Zipline, an instant logistics and delivery company, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation are expanding their partnership to deliver HIV prevention and treatment to youth in Nigeria.
The partnership will leverage Zipline's drone-delivery technology to address Nigeria's supply chain challenges, such as access to antiretroviral therapy, which is a medicine that prevents people who are HIV positive...
Safety-focused large language model company Hippocratic AI has been issued its first patent by the U.S. Patent Office, which includes the company's LLM innovations incorporated into its safety-focused LLM built with a constellation architecture dubbed Polaris.
Hippocratic AI's generative AI solution focuses on nondiagnostic healthcare tasks such as medication onboarding and monthly reconciliation...
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface implant startup Neuralink announced on X that it received approval to launch a new feasibility study, CONVOY, which will test the use of its wireless brain-computer interface (BCI), or N1 implant, to control an investigational assistive robotic arm.
"This is an important first step towards restoring not only digital freedom, but also physical freedom. More...
Researchers from South Korea have built machine learning-based models that can predict mood episodes using only sleep and circadian rhythm data from wearable devices.
The team comprised researchers from the Institute for Basic Sciences (IBS), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and Korea University College of Medicine.
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In a study, which findings were published in...
Google has introduced Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF), a public resource for healthcare developers that provides open-weight models to help them build healthcare applications, initially focused on dermatology, radiology and pathology.
Open-weight AI models are a type of black box AI technology that allows developers to apply and fine-tune a model for specific tasks, allowing them to...
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface implant startup Neuralink has received approval from Health Canada to perform a clinical trial on its N1 brain implant and R1 robot, which is used to place the implant into the brain.
The "Canadian Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface" (CAN-PRIME) study will be performed by the University Health Network (UHN) hospital at its Toronto Western...
Vuno receives second 510(k)
South Korean medical AI company Vuno has obtained a 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration for its chest X-ray analysis AI software.
The VunoMed Chest X-ray Triage quickly screens for pneumothorax and pleural effusion in chest X-ray images.
This FDA win is a second for Vuno, who first received a 510(k) for its brain image analysis AI in...
Venture capital firm General Catalyst announced the expansion of the General Catalyst Institute into India, focusing on five key pillars, including using AI to address societal challenges and working with policymakers and entrepreneurs to build on India's strengths in telemedicine and pharmaceuticals in order to impact the healthcare sector.
The General Catalyst Institute, launched in September,...
A consortium of research institutes in South Korea has been formed to promote the utilisation of AI and national supercomputers in discovering novel drugs for treating lung cancer.
According to a press statement, the following organisations will collaborate to develop and test AI for identifying novel drug candidates and predicting its efficacy:
DAAN Cancer Research Institute under Yonsei...
The Society of General Internal Medicine released a position statement on generative AI use in healthcare, highlighting the need for clinicians and technologists to partner to enhance genAI decision-making and for healthcare organizations to use the technology but, avoid "the urge to rapidly displace the human clinical workforce with generative AI."
The Society says clinicians must remain...
