Neowin News Feed for: Medical

Detailed study compares AI vs doctors and it's closer than what doctors may like

Sayan Sen — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 08:16:02 +0000

AI took on doctors in a scientific evaluation and the results are much closer than what doctors may have wanted to see. Read more...

This "smaller than a single grain of rice" light-powered pacemaker is the world's smallest

Sayan Sen — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 22:10:01 +0000

The "world's smallest pacemaker" has been developed, and it is even "smaller than a single grain of rice". It needs light for activation. Read more...

Are you motion sick? Study shows how just a minute of bass could help you

Sayan Sen — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:56:01 +0000

Scientists conducted a study and found that just a minute of a particular mid-bass sound frequency can help cure motion sicknesses like car sickness. Read more...

UK sets up a £21 million AI Diagnostic Fund to accelerate patient diagnoses across the NHS

Anushe Fawaz — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:26:01 +0000

The government of the UK has announced an AI Diagnostic Fund of £21 million to provide AI tools to aid medical procedures and diagnoses in patients across the National Health Services. Read more...

Google can now decode doctors' bad handwriting thanks to AI

Hemant Saxena — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:10:01 +0000

Prescriptions from doctors can be hard to read or decode. To solve this problem Google is coming up with a solution that will identify and even highlight medicines within handwritten prescriptions. Read more...

Singaporean medical startup lets users send dick pics for AI to detect STDs

Taras Buria — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:58:02 +0000

HeHealth, a Singaporean startup, has come up with a new idea: send an entirely solicited dick pic to the AI for it to check whether the user has a sexually transmitted disease or other problem. Read more...

This web browser makes it easier for people with hand tremors to use the web

Usama Jawad — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 13:38:01 +0000

Staybl is a web browser for iPad that uses the device's accelerometer in a nifty way to make it easier for people with hand tremors to surf the web. The technology could come to more platforms soon. Read more...

UK consortium to boost health care with medical drones

Paul Hill — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:42:01 +0000

A new UK-based consortium led by Skyfarer is setting out to create national infrastructure by 2022 that will enable the delivery of medical supplies such as blood for blood transfusions by drone. Read more...

Here are five great apps to help you stay healthy in 2020

Paul Hill — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 09:46:01 +0000

If you pledged to be healthier this year, these five mobile apps will be of great help. All of the selections are available on Android and iOS and the broad range covers different health aspects. Read more...

This wearable aims to treat depression using transcranial direct current stimulation

Timi Cantisano — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 22:08:01 +0000

While we tend to think about health wearables as fitness trackers and similar devices, a company in South Korea is developing and testing a headband that will someday hopefully treat depression. Read more...

Microsoft's HoloLens is being used to design operating rooms in hospitals

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:40:02 +0000

Microsoft has partnered with Stryker so that its technology will now be used to design operating theaters in hospitals. HoloLens allows surgeons and designers to work together for better results. Read more...

Windows Phone used in a scientific study of DNA analysis

Boyd Chan — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 09:32:01 +0000

Swedish researchers have published a paper containing their findings of using a smartphone, specifically a Nokia Lumia 1020, as part of a prototype digital microscope to analyze DNA and tumor samples. Read more...

Hacker puts up over 650,000 healthcare records for sale, from three US companies

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:46:01 +0000

A hacker is claiming to have stolen around 655,000 healthcare records from three US-based companies. The records were stored in plaintext and are now up for sale for other cyber criminals. Read more...

QR codes could save lives

Tyler Holman — Thu, 31 May 2012 23:40:46 +0000

Imagine a place where everyone has a personal QR code that contains their medical information. No, it's not sci-fi; it's Marin County, California, where a start-up hopes to use QR codes to save lives. Read more...

Battling Swine Flu in cyberspace

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:34:29 +0000

Slightly bizarre news has been reported on the BBC Technology website today. Swine flu is hitting the world pretty hard at the moment, but we seem to be doing well. Millions of doses of anti-viral... Read more...

iPhone puts Apple into the medical sector

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:33:55 +0000

Apple have been showing off the new iPhone features as part of the WWDC Apple is running in America. Perhaps one of the most interesting features and pieces of news is how the medical... Read more...

Microchip can detect if you've taken your pills

Sam Symons — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:31:40 +0000

Being a doctor and prescribing pills to patients isn't always the most effective thing in the world, as there's more than a few people that don't take them very happily. It's hard to tell if... Read more...

Steve Jobs takes medical leave of absence

Tom Warren — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:50:14 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees: Team, I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately,... Read more...

Medical Technology: The undercover life saver

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:40:40 +0000

As the technology around us grows at a steadfast rate, we tend to only relate these advancements to the hot consumer gadgets. However, instead of writing up about the latest cell-phones and general tech... Read more...

Google Unveils Health Service

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:37:07 +0000

Search-engine Google has unveiled a plan to help U.S. patients gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors' groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive health data. The company's... Read more...