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Exclusive: Wellth expands AI personalized predictive features for blood pressure

  • June 18, 2024
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Wellth, a digital health startup that offers small financial rewards for completing health-related tasks, is launching a suite of in-app personalized, predictive health features to help control the leading factors affecting chronic health conditions, such as increased blood pressure.  Wellth works with insurers, providers and employers to offer an app that reminds users about daily […]

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Smart bandages could revolutionise chronic wound treatment

  • June 18, 2024
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Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC are co-leading an effort to develop advanced electronic bandages and other tools to improve chronic wound monitoring and healing. Chronic wounds, which include diabetic ulcers, surgical wounds, pressure injuries, and other problems, are deadlier than many people realize. Patients with chronic wounds have a five-year survival […]

MAHLE X30 system launched as new drive for fancy hub motor e-bikes

  • June 18, 2024
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MAHLE, the German e-bike drive system maker that is part of the larger MAHLE Group, has announced its newest electric bicycle motor system, the MAHLE X30. We’ve watched with anticipation over the years as MAHLE rolls out a new drive system, such as 2022’s launch of the so-called “lightest e-bike drive system in the world” […]

U.S. crude oil rises more than 1%, tops $81 per barrel as rally continues

  • June 18, 2024
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U.S. crude oil rose more than 1% on Tuesday to top $81 per barrel, booking a second day of strong gains as this week’s rally continued. West Texas Intermediate futures gained more than 2% on Monday, continuing last week’s advance despite mixed economic data out of China, the world’s largest importer of crude oil. Here […]

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Functional bread could help prevent asthma

  • June 18, 2024
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Researchers in Brazil have developed functional bread with the potential to prevent asthma. The formulation contains Saccharomyces cerevisiae UFMG A-905, a strain of brewer’s yeast with probiotic properties that has been shown to attenuate the symptoms of asthma in mice. In this study, researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) included S. cerevisiae UFMG A-905 in naturally fermented […]