Scientists Map Light Cues for Optic Nerve Regeneration
Scientists are working on regenerating optic nerves for people who have lost their sight. The first step is done: A map of how changes in light, color, and frequency affect the visual axis. https://spectrum.ieee.org/optic-nerve-damage-electrical-stimulation
Wearable Exoskeleton Lets Kids Walk Independently
Trexo #Robotics’ #Wearable Exoskeleton Empowers Children With Mobility Challenges to Walk Independently by @trexorobotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/FiuMYdaEah
AI Expands From Radiology to Entire Healthcare Operations
AI in healthcare started with radiology, from 0 to mainstream in 5 years. But something bigger is happening. AI is now transforming patient pathways, workflows, and healthcare operations beyond image analysis. Join our masterclass with Jan Beger & @HLTHEVENT next week. Limited...
BCI Implants Grant Freedom, yet Reveal Real Limits
For people with paralysis, brain implants offer new independence—but also real limits. Early BCI users explain what the technology gives and what it takes. https://spectrum.ieee.org/bci-user-experience?share_id=9362216
AI‑designed Sensors Promise Earlier Cancer Detection
As a medical school professor, I can tell you: we catch most cancers too late. MIT and Microsoft may have just changed that forever. They built an AI system called CleaveNet that designs molecular sensors detecting cancer enzymes called proteases --...
Humanoid Robots Enable Around-the-Clock Pharmacy Service
Humanoid #Robots Power a 24-Hour Pharmacy Revolution by @CyberRobooo #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/5BcYU8gy3M
AR‑Enhanced Ultrasound Projects Anatomy Directly Onto Patients
What is the point of using augmented reality and ultrasound imaging together? Instead of interpreting flat, abstract images on a screen, clinicians can see anatomy overlaid directly onto the patient’s body in real time. If they learn how to exploit this...
AI Threatens Medical Expertise; Recommendations to Prevent Deskilling
In today's @washingtonpost, a terrific piece on the risk of AI-based deskilling in medicine, along with some sensible recommendations. I'm quoted, along with @CarlaPughMDPhD. Authors: Rebecca Adams/Laura Landry. https://t.co/eDlBmNvyXV
AI Access to All Data Exposes Waste and Fraud
Profound thought here by @sundeep ⬇️ in a world where AI is a relentless optimizer, waste, excess and fraud will be easily spotted if AI is given access to all of the data and it systems.
Low‑Frequency Wireless Sensor Tracks Artery Stiffness Safely
A new low-frequency wireless sensor enables real-time monitoring of artery stiffening with reduced electromagnetic interference, offering a safer and more stable approach for wearable and medical devices. biotechnology
Stair‑Climbing Electric Chair Revolutionizes Mobility
This Electric Chair Climbs Stairs Effortlessly—A Game-Changer for Mobility by @Khulood_Almani #Healthcare #TechForGood #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation #Tech https://t.co/cmPXzZc7II
AI Powers 20% of Medical Cases, Processing 1.9M Data Points
I must be the 20% where AI helped in “medical cases” but then again I’m hitting 1.9M data points.
CRISPR Turns 25: Explore Its Past, Present, Future
Introducing the GEN Keynote Webinar: "CRISPR at 25: The Past, Present, and Future of Genome Editing" Guest speaker: Rodolphe Barrangou @CRISPRchef May 4, 2026: noon ET/9 am PT Sponsored by @elevatebio https://t.co/cYsSsaod4Y via @GENbio
Extend Therapy's Impact: Nudge Support Between Sessions
The breakthrough in a therapy session almost always comes in the last five minutes. You get something, and then the session is over. You go back to your life still carrying the same thoughts you walked in with, and your next...
Invest Aggressively in Value Partnerships for Better, Cheaper Care
This is exactly why we should invest more aggressively in value-based partnerships and digital health solutions. The goal isn’t just cost reduction-it’s better outcomes at a lower total cost. #healthcare #payers https://t.co/rOx2TUN5yM
Build a HIPAA‑Ready Health Data Platform on AWS
https://leketecy.hashnode.dev/building-a-hipaa-ready-health-data-platform-on-aws If you are a DevOps engineer, platform engineer or SRE go through my blog and read on this topic #Devops #platform #sre
AI Company Becomes First Autonomous Drug Prescriber in Utah
An editorial @JAMA_current on @doctronic (the AI company now prescribing renewal medications without physician involvement in Utah) entitled "The First AI Drug Prescriber" https://t.co/Wo1rVhnr4s https://t.co/hAcYbYLmIv
Autonomous UV‑C Robot Boosts Hospital Safety
#Autonomous UV-C Disinfection #Robot for Safer, Cleaner Hospitals via @ZappyZappy7 #HealthTech #Tech #Technology #EmergingTech #TechForGood https://t.co/7ZETdfCoyj
Virtual Subspecialty Care Can Cut Unnecessary Transfers
You can't snap your fingers and make more subspecialists. So how does America close the gap? New Lifers episode with Dr. Chris Gallagher and Dr. Blake Porter at @AccessTeleCare on what virtual subspecialty care can actually fix. We discuss: * Why 2025...
