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Know Labs Announces the KnowU™, its Wearable Non-Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitor

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Know Labs , Inc. (NYSE American: KNW), an emerging developer of non-invasive medical diagnostic technology, today announced the KnowU™, its wearable non-invasive continuous glucose monitor (CGM).

Key Points: 
  • Know Labs , Inc. (NYSE American: KNW), an emerging developer of non-invasive medical diagnostic technology, today announced the KnowU™, its wearable non-invasive continuous glucose monitor (CGM).
  • The KnowU brings Know Labs closer to delivering the world’s first non-invasive blood glucose monitor to the global marketplace.
  • It records voltage values detected at each frequency to quantify, with trade-secret machine learning algorithms, real-time continuous blood glucose levels.
  • During 2024, Know Labs will deploy the KnowU in large-scale, external clinical trials while making refinements to the device and its algorithms.

Is it broken? A strain or sprain? How to spot a serious injury now school and sport are back

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Friday, February 16, 2024

This can lead to two things: happy children and injuries.

Key Points: 
  • This can lead to two things: happy children and injuries.
  • Up to 50% of boys and 40% of girls will break a bone during childhood and adolescence.
  • But it is not just broken bones that can hamper your children’s Olympic dreams – or just disrupt their play.

Different doesn’t mean better or worse

  • Sprains, strains and fractures are all different types of injuries – and the type doesn’t necessarily indicate the severity.
  • Sprains are injuries to ligaments and joints.
  • So even a complete anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture (when one of the ligaments of the knee is torn through) is technically a sprain.

Kids are at increased risk

  • ACL ruptures are also common in children, with the highest rise in ruptures among 5–14-year-old females in Australia, increasing by 10.4% from 1998 to 2018.
  • Some kids are not getting so much as a single physical recovery day per week and are training more than elite athletes while their bodies are still lanky, uncoordinated and developing.
  • In addition to muscle, tendon and bone injuries, children are also at risk of concussion and clear guidelines now exist to inform management of this condition.


Read more:
Concussion in sport: why making players sit out for 21 days afterwards is a good idea

With all that energy and commitment going into sport and play, it’s not surprising some kids hurt themselves. Here’s what to do next …

5 ways to assess the severity of an injury

  • Injuries with bigger changes in physical appearance will be much more severe.
  • If they are unable to bend a joint or they are “guarding” the area and refusing to move it, it is a sign of more severe injury.
  • Obviously, the more severe the injury the more likely your child will recoil with pain when being touched – or not let you anywhere near them.
  • If the injury does not seem to be changing or getting better within 24 hours it may be a more severe injury, even if the previous pointers do not suggest it is.


Read more:
Hot pack or cold pack: which one to reach for when you're injured or in pain

Now what? Top tips to manage injury


Do the basics well. No matter how severe an injury may be – the RICE protocol will be useful. RICE stands for rest, ice (with a pack or cold water if no ice is available), compression (with a bandage or fitted fabric) and elevation (position the body so the injury is above the level of the heart)
if your child has an obvious deformity of the bone, joint or muscle, seek medical attention as quickly as you can. The best thing to do is take them to an emergency department for assessment. They will likely need imaging (an X-ray or CT scan) to assess the bone and joint. Treatment should happen as soon as possible as injuries are often very painful and may need relocation or splinting
if your child is struggling to move the injured area, you are unable to touch the sore spot or they cannot tolerate taking weight on the injured area, a review with your GP or physiotherapist as soon as possible is your best course of action
if your child is not improving within 24 hours, but pain levels are not too high, an appointment with a GP or physiotherapist can still be a good idea. The injury may not be that severe, but if your child is needing to walk in an unusual way or not using their arm we want to get them back to normal as fast as possible
talk to your child and see what they want to do. If the problem is lingering and they are worried about getting back to sport or play, an assessment by someone qualified (usually the GP or physio) can be very reassuring.

Read more:
Is netball actually bad for knees and ankles? What does the research say?


Myles Murphy receives funding from the Raine Medical Research Foundation, Western Australian Department of Health, Perth Wildcats, Western Australia Police Force, Defence Science Centre of Western Australia.

