Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have given $150 million to a research institute to establish a “new era of biology” aimed at battling diseases with a mix of data and life science studies. The Massachusetts-based Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard will use the funds to build a new center that […]
MedTech
The UK government announced on Monday that it has developed a new technology that can reduce by half, the time needed to identify if a positive COVID-19 sample contains a variant of concern and could be used in addition to standard testing for COVID-19 to identify cases quickly. The technology – known as ‘genotype assay […]
“Frontline healthcare workers and care givers have been absolutely vital to our response to the pandemic and out of all of the challenges of managing the spikes of COVID-19, there has been a lot of innovation in healthcare,” NHS Tayside’s medical director, Professor Peter Stonebridge, said. Thanks to the input of other experts in manufacturing […]
A recent paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence has found several common yet serious flaws with machine learning (ML) made for COVID-19 diagnosis and prognosis. At the start of the worldwide pandemic, companies such as DarwinAI, as well as major U.S. chipmaker Nvidia and groups such as the American College of Radiology kickstarted efforts to […]
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection against sickness and eliminated hospitalizations and deaths from the disease across all age groups in a late-stage study in the United States, the company announced Monday. AstraZeneca said its experts did not identify any safety concerns related to the vaccine, including finding no increased risk of rare blood clots […]
The global vaccine, storage, and packaging market size in anticipated to hit $43.3 billion by 2027 and a 10 percent growth rate during over the forecast period, 2020 to 2027, according to market intelligence firm Million Insights. The rising number of investments undertaken by biopharmaceutical companies and healthcare institutions to carry out R&D is projected […]
While 2020 will always be written off by many as the year that vastly disrupted people’s life, medical researchers may well look back at this year at the tipping point that saw the world place greater emphasis on their work. While funds poured into COVID-19 vaccinations, medical technology was making a silent rise behind the […]
Moderna and IBM jointly announced Thursday their intentions to explore technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain and hybrid cloud, that could help support smarter COVID-19 vaccine supply chain management. Central to the effort will be a pilot of open, standardized, technology-enabled vaccine distribution approaches aimed to improve supply chain visibility and foster near real-time tracking of […]
Dubai’s healthcare regulator announced earlier this week that it will be working on enhancing its MedTech capabilities, emphasizing AI-powered remote patient monitoring. The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) is currently collaborating with homegrown startup Enpy – which specializes in medical artificial intelligence (AI) – to use its AI-powered device for remote patient monitoring. According to the […]
Johnson & Johnson’s single dose COVID-19 vaccine has received its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older. The vaccine was developed by the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, and received authorization based on the totality of scientific […]