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Real health: How XR is transforming health care

WebExtended reality is revolutionizing the health-care industry by offering endless possibilities to address some of the key challenges to improve access to care and quality …

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A new operating system for health care MIT Technology Review

WebWhat we don’t have is a way to make this data all work together—a “personal health ecosystem,” says Bharat Sutariya, MD, managing director in health care for …

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A new app aims to help the millions of people living with long covid

WebTracking heart rate variability makes it easier to predict when someone is likely to become fatigued. Visible uses this data to create a “pace score” of 1 to 10 (8-10 …

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It took a pandemic, but the US finally has (some) centralized …

WebIn the US, each state decides how it reports findings from covid-19 tests. The result is a chaotic system that’s hurting our response to the pandemic. Across the nation, …

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Transforming health care at the edge MIT Technology Review

Web3 million. data points are generated by the average clinical trial. 30%. of all global stored data is from health care and life sciences. 75%. of data will be generated …

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AI can help screen for cancer—but there’s a catch

WebLast month, results from the first clinical trial of AI-supported breast cancer screening came out. The researchers compared two methods for reading a …

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The debate over whether aging is a disease rages on

WebDaniel Belsky, an assistant professor at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, views aging from this perspective: “Aging is a cause of disease, not a …

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The quest to legitimize longevity medicine MIT Technology Review

WebLongevity doctors also tend to agree that, while longevity clinics are a pricey experience for the rich, they should eventually be accessible to everyone. “The clinics …

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Building a data-driven health-care ecosystem

WebThe application of AI to health-care data has promise to align the U.S. health-care system to quality care and positive health outcomes. But AI for health care …

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The therapists using AI to make therapy better

WebZac Imel, who is a psychotherapy researcher at the University of Utah, remembers trying to analyze transcripts from therapy sessions by hand. “It takes forever, …

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How gene-edited microbiomes could improve our health

WebIn a study a few years ago, Sonnenburg and his colleagues delivered a modified microbe into the guts of mice. This microbe glowed under a microscope, so the …

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Medical microrobots are (still) on their way MIT Technology Review

WebSome such robots have made their way off the lab bench and into large animals, including pigs. There are at least four startups working on medical microrobots …

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The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101 million award

WebMoney can’t buy happiness, but X Prize founder Peter Diamandis hopes it might be able to buy better health. Today the X Prize Foundation, which funds global …

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An ecosystem to overhaul China’s health care

WebMarch 30, 2021. Provided by Ping An. Like many countries, China has a health care problem. Changing demographics and lifestyles mean demand for health care is …

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This bra could save lives MIT Technology Review

WebBloomer Tech cofounders (from left) Aceil Halaby, SM ’17, Alicia Chong Rodriguez, SM ’18, and Monica Abarca want to simplify collection of data on women’s …

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Spaceflight does some weird things to astronauts’ bodies

WebThe researchers highlight six biological changes that occur in all astronauts during spaceflight: oxidative stress (an excessive accumulation of free radicals in the …

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How reproductive technology is changing what it means to be a …

WebAdvances in reproductive technologies are forcing us to reconsider what it means to be a parent —even at the genetic level. IVF allows would-be parents to use …

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We may never fully know how video games affect our well-being

WebThe reality, a new study suggests, is that we simply don’t have a good grip on how games affect our well-being, if at all. The research, described in the Royal …

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A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a

WebA month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from NYU …

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These AI-powered apps can hear the cause of a cough

WebThe Australian company ResApp Health has been working on acoustic diagnosis of respiratory diseases since 2014, well before the pandemic. But when covid …

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How we transform to a fully decarbonized world

WebIn 1856, Napoleon III commissioned a baby rattle for his newborn son, to be made from one of the most precious metals known at the time: light, silvery, and …

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Lisa and Mike Ullmann MIT Technology Review

WebLisa and Mike Ullmann say they developed a “huge appreciation for MIT athletics” when their daughter Lauren ’17 captained the women’s soccer team. So they …

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A playbook for silver linings MIT Technology Review

WebIn high school, Parul Somani ’04 had a clear vision for her career: she planned to be a corporate lawyer for a high-tech company. Instead, after earning her MIT degree …

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An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good …

WebWhen I finally arrive at the company’s stylish studio in East London, I am greeted by Tosin Oshinyemi, the company’s production lead. He is going to guide and …

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The Download: how to tell when a chatbot is lying, and RIP my …

WebThe big story. Eight ways scientists are unwrapping the mysteries of the human brain. August 2021. There is no greater scientific mystery than the brain.

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Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool could help you …

WebThe Trustworthy Language Model draws on multiple techniques to calculate its scores. First, each query submitted to the tool is sent to one or more large language …

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My biotech petunia plants are dead. MIT Technology Review

WebMy plants did arrive in a handsome black box with neon lettering that alerted me to the living creature within. The petunias, about five inches tall, were each encased in a …

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Lasagna Love spreads layers of kindness MIT Technology Review

WebRhiannon Menn, MBA ’14. Today, Lasagna Love has nearly 50,000 volunteers spanning every US state and numerous countries, and more than 400,000 lasagnas …

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