Plastic Sensors Can Diagnose Many Health Conditions
Made from semiconducting plastic, a low-cost sensor has the capability to monitor a wide range of health conditions, such as surgical complications or neurodegenerative diseases.
Made from semiconducting plastic, a low-cost sensor has the capability to monitor a wide range of health conditions, such as surgical complications or neurodegenerative diseases.
Now there is a device that can deliver drugs directly to a damaged area of the heart. The device, developed by MIT and Harvard researchers, delivers drugs straight to the heart through a tube. “After a heart attack we could use this device to deliver therapy to prevent a patient from getting heart failure.
Rehabilitation is required for anyone who must get an artificial hip or knee joint. The problem is taking the time away from work to make appointments. Thus patients often do not get the follow up care required to help them recover. But soon, rehabilitation may be possible in the patient’s own home. Read More
Many children suffer from missing arms, either because they were born without arms, or they lost them in an accident. Now, the company Limitless Solutions is working to fit them with useable new arms.
Imec, a non-profit R&D innovation organization, has introduced a wearable device that integrates wireless eye-tracking technology into regular eyeglasses.
Medications and medical devices in the United States must be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, yet there are almost 300,00 health care apps accessible to anyone who owns a smartphone: many of which are unregulated.
What if medical devices could be inserted or implanted into the body, without needing to be powered by batteries? Such devices could potentially be used to deliver drugs, monitor conditions, or treat disease by stimulating the brain with electricity or light.
Medical researchers have come up with an imaging technique that captures and magnifies the brain in motion, in real time, every time the heart beats. The significance of this event: it offers an encouraging diagnostic tool for catching difficult-to-spot conditions such as concussions and aneurysms—before they become life threatening.
While it is known that hackers have the ability to break into hospital record systems, records indicate that even individual hospital rooms are no longer safe.
BrainCool AB, a European Medical device firm, has received the green light from the Food and Drug Administration to market the IQool™ Warm System in the United States, to be used for thermal regulation to cool and rewarm adult patients when clinically indicated.