POSTS TAGGED AS medical device

Implantable, Electronic Drug Dispensing

A research group at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill recently presented their technology for delivering anticancer [MORE]

Artificial Pancreas for Nocturnal Hypoglycemia in T1 Diabetes

An artificial pancreas is a closed loop device that delivers both insulin and glucagon and can be particularly advantageous [MORE]

Noninvasive, Continuous Hemoglobin Monitoring

In another “measure through motion” application, Masimo Corporation (Irvine, CA) recently announced results from a European study showing that [MORE]

Steering Mechanism for Camera Pill

Siemens Healthcare and Olympus Medical Systems have developed a prototype for a capsule endoscope with magnetic guidance.  A patient [MORE]

A Thermostat for the Immune System

Realizing that an inflammation response is triggered by the brain via the vagus nerve, immunologist and neurosurgeon Kevin Tracey [MORE]

3D Skin Monitoring to Detect Melanoma

Using a hand-held six light device, researchers at the Machine Vision Laboratory (Bristol Institute of Technology, Bristol, UK) are [MORE]

Shock Waves to Grow New Blood Vessels in the Heart

Cardiologists at the Mayo Clinic aren’t sure why acoustic waves initiate a wound-healing process, but nevertheless they are testing [MORE]

Bronchial Thermoplasty for Asthma

Asthmatx (Sunnyvale, CA) and the Virginia Hospital Center (Arlington, VA) recently began treating adult asthma patients with a new device [MORE]

LifeWatch’s “Teleclinic”

Three to five percent of Americans over age 65 have atrial fibrillation (2.2 million people) and some of them [MORE]

Wearable and Implantable Vital Signs Monitoring Devices

Jarno Riistama, who recently received his doctoral degree at Tampere University of Technology (Tampere, Finland), believes an implantable EKG [MORE]

Novel Blood Pressure Monitoring

Empirical Technologies Corporation (Charlottesville, VA) has developed a non-invasive approach to tracking blood pressure-a technology the company calls [MORE]

An iPad-Enabled Hospital

Many healthcare providers are interested in how they might use iPads instead of laptops, but most are doing what [MORE]

“Tattletale Pills”

The technologies of “smart pills” have been evolving for a couple of years, but an engineering group at the [MORE]

Predicting Suicide Risk

As more people take antidepressant drugs, the known risk of suicide increases. The trick is to determine who among [MORE]

Hand Washing with Room Temperature Plasma

One might not expect a researcher from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Garching, Germany) to come up [MORE]

First Total Spine Arthroplasty

The FDA has issued an investigational device exemption to Flexuspine, Inc (Pittsburg, PA) to proceed with clinical trials of [MORE]

“Nanomembrane Transistors”

Prior to ablating tissue to stop arterial fibrillation, a heart surgeon has to locate the area of the heart that [MORE]

Sensored Contact Lens Detects Glaucoma

High intraocular pressure is a sign of developing glaucoma, and while ophthalmologists have means for measuring that pressure, they [MORE]

Ionic Toothbrush

Dental plaque is a biofilm of Streptococcus and other bacteria that adhere to tooth enamel and cause cavities, tartar [MORE]

Hormone Meter

One example of “disruptive innovation” is how Richard Bernstein developed the portable glucose meter in 1971 and pioneered “self-monitoring.” [MORE]