University of Buffalo

By  Heather Mack 03:48 pm August 23, 2016
Garwood Medical, which has filed a patent application for a wound healing system, has raised $2 million in Series A funding, according to an SEC filing. The investors were undisclosed. The company also tweeted to MobiHealthNews that they will be closing on another $1 million next week. In July, the company recently received a contract with the Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics,...
By  Jonah Comstock 02:49 pm May 5, 2016
A new study from the University of Buffalo showed that not only did AliveCor's smartphone-connected heart monitor detect as many arrythmias as a traditional 14-day cardiac event monitor, but patients were also considerably more adherent to the smartphone-connected device. "The point of the study was to determine whether any smartphone app could be good enough to replace what we normally use now,...
By  Aditi Pai 01:59 pm March 17, 2016
Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed a necklace that could help passively track nutrition by listening to the sound of the wearer chewing. University at Buffalo computer scientist Wenyao Xu is developing the wearable, called AutoDietary, with a small microphone on the back that records the sound of people eating food. The sounds are sent to a smartphone via Bluetooth and...