Infrared imaging can be used as a sensor for a wide variety of clinical and laboratory modalities, but the IR technology inevitably suffers from a fundamental problem: powerful IR sensors emit heat themselves. Current high resolution infrared systems have to be actively cooled, increasing their size,...

Lab-on-a-chip devices have the promise of delivering advanced diagnostics for all sorts of clinical and life science applications, bringing with them ease of use and potential reduction in costs. One major stumbling block of the technology is the production process of such devices, which requires that...

Richard Boyle, a bioengineer at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, has been working on a smart electronic stethoscope that may help clinicians recognize and diagnose potentially dangerous murmurs. Using advanced algorithms inside the device, the system filters out normal heart sounds from pathological...

World Governments are currently racing for finding and containing pockets of swine flu across the globe.They are looking forward to stem the risks of a public and pandemic panic. In Mexico, epicenter of the outbreak, soldiers gave 6 million facemasks for stopping the spread of this novel virus, which...

We are well into Spring, so it might be time to dust off your old fitness routine and try something new. Since a little fitness switchup can help beat boredom and overuse injuries, cross training is the way to go. If you are bored with your bike, might I suggest you give yoga a try. All that hunching...

ITGI Medical , based in Or Akiva, Israel, just won FDA approval for the firm’s two coronary stenting systems. The pericardium covered stents include the AneuGraft (pictured), already approved in Europe, which is designed for tortuous arteries, and the Over and Under which is indicated for “post...

You gotta love New York. It’s really looking out for its New Yorkers with bans on smoking , bans on trans fat , posting calorie counts on menus , and now, NY is tackling salt. Most of the salt Americans consume comes from the processed foods we eat – not from the extra salt we sprinkle on....

A company rep for British based Tissuemed Ltd. contacted Medgadget to let us know about the firm’s product, a surgical sealant called TissuePatch, now on display at Hospitalar, the largest and leading medical trade fair in Latin America. The device, approved and distributed in the European Union,...

Dealing with some troubling knee pain, I decided to focus on my running gait. I had the pleasure of taking an all day workshop with the running master Danny Dreyer, the founder of ChiRunning . I’d like to say my running was transformed during the hours I spent with about 30 other runners from...

Many people those who suffer out of Personal Injury consider legal claim as a more stressful task to them but this is not true with some of the experienced firms having a team of skilled lawyers. It is so because the way things are considered the victim feels more relaxed and can concentrate on his...

The organizers of the X PRIZE and folks at Knome , Inc., a genome sequencing company out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, have announced an innovative charity auction to bring attention to National DNA Day that occurred last Saturday. The winner is offered a DNA sequencing of one person’s genome,...