New #mRNA cancer vaccine triggers fierce immune response to fight malignant glioblastoma

A potential new way to recruit the immune system to fight notoriously treatment-resistant cancers using an iteration of mRNA technology & lipid nanoparticles

medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-m……

“Sickle cell always steals my dreams and interrupts all the things I want to do… I want to be cured.”

12yr old Kendrick, the 1st person with sickle cell disease to begin a commercially approved gene therapy from bluebird bio.

nytimes.com/2024/05/06/hea…

Generative AI is rapidly accelerating its applicability to the developments & discovery of new medications, in a move that will reshape not only the pharma industry but ground-level ideas that have been built into the scientific method for centuries.

cnbc.com/2024/05/05/wit…

Exploring Butterfly Network's Role in #GlobalHealth : From hospitals to remote clinics, ButterflyNetwork is expanding access to medical imaging with #AI -powered, whole-body ultrasound solutions #Healthtech #digitalhealth @irmaraste @evirahealth twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

What is Medical Extended Reality (MXR)? This picture tells the story of #MXR , an evolving field of medicine. It's taken from the American Medical Extended Reality Association guideline published in Journal of Medical Extended Reality: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38505474/. Check out the link for more.

An #AI trained on 21,429 disorder-free head CT scans mastered the appearance of the normal, allowing it to accurately detect a wide range of abnormalities. #radiology

Exploring the future of healthcare:

Join me tomorrow 4-6pm in Menlo Park, along with Stanford Medicine’s Lee Sanders, MD, MPH, Naoko Okumoto, Medeloop’s Dr Rene Caissie, David Ewing Duncan, and Maria Soloveychik of SyntheX

Register here eventbrite.com/e/the-future-o…

Restoring sight is possible now with #optogenetics

People suffering from macular degeneration, along with other diseases that impair sight, may soon benefit from gene therapy

wapo.st/3xWcpyt

Grateful to have been at #TED2024 , and to have a chance to give a mini #TEDTalk this morning on building & maintaining our human skills & capabilities despite our accelerating #AI enabled age.

Such an amazing TED Talks community

March of the robots! From Boston Dynamics' nimble Atlas to Tesla's Optimus, charting a course towards a future rich with AI companions and workers. #Robotics #AI #TechTrends #robots #TechInnovation

Proud to be an associate editor for the new Journal of Medical Extended Reality, Journal of Medical Extended Reality - the leading open-access peer-reviewed journal exploring the multifaceted role of #XR in healthcare.

home.liebertpub.com/publications/j…

#BCI to treat depression: Robert Scoble with innercosmos.io’s founder Meron Gribetz

This is one of the most brilliant short stories I've read in a long while and a plausible glimpse into one of the next generations of computing technology. Carbon and silicon are merging to create a new computing architecture. Inspiring and powerful!

With #MEMS technology, all you need is one probe and a smartphone…

From an #ultrasound machine that’s pushed around on a cart to handheld probes that send images to a phone

Includes solutions from Butterfly Network & @ExoEffect
#digitalhealth

spectrum.ieee.org/mems-ultrasoun…

Please watch & share American Cancer Story - the 90-second film we created with Narcos Director José Padilha & Maroon 5.

#AmericanCancerStory American Cancer Story

youtube.com/watch?v=r4I318…

Human- #AI interaction in skin cancer diagnosis: a systematic review & meta-analysis

“AI benefitted medical professionals of all experience levels in subgroup analyses, with largest improvement among non-dermatologists”

In npj Digital Medicine #digitalhealth

nature.com/articles/s4174…

Optimism on progress vs Alzheimer's disease
wsj.com/health/wellnes… by Marc Agronin
Need much better risk partitioning, early preventive strategies, and far more effective drugs— but no doubt we're making headway.

Predicatalytics: 10 high-value use cases for Predictive Analytics, which can support population health management, financial success, and better outcomes across the value-based care continuum.

Via Xtelligent Healthcare

healthitanalytics.com/news/10-high-v…

Leveraging #AI to mine EMR data for earlier pancreatic cancer detection and care.

Exciting possibilities covered by Eric Topol & Anirban Maitra

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

The future is coming faster (and sometimes slower) than you think 😐

Hard to believe it's been 13 years this week since TEDx Maastricht 2011, a catalytic, forward thinking gathering curated by the incomparable Lucien Engelen & where I also met & became friends & co-conspirators…