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FastCompany: Detecting Cervical Cancer from a Cell Phone, And Other Brilliant Wireless Inventions
[From FastCompany by Ariel Schwartz] Slowly but surely, cell phones are making it possible to offer once-expensive and inaccessible technologies for minimal cost to the developing world. The winners of Vodafone's Wireless Innovation Project Competition have taken the...
Geektime: MobileOCT wants to turn your smartphone into a cancer diagnostic tool
The Tel Aviv startup has developed hardware and software that can turn any digital camera into a tool for detecting cervical cancer By Aviva Gat More than 250,000 women die each year from cervical cancer, but many of those deaths could be prevented if diagnosed early...
UNDP Chief Helen Clark views Israeli innovations
[From SDJewish World] CAESAREA, Israel (Press Release)–Helen Clark, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has begun her first visit to Israel and participated Wednesday morning, Feb. 19, in the ID² – Israeli Designed International...
Radio: The Cost of Doing Business
[Listen here on TLV1] On this episode of The Cost of Doing Business: The crisis in Hadassah Medical Center worsens. Who, or what is to blame and what does the crisis tell us about the health system in Israel? Do doctors’ have too much control of the system? That, at...
Clinical Chemistry: Picturing Cervical Cancer
By Molly Webster and Vikram Sheel Kumar The Pap smear has been used to test women for cervical cancer since its invention in 1928. With a simple swipe and smear, doctors have been able to use microscopic observation to detect cancerous activity. Because cervical...
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TheMarker/Haaretz: Startup of the Week / Diagnosing cervical cancer via smartphone
As cancers go this one is easily treated, if caught in time - and this biophotonic device can also reduce misdiagnosis. Every two minutes, a woman somewhere in the world dies from cervical cancer. That’s more than a quarter of a million a year, and it need not be that...
Radio: Game Changers
[Listen on TLV1] On Game Changers’ first show, we talk to Ariel Beery, the CEO of MobileOCT, co-founder and Global CEO of the PresenTense group. He explains the idea and the vision behind PresenTense. We also introduce our show’s expert Dan Brown, the Conceptor and...
Israeli firms pioneering screening techniques for women’s cancers
[From the JTA] TEL AVIV (JTA) — To save women in Kenya from cervical cancer, all you need is an iPhone. That’s the goal of MobileOCT, a year-old Israeli start-up developing a smartphone-mounted camera that can take a detailed image of the cervix. An accompanying app...