe that a door is closing—that they have a limited amount of time left to enjoy something, such as dining out or traveling—they gravitate to the comfort of something familiar rather than the excitement of something new, according to research published by the American Psychological...

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Essay Writing – Tips to Get an Accurate and Quality Essay

In your essay writing, it is extremely important to be accurate and complete. In this manner, you will not make any mistakes in the actual essay writing. For a fantastic essay, it’s very essential for you to understand a few of the items that you should do in order to have an accurate and quality...

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