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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]

Nanobiosensors for Elders

ActiveCare, Inc.(West Valley City, UT), makers of  the “ActiveOne+” monitoring watch, and Vista Therapeutics (Santa Fe, NM), developers of [MORE]

Biological Basis of Stress

Among many mysteries of molecular psychiatry, researchers have long wondered why females are more prone to depression and stress-related [MORE]

Growing Heart Tissue in China

Because drugs can only slow the pace of heart failure and also because transplantable hearts are in short supply, [MORE]

First Custom-Fit, Degradable Bone Implant

Researchers at the University Medical Center and the Fraunhofer Institute in Aachen, Germany have teamed up to create a [MORE]

Tissue Engineering for Hearing

Hearing loss will be a rising medical concern as “baby boomers” move into retirement.  Loud music over the years [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]

New Materials: Injectable Bone

A research group at the University of Nottingham has developed a new class of materials containing living stem [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]

Huge Market Growth in Detecting AAA and PAD

Driven by stents in treating abdominal aortic aneurysms and peripheral arterial disease, market watchers are predicting business for detecting and [MORE]

A Really Smart Biosensor Chip

Protein scientists in Germany and Japan have developed a new biochip that can detect proteins for specific diseases and [MORE]

Heartbeats, More Complex than Supposed

For her PhD thesis in biophysics at the University of Virginia, Abigail Flower investigated the high variability of heart [MORE]

FDA Reviews Infusion Pump Risks

The infusion pump is a ubiquitous piece of hospital equipment, often at a 3:1 ratio to the number of [MORE]

Microarrays for Asian Populations

All large ethnic groups have unique physiological features and gene expression patterns that reflect those characteristics.  Consequently, Affymetrix has [MORE]

TelemedEd

In another illustration of “disruptive innovation” the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions predicts that the multi-billion [MORE]

Analytics for Medical Device Clinical Trials

The FDA recently issued guidelines for using Bayesian statistical methods to correlate data from current and earlier clinical trials [MORE]

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Technology for Tissue Regeneration

Sanuwave (Alpharetta, GA) recently announced positive results European trials of its “Pulsed Acoustic Cellular Expression” device, “dermaPACE.”  In treating [MORE]

High-Speed Bluetooth

PSG College of Technology (named for an Indian industrialist/philanthropist on the order of Andrew Carnegie) has superb engineering capabilities and [MORE]

Gastrofish for Colon Cancer

Gastrocor, Inc. (Glen Allen, VA) has developed the first tissue-based fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) diagnostic test for chromosome abnormalities [MORE]

First Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Aortic Value Replacement

ATS Medical, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) recently announced that its highly pliable aortic valve replacement had been used with the [MORE]