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FDA Approves Pill with Sensor that Digitally Tracks if Patients Have Ingested their Medication

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug in the U.S. with a digital ingestion tracking system. Abilify MyCite (aripiprazole tablets with sensor) has an ingestible sensor embedded in the pill that records that the medication was taken. The product is approved for the treatment of schizophrenia, acute treatment of manic and mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder and for use as an add-on treatment for depression in adults.

Can Virtual Reality be Used to Manage Pain at a Pediatric Hospital?

Virtual reality has emerged into popular culture with an ever-widening array of applications including clinical use in a pediatric healthcare center. Children undergo necessary yet painful and distressing medical procedures every day, but very few non-pharmaceutical interventions have been found to successfully manage the pain and anxiety associated with these procedures.

Giving Rookie Dads the Online Info they Really Need

Expectant and new parents often turn to the internet for parenting prep, but it turns out that dads often don't seem to find the information they say they need about pregnancy, parenthood and routes to their own mental health and well-being. Now, a new study from a Canadian team led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) with funding from global men's health charity the Movember Foundation highlights just what soon-to-be and new fathers want to see in a dad-focused website and how best to meet those needs.

Free iPhone App could Guide MS Research, Treatment

For some diseases, a simple blood test is all that's needed to estimate severity or confirm a diagnosis. Not so for multiple sclerosis. No single lab test can tell doctors what type of MS a patient has, nor whether it's responding to treatment. But by better tracking patients' symptoms and potential triggers with help from a new iPhone app,

Social Media Data Use Needs Tighter Research Controls

Information shared on social media is being regularly used in research projects without users' consent, a study suggests. Experts have called for tighter control of the practice, with fresh guidelines needed to ensure personal data is being used appropriately. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh say ethics frameworks around consent, privacy and ownership for such studies are not keeping pace with technological developments.

Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Brain Maturity of Preterm Infants

Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Hospital (HUH), Finland, have developed software based on machine learning, which can independently interpret EEG signals from a premature infant and generate an estimate of the brain's functional maturity. Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the method is the first EEG-based brain maturity evaluation system in the world.

Integrated Lab-on-a-Chip Uses Smartphone to Quickly Detect Multiple Pathogens

A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Tacoma has developed a novel platform to diagnose infectious disease at the point-of-care, using a smartphone as the detection instrument in conjunction with a test kit in the format of a credit card.

Research and Development News

FDA Approves Pill with Sensor that Digitally Tracks if Patients Have Ingested their Medication

Can Virtual Reality be Used to Manage Pain at a Pediatric Hospital?

Giving Rookie Dads the Online Info they Really Need

Free iPhone App could Guide MS Research, Treatment

Social Media Data Use Needs Tighter Research Controls

Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Brain Maturity of Preterm Infants

Integrated Lab-on-a-Chip Uses Smartphone to Quickly Detect Multiple Pathogens

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