POSTS TAGGED AS medical device

Microrobots for Drug Delivery

Korean engineers are experimenting with microrobots that can move through blood vessels by means of magnetic fields.  Not only do [MORE]

Optoelectronic Blood Pressure Monitoring

This piece only peaks curiosity, but it tells of a British company, Tarilian Laser Technologies (Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, [MORE]

Monitoring Tear Glucose

Not long after Banting and Macleod won a 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering insulin, scientists began investigating tears as [MORE]

Non-Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitor

The YouTube video at this site is a promotion of C8 MediSensors (San Jose, CA) continuous glucose monitor which [MORE]

Looking for Cancer with a Flashlight

It is a flashlight of sorts, but a more accurate description is an endoscope that emits short bursts of [MORE]

Ultrasound Activated Pacemaker

Startup company, EBR Systems (Sunnyvale, CA) is developing a new generation of pacemakers that rely on ultrasound signaling rather [MORE]

Multiplexed Microneedle Biosensor Assay

Research collaborators in North Carolina, New Mexico and California have developed a microneedle biosensor that loads electrochemicals into multiple [MORE]

Breath Test for Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis typically is diagnosed by an expensive MRI scan or an invasive lumbar puncture.  This piece, however, reports [MORE]

Continuous Glucose Monitoring Now in Trials

Last November, Medtronic began clinical trials of its “Enlite” sensor that continuously monitors glucose levels over six days.  The [MORE]

Grandpa’s Smart Slippers

GTX Corp (Los Angeles, CA) has introduced a GPS tracking shoe designed for Alzheimer’s patients who wander and get [MORE]

A Fertility Chip

By now, Ph.D. candidate Loes Segerick should have received her degree from the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands).  [MORE]

Qualcomm’s Branch for Wireless Medical Devices

Qualcomm has left the business of making cell phones and pursued ways for making them better.  Last month, Qualcomm [MORE]

Magnetic Nanoparticles for Blood Cleansing

Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed and tested antibody-coated magnetic nanoparticles that can capture several harmful contaminants [MORE]

Stamping Out Lab Chips

Besides the $1,000 genome sequence, wouldn’t it be nice to have a ten cent medical lab-on-a-chip that could diagnose [MORE]

Ultrasound Bone Healing

The now familiar ultrasound image of a baby in the womb derives from research Dr. Ian Donald, Regius Professor [MORE]

A Pacemaker for Pain

Recently, surgeons at Carolinas Medical Center implanted a nerve stimulating device in a 76 year old post-stoke patient who [MORE]

Implantable Tumor Monitor

Inside an implantable device about the size of a thumbnail, researchers at the Technical University of Munich have placed [MORE]

Moore’s Law in Your Ear

Hearing aids are computers that you stick in your ear, and consequently, they reflect the computational features of greater [MORE]

“MoleMate” Handheld Dermatology Device

Earlier this fall, the US FDA approved a hand held siascopy device, made by the Canadian firm MedX Health [MORE]

Growing Presence for Passive Bed Monitoring

From time to time, Tagline has mentioned companies, such as WellAware Systems and Wireless Medcare, that manufacture sensored bed [MORE]