February 15, 2023
HemaChrome has introduced a simple mobile health app that noninvasively measures blood hemoglobin using a digital photo or screenshot taken with an everyday smartphone or computer, making blood hemoglobin testing accessible to nearly everyone, anywhere, at a fraction of the cost. Founded by Purdue University researcher Young Kim, HemaChrome won phase 1 of the National Institutes of Health’s RADx Tech for Maternal Health Challenge.
Purdue News: Purdue-connected digital health startup wins phase 1 of NIH competition for maternal health
February 14, 2023
Black and Hispanic patients with cancer who are nearing the end of life are less likely than White patients to get needed opioid medications to control their pain, new study results show.
Study Finds Disparities in Access to Opioids for Cancer Pain at End of Life
February 14, 2023
Researchers found associations between certain viral illnesses and the risk of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The results suggest that some neurodegenerative disease might be avoided by preventing infection with influenza and other viruses.
February 14, 2023
NIH-supported researchers are studying how to improve screening criteria to help primary care providers identify and treat more people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Screening tool aims to help doctors diagnose more people with COPD
February 14, 2023
In a mouse study, researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have identified a potential non-hormonal contraceptive that men could take shortly before sexual activity and have fertility restored the next day. Researchers gave male mice a compound that temporarily disables soluble adenylyl cyclase, the enzyme essential for activating a sperm cell’s ability to swim and mature so that it can travel through the female reproductive tract and fertilize an egg.
Researchers identify compounds that could lead to an on-demand, short-term contraceptive for men
February 14, 2023
WHEN PATIENTS RECEIVE A CANCER DIAGNOSIS, their spouses feel the impact in many ways. Their immediate concern focuses on the likelihood they will lose their loved one. But as the diagnosis starts to sink in, spouses often start to experience other thoughts and feelings that can be daunting. “Always very self-confident, I found myself being very afraid of making decisions,” says Janice Brady, whose husband, Vincent, was diagnosed with liver cancer Aug. 17, 2021, and given six to eight months to live. “I was constantly feeling overwhelmed, which made it difficult to do anything.”
Spouses of Cancer Patients Have Greater Risk of Psychiatric Disorders
February 13, 2023
Bring up robot-human relations, and you’re bound to conjure images of famous futuristic robots, from the Terminator to C-3PO. But, in fact, the robot invasion has already begun. Devices and programs, including digital voice assistants, predictive text and household appliances, are smart, and getting smarter. It doesn’t do, though, for computers to be all brain and no heart. Computer scientist Aniket Bera, an associate professor of computer science in Purdue University’s College of Science, is working to make sure the future is a little more “Big Hero 6” and a little less Skynet. From therapy chatbots to intuitive assistant robots to smart search and rescue drones to computer modeling and graphics, his lab works to optimize computers for a human world. “The goal of my research is to use AI to improve human life,” Bera said. “Humans, human behavior and human emotions are at the center of everything I do.” Bera is an expert in the interdisciplinary field of affective computing: using machine learning and other computer science methods to program artificial intelligence programs to better incorporate and understand human behavior and emotion.
Purdue New:You’ve got to have heart: Computer scientist works to help AI comprehend human emotions
February 13, 2023
Bring up robot-human relations, and you’re bound to conjure images of famous futuristic robots, from the Terminator to C-3PO. But, in fact, the robot invasion has already begun. Devices and programs, including digital voice assistants, predictive text and household appliances, are smart, and getting smarter. It doesn’t do, though, for computers to be all brain and no heart.
Purdue News: You’ve got to have heart: Computer scientist works to help AI comprehend human emotions
February 10, 2023
The PurdueWomen’s Global Health Institute has awarded six women’s health research grants for 2022.
Purdue News: Women’s Global Health Institute awards 6 women’s health research grants
February 9, 2023
Purdue’s Shandey Malcolm promotes positive health behaviors in at-risk adolescents
