U.S. News & World Report Releases 2014-15 Hospital Rankings
Edison Award alumnus, Mayo Clinic, Ranks No. 1
Some hospitals are more expert than others in caring for patients with life-threatening or rare conditions. And people facing such health challenges need every bit of help they can get. That's why U.S. News & World Report has published annual rankings of the nation's Best Hospitals for the last quarter-century. More
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Edison Awards Has More to Smile About in 2015
New partnership with Benco Dental announced
The next Awards Gala, slated for April 2015, will be even better - especially for us dental folk, thanks to a new partnership between the Edison Awards and Incisal Edge. Together, we're bringing dental innovations out of the shadows and giving them the international recognition they deserve. Here's how: Edison will now feature categories honoring the year's most innovative dental equipment, merchandise and technology. More
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A Not-So-Tough Pill to Swallow
Proteus Digital Health develops advanced medication tracking system with micro-camera
What if you could swallow a computer the size of a poppy seed, and it could report back exactly if and when you took a medicine while recording how your body responded to the drug? It sounds crazy, but the tiny computers exist. It also sounds dangerous, but they were approved by the Food and Drug Administration. More
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Was Blind But Now I See
The Amazing Grace of Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
After being legally blind for more than 30 years, Lisa Kulik can see again with the help of a retinal prosthetic chip implanted on her eye that's linked to an external camera mounted on a pair of her glasses. More
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Bloody Brilliant!
How Theranos is lightening the load of blood work
The diagnostic-lab industry has long been dominated by names such as Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, whose satellites many of us visit when our doctors want to run standard tests that typically require three or four vials of blood. But Theranos - a blend of "therapy" and "diagnosis" - has developed hardware and software that allows for many such tests to be completed with just a pinprick's worth of blood stored in a minute vial called a nanotainer. More
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Japan, Endless Discovery
Ipsos Healthcare re-launches Fieldwork International in Japan
"Market research in the healthcare field requires a high level of specialist knowledge, and obtaining accurate fieldwork data utilizing such specialist knowledge is of vital importance," said William Hall of Ipsos Healthcare Japan. More
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