Published on: 2025-06-04 01:48:16
Elon Musk's brain tech startup Neuralink has closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced on Monday. ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and other firms participated in the round, according to a release. Neuralink said the fresh capital will help the company bring its technology to more patients and develop new devices that "deepen the connection between biological and artificial intelligence." Neuralink is building a brain-comp
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AI is revolutionizing digital accessibility in healthcare, making medical information and services more inclusive and user-friendly for people with disabilities. This article explores how AI technologies are enhancing web accessibility and improving healthcare access for all. AI-Powered Enhancements for Healthcare Websites Improved Communication and Interaction AI is breaking down communication barriers in healthcare by enabling more effective interactions between providers and patients with
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In a new feature story on its Newsroom today, Apple showcases how iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches are being used by doctors and nurses at one of Georgia’s largest health systems. And while the piece suffers from a chronic case of PR-speak, the project is pretty interesting nonetheless. In what Apple calls a first-of-its-kind deployment, Emory Healthcare has fully embraced the Apple ecosystem to transform how care is delivered at its 100-bed Hillandale Hospital. Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Appl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 08:16:58
Image by Getty / Futurism Developments UnitedHealth, the largest healthcare insurer in the United States, reportedly went to extreme lengths to deny care to seniors and cut costs to pad out its profit margins. As The Guardian reports, nurse practitioners say that UnitedHealth pressed them to change patients' status to "do not resuscitate" — even after those same patients had "clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive." "They’re pretending to make it l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 17:50:46
A family vacation to Costa Rica turned sour after 12 of 13 relatives developed symptoms of a fungal lung infection following an excursion through bat-filled caves. In season two of The Last of Us, the cordyceps fungus—spoiler alert—becomes airborne, meaning the fungal infection can spread not just through bites but also when humans inhale its spores. While the TV show is highly fictitious, airborne fungi are most certainly not. A U.S. family now knows this better than most, since 12 of their me
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When Max Cohen and Cameron Behar set out to launch a startup together during the pandemic, they decided to focus on the most top-of-mind sector of the era: healthcare. But since neither Cohen nor Behar had a background in healthcare (both worked at Google and Facebook previously), they had to think long and hard about how to contribute to a sector that was dominating the public consciousness at the time. Telehealth was getting tremendously popular, too, in those years, but the duo recognized t
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When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The pain jolted me awake. It was barely dawn, a misty February morning in 2023. My side felt as if I’d been stabbed. I had been dealing with pain for
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Clinician and patient satisfaction (or lack thereof) is a significant issue in healthcare — patients because they can struggle to get access to care, clinicians because they simply have too much to do. The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) set out to tackle this challenge with the integration of Microsoft’s DAX Copilot last year. And it’s already had a big impact: Early results sh
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Stanley Johnson is not a fan of needles. The 67-year-old Air Force veteran has endured his fair share of pokes over the years, but when it was decided that IV infusions would be the best course of action to treat his iron deficiency, going into that first session felt nerve-wracking. So he brought along what’s become a staple in his personal anxiety toolkit: his Apple Vision Pro. Johnson has taken to using the immersive wellness app, Tripp, to ease his anxiety, and he says it was a big help in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 17:00:52
In Brief A data breach at Connecticut’s largest healthcare system Yale New Haven Health affects more than 5.5 million people, according to a legally required notice with the U.S. government’s health department. Yale New Haven said the March cyberattack allowed malicious hackers to obtain copies of patients’ personally identifiable information and some healthcare-related data. Per a notice on the healthcare system’s website, the stolen data varies by person, but can include patient names, date
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A ransomware attack in January at Frederick Health Medical Group, a major healthcare provider in Maryland, has led to a data breach affecting nearly one million patients. With almost 4,000 employees and over 25 locations, Frederick Health is one of Frederick County's largest employers. As the health system revealed in a late March notification to patients, the ransomware attack was detected on January 27, which prompted Frederick Health to notify law enforcement and hire a third-party forensi
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Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) is warning that threat actors stole the personal data of 5.5 million patients in a cyberattack earlier this month. YNHHS is a nonprofit healthcare network in Connecticut, the largest in the state, providing comprehensive care across five hospitals and 360 outpatient locations. It employs 30,000 health professionals and has an annual revenue of over $5.6 billion. On March 11, 2025, the organization first reported that it was dealing with a cybersecurity incident th
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The replacement of lost DA neurons with hfVM in patients with PD began in the 1980s22,23. Although PS cells are expected to be an alternative donor cell source to hfVM, the safety and efficacy of iPS-cell-derived DA progenitors remains unclear. This first clinical trial using iPS cells confirmed that iPS-cell-derived DA progenitors can survive without forming tumours and produce DA in the putamen of patients with PD. Moreover, there were no serious adverse events or GIDs. Four out of six patient
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"This is a foundational moment for Precision," Dr. Benjamin Rapoport, Precision's co-founder and chief science officer, said in a statement. Rapoport also helped co-found Musk's Neuralink in 2017 before departing the following year. Only part of Precision's system was approved by the FDA on Thursday, but it marks the first full regulatory clearance granted to a company developing a wireless BCI, Precision said in a release . Other prominent startups in the space include Elon Musk's Neuralink, a
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In the healthcare sector, revenue cycle management (RCM) is a process—patient registration through billing, collections, and reimbursement. Traditional RCM systems, while essential to profitability, are paper-based systems that are prone to inefficiency and mistake. Manual processes generate higher costs, delayed turnaround, and ultimately lost income opportunities. Generative AI is changing this narrative, in fact, this study suggests that 51% of healthcare providers are actively implementing g
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-19 21:43:47
AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital 3 days ago Share Save Leyla Hayes BBC News Share Save BBC Chelsea and Westminster Hospital said its AI technology has been approved to give patients the all-clear without having to see a doctor An NHS hospital in west London is pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help check for skin cancer. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital said its AI technology has been approved to give patients the all-clear without having to see a doctor.
