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6 Pediatric Device Innovators Awarded a Total of $150K at Children’s National 6th Annual Pediatric Device Symposium

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Six companies presenting innovative medical devices that address significant unmet needs in pediatric healthcare were awarded a total of $150,000 in grants yesterday in Philadelphia, Penn. at the Sixth Annual Pediatric Device Innovation…

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Call for Pediatric Cardiovascular Devices: $100K Competition Now Accepting Proposals

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Children’s National Health System is now accepting proposals for its annual “Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!” competition. New this year, the competition is focused on pediatric cardiovascular devices…

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Brain and Circuits Take the Focus at BioCAS2016

Author(s)3: Guoxing Wang, Timothy Constandinou
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The 12th IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) took place in Shanghai, China, in October 2016. Serving as a premier international forum for researchers and engineers to present their…

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Tackling Healthcare Challenges in the United Arab Emirates

Tackling Healthcare Challenges in the United Arab Emirates

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Above: Panelists and moderators at the IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenge Conference held in Abu Dhabi in early 2016. The United Arab Emirates is dealing with many of the same healthcare…

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Pediatric Medical Device Innovators Win $100K in Awards

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Pediatric Medical Device Innovators Win $100K in Awards 150 150 IEEE Pulse

Two pediatric medical device innovators, AventaMed of Cork, Ireland and Prospiria, Inc. of Galveston, Texas, were selected from eight finalists to each receive a $50,000 award in the annual competition held by…

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Two Day IIT Workshop on Histopathology Features Eminent Scientists in Medical Imaging

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A two day interdisciplinary workshop on Achieving In situ Functional Histopathology (AifH 2015) was held in March at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. The workshop showcased invited…

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MedImage 2014 at the 9th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing

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The 3rd edition of the day-long workshop MedImage 2014 was held December 2014 at the 9th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP) organized at the Indian…

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How We Should Be Teaching Math

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If you’ve ever wondered why science and math education lag in the United States, EMBS Executive Committee Member Barbara Oakley, has an idea. In part, it’s because students are never…

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IEEE Pulse Receives Award

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IEEE Pulse Receives Award 150 150 IEEE Pulse

We are pleased announce that the November/December 2013 issue of IEEE Pulse (vol. 4, no. 6) has recently won a 2014 Apex Award for Design and Illustration (Photography) for cover…

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