MedStar, a 10-hospital group that’s the largest healthcare provider in Maryland and Washington, D.C., has adopted AirStrip’s labor monitoring platform as part of an expansion of a collaboration started earlier this year. With cases of hypertension, obesity and Type 2 diabetes rising, it has increased the risk factors posed for mothers and their unborn children. […]
As part of 1-year-old Maryland Innovation Initiative by Maryland’s Technology Development Corporation to help advance university research and support early-stage companies, 67 commercialization projects and startup companies received $6.4 million. Early-stage healthcare and life-sciences businesses and projects got some of that funding, too, such as remote monitoring for respiratory distress, minimally invasive heart surgery devices and […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Telling the parents of babies who spit up and cry frequently that their child has gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, makes them more likely to want medicine - even if they're also told it isn't likely to help much, a new study suggests.
Most babies who spit up don't have an acid reflux problem, researchers said, just a not-quite-developed upper stomach valve.
Still, an increasing number of those kids are being labeled as having GERD - even though a definitive diagnosis normally requires an invasive test.