CONN HASTINGS OXOS Medical, a medtech spin-off out of Georgia Tech, has created the Micro C, an FDA cleared handheld X-ray system that is designed to image the distal extremities, from the shoulder to the hand and from the knee to the foot. The device is intended to prevent situations in which clinicians have to...
by Dennis Thompson Healthday Reporter Millions of U.S. sleep apnea patients are scrambling to find ways to protect their nightly slumber, following a voluntary recall from one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of CPAP breathing machines. Philips Respironics agreed to a voluntary recall of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines in late June, over concerns that noise-dampening...
POHANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (POSTECH) IMAGE: DIAGRAM OF A HANDHELD PHOTOACOUSTIC FINDER SYSTEM CREDIT: POSTECH Massaging the upper arm is known to relieve the body of swelling by stimulating the lymph nodes that process toxins in our body. Cancers such as breast cancer and melanoma metastasize primarily through lymphatic system, so knowing the...
NIH/NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE IMAGE: STUDY AUTHOR LINGQIU JIN TESTS THE ROBOTIC CANE. CREDIT: IMAGE COURTESY OF CANG YE, VCU Equipped with a color 3D camera, an inertial measurement sensor, and its own on-board computer, a newly improved robotic cane could offer blind and visually impaired users a new way to navigate indoors. When paired with...
by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio The Forced Inspiratory Suction and Swallow Tool, shown here, is designed to stop hiccups on one or two attempts. It was developed at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Credit: JAMA Network Open Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center...
BENTLEY UNIVERSITY Researchers from Bentley University, in partnership with Waltham Council on Aging in Massachusetts, and as part of a study funded by the National Science Foundation, have been exploring how the elderly use smart speakers at home. Waltham, a satellite city about eight miles west of Cambridge has a population of about 60,000, with...
KING + COMPANY IMAGE: POLARCAP SYSTEM IS MADE BY POLARCOOL AB. CREDIT: POLARCOOL LUND, Sweden–May 11, 2021–PolarCool AB (publ), a Swedish medical device company focusing on treatment of sports-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) and whiplash, today announced that it has submitted a 510(k) pre-market notification to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the...
By ETHAN ENNALS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED: 17:09 EDT, 8 May 2021 | UPDATED: 21:47 EDT, 8 May 2021 Thousands of bowel disease patients could soon be spared regular hospital visits and long waits for treatment – thanks to new test that would allow GPs or even a practice nurse, for the first time, to monitor the disease. Currently, sufferers...
By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 13:00 EDT, 14 May 2021 | UPDATED: 13:54 EDT, 14 May 2021 A new implantable ‘living pharmacy’ could help military personnel and first responders recover faster from disrupted sleep. Scientists at Northwestern University are developing a device to control the body’s circadian clock. The implant will include engineered cells that produce the same peptides...
Getting swarms of robots to work collectively can be challenging, unless researchers carefully choreograph their interactions—like planes in formation—using increasingly sophisticated components and algorithms. But what can be reliably accomplished when the robots on hand are simple, inconsistent, and lack sophisticated programming for coordinated behavior? Researchers sought to show that even the simplest of robots can still accomplish tasks well...
