Geoffrey A. Fowler and Heather Kelly, The Washington Post Photo: Amazon.IMAGE 1 OF 3The optional body feature in the Halo app asks you to take four photos of your body in underwear or skintight clothes, and the generates an estimate of your body fat composition and a 3-D model of your body. Amazon has a new health-tracking bracelet...
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Electronic skin patches could restore lost sensation and detect disease
Picture this: You’ve experienced no physical sensation beyond your wrists for years, then a doctor drapes a thin, flexible membrane over your hand and, like magic, you can feel the trickle of water through your fingers again. Researchers in Europe are working on elastic membrane patches that mimic how the skin looks and feels and can...
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How a Vibrating Smartwatch Could Be Used to Stop Nightmares
The FDA has given NightWare clearance to market a “digital therapeutic” device that uses an Apple Watch to interrupt PTSD-related nightmares. COURTESY OF NIGHTWARE EVERY NIGHT, PATRICK Skluzacek woke with his heart pounding and his T-shirt drenched with sweat. The details of his nightmares often slipped away when he snapped his eyes open, but he knew...
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AMAZING MAGNETIC SPRAY TURNS TINY INANIMATE OBJECTS INTO INSECT-SCALE ROBOTS
Does the idea of miniature, insect-scale robots swarming toward their intended duties inside your body make your skin crawl? Medical researchers led by Dr. Shen Yajing from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) don’t wish to alarm you but they’ve just devised a simple method of making millirobots which can be employed in various biomedical applications like targeted drug delivery and catheter navigation. Their...
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Researchers bring paradigm-shifting technology to endoscopic procedures
A collaboration between international and Vanderbilt University researchers is helping to update a tried-and-true medical technology for the 21st century. The development of an intelligent and autonomous Magnetic Flexible Endoscope holds the promise of making colonoscopies safer, less painful, more widely available and less expensive. The article “Enabling the future of colonoscopy with intelligent and autonomous magnetic manipulation”...
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Contact lenses for diagnostic and therapeutic use
TERASAKI INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION IMAGE: ENLARGED PROTOTYPE OF BIOSENSOR LENS WITH RESERVOIRS. (LOS ANGELES) – Human bodily fluids and secretions contain molecules known as biomarkers that contain a wealth of information about the body’s health and the presence of disease. Among secretions such as tears, sweat and saliva, tears are considered the best source...
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Sound waves power new advances in drug delivery and smart materials
RMIT UNIVERSITY IMAGE: THE PATENTED ‘RESPITE’ NEBULISER USES HIGH-FREQUENCY SOUND WAVES TO PRECISELY DELIVER DRUGS TO THE LUNGS. Researchers have revealed how high-frequency sound waves can be used to build new materials, make smart nanoparticles and even deliver drugs to the lungs for painless, needle-free vaccinations. While sound waves have been part of science and medicine...
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3D color X-ray machine heads for trials
By Michael Irving, November 18, 2020 MBI’s 3D scanner assigns colors based on different densities of tissue – so bones appear white, muscle appears red and implants appear blue and green. Mars Bioimaging Ltd As useful as X-rays are for imaging bones, there’s only so much we can see in a flat greyscale image. But...
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NASA Brain Training Tech Makes Smart Glasses
A new pair of smart glasses uses a technique invented at NASA to measure users’ brainwaves and tell them how well they’re paying attention. Others have used the NASA formula to help people train themselves to focus, as has the company’s founder, but Narbis’ new smart glasses are getting much quicker results. Narbis glasses train...
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FDA approves prescription-only Apple Watch app for PTSD nightmares
By Rich Haridy, November 10, 2020 A new prescription-only system uses an Apple Watch to detect and disrupt nightmares through gentle vibrations without waking the user NightWare The majority of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients suffer from frequent traumatic nightmares that can deeply disrupt sleep patterns and have been linked with significantly higher rates of...