Comprehensive Genomic Landscape of Small Bowel Adenocarcinoma Revealed
Genomic profiling of small bowel adenocarcinoma: a pooled analysis from 3 databases [May 14, 2024] Aparicio et al. @BrJCancer https://t.co/xfznlhD4fh #sbcsm #cagenome HT @OncoThor
Disney's HoloTile Stalls, Leaving Therapeutic Potential Untapped
From time to time, I revisit some technologies that seemed to be exciting to see whether there is any news or updates about them. And sometimes it's heartbreaking to see nothing. Just like in the case of Disney's HoloTile floor...
Current LLMs Lack Safe Clinical Reasoning Capability
Assessment of 21 LLMs for generating a differential diagnosis "Off-the-shelf LLMs have not yet achieved the intelligence required for safe deployment and remain limited in demonstrating advanced clinical reasoning." https://t.co/9Nvo0kPrZA https://t.co/Odja5lkq8F
One Gene Therapy Platform Could Cure Obesity and More
Eric Kelsic makes the compelling case on using gene therapy technology to eventually treat common diseases, like obesity: “Fundamentally, we all share the same genetics." Because our bodies run on the same genetic blueprint, a disease - whether common or rare -...
Flip‑Flop Steps Power Wearable Medical Devices via Graphene
📰 🧪 James Tour Group in the News: Wearable generator powers medical devices with every step of a flip-flopAn article features Rice research that has adapted laser-induced graphene […] https://t.co/R9H7Ozu1pL
Robotic Telemedicine Arrives in North Carolina Hospitals
As in the hospital were bad enough on North Carolina has deployed robots that interact with you and the doctor is on the screen talking to you. #Dystopian #WelcomeToTheMonkeyHouse 🙈 https://t.co/XM2yyNtv01
AI Powers Cancer Cures While Robots Learn Chores
AI is designing molecules that boost chemotherapy effectiveness by 70%, and humanoid robots are learning tasks by watching gig workers record themselves doing chores... we're literally teaching machines to cure cancer AND do our laundry.
IPSC Therapies Succeed; In‑vivo Reprogramming Remains Hype
your regular reminder that Yamanaka factor-driven production of iPSCs is already producing real medicine (eg dopaminergic neural progenitor for Parkinson's, cardiomyocyte sheets for heart failure & more) iPSC tech is not done in vivo... ppl isolate the well behaved cells away...
Daily Evoked Gamma Therapy Shows Safety and Cognitive Benefit
Safety, tolerability, and efficacy estimate of evoked gamma oscillation in mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease 👉 “Our results demonstrate that 1-h daily treatment with [CogTx-001] was safe and well-tolerated and demonstrated potential clinical benefits in mild to moderate AD.” 🔘 Participants underwent...
China Deploys Robots to Revolutionize Hospital Operations
How China Is Transforming Hospital Operations with #Robots by @Arcfunmi #Healthcare #MedTech #HealthTech #TechForGood https://t.co/Tx2XMAoO8i
AI and CRISPR Will Turn Sickcare Spending Into Cures
.@demishassabis understands that most of the healthcare budget today is really “sickcare”, that AI and CRISPR will cure the sick, and that trillions of chronic sickcare dollars will shift toward cures and prevention.
One Blood Test Detects Multiple Cancers and Diseases
Detecting multiple cancers and other diseases from a single blood sample https://t.co/6gjjYY50dm via @medical_xpress #cancer #research
First FDA‑cleared Humanoid Robot Performs Precise Spine Surgery
World’s First Surgical Humanoid #Robot Achieves FDA-Cleared Precision in Spine Surgery by @StarSnap_1 #MedTech #Healthcare #HealthTech #Tech #TechForGood https://t.co/4HLmX8wb7y
AI Advice Still Needs Doctor Confirmation for New Parents
A month into fatherhood, I've used every clinical AI tool I have access to: OpenEvidence, DoximityGPT, Gemini - and I'm STILL asking my doctor friends for advice... but WHY? Isn't AI supposed to make physicians obsolete? Let’s not act surprised: of...
