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Samsung Partners With Stanford Medicine for New AI Sleep Apnea Feature

HIT Consultant

Source: Samsung What You Should Know: – Samsung Electronics and Stanford University today forms a research collaboration with Stanford Medicine aimed at developing health solutions leveraging Samsungs recently FDA De Novo authorized obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) feature.

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The “Food Wars” and the Courts

Bill of Health

Toddler milks have been criticized by professional and scientific organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization , for containing high levels of saturated fat, sodium and sweeteners, including sugar. The toddler milk case may sidestep these causation challenges.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

Fulfillment of Postmarket Commitments and Requirements for New Drugs Approved by the FDA, 2013-2016. Reforming the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List: Essential but Unaffordable. Limitations on the Capability of the FDA to Advise. JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Oct 3:e224226. N Engl J Med. Epub 2022 Oct 8.

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How Temporal Artery Thermometry Improves Patient Safety Through Accurate Temperature Monitoring

HIT Consultant

The FDA has recognized the limitations of these devices noting that factors such as measurement location, distance of the sensor, individual physiological attributes and environmental conditions can all impact the reliable performance of NCITs.

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Wysa Secures $20M for AI-Powered Mental Health Chatbot

HIT Consultant

Address Global Mental Health Demand With AI Digital Therapeutics. Globally, there is a huge demand-supply gap in the mental health space. One in eight people in the world live with a mental disorder, according to the World Health Organization. FDA Breakthrough Device Designation.

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AI’s Ability to Manipulate Decision Making Requires a Moratorium on Its Use in Obtaining Consent for Biomedical Research

Bill of Health

Public Health Service’s (USPHS) Syphilis Study at Tuskegee , whose revelation to the public sparked today’s legal schema for regulating and protecting the research it funds (the “Common Rule”), as well as research done in anticipation of receiving FDA approval for marketing a new product. While the U.S.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

In 2020, CES featured several hundred digital health exhibitors and a growing array of Internet of Things-connected devices adjacent to health and wellness, with representation from beyond “pure” wearable health tech ranging from FDA-cleared blood pressure watches from Omron to health insurer Humana in the exhibit hall.