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Finding Tumors with a Laser
Doctor Inserts Endoscope
A collaboration of German research labs has come up with a way to image tumors at an early [MORE]
Multiparticulate Drug Dispensing Device
HSDesign Multiparticulate Drug Depenser
Multiparticulate drugs are those with beads or microspheres containing single or multiple drugs for modified release effects. [MORE]
The Future of Exercise—in a Pill
Exercise
The protein myostatin plays a role in obesity by inhibiting muscle growth. Knowing that, researchers at Augusta University in Georgia [MORE]
A Physician’s E-Glove for Physical Exams
Sensor Glove
Many things in a physical exam are based on the physician’s subjective judgements. Muscle stiffness is one of those [MORE]
A First for Focused Ultrasound Surgery
Focused ultrasound depicted in 3D illustration. Source: INSIGHTEC. (PRNewsfoto/Nicklaus Children’s Hospital)
Surgeons at the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami have used [MORE]
Cough into Your Smartphone
ResApp
An Australian startup named “ResApp” has used learning algorithms to distinguish the sounds of several kinds of respiratory illnesses—pneumonia, asthma, [MORE]
Device for Treating Skin Tumors
Lab Scale Prototype for Tumors
This piece leaves out two critical pieces of information: what kind of skin tumors are being [MORE]
Lab on a CD Disk-Like Device
MIT Makerspaces Microfluidics Devices
Makerspaces are publically accessed R&D facilities for which users pay a fee, like a health club membership. [MORE]
Hospital Metrics: Targets for Improvement
Scott Becker, J.D., C.P.A.
“The list king,” Scott Becker, has another of his insightful listings of hospital metrics—this one, 230 hospital [MORE]
Smart Contact Lens for Diabetes and Glaucoma Monitoring
New Contact Lens Senses Glaucoma and Diabetes
This piece reports on smart contact lenses developed by two university labs in South [MORE]
Eppendorf’s Mini Bioreactor
Eppendorf AG’s DASbox® Mini Bioreactor System
While this piece is an advertisement for a commercial product, it merits special mention for [MORE]
This Year’s Award Winners in Telemedicine
Telemedicine
Over the last 20 years, telemedicine has demonstrated not only hundreds of useful applications, but also hinted at a new [MORE]
Inhaled Insulin for Treating Alzheimer’s
Nasal Spray
For several years, diabetes researchers and Alzheimer’s researcher have suspected that AD may actually be a fourth kind of [MORE]
Automating Rare Genetic Disease Diagnosis
DNA
Computational biologists at Cambridge University and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have written an algorithm called “PHenomeNET Variant [MORE]