Mission control on earth receives an urgent communication from Mars that an astronaut has fractured his shinbone. Using a handheld scanning device, the crew takes images of his damaged tibia and transmits them to earth. Orthopedic surgeons then use a 3D printer to create an exact replica of the astronaut’s leg from medical imaging files obtained before the voyage. Surgeons on earth use a robot to stabilize the bone with a metal plate on the 3D replica. The data is transmitted back to Mars, where surgical instruments, a personalized plate and screws are 3D printed. Finally, a surgical robot operates on the injured astronaut...
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2050 Deadline For Tuberculosis
Kaniza Garari | Deccan Chronicle | August 26, 2013
It has been a challenge for the government of India to come up with a new drug to cure tuberculosis and scientists at IICT are keeping their fingers crossed as the new combination of PA824 moxifloxacin and pyrazinamide under the Open Source Drug Discovery has successfully entered phase-II of clinical trial. Read More »
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3D Printers: A Revolutionary Frontier for Medicine
By Ivar Mendez | October 5, 2017
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Academic Publishers Have Become The Enemies Of Science
Mike Taylor | The Guardian | January 16, 2012
The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls Read More »
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Africa: Partners Commit To Bolster Open Source Research
Press Release |
Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
November 27, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and MMV have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate in an effort to build a global community of researchers contributing to open source drug discovery for diseases of poverty. Read More »
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After A 'Bridge' Year For Meaningful Use, 2014 Could Be Painful For Providers
Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | January 2, 2014
The electronic health record world covered a lot of ground in 2013, some of it positive, some of it not. Here's our annual look at the top stories that dominated the headlines in FierceEMR in 2013--and a few that we might expect to see in 2014. Read More »
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APJ Abdul Kalam For Open Source R&D For Medicines
Staff Writer | DNA | June 3, 2013
If the concept of ‘open source’ (universal access and contribution to a budding idea/technology via free licence) can be applied to developing software, then why not to promoting research and development into finding cure of diseases like malaria? Read More »
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Apple Announces ResearchKit Available Today to Medical Researchers
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Apple |
April 14, 2015
Apple® today announced ResearchKit™, a software framework designed for medical and health research that helps doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using mobile devices, is now available to researchers and developers. The first research apps developed using ResearchKit study asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, and have enrolled over 60,000 iPhone® users in just the first few weeks of being available on the App Store™.* Starting today, medical researchers all over the world will be able to use ResearchKit to develop their own apps and developers can also contribute new research modules to the open source framework. Read More »
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Apple Introduces ResearchKit, Giving Medical Researchers the Tools to Revolutionize Medical Studies
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Apple |
March 9, 2015
Apple® today announced ResearchKit™, an open source software framework designed for medical and health research, helping doctors and scientists gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using iPhone® apps. World-class research institutions have already developed apps with ResearchKit for studies on asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.* Users decide if they want to participate in a study and how their data is shared. Read More »
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Apple Opens Health Records API to Developers
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Apple |
June 4, 2018
Today Apple delivered a Health Records API for developers and researchers to create an ecosystem of apps that use health record data to better manage medications, nutrition plans, diagnosed diseases and more. The Health Records feature allows patients of more than 500 hospitals and clinics to access medical information from various institutions organized into one view on their iPhone. For the first time, consumers will be able to share medical records from multiple hospitals with their favorite trusted apps, helping them improve their overall health.
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Assessing The Global And Regional Burden Of Liver Disease
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American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) |
November 2, 2013
Researchers from Australia presented their research on the underlying causes of liver cancer and cirrhosis deaths at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, concluding that these two diseases result in 1.75 million deaths each year. Viral hepatitis caused two thirds of those deaths... Read More »
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Battle Against Breast Cancer Goes Open Source
Ryan McBride | FierceBiotechIT | July 31, 2013
After a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision shielded Myriad Genetics' genetic data on breast cancer from disclosure, the nonprofit coalition Free the Data! launched a campaign to open troves of molecular information about widespread tumors with the help of big data software outfit Syapse. Read More »
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Cloudera Chief Scientist Jeff Hammerbacher Teams With Mount Sinai School of Medicine to Solve Medical Challenges Using Big Data
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Cloudera, The Mount Sinai Medical Center |
July 3, 2012
Cloudera...today announced that Cloudera Cofounder and Chief Scientist Jeff Hammerbacher will be leading a revolutionary project with Mount Sinai School of Medicine to apply the power of Cloudera's Big Data platform to critical problems in predicting and understanding the process and treatment of disease. Read More »
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CMS Makes Medicare, Medicaid Data Easier For Researchers To Access
Diana Manos | Government Health IT | November 13, 2013
Researchers who want to study population health using the vast stores of Medicare and Medicaid data will no longer have to order it and wait for the federal government to ship them encrypted data files. Rather, they can now access the information virtually [...]. Read More »
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Could Opening Up The Doors To The World’s Medical Research Save Healthcare?
John Willinsky | The Health Care Blog | May 3, 2013
What if you had access to all of the medical research in the world? Or better yet, what if the physician treating your particularly complex or rare condition had access to the latest research? Or what if a public health organization in your community could access that research to inform policymakers of measures to advance public health? Read More »
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CSIR, Royal Society Of Chemistry Team Up To Support OSDD Efforts: Minister
Staff Writer | Pharmabiz.com | August 9, 2013
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Royal Society of Chemistry of London to support drug discovery efforts through the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) , the Parliament has been told. Read More »
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