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This AI algorithm could detect COVID-19 in chest X-rays

November 24, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Northwestern University researchers are touting a new AI platform that can detect COVID-19 in X-ray images of the lungs. DeepCOVID-XR, a machine-learning algorithm, performed better than a team of specialized thoracic radiologists by spotting COVID-19 in X-rays about 10 times faster and 1%-6% more accurately, according to a news release. Get the full story at […]

Filed Under: Health Technology, Imaging, Respiratory, Software / IT Tagged With: artificial intelligence, coronavirus, COVID-19, Northwestern University

These researchers adapted a stroke patient device for COVID-19

September 2, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Designed to detect speech and swallowing problems, the device has found a new use in tracking cough frequency to alert healthcare providers that frontline workers may need to be tested for SARS-COV-2. Researchers in Chicago have adapted a flexible patch they developed to monitor stroke patients for swallowing trouble to help detect symptoms of COVID-19. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Research & Development, Respiratory Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, FDA, Northwestern University, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Sonica Health, U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Eko lands $2.7m federal grant for heart disease detection study

July 22, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Eko announced today that it received a $2.7 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Oakland, Calif.-based Eko said in a news release that the grant will be used to fund its collaborative work with Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute as they validate algorithms to help screen for […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Funding Roundup, Patient Monitoring Tagged With: eko, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Northwestern University

How can we keep our medtech community connected?

May 5, 2020 By Tom Salemi

Everyone has had to rethink some priorities since the COVID-19 pandemic began circling the world. We’re working hard to make and renew connections in this critical industry with an eye toward personal safety and good health. Tom Salemi, Editorial Director, DeviceTalks Organizing conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic certainly creates new challenges. Most of us can’t […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Special Content Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, DeviceTalks, DeviceTalks Boston, FDA, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern University

Want to save your medical device as a souvenir? It’s easier than you might think

June 10, 2019 By Chris Newmarker

Keeping a medical device that was inside you — or even a removed body part — is actually easier than it might seem, according to a recent story in the Chicago Tribune. Just ask Barbara Brotman. Brotman is a senior assistant director of development communications for University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences and a […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Featured, News Well, Orthopedics Tagged With: Northwestern Medicine, Northwestern University, University of Chicago

Wireless preemie monitoring system allows more parental contact

March 1, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

A new, less invasive system for monitoring preterm and critically ill newborns’ vital signs would allow parents skin-to-skin contact with their babies when they otherwise couldn’t have it. The system, designed by researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago, uses ultrathin, skin-like electronic sensing technology to overcome the limitations of traditional systems that require a large […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Featured, Hospital Care, News Well, Pediatrics, Research & Development Tagged With: Northwestern University

8 Alzheimer’s disease breakthroughs you need to know

June 29, 2018 By Danielle Kirsh

  Alzheimer’s is a form of dementia that can cause problems with memory, thinking and behavior, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. It is the most common form of dementia that gets worse over time. Nearly 6 million Americans presently live with Alzheimer’s— and there’s no cure for it. The disease is caused by protein buildups […]

Filed Under: Implants, Neurological, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation, Research & Development Tagged With: Alzheimer's disease, Augusta University, cognitotherapeutics, DARPA, Indiana University, MedTech, neurodegenerative diseases, NeuroVision, Northwestern University, University of Illinois, Yale Medicine

This tissue paper is made from actual organ tissues

August 24, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

Northwestern University researchers have created biomaterials made from animal organs and tissues that could potentially support natural hormone production in young cancer patients and aid wound healing. The materials, aptly named tissue papers, are made from structural proteins that are excreted by cells and give organs their forms and structures. The tissue papers are thin and […]

Filed Under: Regenerative Medicine, Research & Development, Wound Care Tagged With: MedTech, Northwestern University, organ tissue

7 ways neurostimulation could make our lives better

July 27, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

  Neurostimulation is being used for a lot of different things that go beyond motor disorders and diseases. Neurostimulation is used to stimulate certain parts of the brain’s nervous system. It can be invasive with implants or it can be non-invasive with electrode-filled caps and ear clips. The neurostimulation market was worth an estimated $1.9 […]

Filed Under: Neurological, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation, Pain Management, Research & Development Tagged With: Cleveland Clinic, Hartford Healthcare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Medtronic, Northwestern University, University of Washington

Study: Nanomedicine shuts down cells that drive cancer growth in glioblastoma

July 12, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Researchers from Northwestern Medicine have developed lipid polymer-based nanoparticles that target key cancer drivers, called brain tumor initiating cells, in a mouse model of glioblastoma brain tumors. “BTICs are malignant brain tumor populations that underlie the therapy resistance, recurrence and unstoppable invasion commonly encountered by glioblastoma patients after the standard treatment regimen of surgical resection, radiation and […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Neurological, Oncology, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: Northwestern University

Northwestern, University of Calgary win $3m grant for cardiac valve imaging project

June 30, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Patients who are born with a bicuspid aortic valve have 2 flaps in their cardiac valve instead of 3 – and researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Calgary are planning a 5-year study to evaluate an imaging approach for preventing the complications of this genetic condition. With a $3.3 million grant from the […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Funding Roundup, Imaging Tagged With: National Institutes of Health (NIH), Northwestern University, universityofcalgary

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