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How To Print An Organ: A Closer Look At 3D Bioprinting

Imagine drawing an organ in a CAD-style program and printing it. Organovo, the innovative San Diego-based medtech company founded in 2007, has its sights on this possibility.

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Can Technology Help You Develop Good Habits? These Startups Say ‘Yes’

When you reach into the fridge at night for that guilt-free late night snack, do you sometimes feel watched, or detect a nagging inner voice telling you to stop?

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Microhealth Helps Hemophilia Patients Monitor Health And Track Treatments

Normally when you fall, cut your finger or skin your elbow, your blood’s proteins, called clotting factors, form a clot that stops the bleeding, but not if you are one of the 400,000 people in the world live with Hemophilia.

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ScriptPad Prevents Your Doctor’s Bad Penmanship From Killing You

Over 7,000 patients die each year thanks to miscommunication on written prescriptions between doctors and pharmacists. ScriptPad is a new app that requires no handwriting at all. Can it save lives?

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CellScope Develops Digital First Aid Kit

CellScope, which was born in a UC Berkeley bioengineering lab, has secured $1 million from Khosla Ventures to develop hardware and software that could push the limits of remote health care services

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GoHealth Raises $50 Million For Health Insurance Comparison Shopping

GoHealth, a Chicago-based company providing health insurance comparisons directly to customers, has received an investment of $50 million from Norwest Equity Partners this week.

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Half Of Pregnancies Are Unplanned. Fortunately, MyPill Is The App For That

Some of the most common methods of contraception are also the most likely to fail, according to new research at Washington University — and those failures are due to user error rather than anything inherently ineffective about hormonal birth control pills or the contraceptive patch. But without resorting to other birth control methods, is there any way mobile developers can increase the effectiveness of common contraceptives?

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Former Foursquare Cofounder Developing “Google Analytics” For Your Body

The former Foursquare co-founder’s public bookmarks on the web give away his plans for a medtech startup.

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Researchers Leverage YouTube To Diagnose Autism In Minutes

Researchers have found a way to reduce the time from it takes to accurately detect autism in young children from hours to minutes using parent-submitted videos.

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Healthbox Accelerator Ends On High Note At Investor Day

Healthbox Accelerator Chicago Investor Day helps healthcare entrepreneurs succeed in future growth and development

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