Radically new approaches to drug discovery and commercialization are needed to overcome drug resistant diseases and provide cures for a global population according to a new healthcare innovation repor…
iRobot, the company that brought you the Roomba house-cleaning robotic vacuum, launched a healthcare division in 2009 with the healthcare innovation goal of creating "next-generation practical robots"…
According to a survey commissioned by the Council for American Medical Innovation (CAMI) and conducted from Jan. 6-10, Americans overwhelmingly believe that failure on the part of U.S. policymakers to…
In a medical breakthrough for brain cancer victims, researchers at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center revealed clinical trials for testing a vaccine treatment for brain tumors. Eighteen…
Combining an FDA-approved drug treatment for kidney cancer with an adenovirus has been shown to kill cancer cells not only at the primary tumor site but also in distant tumors not directly infected by…
In a breakthrough for the diagnosis and treatment of what is commonly called "walking pneumonia" researchers at the University of Georgia announced a technique that provides diagnostic results within …
The recent World Congress Summit on patient communication and branding strategies for hospitals and health systems highlighted the importance of integrating electronic health records with value added …
Leading connected healthcare innovator and social entrepreneur, Dr. Phillip Olla spoke at the Mobile Health Expo last month in Las Vegas, sharing his vision for the "MoLOC" - Mobile Lab on a Chip. The…
Sub-Saharan Africa is a region carrying the multiple burdens of widespread communicable diseases including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria paired with low health service coverage and a serious heal…
Physicians in Indiana are being trained to remove throat cancers with the da Vinci robotic surgical system, which allows them to direct robotic arms down the throat instead of opening the patient's fa…