Intra-Uterine Device (Iud) Side Effects When planning to use contraception, a woman is faced with multitude of options in selecting contraceptives. There are pills, injectables, doing the calendar method, and using intra-uterine device. Others may subject themselves to ligation which requires a surgery...

Genital herpes is a common, highly infectious and sexually transmitted disease caused by a virus known as herpes simplex virus. The genital herpes simplex virus, HSV-2, is contagious and also ubiquitous in nature. It is transmitted from one person to another usually during sexual contact and results...

A new microfluidic device from the University of Southampton, called single-cell impedance cytometer, is being reported in Lab on a Chip . The technology promises to perform a white blood cell differential count in a tiny package from a puny sample. According to Dr David Holmes of ECS, lead author of...

Scientists at Technion (“Israel Institute of Technology”) are reporting in the latest issue of Nature Nanotechnology the development of a device capable of distinguishing the breath of patients with lung cancer from those free of the disease. The volatile organic compounds, some of which...

A large percentage of patients with Parkinson’s speak quieter and less clearly as the disease cycle progresses. Typically, speech therapy has been used to overcome this change by teaching people to remember to speak louder. Now researchers at Purdue University have created a device that uses our...

Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago’s Brain Tumor Center have developed a technique that binds antibodies to titanium dioxide particles for guidance toward tumor sites. Once on target, the particles are activated by light to release free radicals that supposedly...

Clinicians at Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany have announced the first implantation of the latest DeBakey LVAD (left ventricular assist device), the HeartAssist 5. The world’s smallest machine of its type, the HeartAssist 5 now has approval in the US for pediatric patients and in Europe...

Clinicians at Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany have announced the first implantation of the latest DeBakey LVAD (left ventricular assist device), the HeartAssist 5. The world’s smallest machine of its type, the HeartAssist 5 now has approval in the US for pediatric patients and in Europe...

At this week’s American Chemical Society’s 238th National Meeting, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented a study about a sensor that can accurately detect the presence of any of the common sweeteners used in food products. The business card size sensor...

BioScan Technologies , a Yokneam, Israel firm developing a 0.014″ intravascular ultrasound guidewire for coronary and peripheral procedures, is planning to file a 510(k) submission to the FDA in the next two months, Medgadget has learned. Furthermore, the company expects to complete the CE Mark...

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have developed a systematic method to produce identical lipid-coated microspheres that can hold liquid, an important step toward creating artificial cells or nanovesicles for drug delivery. The technology overcomes the difficulty of producing uniform spheres having...