InventHelp Inventor Develops Battery-Powered Impact Driver & Arm Brace Apparatus (OSK-495)

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Monday, January 22, 2024

Key Points: 
  • My design would also keep the hands free for other job-related tasks and it would prevent the user from dropping and damaging the tool."
  • The invention provides an battery-powered handheld impact driver with an arm brace apparatus.
  • In doing so, it enables the user to utilize the hammering capability of the impact driver for extended periods of time.
  • 22-OSK-495, InventHelp, 100 Beecham Drive, Suite 110, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9801, or call (412) 288-1300 ext.

CoNextions Medical Receives Innovative Technology Contract from Vizient for the CoNextions TR® Tendon Repair System

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Monday, January 8, 2024

Salt Lake City, UT, 1.2.24– CoNextions Medical announced the CoNextions TR® Tendon Repair System has received an Innovative Technology contract from Vizient, Inc. the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company.

Key Points: 
  • Salt Lake City, UT, 1.2.24– CoNextions Medical announced the CoNextions TR® Tendon Repair System has received an Innovative Technology contract from Vizient, Inc. the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company.
  • “We are honored to have been awarded the Innovative Technology Contract by Vizient for the CoNextions TR Tendon Repair System.
  • The CoNextions TR Tendon Repair System offers a revolutionary approach to tendon repair bringing innovation to healthcare delivery and patients worldwide.
  • “Healthcare experts on Vizient customer-led councils evaluated the TR Tendon Repair System as part of our Innovative Technology Program,” said Kelly Flaharty, senior director of contract services for Vizient.

Fascia: the most neglected part of our body is finally starting to receive attention

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Saturday, December 30, 2023

However, there is also a growing interest in one element of our anatomy that is often overlooked: our fascia.

Key Points: 
  • However, there is also a growing interest in one element of our anatomy that is often overlooked: our fascia.
  • Fascia is a thin casing of connective tissue, mainly made of collagen – a rope-like structure that provides strength and protection to many areas of the body.
  • It surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fibre and muscle in place.
  • It is hard to see fascia in the body, but you can get a sense of what it looks like if you look at a steak.

When fascia gets damaged

  • Injury to fascia takes a long time to repair, probably because it possesses similar cells to tendons (fibroblasts), and has a limited blood supply.
  • Recently, fascia, particularly the layers close to the surface, have been shown to have the second-highest number of nerves after the skin.
  • Up to 30% of people with musculoskeletal pain may have fascial involvement or fascia may be the cause.

Fascia in disease

  • Aside from getting damaged, fascia can also provide paths that infections can travel along, within muscles.
  • This is a particular problem in the neck, where there are several layers of fascia for infections to travel along.
  • Fascia can also be implicated in more serious health conditions, such as necrotising fasciitis.

We can see it better now

  • One reason fascia has been overlooked in health and disease is because it was difficult to see using current imaging technology.
  • More recently, though, MRI and ultrasound imaging have been shown to be beneficial in visualising fascia, particularly in musculoskeletal conditions such as plantar fasciitis, and pathological changes in the fascia of the shoulder and neck.


Adam Taylor does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Feinstein Institutes’ Chad Bouton receives Tesla Innovator of the Year Award

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Monday, November 20, 2023

Northwell Health and The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research’s Chad Bouton received the Tesla Innovator of the Year Award from the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe.

Key Points: 
  • Northwell Health and The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research’s Chad Bouton received the Tesla Innovator of the Year Award from the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe.
  • The award was given to him during the Annual Tesla Legacy Gala on November 16 at Flowerfields in St. James, NY.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231120274523/en/
    Chad Bouton (right) is handed the 2023 Tesla Innovator of the Year Award from Marc Alessi, executive director of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe during its Tesla Legacy Gala.
  • “It is a privilege to receive this award from the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe.

Study Published in Nature Reveals Discovery of Unique Vertebral Stem Cells with Potential to Revolutionize Patient Care

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Thursday, September 21, 2023

NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a groundbreaking study published in Nature, a collaborative team of researchers from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered a new stem cell uniquely present in the spine. Vertebral stem cells, distinct from other stem cells in the body, hold the key to understanding a range of conditions affecting the spine – including its higher incidence of cancerous tumor metastases, particularly from breast, prostate, and lung cancers. 

