Promise Bio Ltd. emerged from stealth with $8.3 million in seed investment for its precision medicine platform, which addresses immune-mediated diseases.
The FDA’s final guidance for predetermined change control plans (PCCPs) for AI products contains a number of editorial changes, some more significant than others.
Mica AI Medical Ltd. is looking to transform the early diagnosis of breast cancer with its software which helps radiologists analyze mammograms more effectively. The company recently signed a collaboration and licensing agreement with Baptist Health South Florida in a bid to bring its technology to the U.S. market.
Movano Inc., dba Movano Health, added some clinical-grade glitz to its Evie ring with a U.S. FDA clearance for the built-in pulse oximeter. Movan’s stock shot up from an all-time low within minutes of the announcement on Dec. 2, as the clearance breathes new life into Movano’s plans to position the ring as a medical device.
The health care potential for generative artificial intelligence comes with hazards such as the inadvertent effects of poor prompt engineering practices, but Anil Bhatta of Deloitte Consulting told a U.S. FDA advisory committee that this risk could be managed by rules that would thwart any consequent problems, such as an inadvertent jailbreak of the algorithm’s intended use.
Diagnosing depression and other mental illnesses is largely subjective, but that could soon change as Sydney-based Trivarx Ltd. developed an AI-based algorithm that uses heart rate and heart rate variability coupled with sleep disturbance to diagnose major depressive episodes.
The first day of the U.S. FDA’s two-day advisory hearing on generative artificial intelligence reflected some of the anxieties attached to this emerging technology, with the phenomenon of hallucinations driving several calls for more stringent regulation of this class of products that might be applied toward other entries in the class of artificial intelligence.
On the heels of U.S. FDA approval for Neurophet Aqua, an updated version of its artificial intelligence (AI)-based magnetic resonance imaging analysis software for the brain, Neurophet Inc. is preparing for an IPO in 2025 and expansion into U.S. and European markets.
A new position paper from the International Society of Hypertension pinpoints the benefits and drawbacks of novel blood pressure management technology, including the latest cuff-based and cuffless and wearable devices like BP-measuring watches and rings.
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