Posts Tagged ‘Illness’
Venture capitalists are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into healthcare startups pitching lower cost alternatives to traditional services and one of their primary targets is diagnostics. As investors look to back services that can pitch lower cost alternatives to customers, companies like EverlyWell, the Disrupt Battlefield alumnus which just raised $50 million in new ...
A health tech company was leaking thousands of doctor’s notes, medical records, and prescriptions daily after a security lapse left a server without a password. The little-known software company, California-based Meditab, bills itself as one of the leading electronic medical records software makers for hospitals, doctor’s offices, and pharmacies. The company, among other things, processes electronic ...
With the announcement today that Mammoth Biosciences has received the exclusive license from the University of California, Berkeley to the new CRISPR protein Cas14, the company now has the last piece of its diagnostics toolkit in place. Cas14 is a newly discovered protein from the lab of Jennifer Doudna, a pioneer in gene-editing research and ...
The bad news: there's no cure for the common cold, because there's no such thing as a common cold. Many different kinds of viruses cause colds, and to date no one has come up with a cure-all.
The good news: A number of researchers have had promising results giving mice a cold vaccine.
The sobering news (from ...
Last year in Yemen, cholera ran rampant. In a single week, the United Nations reported 50,000 new cases of the diarrhea and *****-inducing illness. In 2018, thanks to computer modeling, the number of individuals that have succumb to the virus have drop... ...
This contains information about genetic testing done on fruit flies to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. ...
Sickness and Despression symptoms ...
The H1N1 flu has caused a lot of anxiety amongst people worldwide. Some of this anxiety is good if it protects people or causes them to make changes in their... ...
Today an electric toothbrush is not just a faster version of the normal, manual toothbrush. It is actually a very advanced piece of consumer electronic that can give you better brushing habits. ...
Quitting smoking is a task which smokers fear, however they know by quitting they will be healthier. Not only does smoking have an adverse effect on the body it can also cause many serious health problems such as heart disease, cancer and COPD. Both the smoker and their doctors should put tobacco secession at the ...