Vancouver-based healthcare technology company Light AI has joined forces with MrBeast Industries to launch a Strep A test donation initiative aimed at improving healthcare access in Africa. The partnership is featured in a new Beast Philanthropy video, which premiered on YouTube on February 16, 2025. Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, operates the world’s largest […]
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Sick of the Swab? Light AI Tech Enables Your Smartphone to Diagnose Strep Throat
Over half a billion people per year are infected by Streptococcus A worldwide, and it currently kills as many children as malaria does. And there’s another issue: antibiotics are often over-prescribed. This leads to microbial resistance to the drugs, which the World Health Organization identifies as a top-five global health threat. A company based out […]
WHL To Trial AI Powered COVID-19 Diagnostic Test For 2020-21 Season
The Western Hockey League (WHL) is trialing a smartphone-based, artificial intelligence (AI) powered COVID-19 diagnostic test to complement the WHL’s return-to-play health and safety protocols for the 2020-21 season. WHL players will be tested once per week using the current “gold standard” for COVID-19 detection, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) exam, with the trial of […]