ADA SHAIKHNAG Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed 3D printed self-heating microfluidic devices, offering potential applications in affordable disease detection tools. MIT’s research team adopted multimaterial 3D printing, a cost-effective method, to create self-heating microfluidic devices in a single manufacturing step. This technique allows for customization, enabling engineers to design microfluidic devices with...
A new diagnostic device could help those who experience sleep apnoea get a quicker diagnosis and an improved quality of life. Sleeping – illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license) Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) is a sleep problem which causes the airway to become slightly or completely blocked during sleep. The brain, detecting low...
OCTOBER 26TH, 2023 CONN HASTINGS DIAGNOSTICS, GENETICS Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a new method of detecting very small amounts of DNA. The breakthrough could allow clinicians to spot genetic markers of disease at the point-of-care, as the approach does not require conventional laboratory analysis, which is usually time-consuming and costly. In fact, the...
Doug Brunk October 28, 2022 DENVER – One expert’s clinical experience suggests that Ellacor, a dermal microcoring device that became available in the United States in October 2022, is an effective treatment for facial wrinkles and tightening. Dr Mathew Avram “It’s early yet, but I have treated dozens of patients with this device, and they...
By Peter Kendall May 28, 2022 at 7:32 a.m. EDT As he gets ready for sleep each night, Don Tucker slips on an electrode cap and checks a little computer on his bedside table. Many workers at the private lab, run by the professor emeritus at the University of Oregon, follow the same routine. The...
FEBRUARY 15TH, 2022 ALICE FERNG EXCLUSIVE, OTC, PSYCHIATRY A quick way to soothe your nerves sounds too good to be true. There are many methods and techniques used for achieving this “calm” that include breath work, visualization, meditation, and other individualized activities. However, what intrigued us was that there is a device on the market, the developers...
Biomedical engineering professor and BIO5 Institute Director Jennifer Barton has spent nearly a decade developing a falloposcope for ovarian cancer detection in its early stages. Banner – University Medical Center surgeon Dr. John Heusinkveld has now used the device to capture images of study participants’ fallopian tubes for the first time. Due to a lack of effective...
MEDGADGET EDITORS ANESTHESIOLOGY, CARDIOLOGY, CRITICAL CARE, EMERGENCY MEDICINE, EXCLUSIVE, MEDICINE, NEWS, OB/GYN, PEDIATRICS, RADIOLOGY, SURGERY, UROLOGY, VASCULAR SURGERY Butterfly Network, the digital health unicorn democratizing medical imaging, is continuing to add new applications for its handheld, single probe, smartphone-connected ultrasound technology. The Butterfly iQ, the multi-purpose pocket-sized ultrasound, won FDA clearance a couple years ago and earlier this year received the CE Mark, clearing it for distribution...
by Elaine Schmidt, University of California, Los Angeles Seven years ago, Jason Esterhuizen was in a horrific car crash that destroyed his eyes, plunging him into total darkness. Today, he’s regained visual perception and more independence, thanks to an experimental device implanted in his brain by researchers at UCLA Health. “Now I can do things that I couldn’t do before,”...
By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A thermoplastic heat-molded mandibular-advancement device (MAD) is non-inferior to a custom-made MAD for treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a new two-month randomized trial shows. “This is really a noninferiority message, for shorter treatment in moderate-to-severe sleep-apnea patients,” Dr. Jean Louis Pepin of Universite Grenoble Alpes in Saint-Martin-d’Heres,...
