Un grupo de emprendedores navarros ha puesto en marcha Vitale, la primera aplicación web que permite prescribir actividad física apta incluso para personas que padecen enfermedades crónicas como la diabetes, fibromialgia, EPOC u obesidad
Actualmente son muchos los usuarios que recurren a los entrenadores personales virtuales a través de su smartphone para practicar deporte, sin embargo emprendedores navarros han desarrollado una aplicación web única en el mercado: Vitale.
Researchers say their proof-of-concept is a major step toward designing a nanocage that carries medicine around the body and targets specific diseased cells.
The nanocage consists of eight unique DNA molecules that respond to temperature changes to close (left) or open (middle) and ultimately trap (right) an active enzyme called horseradish peroxidase (HRP).
Sherlock Holmes and his literary sidekick, Dr. Watson, meet for the first time in a chemical lab, right after the detective identified a substance that can reveal the protein hemoglobin present in the red blood cells. “I’ve found it! I’ve found it,” Holmes is shouting as Watson walks in. “Why, man, it is the most practical medico-legal discovery for years. Don’t you see that it gives us an infallible test for blood stains.”
“In the coming decade, wearable technology will touch nearly every aspect of our lives. It will allow us to bring the power of the Internet to everything we do.” –Marcus Weller, Ph.D.
It was a hot summer day in Spain. I had been riding my motorcycle along the beautiful, sun-drenched streets of a University campus I was visiting in Barcelona when I looked over to the right to read a street sign. Just then, a little red Smart car in front of me slammed on the brakes. I braced for impact, and then seemed to watch in slow motion as I smashed into the back of the car, totaling my bike. (As a side note, Smart cars are a lot more solid than they look.) I escaped with only minor injuries, but something deep in my psyche had been triggered.
VCs able to consistently invest in healthcare's largest exit outcomes are a rarity. New Enterprise Associates, OrbiMed Advisors and Alta Partners top the charts with six $500M+ exits each. Here is the data.
Building a billion-dollar tech company is hard, identifying and investing in these companies early is harder still. Our previous brief detailed how exceedingly rare VCs who invest in billion dollar tech exits are. We wanted to see what these numbers looked like within healthcare venture capital to see if the trends observable in tech carried over to the healthcare sector. Here is the data.
El proyecto GoCardio, liderado por Bilbomática, consiste en un innovador sistema portátil para realizar seguimientos de pacientes en rehabilitación cardíaca. En el desarrollo participan también tres centros de investigación vascos, y permitirá enviar información de interés tanto a los médicos como a los pacientes.
Las enfermedades cardiovasculares son la principal causa de muerte en todo el mundo, una tendencia que sigue en aumento y que va muy ligada a los actuales hábitos de vida y alimentación. Estas patologías suponen también un impacto económico muy elevado en los sistemas de salud y es por eso que uno de los grandes retos es dar con soluciones más eficientes para el tratamiento de pacientes con enfermedades cardiovasculares.
Investors apparently see promise in retinal implant systems and their potential to make the blind see again.
Pixium Vision—a 2-year-old French company developing such technology—announced Monday that it has won €15 million, the equivalent of more than $20 million, in a Series A extension financing round led by Sofinnova Partners, which becomes the largest investor. The round also included support from Bpifrance, through the InnoBio fund, and existing series A investors Omnes Capital and Abingworth LLP.
Money will advance the development of Pixium’s IRIS retinal implant systems for patients.
Recently acquired 3-D sensing technology could make computing giant Apple an even more disruptive force when it comes to healthcare technology.
Purchased by Apple for a reported $350 million, PrimeSense has technology that can capture the nuances of a 3-D environment, and is so accurate that it can detect the pulse of people positioned in front of it.
The motion sensor company is best known for its work with Microsoft in developing the Kinect system, which enables users to control the gaming system using body movement.
Last summer when we were still waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on the Affordable Care Act, many people I talked to said that regardless of the decision, the wheels were in motion. Too much had already happened for the Court to get the horse back in the barn.
That may be true, but President Obama and the ACA got everything started on a national scale: the focus on reducing readmissions, on care coordination, on patient engagement. When would hospitals have started revamping the discharge process or getting serious about follow-up care without the stick of reduced reimbursements? When would doctors and hospitals and long-term care facilities have started really focusing on any of these serious problems without real incentives to do so?
