The $25 Incubator Aims to Save Countless Lives
Posted by admin in Health/Technology on 08 25th, 2009 | No Comments
A student project at Stanford University has led to the development of a low cost incubator powered by boiled water. Intended for premature babies born in the poor areas of the world, the $25 device is essentially a sleeping bag with a phase change material pouch that helps regulate the internal temperature...
Noninvasive Glucometer Prototype Dreams of Future
Posted by admin in Health/Technology on 07 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Designer Tobias Förtsch has created a virtual prototype for a noninvasive (and nonexistent) glucose monitor that seems to be inspired by iPod MP3 players. The only problem, of course, is that the search goes on for technology that can properly do glucose measurements without having people prick...
Watching Circulating Tumor Cell Count Helps Predict Breast Cancer Development
A new study just published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has shown that monitoring the count of circulating tumor cells (CTC) using the CellSearch system from Veridex , a Johnson & Johnson company, can predict the prognosis of patients with metastatic breast cancer. The CellSearch system uses...
Personalized Bicompartmental Knee Resurfacing System from ConforMIS Gets CE Mark
Posted by admin in Health/Technology on 07 14th, 2009 | No Comments
ConforMIS (Burlington, MA) has announced that the company won European approval for the iDue bicompartmental knee resurfacing implant and iJig instrumentation, both custom designed to fit and work together. This is the only custom made bicompartmental knee resurfacing system currently available on the...
If Paris Hilton Had a Gas Mask
Posted by admin in Health/Technology on 07 1st, 2009 | No Comments
Yanko Design blog is featuring the work of Elijah Stillson who offers a new design idea for a respirator. Although, when wearing this thing, one would be the most attractive person in a crowd of evacuees, let’s hope the device can seal around the face to stay tight with this design. Link : Respirator...
Smart Floor Hopes to Help Improve Walking Skills
Posted by admin in Health/Technology on 06 25th, 2009 | No Comments
IEEE just wrapped up its Presidents’ Change the World Competition, designed to award engineering students for well developed ideas that may have real positive impact on the world. One of the winning entries, designed to help handicapped children practice walking skills, is from a team out of B.V.Bhoomaraddi...
Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps Post Stroke Brain Recover
Posted by admin in Health/Technology on 06 25th, 2009 | No Comments
Using a technique called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), which has shown to increase brain activity and improve motor performance in humans, researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston have conducted clinical trials testing its efficacy to help speed the rebuilding...
Collegiate Biomed Engineering Prizes Awarded
Posted by admin in Health/Technology on 06 24th, 2009 | No Comments
The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance has recently issued prizes in the annual Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Awards (BMEIdea). The contest is designed to motivate young biomedical engineers to design new products that might eventually by commercialized,...
Mechanical Nanozipper Senses Individual Photons
Posted by admin in Health/Technology on 06 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Scientists at Caltech have created an optomechanical nanodevice capable of detecting single photons passing through it. Because of this extreme sensitivity in a tiny package, the technology may find itself as a primary component in future imaging or diagnostic modalities. Caltech explains: The fact...
Masimo Unveils New Pulse Oximeter Rad-8
Posted by admin in Health/Technology on 06 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Masimo is releasing a new pulse oximeter Rad-8, a device touted to be especially useful at clinics that diagnose sleep disorders. Of course, it would seem there’s no reason that the device can’t be used for other relevant application, such as postoperative or intraoperative monitoring, ICU...
Helmets Monitor Player Temperatures to Watch for Heat Stroke
Football players are prone to heat strokes due to the gear and helmets they wear, compounded by working out in off-season training facilities in places like Florida and Arizona. While training in 2001, Minnesota Vikings lineman Korey Stringer died due to heat stroke. To allow teams to monitor the players’...
Diabetes
- Achieving Healthy Pregnancy Despite DiabetesAmong diabetic pregnant women, the most common problem when it comes to their baby’s health is the condition called “macrosomia” or having a baby with large body. This is because the blood of the mother with diabetes is interchanged with that of the baby inside the womb. As a result, the baby will produce insulin to be able to glucose and t […]
- Are You Suffering From Diabetes?People who are prone to diabetes—especially those who have the disease in their family’s history—should consider that there is a great possibility that they or their kids might inherit the illness. So, the best way to go about it is become very informed about the condition. The following are some the things that people who are prone to diabetes mus […]
- An Explanation of DiabetesIf you think that you are prone to diabetes, the first thing that you need to know is to understand what is the illness all about. Experts say that diabetes is a chronic disease, which develop among people who have the inability to utilize the glucose in their food to be used as energy. The illness develops when the accumulated glucose stays in the person […]