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2011

Deep learning can make reliable coma outcome prediction

After cardiac arrest and resuscitation, part of the patients will be in a coma and treated at an intensive care unit. Their prospects are uncertain. What is needed to get an outcome prediction that is reliable? Researchers of the University of Twente and the ‘Medisch Spectrum Twente’ hospital, both in Enschede, The Netherlands, developed a […]

2012

IHF gathers leading healthcare thinkers for the 43rd World Hospital Congress

The 43rd World Hospital Congress of the International Hospital Federation has invited thought leaders, experts and top-level professionals to explore how health services can be better provided during peace and crisis. Topics have been lined up to explore how health services can be more responsive through better resilience, supportive through appropriate health investments and prospective […]

2013

My Personal Therapeutics and Pentavere receive Eureka funding

My Personal Therapeutics, a London-based medtech/digital therapeutics company and Pentavere Research Group, a Canadian-based Artificial Intelligence and data insight company have been awarded Eurkela Collaborative R&D funding for artificial intelligence and quantum technologies. The funding is for a project titled: Utilisation of AI to develop Personalised Treatment Plans for cancer. Funding totalling £792,000 (Euro 870,000) […]

2014

Can your pets get infected with the coronavirus?

A small study published 8 April 2020 in Science by researchers in China found that cats are highly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 and can pass the virus on to other cats via airborne transmission. However, dogs showed low susceptibility, and livestock including pigs, chickens, and ducks were not susceptible to the virus. They did not study […]

2015

Diarrhea-causing bacteria adapted to spread in hospitals

An emerging species of C. difficile, named clade A, was found to make up approximately 70 per cent of the samples taken from hospital patientsScientists have discovered that the gut-infecting bacterium C. difficile is evolving into two separate species, with one group highly adapted to spread in hospitals. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, London […]

2016

Coronavirus Global Response raises €7.4 billion in pledges

€7.4 billion was raised at the Coronavirus Global Response pledging event on 4 May to kick-start an unprecedented global cooperation between scientists and regulators, industry and governments, international organisations, foundations and health care professionals to ensure the collaborative development and universal deployment of diagnostics, treatments and vaccines against coronavirus. The pledging event was co-convened by […]

2017

Oncimmune at Medica

The battle against cancer hinges on the early detection and then delivery of effective treatment. Oncimmune is working to revolutionise both the detection of cancer and its treatment by harnessing the sophisticated disease-detecting capabilities of the immune system to find cancer in its early stages. Oncimmune’s range of diagnostic tests assist clinicians to identify the […]

2018

Coronary artery disease diagnosis improved by deep learning analysis of SPECT MPI

A multicentre international study has demonstrated for the first time that diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease can be improved by using deep learning analysis of upright and supine single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, coronary artery disease is the most common […]

2020

Sedation, paralysis do not improve survival of ICU patients

Reversibly paralysing and heavily sedating hospitalized patients with severe breathing problems do not improve outcomes in most cases, according to a National Institutes of Health-funded clinical trial conducted at dozens of North American hospitals and led by clinician-scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Colorado schools of medicine. The trial—which was stopped early […]