Newsletter
Long Term Survival of ESC’s for Parkinsonism
Ole Isacson
For some time it has been suspected that embryonic stem cells, transplanted to the substantia nigra of Parkinson’s [MORE]
Hip Replacement with 3-D Printing and Stem Cell Graft
3-D Printed Implant for Hip Replacement
This piece reports success a surgical team at the University of Southampton (UK) have had [MORE]
Diagnostic Pills and Medication Hybrids
Proteus Sensor Enabled Pills
Diagnostic pills—some containing cameras, others with sensors—could serve many needs in healthcare, perhaps none more so than [MORE]
Sound Amplifying and Analyzing Stethoscope
Thinklabs Stethoscope
The human body is a noisy environment, not even counting external sounds. Ancient Chinese physicians trained to detect hundreds [MORE]
3-D Printing a Bioartificial Heart
3-D Printed Bioficial Heart
Einstein once said that imagination is more important than knowledge, which, at this point, aptly describes research [MORE]
Medical Translators
Canopy Medical Translator
For several years, DARPA and IBM attempted to create a two-way medical translator that would allow doctor and [MORE]
Remote Medical Imaging with Ultrasound
AdEcho's Melody System
Since “Operation Lindbergh” in 2001, where a surgeon in New York using robots removed the gallbladder of a [MORE]
3-D Printing During Surgery, the BioPen
Biopen
“[A] new BioPen developed at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia . . . . is designed to let [MORE]
World’s Smallest Pacemaker
Micra Transcatheter Pacing System
Cardiac surgeons at Southampton General Hospital (UK) used a catheter to thread a pill-sized pacemaker through the [MORE]
Brain Stimulators for Military Use
Brain Machine
Brain-implanted devices are gaining traction in part because so many soldiers in recent wars have sustained limb loss or [MORE]
Multi-Test Lab-on-a-Chip
Multi Lab-on-a Chip
This piece announces computer aided design software, developed at Michigan Technological University, which is a necessary step before [MORE]
Stroke Map for Telemedicine
Stroke Map
Health demographers at the University of Pennsylvania have mapped out the geography of annual stroke incidence (800,000) and mortality [MORE]
3-D Printing Models Chest Cavity for Unusual Lung Transplant
Living Donor Lung Transplant – 3D Printing
In an astonishingly complicated procedure, surgeons at Kyoto University Hospital used a 3-D [MORE]
Comparing Robots
Honda's Asimo
Before you conclude that humanoid robots are a passing fancy (much like railroad executives thought of the automobile in [MORE]