disease detection

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By  Jessica Hagen 09:30 am July 18, 2024
Global healthcare AI platform Ubie and the American Kidney Fund (AKF) will collaborate to fine-tune Ubie's AI-enabled symptom checker for kidney disease detection with the aim of accelerating a patient's time to treatment.  Ubie's AI is trained on clinical research papers, and then its physician review panel analyzes the prediction pathways and symptoms associated with a disease.  At this point,...
By  Dave Muoio 02:28 pm August 25, 2020
Sonde Health, a PureTech Health spinout focused on vocal biomarkers for various health conditions, has acquired voice-based survey-platform-maker NeuroLex Laboratories, the companies announced this morning. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, although the companies noted that NeuroLex CEO Jim Schwoebel will be stepping into Sonde's executive team as its new VP of data and research. Sonde's...
By  Jonah Comstock 08:35 am February 3, 2015
The Breathometer Mint, announced at CES. As mobile health continues to push more and more point of care diagnostics into the home, scientists are also finding new diagnostic modalities to spot diseases early. One of the hardest-to-believe is disease detection by smell, but it's proven effective in numerous studies published in the last few years. Early proofs of concept came out of studies...