Researchers hope to reduce the risk to healthcare workers posed by Covid-19 by using robots to remotely measure patients’ vital signs. During the current coronavirus pandemic, one of the riskiest parts of…
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Artificial intelligence improves vaccine delivery
More children are being vaccinated around the world today than ever before, and the prevalence of many vaccine-preventable diseases has dropped over the last decade. Despite these encouraging signs, however, the availability…
Sensors woven into a shirt can monitor vital signs
MIT researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature,…
Device could ‘hear’ disease through structures housing cells
Similarly to how a picked lock gives away that someone has broken into a building, the stiffening of a structure surrounding cells in the human body can indicate that cancer is invading…
Portable AI device turns coughing sounds into health data for flu and pandemic forecasting
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a portable surveillance device powered by machine learning – called FluSense – which can detect coughing and crowd size in real time, then…