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Skin Patch Dx for Food Allergies

Viaskin Peanut Product
For an infant with undiagnosed allergies to milk and egg proteins, the only communication is through crying—-non-stop crying. [MORE]

First High Frequency Ultrasound

Vevo-MD
There are two pieces here about the same thing—Fujifilm’s newly FDA cleared ultrahigh frequency ultrasound imager: the first piece is [MORE]

Sensing Heartbeat with Radar

Remote Sensing ECG
Today, ECG testing is done with electrodes stuck to the skin and wires from those patches to the [MORE]

Vapor Therapy System to Ablate Lung Tumors

Lung Tumor Ablation
Using a technology called “InterVapor” (from Uptake Medical, Tustin, CA) physicians ablated a colon cancer metastasis to the [MORE]

Bioartificial Adrenal Device

Bioartifical Adrenal to Follow Artificial Pancreas
Beta-O2 Technologies Ltd is an Israeli company which has developed an implantable device containing islet [MORE]

Movement Sensor Required to Prevent Pressure Ulcers

Leaf Patient Sensor
Bedsores most commonly present in hospitalized patients who are not moved sufficiently to relieve pressure on blood vessels [MORE]

Blood Marker Test for Depression

RNA
Here’s a piece that well illustrates Leroy Hood’s “4 P’s” of personalized medicine (i.e. personalized, predictive, preventative, participatory). Investigators at [MORE]

New Material for Bone Reconstruction

Shape Shifting Material for Bone
Some bone injuries are too big for simple fixes, even with autografting and bone putty.  To [MORE]

Self-Assembling Nanoparticles that Target Tumors

Self-Assembling Nanoparticles
You’ll have to go to the published study to get the exact details of this piece, but researcher at [MORE]

Gold Nanoparticle Coatings on Prosthetic Joints

Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)
Researchers at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics believe they have developed an effective anti-bacterial coating for artificial [MORE]

Cortisol Assay via Smartphone

Testing via Smart Phone
In stressful situations, the adrenal glands release cortisol which increases blood glucose for “flight or fight.” Prolonged [MORE]

“Liquid Biopsy” for Prostate Cancer

Nanovelcrochip
As pathologists know, all cancers are “written in blood”—with the cells and proteins tumors release into the bloodstream.  [MORE]

Interpreting Genomic Sequences

With the latest generation of DNA sequencers, the so-called “$1,000 genome” is a reality, and the breadbox-sized machine that [MORE]

Pulse Oximeter for iPhone

iPhone Oxygen Monitor
Masimo Corporation (Irvine, CA) makes the most widely used pulse oximeters in healthcare, and recently it introduced [MORE]