POSTS TAGGED AS biomedical technology

A Wearable Salt-Ingestion Monitor

Flexible, Wearable Oral Sodium Sensor
This piece describes a project aimed at producing a sensor for measuring ingested salt. For such [MORE]

Laser Imaging of Circulating Blood

Imaging Red Blood Cells
Using two lasers that excite specific molecules in the skin, a Harvard team has been able [MORE]

Kinematic Automation

Kinematic Automation
Kinematic Automation (Twain Harte, CA) builds state of the art manufacturing systems for medical and diagnostics businesses, from [MORE]

Application Clusters in Telehealth/Telemedicine

Which cell phone and carrier should a doctor choose?  According to “mHealth Initiative,” a small not-for-profit company in Boston, [MORE]

“Surgical Smoke”

Capurting "surgical smoke"
When surgeons use electroscalpels, which cut and cauterize, puffs of smoke come off the tissue.  Professor Zoltán Takáts, [MORE]

A Radioisotope Battery

Dr. Jae Kwon
Electrical and computer engineering professor, Jae Kwon, at the University of Missouri, has developed a radioisotope battery about [MORE]

My phone is smarter than your doctor

Kevin Talbot is with the Blackberry Partners Fund in Toronto and according to him: “Smart sensors and smart bandages will [MORE]

WiFi pacemaker

A few of the 600,000 people around the world who will receive implanted pacemakers this year can choose a wireless [MORE]

Remote Vital Signs Monitor

Performance trials by the US Department of Defense showed that Equivital -a wearable vital signs monitor that measures and transmits [MORE]

The Automated Medic on the Battlefield

Battlefield Technology
Relying on nanosensors that could fit in the tear duct of the eye or elsewhere, just beneath the skin, [MORE]

Motion Compensating Software for Heart Surgery

Heart Surgery
In 1953, Ceclia Bavolek was the first patient to have open heart surgery using the heart-lung bypass machine John [MORE]

Moore’s Law Still Alive and Well at Intel

Justin Rattner, CTO, Intel
In 1965 Intel’s co-founder observed that the number of transistors that could be placed into an integrated [MORE]