POSTS TAGGED AS urology

Pressure Sensor for the Bladder

Bladder Sensor Chip
Bladder pressure can be, at the least, uncomfortable, but for patients who have nerve dysfunction, bladder pressure [MORE]

A Wearable Alternative to Kidney Dialysis

Nanofiber Mesh
Researchers at the National Institute for Materials Sciences (Ibaraki, Japan) have developed a prototype material that is capable [MORE]

“Liquid Biopsy” for Prostate Cancer

Nanovelcrochip
As pathologists know, all cancers are “written in blood”—with the cells and proteins tumors release into the bloodstream.  [MORE]

Smart Catheters

Infections arising from healthcare-associated catheters cause 99,000 deaths in the US annually and an enormous cost for those who [MORE]

Device Controls Overactive Bladder

“VERV” is the trademarked name for Johnson and Johnson’s neurostimulation device to treat incontinence.  It is a small patch [MORE]

Progress Toward Kidney Regeneration

Kidney Structures
With tens of thousands of patients on waiting lists for kidney transplants, success in creating kidneys from pig [MORE]

Lighting up Kidney Tumors

A combination of the daVinci surgical robot and an indocyanine green dye injected tracer allows kidney surgeons at Georgetown [MORE]

Super Sensitive Biosensor

With the US Preventive Services Task Force recently downgrading PSA screening to Class D, it may seem like the [MORE]

Predicting Male Fertility

Using RNA microarrays, researchers at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (Barcelona, Spain) identified 85 gene expressions associated with low [MORE]

A Fertility Chip

Fertility Chip
By now, Ph.D. candidate Loes Segerick should have received her degree from the University of Twente (Enschede, The [MORE]

Google-Earth View of Bladder’s Interior

University of Washington Bladder Scope
Saying that he wants to give urologists “a Google Earth view of the bladder, University [MORE]

Growing New Tissues

Anthony Atala, PhD
Though the urethras of five boys were regrown from their own cells and implanted between 2004 and [MORE]

Home Hemodialysis Device

Homechoice Dialysis by DEKA
Those who attended the 2005 Medical Automation Conference will remember Dean Kamen talking about the home [MORE]

Ultrasound as a Long Term Reversible Contraceptive

Testis
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professors James Tsuruta and Paul Dayton won one of 78 awards the Bill and [MORE]