by Nancy Cohen , Medical Xpress A study conducted by Evidation Health on behalf of Eli Lilly and Apple suggests that data collected from smart devices and digital apps might help speed up the diagnosis of early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The study, “Developing Measures of Cognitive Impairment in the Real World from Consumer-Grade Multimodal...
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Smart Bandage Pulls Skin Together to Speed Healing
MEDGADGET EDITORSCRITICAL CARE, MEDICINE, NEWS, PLASTIC SURGERY, SURGERY, VASCULAR SURGERY Wounds on the skin are usually treated with bandages that protect the area and keep it moist, but which don’t actively help to promote healing. Researchers at Harvard and McGill universities have now created a mechanotherapy bandage that actually works to close the wound, keeps...
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Smart Wrist Band Helps People with Affective Disorders to Monitor Emotions
CONN HASTINGS Researchers at the University of Lancaster have developed a smart material that can help those with affective disorders, such as anxiety, bi-polar disorder and depression, to monitor their emotions. The smart material, worn as a wrist band, can alert the user to a change in emotion in real time, sometimes even if they have not become fully aware of it themselves, helping them to...
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Smart glasses follow our eyes, focus automatically
STANFORD UNIVERSITY Though it may not have the sting of death and taxes, presbyopia is another of life’s guarantees. This vision defect plagues most of us starting about age 45, as the lenses in our eyes lose the elasticity needed to focus on nearby objects. For some people reading glasses suffice to overcome the difficulty, but for many people the only fix,...
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Researchers 3D Print Wearable Mesh That Can Function As Flexible Medical Braces
3D printing has enabled the production of medicaldevices tailored to a patient’s needs but, often, they are made using solid and inflexible materials. As a result, these devices restrict movement; using them can be inconvenient and uncomfortable. Moreover, they are not ideal to support the recovery of joints and muscles, which are more complex and nonlinear. Recently, engineers from MIT demonstrated 3D-printed mesh materials...
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Octopus-inspired wearable sensor
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Wearable electronics that adhere to skin are an emerging trend in health sensor technology for their ability to monitor a variety of human activities, from heart rate to step count. But finding the best way to stick a device to the body has been a challenge. Now, a team of researchers reports the development of...
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INNOVO Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulator for Urinary Incontinence Coming to U.S.
APRIL 11TH, 2019 MEDICINE, NEUROLOGY, OB/GYN, REHAB, UROLOGY Atlantic Therapeutics, a company out of Galway, Ireland, will soon be releasing its INNOVO transcutaneous electrical stimulator to treat stress urinary incontinence in women. The device was FDA approved late last year as the first transcutaneous stimulator with such an indication. It delivers electric current through the...
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How to train your robot (to feed you dinner)
About 1 million adults in the United States need someone to help them eat, according to census data from 2010. It’s a time-consuming and often awkward task, one largely done out of necessity rather than choice. Researchers at the University of Washington are working on a robotic system that can help make it easier. After...
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Handheld Skin Bioprinter Heals Deep Open Wounds With Patient’s Own Cells
The human organism has a number of physiologic processes that work together to heal skin wounds. Sometimes wounds are so large and difficult that these healing mechanisms simply can’t access damaged tissues. Researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina are now reporting the development of a bioprinter that uses a patient’s own skin cells to heal wounds faster and more consistently. The device is...
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The doctor on your watch: smartwatches can save your life
There are different ways smartwatches can save your life and those of your loved ones, This will range from taking vital biometric data and giving you tips for living healthy to sending help notifications to your loved ones in case the watch detects that you are in trouble. Additionally, they are portable and highly efficient;...