Technology & Solutions
Technology solving concrete problems, with shipped, measurable results.
AI-supported breast screening found 29 percent more cancers
In the first randomised trial of artificial intelligence inside a national screening programme, 105,934 Swedish women were assigned either to AI-supported reading or to the standard two radiologists. The AI-supported group turned up 6.4 cancers for every 1,000 women screened, against 5.0, and needed 44 percent less reading to do it.
The first gene therapy for genetic deafness wins FDA approval
Otarmeni became the first FDA-approved gene therapy for hearing loss from OTOF mutations, with 16 of 20 evaluable trial patients gaining meaningful hearing.
A retinal implant restored reading vision in people blinded by dry AMD
In a pivotal trial, 26 of 32 patients with a central blind spot from geographic atrophy could read letters again a year after receiving a subretinal chip.
A million medical drone deliveries later, Rwanda rewrote the last mile
The hard part of healthcare is often not the medicine but getting it there in time. Rwanda solved that with autonomous aircraft.
