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Basketball’s influence on stem cell treatments in sports medicine
As the basketball frenzy that accompanies March Madness draws to the fever pitch of the Final Four, it brings to mind that basketball is a high contact sport. A quick peek at the NBA injured list...
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Stanford startups pitch earwax removal, blood-drawing robots and more at...
From medical devices to robots to big data for drug discovery, health-related startups presenting at last night’s StartX Demo Day pretty much ran the gamut. The nonprofit accelerator for Stanford...
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Using data to find new drug-disease matches wins startup NuMedii its first...
Pairing existing drugs with new disease applications, using not wet labs but computers, has landed a Stanford startup its first contract with a pharmaceutical company. NuMedii has signed its first...
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The ER is unpredictable — or is it? This startup is harnessing data to...
Hospital emergency departments are places where long waits, overcrowding and unpredictability are part of every day. But what if smart use of data could make them at least a little more predictable...
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Healthcare road show I’d like to see: Tech-loving Khosla vs. flesh and blood...
As I watched venture capitalist Vinod Khosla rail against physician misdiagnoses and advocate minimizing their role in the examining room in favor of medtech, it was great to see his point of view...
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Where should you go for kidney transplant? Startup is using CMS data to...
A healthcare startup has developed a tool to help users facing complex procedures determine which providers have the best outcomes to meet their needs. The idea is that by choosing providers with the...
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Stanford startup NuMedii raises $3.5M in Series A to grow big data for pharma...
Gini Deshpande, Ph.D.NuMedii Inc. raised $3.5 million this week in a Series A funding led by Claremont Creek Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation by Life Science Angels and...
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Stanford spinoff goes data-mining for a better diagnostic for preeclampsia
Fans of the PBS series Downton Abbey were shocked when the character Lady Sybil died from eclampsia after giving birth last season. Sadly, the same condition still kills expectant and new mothers...
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New fund from Stanford & Stanford Hospital will invest in entrepreneurial...
StartX leadership team: Divya Nag, Cameron Teitelman, John Melas-Kyriazi Stanford University produces more alumni entrepreneurs than any other university, and now it’s created its first fund to invest...
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Merck and J&J back StartX; “clinical-trial-in-a-dish” biotech wows at Demo Day
Two Big Pharma companies, Merck (NYSE:MRK) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), are the latest partners to sign on to support healthcare startups that come out of Stanford University. StartX, the...
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App uses cognitive behavioral therapy to treat and manage eating disorders
Eating disorders affect about 24 million people in the U.S. and have the highest mortality rate of any other psychiatric problem. Only about one in 10 with anorexia nervosa, bulimia and other eating...
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Could this device lead to shorter labor and delivery + become childbirth...
from Materna Medical Materna Medical is at work on a device to help protect the more than 80 percent of women who suffer damage or tearing during childbirth. “The clinical need we’re trying to address...
View ArticleMental health app startup finds traction on college campuses with eating...
ThriveOn thinks it can cut out some of the stigma, access and cost challenges around seeking help for mental health issues by turning evidence-based treatment programs into mobile platforms that...
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Founders behind autism app to collect behavioral health data hope to expedite...
About 36,500 of every 4 million children born each year in the United States will have autism, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control. Mobile health startup Nightingale wants to make...
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Another kind of personalized medicine: Custom-made surgical robots built for...
Drs. Mohr, Kuchenbecker, and Okamura. Amazing brilliant minds thinking about robotics in surgery. I’m awed! #ieeeARinOR #IEEEsxsw Wow. — Elena Gerstmann (@egerstmann) March 10, 2014 In addition to the...
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Stem cell innovation study converts skin cells to sperm cells in potential...
In the latest stem cell innovation, a group of researchers from Stanford University successfully converted skin cells to stem cells to sperm cells, raising new questions about a potential path to treat...
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Stanford, SAP partnership explores genetics role in chronic conditions
Much of the discussion on big data has focused on claims information from insurers and EHRs from providers, but a collaborative effort underway at the Stanford School of Medicine with SAP is hoping to...
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Study: Social media pages focused on chronic illnesses are mostly for marketing
Facebook pages about chronic illnesses Social media and healthcare are an odd couple, at least for Facebook. It turns out that only about 9.5 percent of Facebook pages about chronic diseases are used...
View ArticleNirmidas Biotech raises $2M in seed round for fluorescent dye meant for...
Stanford University spinout Nirmidas Biotech has raised $2 million in seed funding to commercialize its fluorescence technology that enhances 100-fold a researcher’s ability to detect disease...
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What does it take to be a lean startup leader in life science? Steve Blank...
What’s the difference between an extrovert and introvert in the world of principal investigators? Answer: Are they staring at your shoes or their shoes? The joke Steve Blank told during a fireside chat...
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