Tag Archives: medicine

Digital medicine startups are booming. What are the side effects? – Fast Company

If you’re on Instagram or if you’ve taken the New York City subway lately, chances are you’ve heard of Hims, the men’s health and wellness company with a penchant for advertisements featuring suggestive cacti and eggplants against pastel backgrounds. The web-based startup targets the young male demographic with skincare products, multivitamins, and erectile dysfunction medications. In January, just a few… Read More »

UCSF School of Medicine Ranks in U.S. News Best Graduate Schools' Top Five for Ten Years Running – UCSF News Services

For the 10th consecutive year, UC San Francisco’s School of Medicine placed in the top five nationally in the U.S. News & World Report survey of best graduate and professional schools. UCSF was the only medical school to be ranked in the top five in the nation in both research and primary care, the categories… Read More »

Northwestern Medicine piloting machine learning for heart disease

Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine announced this week that it has been doing new artificial intelligence work in an effort to improve the efficacy and accuracy of its cardiac screening. Clinicians there are using a cardiac monitoring platform from Eko, studying how its AI-enabled digital stethoscopes can interpret heart sounds to help screen for… Read More »

[Book Review] A User’s Manual for the Human Body: How Traditional Chinese Medicine helps the body to heal itself

If there is one book you should read about health it’s a book written by Alex Wu, A User’s Manual for the Human Body: How Traditional Chinese Medicine helps the body to heal itself. This book is an incredibly valuable guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine, explained in the most simple terms. The book will totally change… Read More »

NHS Announces Workforce Plan For Genomics, AI And Digital Medicine

The Topol Review explores how to prepare the healthcare workforce, through education and training, to deliver the digital future.Getty This morning, The Topol Review was announced, detailing how we should prepare the NHS clinical workforce to deliver healthcare’s digital future. Led by California-based cardiologist, geneticist, and digital medicine researcher, Dr Eric Topol, the review has been… Read More »