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Comment on this story Comment The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday moved to make hearing aids cheaper and more easily available to consumers to buy over the counter or online without a prescription or medical exam — a long-awaited goal for nearly 30 million consumers. “As early as mid-October, Americans will be able to …

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The process of building the NFL schedule used to be a painstaking one with executives such as Val Pinchbeck spending months slotting the games one by one on his board until there was a final product for the commissioner to approve. Making late tweaks or looking at alternative options with a big game moving from …

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Researchers at AMBER, the SFI Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, and from Trinity’s School of Physics, have developed next-generation, graphene-based sensing technology using their innovative G-Putty material. The team’s printed sensors are 50 times more sensitive than the industry standard and outperform other comparable nano-enabled sensors in an important metric seen as a …

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Hospices have contended with two agents of industry-wide change at the start of 2021: access to value-based payment models and a global pandemic. As hospices sought ways to balance the human touch with technology, they’ve refocused efforts around advance care planning, a key element of those value-based models. Those services are one more area in …

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Understanding spoken words, developing normal speech – cochlear implants enable people with profound hearing impairment to gain a great deal in terms of quality of life. However, background noises are problematic and significantly compromise the comprehension of speech of people with cochlear implants. The team led by Tobias Moser from the Institute for Auditory …

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MORGANTOWN — Aiming to aid the United States military and other federal entities in their ongoing operations, Morgantown-based NextGen Federal Systems has been hard at work developing new technology through the use of virtual reality, drones and more. Founded in 2010, the company primarily serves federal defense and intelligence agencies and pushes solutions to current …

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Image: Hemolung Respiratory Assist System (Photo courtesy of ALung Technologies, Inc) A low-flow extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO₂R) respiratory device is helping treat COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure. The Hemolung Respiratory Assist System (RAS) from ALung Technologies, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) is the only ECCO₂R device currently granted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by …

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Prior to public vaccination, a rapid and accurate COVID-19 antibody test will help determine the presence of neutralizing antibodies. An investigator from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has recently developed a new technology that has the potential to be used as an in-home antibody test. The test will aid in immunity monitoring as …

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As schools prepare to resume classes this fall and more of the economy reopens even as the coronavirus pandemic worsens, America’s biggest public utility is backing a decades-old technology that could zap the virus pathogens out of the air in public places to help limit the spread of the infection. The Tennessee Valley Authority is …

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