AI gauges the mental health of cancer patients through eye movements

Posted on 21/12/2020 by Engadget

Good mental health is important, and early research suggests AI might help diagnose that health for people who are under a particularly heavy strain. Scientists have developed a combination of deep learning algorithms that use eye tracking to gauge t...

Hackers are trying to disrupt the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain

Posted on 03/12/2020 by Engadget

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen hackers target efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, but it now seems they’re shifting their attention to the supply chain that will distribute those vaccines to people across the world. IBM s...

Thousands of unsecured medical records were exposed online

Posted on 01/12/2020 by Engadget

Thousands of medical records for US patients, some of whom are children, were exposed in yet another lapse in health data security. A company named nTreatment, which handles records for clients in the healthcare industry, failed to protect one of its...

Modified ‘stealth’ virus could fight advanced cancers

Posted on 29/11/2020 by Engadget

Scientists have long explored using viruses to fight cancer, but that doesn’t work well for metastatic cancers (that is, those that have spread beyond the primary site) when your immune system will quickly neuter perceived threats. There might, howev...

Leak exposes personal data for millions of Brazilian COVID-19 patients

Posted on 28/11/2020 by Engadget

Medical data breaches are serious as a rule, but an incident in Brazil may be particularly severe. According to ZDNet, Brazilian newspaper Estadao has learned that a Sao Paolo hospital worker uploaded a spreadsheet with login details for two governme...

Scientists might know why astronauts develop health problems in space

Posted on 28/11/2020 by Engadget

People are more likely to develop health issues with extended time in space, such as cardiovascular and sleep disruptions. But why? Scientists might have an idea. They’ve published research indicating that mitochondria, the energy-producing “powerhou...

FDA clears emergency use of lab-made antibodies to treat COVID-19

Posted on 22/11/2020 by Engadget

The FDA just cleared a medical advance that could play an important (if limited) role in treating COVID-19 patients. The administration has granted emergency use authorization for Regeneron’s lab-made monoclonal antibodies (a combo of casirivimab and...

Microsoft: State-backed hackers targeted COVID-19 vaccine creators

Posted on 14/11/2020 by Engadget

State-sponsored campaigns to hack COVID-19 vaccine makers might be more commonplace than previously thought. According to ZDNet, Microsoft has detected hacks from three “nation-state actors” targeting seven pharmaceutical firms and researchers, inclu...

FDA clears Apple Watch app that helps treat PTSD-related nightmares

Posted on 08/11/2020 by Engadget

Your Apple Watch might be the key to addressing nightmare-related sleep issues. The FDA has approved the sale of NightWare, an Apple Watch app (with a corresponding iPhone element) that helps treat nightmares stemming from disorders like PTSD. The sy...

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