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Artificial Larynx Successfully Implanted

Artificial Larynx
Designed to be implanted in two stages, engineers and surgeons in Stasbourg, France have successfully given a 65 [MORE]

Concussion Detecting Cap

"Check Light"
“Checklight” is the name of a lycra and spandex skull cap, from MC10 (Cambridge, MA) that an athlete [MORE]

The “Better” eHealth Phone App

Thousands of health-monitoring smartphone apps exist, but is more chaff than wheat in the winnowing.  Mayo Clinic may have [MORE]

Microbot for Eye Surgery

Octo Mag
Electrical engineers in Zurich, Switzerland have developed a magnetically guided “microbot” that can perform precise surgical or drug [MORE]

Artificial Pancreas in Clinical Trial

Medtronics Artificial Pancreas
Both Medtronic (Minneapolis, MN) and Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, NJ) are developing artificial pancreases [MORE]

Handheld Brain Hematoma Detector

InfraScan
Bleeding inside the brain after a traumatic event can be life threatening and very hard to detect in the [MORE]

Edible Biosensor, Update

Ingestible Biosensor
Following last year’s FDA approval of Proteus Digital Health’s edible biosensor for monitoring medication adherence, scientists at Carnegie Mellon [MORE]

Near-Field Communications for Medical Devices

NFC BP Monitor – disassembled
This short piece is for the device designers among us who might consider near-field [MORE]

MIT’s “eyeNETRA”Camera

Raskar with eyeNETRA
Many people might be surprised to know that the pixel pitch of a smartphone camera exceeds that [MORE]

Perspective on Implantable Devices

Dissolvable Electronics
This piece is a teaser, as it touches on new materials for implantable medical devices leaving one wanting [MORE]

Inexpensive Brain Cooling Device for Neonate Hypoxia

Using a clay pot, burlap basket, sand filling, an instant ice pack, a microprocessor, two temperature sensors, and two [MORE]

Ultra High-Def 3-D for Surgery

3D Technology in Medicine
Video-assisted thoracic surgery already has advanced minimally invasive procedures, but imaging is improving yet with high [MORE]

“Merlin@home” 24/7 Heart Monitor

Merlin@Home

Here is a variation on “companion diagnostics,” not between a test and a drug, but matching an implantable [MORE]

“Exponential Technologies” in Healthcare

Daniel Kraft, MD
Daniel Kraft M. D. is the executive director of “FutureMed” at Singularity University in Silicon Valley, CA.  [MORE]