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Electronic nose successfully detects elusive cancers

Jun 01, 2021 (UPI)

The novel odor-based test relies on a machine-learning algorithm to identify unique combinations of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, in the vapors wafting f...

Doctors urge global action against climate-linked health risks

May 29, 2021 (AFP)

Around two hundred people wearing white medical coats and facemasks marched or were pushed in wheelchairs two kilometres (1.2 miles) through Geneva's internatio...

Google takes another US health care group to the cloud

May 26, 2021 (AFP)

Google Cloud will create a "secure and dynamic" analytics platform for HCA, which has some 186 hospitals and 2,000 medical centers and clinics spread about the ...

Researchers train medical diagnostics algorithm without sharing patient data

May 25, 2021 (UPI)

Medical researchers are beginning to use machine learning algorithms to help analyze diagnostic images like X-rays and MRI scans, but these artificial intellige...

Microsoft bets big on health with $19.7 bn purchase of Nuance

Apr 12, 2021 (AFP)

Nuance's technology includes a conversational AI tool versed in specialized medical terms, freeing physicians from note-taking and allowing better patient-physi...

Amazon to expand health care service to companies across US

Mar 17, 2021 (AFP)

The initiative will make Amazon Care, which had been offered to a limited number of the tech giant's employees, available to "millions" of people as part of a w...

China eyes record monopoly fine near $1 bn for Alibaba: report

Mar 12, 2021 (AFP)

The penalty could top the $975 million paid by US chipmaker Qualcomm in 2015 -- the biggest known for anticompetitive practices in China -- the Wall Street Jour...

Digital health in spotlight as pandemic shifts tech show focus

Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)

The Consumer Electronics Show, which is being held online from Monday, will showcase technology for remote patient visits, biosensors and a range of other gadge...

Scientists identify signals of fading consciousness during anesthesia, sleep

Dec 29, 2020 (UPI)

Until now, researchers had struggled to separate the brain patterns associated specifically with the loss of consciousness and the more generalized neural effec...

Pandemics, climate change 'intensify' global health threats

Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)

A deadly mix of extreme heat, air pollution and intense farming are combining to produce the "worst outlook for public health our generation has seen", accordin...

JD health unit eyes $3.5 bn Hong Kong IPO

Nov 25, 2020 (AFP)

JD Health International's share sale comes after its parent raised around $4 billion in the city this year and comes as it sees a rise in demand for its service...

After books and streaming, Amazon launches online pharmacy

Nov 17, 2020 (AFP)

The e-commerce giant said Tuesday it was launching an online pharmacy for US consumers, who will be able to order prescription medications directly from its web...

Remodeled antibiotic molecules used to battle drug-resistant bacteria

Sep 23, 2020 (UPI)

Drug-resistance has rendered many old treatments obsolete, but new classes of antibiotics have been slow to materialize. To tackle the problem, researchers at t...

China's once-booming mask makers struggle after price drop

Aug 08, 2020 (AFP)

China launched a huge effort to produce protective gear to meet shortages during the outbreak, which first emerged in the country late last year before spreadin...

S. Africa's exhausted paramedics on the coronavirus front line

Jul 16, 2020 (AFP)

"A minimum of 70 percent of our work in the past two weeks has been COVID-related," said Dave Gardner, head of Gardmed, the largest ambulance company in Eastern...

Ericsson, Nokia say ready to step in after UK 5G Huawei ban

Jul 14, 2020 (AFP)

"We have the capacity and expertise to replace all of the Huawei equipment in the UK's networks at scale and speed," Nokia CEO for the UK and Ireland Cormac Whe...

Hong Kong patient received blood from donor with coronavirus

Jul 13, 2020 (AFP)

Officials were scrambling to trace what happened to the blood after it emerged a man who donated on July 5 was later found to be carrying the virus. "The blood ...

Engineers design reusable silicone rubber face mask with N95 filter

Jul 09, 2020 (UPI)

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital said in a statement that they think the new face mask is as effective ...

China plans reforms to organ donation rules

Jul 04, 2020 (AFP)

The draft rules published Wednesday by the National Health Commission allow people to donate the organs of relatives who have died. They also make it illegal to...

Chinese firm sued by US over 'fake' masks not certified: official

Jun 22, 2020 (AFP)

Guangdong-based King Year Packaging and Printing is not on a list of enterprises approved or registered as meeting foreign standards, China's Commerce Ministry ...