If you’re a kidney transplant patient, your chances of living a longer life are improving. That’s according to a recent review published in The New England Journal of Medicine. It showed that the five-year survival rate of transplant recipients who…
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Improving contact-tracing apps in the COVID-19 era
An international collaboration with EPFL has developed a method to improve the performance of COVID-19 contact-tracing apps by taking into account a user’s recent contacts, risk levels and shared information about tests and symptoms. Contact-tracing apps like SwissCovid have enormous…
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Improving patient experiences in cancer clinical trials
Cancer clinical trials (CCTs) provide patients an opportunity to receive experimental drugs, tests, and/or procedures that can lead to remissions. For some, a CCT may seem like their only option. Yet little is known about the experiences of patient participants…
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Improving equity in the physics of medical devices
Achuta Kadambi, an assistant professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, published a column in the journal Science about how medical devices can be fundamentally biased—not just in dataset representation as has been widely reported, but from a deeper…
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