Upstep (https://www.upstep.com), founded by Israeli entrepreneurs, is launching a comprehensive online service to buy custom made orthotics designed by world-class podiatrists. Prices represent 35%-50% savings over the direct purchase from podiatrists.

Testing for carcinogens, pollution and contaminants involves an array of large and expensive sensors accompanied by a trained professional. Researchers have introduced, in ACS Sensors, a new detection system utilizing portable, low-cost sensors paired with a smartphone application to fast track results with high accuracy.

Being woken in the middle of the night is an unpleasant experience for anyone, but especially patients in the hospital undergoing their nightly vital sign check. Researchers from Ohio State University conducted a study, published in Patient Experience Journal, on reported quality of sleep and patient’s satisfaction during as hospital stay where overnight vital signs were collected compared to when vitals were not taken.

Bayer has received approval for a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in regards to their myBETAapp™ and the BETACONNECT Navigator™. These platforms utilize software to allow patients with multiple sclerosis to auto-administer BETASERON.

Despite the alarms set on smartphones or reminders from healthcare providers, patients often forget to take or refill their prescriptions. To combat patient’s forgetfulness, researchers at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center have developed a reminder sent by the pill itself.

Leaving the hospital against the advice of physicians is a rising trend with negative consequences. In an effort to understand why patients chose to leave hospital care early, researchers have published findings in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society to assist in further research and provide answers on how healthcare providers can stop this trend.

Patients living with type 1 diabetes are constantly tinkering with glucose monitors and insulin pumps but all Dana Lewis, a health communications professional, has to do is text her pancreas. The “pancreas” combines an insulin pump and glucose monitor and connects to her smartphone to cut the hundreds of interactions conventional type 1 diabetes requires to just six a day.

Predicting a cancer patient's chance of survival allows individuals to make informed decisions, but many techniques are not especially accurate. In a study, published in BMJ, researchers tested a new web-based survival calculator in patients with bowel cancer.