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The daily beast: A Cervical Selfie Might Save Your Life
By Shoshana Kordova When is a selfie not narcissistic? When it’s used to detect one of the leading causes of death in the developing world. It turns out that cellphone photos are one of the best ways possible to effect early diagnosis. Taking shots of your junk with...
Business Daily (Kenya): Firm develops mobile cancer screening device
By Verah Okeyo One of the main hindrances in the fight against cancer in the country is the fact that many patients do not have access to early testing facilities and only know they are sick in the late stages of the disease. For cervical cancer screening in...
SXSW Start-up Snapshot: Detecting cancer with your smartphone
By J.D. Harrison We’re live in Austin this week, and every day, we’ll introduce you to one of the most outside-the-box finalists in the SXSW Accelerator Competition – the premier start-up showcase at the annual South by Southwest festival. Who: MobileODT Co-founders...
Health app developers face their biggest obstacle: Privacy regulations
By Even Schuman Mobile apps for health care have broken new ground in monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment. Next week, some of the most advanced will be highlighted at the SXSW Accelerator competition. These apps have the potential to advance health care, especially...
Fast Company: MobileODT one of the 10 most innovative companies in Israel
8. MOBILEOCT For cheaper, more efficient screening for cervical cancer. The company’s mobile colposcope provides low-cost, easy-access screening for cervical cancer, and means to improve care in medically underserved areas, where the disease’s fatality rate is high....
BIRD to Invest $8.3 Million in 11 New Projects
December 29, 2014 – During its meeting on December 16, 2014, held in Jerusalem, Israel, the Board of Governors of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, approved $8.3 million in funding for eleven new projects between U.S....
Top 12 Disruptive Technologies to Watch in 2015
By Abigail Klein Leichman December 18, 2014 ISRAEL21c rounds up the top super-cool technological advances from Israeli companies that you should keep an eye on next year. [The wearable and mobile health devices] global trend will keep gathering steam in 2015....
Oncology News: Imaging to Detect Cervical Cancer in Low-Resource Settings
By Zach Davidson, Chloe Pinto, Dr. David Levitz Cervical cancer prevention remains a top medical priority for much of the developing world. In order to minimise the gap in screening, availability between the developed and the developing worlds, visual inspection with...
Haaretz: Bringing cervical cancer testing to women with no doctor
Early diagnosis of cancer can mean better chances of survival. A Tel Aviv startup is working to bring cervical-cancer assessment to two billion women worldwide who have access to cellphones but no access to qualified physicians. The company recently closed a $600,000...
NoCamels: MobileOCT: The Incredible Social Startup That Uses Mobile Phones To Detect Cervical Cancer In Third-World Women
By Michael Lefkoe, NoCamels July 22, 2014 In 95 percent of cases, cervical cancer is an entirely treatable disease and can be treated for $28 in less than 40 minutes. Yet, due to lack of access to physicians and reliable medical equipment, hundreds of thousands of...
Forbes: Mobile Microscopes: Snapping The Future Of Health Care
“A doctor can save a life at a time. As a technologist, we can save tens of lives at a time with what we create.” The Israeli startup, MobileOCT is doing just that, aspiring to help the nearly 500,000 women around the world who are diagnosed with cervical cancer...
JPost: Start-up corner: Detecting cancer with a mobile phone
By NIV ELIS When Apple founder Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone’s mobile app store with a catchphrase promising that whatever need one might have, “there’s an app for that,” he probably wasn’t thinking about screening for cervical cancer.Although it’s the leading...
MobileOCT uses a 3D printed case to turn smartphones into cancer screening devices
By Jason Hahn on Digital Trends There are plenty of nifty smartphone accessories out there today, but how many of them can potentially save lives? MobileOCT is one of the latest startups to raise their hand to that question. The self-described “point-of-care...
WSJ: Startup Turns Smartphone into Cervical Cancer Detector
By Amir Mizroch Doctors already use iPhone add-ons to take electrocardiograms just about anywhere. Apps can help radiologists read images and allow patients to monitor moles to determine if they’re a cancer worry MobileOCT, an Israeli tech company, has unveiled the...
BBC: The handheld smartphone device which could spot cancer
A £240 ($400) handheld device which can analyse potential tumours is being developed in Tel Aviv. The Mobile OCT device consists of a smartphone to take the images, a lens, some lights and a plastic handle. The images are assessed by the device's operator and are then...