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How hospitals can navigate overlooked IoT risks
The global healthcare sector will spend nearly $270 billion on Internet of Things devices and services by 2023, according to
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Two consumer baby monitors show worrisome results in measuring vital signs: CHOP researchers test pulse oximetry monitors in hospitalized infants
Researchers who tested two commercially available baby monitors are raising serious concerns about the accuracy of these products, which are
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New way to grow blood vessels developed
Formation of new blood vessels, a process also known as angiogenesis, is one of the major clinical challenges in wound
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On-chip optical filter processes wide range of light wavelengths: Silicon-based system offers smaller, cheaper alternative to other ‘broadband’ filters; could improve a variety of photonic devices
MIT researchers have designed an optical filter on a chip that can process optical signals from across an extremely wide
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A first look at interstitial fluid flow in the brain
Interstitial fluid transports nutrients and removes waste between the organs and tissues in our body. In the brain, interstitial fluid
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Consciousness is partly preserved during general anesthesia
When people are administered an anaesthetic, they seem to lose consciousness — or at least they stop reacting to their
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Slips of the ear: When knowledge deceives perception
Misperception of speech results from a weak representation of the difference between what we expect to hear and what is
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More breast cancers found with combined digital screening
A combination of digital mammography and tomosynthesis detects 90 percent more breast cancers than digital mammography alone, according to a
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Novel PET imaging noninvasively pinpoints colitis inflammation
A novel positron emission tomography (PET) imaging method shows promise for noninvasively pinpointing sites of inflammation in people with inflammatory
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