POSTS TAGGED AS medical device

Cuffless BP Meter

Tarilian Laser Technologies (Welwyn Garden City, Herts, UK) has developed a cuffless blood pressure monitor that can take a [MORE]

“Photoelectricwetting” Activates MEMS Devices

First, imagine a drop of water on a waxed car hood: the drop beads up.  Then, on an unwaxed [MORE]

Working Toward a “Tricorder”

Last year, Qualcomm underwrote an X-Prize for a diagnostic device that works like the fictional tricorder of “Star Trek.”  [MORE]

340 Genomes on a Thumb Drive

Victorinox, maker of the Swiss Army Knife, recently introduced the first terabyte USB thumb drive.  It has the capacity [MORE]

Non-Invasive Hemoglobin Check

Masimo Corporation (Irving, CA) made its first mark on non-invasive diagnostics in 1995 with its now ubiquitous finger sensor [MORE]

Automated Brain Blood Monitor

The signature combat wound of the Iraq War has been brain trauma, and as in previous wars, the military’s need [MORE]

“Swimming in a Magnetic Current”

This is the kind of story know-nothing politicians like to expose: researchers working with a tiny sailboat in an [MORE]

Monitoring Vital Signs Through Walls

“EPIC” is the acronym Plessey Semiconductors (Plymouth, UK) has given to its electric potential integrated circuit system which monitors [MORE]

Ultrathin Brain Sensor

Surgery can be the only option for epileptics with uncontrolled seizures, but knowing which location in the brain harbors [MORE]

Single Molecule Motor

It’s a small step to be sure, but engineers at Tufts University have demonstrated that a single molecule of [MORE]

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]