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Tongue Pacemaker for Sleep Apnea
Sleep Apnea Pacemaker
Otolaryngologists Charité — Universitätsmedizin in Berlin have implanted the world’s first pacemaker device to control sleep apnea. [MORE]
FCC Report: Evaluation of Rural Health Care Pilot Program
The Federal Communications Commission has been making pilot study grants for several years to test the best way of [MORE]
Autotransfusion Device
HemoSep
Typically, blood lost during major surgeries is simply replaced from banked supplies and usually from a different person. Researchers [MORE]
“Amulet,” Wrist Device Monitor
We’ve seen wrist worn devices in the past, such as the GlucoWatch, but Amulet, developed at Dartmouth, is different. [MORE]
Smart Phone Adjustable Prosthetics
Adjustable Prosthetics
Suppose that a prosthetic ankle impinges on a proper gait; what to do? Until now, patients would go [MORE]
Protein Chip Microarrays
A research team from Stanford and Intel have designed what they hope will become a point-of-care proteomics array. Like [MORE]
Continuous BP Monitoring Patch
Continuous BP Monitoring
“ContiPress” is the name a Danish company has given to a skin patch that monitors blood pressure. [MORE]
Biocompatible, “Transient Electronics”
Biocompatibale Electonics
An integrated silicon chip, encapsulated in silk protein, is what researchers at Tufts University and the University of [MORE]
Cord Blood Cells Become iPSCs
SOX2, OCT4, KLF4, and MYC—the so called Yamanaka factors—that can transform somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells. In [MORE]
Button Cell Batteries for WPAN’s and WBAN’s
Wireless Monitoring
Wireless personal area networks and wireless body area networks, as found in wearable and home monitoring sensors, rely [MORE]
Wireless, Non Invasive Glucose Monitor
Symphony Glucose Monitor
Echo Therapeutics (Philadelphia, PA) is proceeding to an FDA filing for its “Symphony” transdermal glucose monitor with [MORE]
Improved Rounding Robot
ER Doctor Connects via "rp-vita1"
Telemedicine provider, InTouch (Santa Barbara, CA), and robot manufacturer, iRobot (Bedford, MA) have [MORE]
Anemia Check via Cell Phone
JHU Hemoglobe
As part of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s “10 Cent Medical Checkup Using Cell Phones” project, students have developed “Hemo [MORE]
Perspective on Wireless
Potential Hospital Hub
This piece offers an overview of wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth low energy technologies, pointing out different [MORE]