More streamlined medication workflows can improve patient safety and clinical staff efficiency, as well as reducing waste. Sebastien Villars, senior director of product management at Omnicell, anticipates the arrival of the autonomous pharmacy, enabled by robotics, integration and AI. HITN: Tell us a little about current trends in terms of medication errors and their impact on hospital patient care? Villars: We […]
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Smartwatches are handy devices for people to keep track of the number of steps they take per day or to track their mile time during a run. But they are also opportunities for scientists to understand people’s physiological processes while they are going about their everyday lives. In particular, scientists have been interested in tracking people’s circadian rhythms through the […]
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When expectant parents start planning for their new baby, one of the first questions is always, “What will we call her?” Sometimes parents spend such a long time agonizing over their child’s first name that they forget to spend any time brainstorming baby girl middle name ideas. Choosing a good middle name is actually pretty important. The middle name can […]
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Should you need inspiration to lace up today, take it from Cassie: a bipdal robot that just made history by running its first outdoor 5k. Built by Oregon State University and Agility Robotics, the robot tackled the distance totally untethered – and on a single battery charge – completing the race in 53 minutes, which is about the same speed […]
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All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When is a stew more than a stew? When it's a conduit for creativity and self-acceptance. Sophia Roe, chef and host of Vice's Counter Space (about the role food plays in culture and politics), […]
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is allowing the problem-plagued factory of contract manufacturer Emergent BioSolutions to resume production of COVID-19 vaccine, the company said Thursday. The Baltimore factory was shut down by the FDA in mid-April due to contamination problems that forced the company to trash the equivalent of tens of millions of doses of vaccine it was making […]
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Three years ago, pharma giant Pfizer paid $24 million to settle federal allegations that it was paying kickbacks and inflating sales by reimbursing Medicare patients for out-of-pocket medication costs. By making prohibitively expensive medicine essentially free for patients, the company induced them to use Pfizer drugs even as the price of one of those medicines, covered by Medicare and Medicaid, […]
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If the pandemic put your workout routine on ice, you’re in good company. Gym attendance plummeted last year, and as people slowly return, their bodies may be telling them, “Hey! It’s been a while!” Even the likes of action hero Will Smith acknowledged, “I’m in the worst shape of my life” before posting a video poking fun at how much […]
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People wearing protective masks, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, make their way at a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonTOKYO (Reuters) – Newly reported daily COVID-19 cases in Japan exceeded 10,000 for the first time, Nippon Television reported on Thursday, after the Tokyo metropolitan government reported a record-high 3,865 new infection cases in the capital. […]
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Intellectual property (IP) officials in South Africa have made history in a landmark decision to award a patent that names an artificial intelligence (AI) as the inventor. Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences, University of Surrey. Image Credit: University of Surrey The patent—which was filed by an international team of lawyers and researchers led by the University of […]
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