Key Points: 
  • Vertebral stem cells, distinct from other stem cells in the body, hold the key to understanding a range of conditions affecting the spine – including its higher incidence of cancerous tumor metastases, particularly from breast, prostate, and lung cancers.
  • For a long time, physicians believed all bones formed in the same way – through a universal process of ossification.
  • Specifically, the investigators identified a stem cell that is responsible for bone formation in the vertebrae.
  • However, our discovery of this vertebral stem cell provides a likely explanation of why some cancers most often spread to the spine," stated Dr. Greenblatt.

For the First Time Bioelectronic Medicine Researchers at The Feinstein Institutes Restore Feeling and Lasting Movement in Man Living With Quadriplegia

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Friday, July 28, 2023

This clinical trial aims to restore lasting physical movement – outside of the research lab – and re-establish the sense of touch.

Key Points: 
  • This clinical trial aims to restore lasting physical movement – outside of the research lab – and re-establish the sense of touch.
  • The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research is the global scientific home of bioelectronic medicine, which combines molecular medicine, neuroscience and biomedical engineering.
  • At the Feinstein Institutes, medical researchers use modern technology to develop new device-based therapies to treat disease and injury.
  • By producing bioelectronic medicine knowledge, disease and injury could one day be treated with our own nerves without costly and potentially harmful pharmaceuticals.

In a Stone Age cemetery, DNA reveals a treasured 'founding father' and a legacy of prosperity for his sons

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Our new results, published today in Nature, show a group of prehistoric farmers who lived within a network of other communities.

Key Points: 
  • Our new results, published today in Nature, show a group of prehistoric farmers who lived within a network of other communities.
  • This group even brought with them the bones of a “founding father”, establishing a lasting, male-dominated lineage.

Difficulties looking into the past

    • Ancient burials can tell us a lot about how prehistoric people treated their dead.
    • But figuring out how these societies behaved on a day-to-day basis has always been challenging for researchers.
    • These challenges are due to a lack of written records, and physical data that can be hard to interpret.
    • But only a few, much smaller burials have been found that would likely represent the everyday people of the region.

A network of communities

    • Using specialised ancient DNA techniques and several sources of evidence from the burials, we reconstructed two of the largest ever family trees from a prehistoric cemetery.
    • Interestingly, some of the “new incoming” female individuals were distantly related to each other, meaning they may have come from a network of nearby communities, and even from the same communities.
    • Lastly, we also observed the adult daughters from Gurgy were not buried at the site, meaning they had likely left Gurgy to join other nearby communities themselves (once they had reached a certain age).

A founding father

    • We observed an entire group, made up of several generations (children, parents and grandparents), arrived at Gurgy together from the beginning.
    • This group must have left a previous site, leaving behind any previously deceased children (but yet still brought and reburied the founding father).
    • Hence, like the founding group, these last generations abruptly departed Gurgy together, leaving behind their own buried children.

Biostrap Announces The Launch Of Kairos, Setting A New Digital Health Standard For Stress Resilience Measurement And Heart Rate Variability Insights

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

AUSTIN, Texas, July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Biostrap USA LLC, ("Biostrap") an industry leader in providing scalable and customizable biosensor-based precision health monitoring solutions, announced today the launch of their new wearable device, Biostrap Kairos. Accompanied by the new Vital Science app, Biostrap introduces a revolutionary data visualization of the autonomic nervous system, offering an unprecedented quantification of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches from a wrist-worn device. Such measurements previously were only available to researchers while using uncomfortable electrocardiogram chest straps.

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  • "We are thrilled to launch Kairos and our new Spot Check feature," Sameer Sontakey, Biostrap CEO and co-founder said.
  • It is a wrist-worn device but has a modular design allowing it to also be positioned on the forearm or bicep.
  • Kairos underwent extensive testing by key thought leaders in heart rate variability research before its official launch.
  • This is yet another demonstration that PPG can be used to estimate HRV and that pulse rate variability (i.e.