Royal Philips unveils smart baby monitor

[ad_1] Health technology company Royal Philips, launched Philips Avent Premium Connected Baby Monitor, which comes with the company’s proprietary SenseIQ sleep, breathing-tracking and cry-detection and translation technologies.  A baby unit camera, parent unit and the Philips Avent Baby Monitor+ mobile app allows parents to view the baby, while SenseIQ tracking technology evaluates millions of pixels […]

Virtual dementia care platform Rippl scores $23M

[ad_1] Rippl, a company focused on providing mental health solutions to seniors with dementia and other cognitive conditions, announced it closed a $23 million Series A funding round. Tina Hoang-To, Kin Ventures’ founding general partner, led the round, with participation from the company’s seed investors General Catalyst, ARCH Ventures, GV (Google Ventures), Mass General Brigham […]

DarioHealth partners with Medicare Advantage plan for digital mental health benefits

[ad_1] DarioHealth, a digital chronic-condition-management platform, announced it has entered into a new contract with a national Medicare Advantage health plan and plans to launch its behavioral health initiative, Twill by Dario, for the plan’s members in Jan. 2025. Dario’s platform and set of solutions provides data analytics and one-on-one coaching for a variety of health […]

Owkin, AstraZeneca partner to develop an AI gBRCA prescreen remedy for breast cancer

[ad_1] AI biotech company Owkin announced a partnership with pharma giant AstraZeneca to develop an AI-powered tool designed to prescreen for gBRCA mutations (gBRCAm) in breast cancer directly from digitized pathology slides. According to Owkin, BRCA testing, which identifies mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, plays an important role in deciding a person’s risk […]

International Space Station National Lab supports cardiac, genetic research

[ad_1] When NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 28, one of the ISS National Lab-sponsored investigations included a student-led project designed to investigate the consequences of radiation and the space environment on gene-editing mechanisms. In a statement, the ISS National Laboratory said that data from the project, led by […]