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Telemedicine: Listening for Newborn’s Heart Murmur

Using a Philips 5500 ultrasound machine, connected to a Librestream Onsight 2000R video device, and a secured communications network (provided [MORE]

Optical System to Image Electrical and Metabolic Activity of the Heart

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a two-camera system, used during surgery, to visualize a heart’s electrical activity and, [MORE]

Methacetin Breath-Test for Predicting Hep-C Survivability

13C-methacetin, an isotope labeled analygesic, has been used to diagnose liver disease because it quantitatively evaluates cytochrome P450-dependent liver function.  [MORE]

Wireless Digital Plaster for Telemedicine

Prof. Christopher Toumazou
CareFusion (San Diego, CA), whose business motto is “measurable improvements in patient care,” has funded the clinical [MORE]

Energy Savings

The story about Custom Mechanical Systems Corp. (Bargersville, IN) that appeared in The Medical News virtually is an advertisement, but [MORE]

Artificial Tissue

Dr. Dek Woolfson
Professor Dek Woolfson, at the University of Bristol (UK), has been growing artificial tissue that might be [MORE]

Computer Modeling of Cancer Pathways

Relying on genomic profiling data, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, and nearby Scottsdale Health, have discovered [MORE]

Rechargeable Deep Brain Stimulator

St. Jude Medical, Inc. (St. Paul, MN) has implanted its first rechargeable deep brain stimulator in a Parkinson’s patient’s brain [MORE]

Acoustic Cell Sorting

Labcyte, Inc (Sunnyvale, CA)—a company that pioneered acoustic methods for transferring liquids from pico to nanoliter containers—has  now developed an [MORE]

Professor Robert Wood at Harvard Receives $10M Grant for Medical Robots

Robert Wood
Anyone old enough to remember US Senator William Proxmire’s “golden fleece” awards, can imagine how he would react to [MORE]

ICU in a Suitcase

Medex 1000 (TM)

Integrated Medical Systems, Inc. (Birmingham, AL) recently received $3.25 m from the US Army’s Medical Research and Material [MORE]

Remote Monitoring of Lab Equipment

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics recently opened a 24-7 equipment monitoring center in Rochester, NY, which allows continuously tracking of laboratory equipment [MORE]

Chewing Robot

Taking insights from the way airplanes pitch, roll, rise and descend, engineers at the University of Bristol (UK) have designed [MORE]

Acoustic Sigh

Engineers as universities in England and Italy have developed a device that uses laser sensors, cameras, GPS, and directional sounds-not [MORE]