Can We Now Produce 3D Printed Bones?

Can We Now Produce 3D Printed Bones?

What seems like a concept straight out of science fiction may become reality soon — bones could possibly be 3D printed. Chinese company called Xi’an Particle Cloud Advanced Materials Technology Co. announced it had successfully transplanted artificial biodegradable 3D-printed bones into a rabbit.

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5 EXCITING WAYS HEALTH-TECH STARTUPS ARE IMPROVING LIVES

5 EXCITING WAYS HEALTH-TECH STARTUPS ARE IMPROVING LIVES

With the recent rise of wearable devices and health apps, we can now expect to manage our health in the digital world as well. 2015 survey from Salesforce found that 71 percent of millennial patients surveyed want to engage with their healthcare providers via a mobile app.Here are just a few ways health-tech startups are improving patient care and driving the medical industry forward:

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5 Mobile Apps For Your Mental Health

5 Mobile Apps For Your Mental Health

Some studies have shown that technology may have some negative effects on cognitive skills and even affect our ability to fall into a deep sleep. However, these 5 apps are being used by many people who claim they really help strengthen their cognitive skills and even relieve stress. Here's the top 5. 

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Vaccines Not Helping for Pneumonia Cases

Vaccines Not Helping for Pneumonia Cases

Vaccines have been an important part of modern medicine, used as a preventive tool to protect us from disease like polio, tetanus, or small pox. These vaccines work by challenging one’s immune system with an inactive agent similar to the real pathogen. Thus, when faced with the real disease agent our body is able to effectively and efficiently mount an offensive to prevent illness. However a new study is showing that despite vaccines, pneumonia hospital visits still remain quite common. Here's why.

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Track Your Alcohol With This Smartphone App

Track Your Alcohol With This Smartphone App

Alcohol Tracker is a smartphone app that lets users enter how many drinks they have each day. If a user drinks more than the maximum amount of alcohol recommended by certain health organizations, then the app will send a notification, warning that the recommended limit has been reached.

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FitBit may help boost activity in older women

FitBit may help boost activity in older women

New study suggests the devices can help people become more active. In the study, women who wore a Fitbit saw a boost in their physical activity over a four-month period.  study involved about 50 women in their 50s and 60s who were overweight and generally not very active. About half of these women were given a Fitbit One, a fitness tracker that clips to a person's waistband and tracks a number of metrics: how many steps they take, the total distance they move, the number of floors they climb, the calories they burn, and the total number of minutes during the day that they are active. 

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Virtual Pillbox: Manage your pills with Medisafe

Virtual Pillbox: Manage your pills with Medisafe

 About half of all Americans are prescribed medication they take regularly. And what's more, half of those don't even take it properly, whether it's forgetting, missing or taking too much of said medication. One study even estimated that mistakes with blood pressure medication alone are responsible for 89,000 premature deaths each year. This puts medication noncompliance up there in the top five causes of death. 

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Diagnosing STDs, through an app?

Diagnosing STDs, through an app?

Planned Parenthood is launching an app that helps patients diagnose STD’s without actually having to go in to see the doctor face-to-face.  This will save people the awkward sex and STD conversation with their doctor, and maybe even make them more willing to get checked for potential infections.  Havin

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Looking for a weight loss app? Here are 5 to consider

Looking for a weight loss app?  Here are 5 to consider

Keeping track of what to eat, how much to eat and how that affects your weight has never been easier thanks to thousands of diet and nutrition apps available for iPhones, Androids and tablets.  The problem is how to decipher which ones are really good and which ones are just so-so.

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New technology identifies brain tumor types

New technology identifies brain tumor types

cientists at Cedars-Sinai have developed a new nanotechnology that can identify brain tumor types using MRI virtual biopsy. The new technology is a drug-delivery system that can identify different types of brain tumor cells using virtual biopsies which attack the molecular structure of the cancer. It has only been tested in animal studies so far. 

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Paralyzed Patient Makes Natural Movements Using Robotics and Power of Thought

Paralyzed Patient Makes Natural Movements Using Robotics and Power of Thought

34 year old Erik Sorto had been paralyzed from the neck down for the past 13 years. He suffered a spinal cord injury due to a gunshot 10 years earlier. Millions of individuals have lost the ability to sense and move their bodies, through illness or injury.

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Latest Digital Health Innovations

Latest Digital Health Innovations

The role of technology is growing more and more across healthcare. We've seen digital health completely transform specific areas of medicine, empowering doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers to better tack, manage patient information and improve healthcare delivery, improve access, reduce costs and increase quality. 

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