Nearly everyone knows about ReWalk, the revolutionary robotic exoskeleton invented in Israel that allows paraplegics to stand, walk and even navigate steps and run marathons. Ironically, ReWalk inventor Amit Goffer cannot use his own device because he is a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down following an accident in 1997. Read more on...
Read MoreA few years ago, a nine-year-old Israeli boy dropped dead from his bike. Why? Because of preventable medical error. The boy was killed by a brain hemorrhage after a doctor accidentally prescribed an anticoagulant instead of an asthma drug asthma. “It’s like killing someone with a typo,” says MedAware CEO Gidi Stein. Read more on...
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Can blood be tested more quickly, conveniently, and inexpensively, in order to save lives? It’s a question of what tools and methods are used to accurately detect blood anomalies and differentiate between all types of blood cells, in order to identify blood-based diseases. Blood tests are done for many reasons – for example, to help diagnose disease or, conversely, to rule out the possibility of a disease even when symptoms suggest its presence. Whether caring for an individual patient or responding to a worldwide epidemic, rapidly establishing the cause of disease is fundamental to quality care. Established Methods of Diagnosis: Microscopy, RDTs, and PCR Classic microscopy is considered to be the gold standard – the most effective approach to the diagnosis of infectious disease, particularly malaria. The history of microscopy goes back to the late 1660s, when Antony van Leeuwenhoek began to grind his own lenses and make simple microscopes. Modern microscopy started in 1931, when a pair of German scientists invented the electron microscope, which directs a beam of speeded-up electrons at a cell sample. As the electrons...
Read MoreMulti Channel Network (MCN) today launched MCN Location, a mobile location intelligence platform enabled by the exclusive Australian representation agreement with Near. Near are locational data specialists providing privacy compliant real-time data on people and places. They entered into an exclusive sales representation agreement with MCN in May this year, allowing the sales representation company to sell location-based mobile advertising packages to agencies. Read more on B&T Magazine...
Read MoreNEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Aug 4, 2016) – Ubimo, the leading self-service mobile programmatic platform, announced today the expansion of its New York team with the appointment of Kelly Lawler as VP of Sales. Kelly will lead Ubimo’s US-based sales team to drive the uptake of Ubimo’s platform for agency trading desks, ad networks and brands. Kelly joins Ubimo with almost a decade of sales management experience in the ad tech startup industry at RadiumOne and Yahoo!. Most recently as Senior Director of East Coast Sales at RadiumOne, Kelly successfully built a world-class sales team during the programmatic boom, accelerating revenue growth while engendering relationships with blue chip brands and agencies. Read more on...
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