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Israeli startup MDAlgorithms has built MDacne - the world’s first app to provide mobile acne analysis with customized treatment plans.  Users complete a questionnaire and take a selfie. An algorithm then processes the data and offers food and hygiene tips and recommended medications.

Israeli startup MedyMatch is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) platform using proprietary algorithms to process CT image data in the Cloud.  Fast analysis of data will help physicians make accurate critical clinical decisions – e.g. with stroke diagnosis.

4-year-old Sanusey was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. The surgery needed to repair his heart is not available in Gambia. Sanusey is now recovering from open heart surgery at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel. He is the 4,000th child saved by Israel’s Save a Child’s Heart organization.  Other children currently being treated include five from Iraq and Zead from Gaza. ?

I reported on Israel’s Nano Textile previously when it announced its antibacterial Zinc Oxide (ZnO) nano-coating for bed linen and clothing to prevent hospital infections.  Nano Textile has now announced that it can make any fabric (natural or synthetic) antibacterial.

Israel’s NovellusDx monitors the effect of cancer therapies on a patient’s genetic mutations.  NovellusDx reports to the oncologist on the contribution of the driver mutations to the activation of the signaling pathways.  NovellusDx has just received $2.5 million funds from the VC Orbimed.

Israeli Marni Mandell launched the startup CareHood to provide patients and care-givers with a website where they can learn what has helped other people in similar situations. They can then build a care package of services, gifts, tasks and errands that their friends and family can assist with.

Scientists at Bar-Ilan University have used low-level electricity to increase the rate at which daydreams - or spontaneous, self-directed thoughts and associations - occur.  They also discovered that daydreams have a positive effect on task performance.

A new medical innovation, developed at Tel Aviv University’s Center for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, uses ‘stick it and forget it’ electrodes affixed to the skin, to monitor muscle activity.  Applications include monitoring driver alertness and individuals with neuro-degenerative diseases.

Canada’s federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health, Health Canada, has approved the Exablate Neuro system for the treatment of essential tremor developed by Israel’s Insightec.

The SafeCT-29 solution from Israel’s Medic Vision Imaging Solutions produces high-quality medical scan images but reduces radiation doses by up to 80%.  SafeCT-29 works with any CT scanner and has just been approved by the US FDA.