@WIRED 1 year ago
Doctomatic is a remote patient-monitoring app which, using any medical device from heart-rate monitors to scales, allows doctors to check in on patients with chronic disease. :Gregori Civera https://wired.trib.al/80BpwK6 5/12 https://t.co/PLl8Etgl2V
@WIRED 2 years ago
There’s just one problem: no one really knows how the algorithm reaches those scores or what it’s using to measure risk factor. And if miscalculated, it could keep patients from getting the medicine they desperately need. : Sam Cannon 6/10 https://t.co/llyBVbMrbd
@WIRED 4 years ago
Mary Macdonald, emergency department nurse: “Resources are very slim. We have no medications to keep these patients even ventilated—let alone ventilators. Medications like fentanyl or propofol that would keep a patient sedated while they’re intubated we’re out of.” 9/ https://t.co/tEDq1lzuZg
@WIRED 4 years ago
Meredith Case, internal medicine resident, Columbia University Medical Center: “The deluge is here. Our ICU is completely full with intubated Covid patients. We are rapidly moving to expand capacity.” 6/ https://t.co/BT98Tt7Hzq
@WIRED 6 years ago
Currently, CBD is a Schedule 1 drug like cannabis, and the DEA must reschedule it before the epilepsy medication can be sold. If approved, this would have ...
@WIRED 6 years ago
Medicare patients with advanced cancers will now have access to a more 21st century diagnostic: gene-sequencing tests to match them with the right drugs.
@WIRED 6 years ago
Medicare patients with advanced cancers will now have access to a more 21st century diagnostic: gene-sequencing tests to match them with the right drugs.
@WIRED 6 years ago
“My wife’s nurse had to stand for 30 mins and administer a drug slowly through a syringe because there are almost no IV bags in the continental US anymore."
@WIRED 6 years ago
“My wife’s nurse had to stand for 30 mins and administer a drug slowly through a syringe because there are almost no IV bags in the continental US anymore."
@WIRED 6 years ago
They’re trying many of the same approaches that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have used for decades.
@WIRED 6 years ago
Qualcomm is developing an entirely new kind of healthcare—one where tools like VR help doctors better understand, diagnose, and treat patients in real life.
@WIRED 6 years ago
No power in Puerto Rico means no refrigeration for medicine. People with chronic illness will suffer without help.
@WIRED 6 years ago
Among the things many Houston residents have lost access to in the floods is their entire medical history.
@WIRED 6 years ago
When doctors genome sequenced 50 test patients, they expected to find *maybe* one person with a genetic disease marker. Instead, they found 11.
@WIRED 6 years ago
When doctors genome sequenced 50 test patients, they expected to find *maybe* one person with a genetic disease marker. Instead, they found 11.
@WIRED 7 years ago
We're here LIVE at Harvard Medical School, where students, professors, patients, researchers, employees, and the community have gathered to celebrate science ...
@WIRED 7 years ago
Regenerative medicine is getting ready for prime time.
@WIRED 8 years ago
This California doctor is teaming up with technologists and patients to develop a new technical standard to secure insulin pumps used by diabetics.
@WIRED 8 years ago
While scientists do not yet agree on what the "obesity paradox" means for health, most accept the evidence behind it. (via Quartz)
@WIRED 8 years ago
The Center for Avian and Exotic Medicine in New York City isn’t your average pet clinic.
@WIRED 9 years ago
Taking aim at the lack of transparency in healthcare today, RateRx will let doctors from all over the world rate the effectiveness of certain medications for certain...
@WIRED 9 years ago
Everyone who has worked with Ebola patients talks about the will to survive, and how much difference it makes.
@WIRED 9 years ago
In the U.S., unnecessary medical treatments cost $210 billion a year. David Newman's site could help change that.