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An SRF investigation has raised questions about the oversight of experimental heart implants at Zurich University Hospital. Reviewing the case, ETH Zurich professor Jörg Goldhahn points to regulatory shortcomings and warns that current rules may offer even less transparency for high-risk medical devices.

In their latest published comment in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Jäger et al. argue that consumer wearables generate large amounts of health-related data that could improve clinical care, but current medical-device regulations prevent or discourage their routine clinical use.

A Mega Review on Advances and Challenges in Wearable Sensors for Health Monitoring, published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (American Chemical Society), brings together insights from more than 50 researchers and over 1,240 references on the latest developments in wearable sensing technologies. 

The annual Research Day of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) at ETH Zurich brought together the department’s diverse research community in a dynamic program of scientific exchange, highlighting current research, industry perspectives, and innovations across the field.

In this comment, Dr. med. Noé Brasier, ETH Zürich and co-authors from Stanford and UCSD, USA, examine AI-based approaches to speed up the clinical adoption of wearable multimodal sensors, highlighting key data challenges and medical areas where they could aid treatment.