POSTS TAGGED AS Medgadget.com

Ultrasound Imaging Needle

Optical Ultrasound of the Heart
For the first time, it has become possible to make live images from inside the heart [MORE]

Telemed on Wheels

Mobile Stroke Unit
“The golden hour” is a term referring to the time-window a stroke victim has when treatment is most [MORE]

Keeping Stem Cells in Place for Heart Damage Repair

Using Magnets to Heal Myocardial Cells
The previous piece is about protecting stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes so they survive when transplanted. This [MORE]

Implantable Cardiac Monitor Connects to Smartphones

Confirm-Rx Cardiac Monitor
“Abbott received FDA clearance for the Confirm Rx implantable cardiac monitoring device that wirelessly connects to the patient’s [MORE]

Implantable Sensor Measures Intraocular Pressure

Eyemate Continuous IOP Monitor
With a new device called “Eyemate” (from Implandata, Hanover, Germany), an eye surgeon can insert a interocular [MORE]

Automated Stem Cell Prep

3D Cell Models Form in Hanging Droplets
This piece has an old idea in a new “package.” The old idea is [MORE]

Smart Hydrogel

Nitric Oxide Ge
Quoting directly: “At the Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon, South Korea, scientists have developed a hydrogel that [MORE]

A Genetically Modified Skin Patch that Monitors Glucose Levels

Skin Patch that Monitors Glucose
In laboratory mice, University of Chicago bioengineers were able to use CRISPR gene editing to modify [MORE]

A Self-Propelled Catheter

Robotic Bronchoscope
The conventional means for looking into lung’s airways is a camera-carrying bronchoscope with additional tools for taking a tissue [MORE]

3-D Medical Imaging

EchoPixel True3D
“EchoPixel, a company in Mountain View, California, hopes to bridge the gap [between what a surgeon sees on a [MORE]

Microneedle Patch for Drawing Interstitial Fluid

Microneedle Patch
Average size adults carry about two and a half gallons of interstitial fluid which bathes every cell in the [MORE]

Home Blood Testing

Athelas Remote Blood Testing
Patients undergoing chemotherapy need frequent blood tests to monitor the effectiveness of their treatment and to register [MORE]

2017 P/M Nobel Prize for Understanding Internal Clock

Biological Clock Human
This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, announced last month, was recognition for understanding the basis of [MORE]

iEAT Food Allergy Detector

Allergen Keychain iEAT
Food allergies, especially for children, can be life threatening, and often detection comes too late. Researchers at Harvard, [MORE]