POSTS TAGGED AS medical device

Brain Delivery of Drugs with Ultrathin Needle

Ultrathin Needle Delivers Medication to Brain
Quoting directly: “Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have devised a miniaturized system that can deliver [MORE]

A Portable OR

MIT Sally Miller SurgiBox
MIT graduate student Sally Miller took a 43 year old idea and reinvented it. The idea was [MORE]

Skin Patch for T2 Diabetics

Medicating Skin Patch
When a T2 diabetic’s glucose level rises, so too does acidity beneath the skin which can contribute to [MORE]

A Skin Patch against Antibiotic Resistance

Large Scale Model of Antibiotic Microneedle Patch
Oral antibiotics are absorbed through the intestines, and because not all of the drug [MORE]

Stem Cells from Amniotic Fluid

Harvesting Cells from Amniotic Fluid
During a caesarian delivery, amniotic fluid is treated as a waste product, while it’s actually a [MORE]

A Health “Snapshot” in Sweat

Portable System to Analyze Sweat
Swiss engineers have built a tiny (one centimeter squared) biomarker analyzer that uses sweat as its [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]

Spray-On Heart Muscle

Muscles in a Spray Can
The first artificial heart patented in the US went to Paul Winchell, more commonly remembered from [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]

The Tipping Point for Robotic Spine Surgery

Mazor Core Surgical Room
“A form of robotic-guided spine surgery results in a five-fold reduction in surgical complications and a seven-fold [MORE]

A Wearable Language Translator

Fujitsu Speech Translator
Fujitsu Laboratories announces that it has produced the “world’s first, wearable, hands free, speech translation device,” 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]

Liquid Biopsy for Metastatic Cancer

Liquid Biopsy Plate
Scientists at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have engineered a microchip that can trap and identify metastatic cancer cells in [MORE]

A Chip to Regenerate Damaged Tissues

TNT Research Dr,Chandan Sen
Using a novel method for reprogramming cells, researchers at Ohio State University applied a special microchanneled chip [MORE]