Hands-Free Exoskeleton Restores Walking for Patients
Atalante X: The Hands-Free Exoskeleton That Gets Patients Walking Again via @WevolverApp #Healthcare #TechForGood #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation #Tech https://t.co/mpeZ0Fuk6M
AI Links Loneliness and Insomnia to Higher Diabetes Risk
AI Reveals Loneliness and Insomnia as Risks for Diabetes - https://t.co/cTzkMFXc7O via @neurosciencenew #diabetes #health #mentalhealth #MedTwitter
Epigenetic Clock Detects Aging and Cancer via Blood Test
This is the future: An epigenetic clock for the simultaneous assessment of biological aging and cancer from a simple, cheap blood test 👏 https://t.co/uzGoZWos9C
Spatial Biology, Single‑cell Profiling, and AI Map T‑cell Immunity
Towards Spatial Medicine for individualized cancer immunotherapy @SciImmunology "The convergence of spatial biology platforms, single-cell immune profiling, and machine learning is positioning the community to decode how T cell immunity is spatially organized in human tissues and to exploit that organization...
Stool Test Detects 90% of Colorectal Cancers
As a medical school professor, I've watched colorectal cancer screening rely on colonoscopies for decades. That era may be ending. Researchers at the University of Geneva just published a breakthrough in Cell Host & Microbe: a simple stool test that detects...
Physical AI Transforming Healthcare Delivery and Outcomes
Physical #AI In #Healthcare by Hani Eskandari @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/kOpZV67O6I #MedTech #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/1lTgOeoH5c
MIT Discovers Hundreds of Bacterial CRISPR-Like Tools
MIT Mined Bacteria for the Next CRISPR—and Found Hundreds of Potential New Tools https://t.co/n4cJpB8dVk https://t.co/Vq57AKw6XD
AI Empowers Personal Control Over Health Care
I am really excited about this trend of AI enabling people to have agency over their health and medical care.
Health AI's Real Gold Lies Beyond Prestige Hospitals
Health AI startups are chasing "prestige logos": the 400 big academic medical centers. That's only 7% of the market. Mark Sendak (VegaHealth) on why the other 93% is the real opportunity 👇 * $45B IT market * Faster buying cycles * 18% claim denial rates...
Whoop Vs
This week on Optimizer… This is a thing that happened. To whom? You just have to read. https://www.theverge.com/column/909736/optimizer-whoop-oura-wearable-hype-cycle
Optical Genome Mapping Enhances AML Classification and Treatment
Optical genome mapping [OGM] improves the accuracy of classification, risk stratification, & personalized treatment strategies for Pts w/ acute myeloid leukemia [Jul 17, 2024] @sanamloghavi et al. @AjHematology https://t.co/R5ZLgolhuj #AMLsm #leusm #PrecisionMedicine #oncopath https://t.co/kX7KUJLK0L
Personalized CRISPR Fixes Baby KJ’s Genetic Defect
In just 6 months a team at @ChildrensPhila & @PennMedicine designed a personalized CRISPR based Rx to correct the single misspelled letter in Baby KJ’s DNA that results in CPS1 deficiency. Recent advances in mRNA science & CRISPR gene...
AI Predicts Heart Failure Five Years Early via CT
AI to detect risk of heart failure 5 years ahead of symptoms via CT scan epicardial fat tissue https://t.co/RuZu8pSIAy @JACCJournals https://t.co/Gz052Ajj4X
Ultrasound Enables Non‑Invasive Control of Body Cells
"Sonogenics" is an emerging scientific field that uses ultrasound to non-invasively control and manipulate specific cells in the body, such as neurons or heart cells
AI-Powered EMS Guides Users Through Unfamiliar Tasks
A new AI-driven system uses context-aware electrical muscle stimulation to physically guide users through unfamiliar tasks, merging computer vision and real-time reasoning to deliver tailored, on-the-spot movement assistance. embodiedai
AI Predicts Heart Failure up to Five Years Early
New #AI tool can predict heart failure at least five years before it develops https://t.co/PAVvWoOaAD
WHOOP AI Coach Shares Worthy Amb
Encouraged to see this perspective (articulated as an ambition-and I’d argue a very worthy one) from @WHOOP’s AI coach in response to question… @EmilyBreslow @willahmed https://t.co/YTdRL7pIgh