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Kidney dialysis firm DaVita disclosed Monday it suffered a weekend ransomware attack that encrypted parts of its network and impacted some of its operations. DaVita is a major provider of kidney care services in the United States, operating over 2,600 outpatient treatment centers that provide dialysis to those suffering from kidney disease. It is a Fortune 500 organization with 76,000 employees in 12 countries and an annual revenue that surpasses $12.8 billion. The company disclosed today in a
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Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some patients get so sick from the contrast dye they're injected with before magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. As a University of New Mexico (UNM) press release explains, researchers at the institution's medical school believe they've found a link between oxalic acid — a molecule found in foods as disparate as sweet potatoes, spinach, chocolate and almonds, as well as some Vitamin C supplements — and
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Image by Getty / Futurism Developments Research on the medical effects of marijuana use have been a mixed bag over the last few years; it doesn't seem to be terrible for you, but it's not without health — or social — concerns, either. But now we've got some dope news from the world of medicinal pot smokers, suggesting that taking cannabis on the doctor's orders significantly improves the symptoms of multiple ailments, including anxiety, insomnia, and chronic pain, while providing an overall bo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-22 21:59:21
European tourists who toted home bottles of water from a holy well in Ethiopia were likely hoping for blessings and spiritual cleansing—but instead carried an infectious curse and got an intestinal power cleanse. Three people in Germany and four in the UK fell ill with cholera after directly drinking or splashing their faces with the holy water. Two required intensive care. Luckily, they all eventually recovered, according to a report in the journal Eurosurveillance. The infections occurred in
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More and more people are turning to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to have babies. The process can be arduous, requiring injections of costly hormones twice a day for two weeks to mature eggs so that they can be retrieved from the body. New York startup Gameto is aiming to ease this burden for patients by maturing eggs outside the body instead. The company’s method replaces 80 percent of the hormone injections needed for traditional IVF, shortening the length of a treatment cycle to a few days
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-18 01:28:00
The big picture: Nearly two decades ago, Shinya Yamanaka and Kazutoshi Takahashi discovered they could turn mature somatic cells back into stem cells. The scientists predicted these new cells could be the key to regenerative treatments for serious injuries and conditions. Today, another Japanese team has achieved the first promising results of this breakthrough. Researchers at Keio University have begun using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) to treat and maybe even cure severe spinal cord i
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. There is currently no effective treatment for paralysis caused by serious spinal cord injuries, which aff
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A pair of Perkins Tractors Have you ever heard of a Perkins Tractor? If you lived in London in the 18th Century, you could buy a pair of Perkins Tractors (shown above) for the steep price of five guineas, and wave them over an aching part of your body for about twenty minutes as a way of relieving your pain. They worked, sort of. People who bought and used Perkins Tractors really did report feeling that their pain had gone away, even though there was no physiological reason they should work. Jo
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There's newfound hope for stroke patients in recovery, with what researchers believe is the very first drug that can comprehensively deliver rehabilitation without the need for challenging long-term physical therapy. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists made the breakthrough after narrowing down drug candidates to two viable compounds. Further research revealed that one of these drugs, DDL-920 – developed at UCLA, led to the complete recovery of movement control – something m
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We might be on the precipice of a pivotal moment in Alzheimer’s disease research. In clinical trial data released this week, scientists have presented early evidence that it’s possible to delay symptoms in people genetically fated to develop Alzheimer’s at a young age. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine led the study, which aimed to test whether an experimental anti-amyloid drug called gantenerumab could help people with an inherited form of Alzheimer’s. In a subset of
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Even as large language models (LLMs) become ever more sophisticated and capable, they continue to suffer from hallucinations: Offering up inaccurate information, or, to put it more harshly, lying. This can be particularly harmful in areas like healthcare, where wrong information can have dire results. Mayo Clinic, one of the top-ranked hospitals in the U.S., has adopt
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dlewis33/Getty Images Anyone who is not in the medical profession and who has wandered into an emergency room may be baffled by the hours of waiting and the mysterious process by which nurses and doctors move patients through the stages of the ER. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University wrote recently that an artificial intelligence program they've created can improve the emergency room process by making the task of triage more efficient and accurate. Triage is when
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Forward-looking: An Australian man has become the first person in the world to leave a hospital with a total artificial heart implant, marking a significant milestone in heart failure treatment. He lived with the device for over 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March – the longest recorded survival with this technology. The patient, a man in his 40s from New South Wales, received the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) during a six-hour procedure at St. Vincent's Hos
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Software bug at firm left NHS data 'vulnerable to hackers' 7 hours ago Share Save Ben Morris Editor, Technology of Business Share Save Getty Images Medefer handles around 1,500 referrals a month The NHS is "looking into" allegations that patient data was left vulnerable to hacking due to a software flaw at a private medical services company. The flaw was found last November at Medefer, which handles 1,500 NHS patient referrals a month. The software engineer who discovered the flaw believes th
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