AUM Cardiovascular, a company out of Northfield, Minnesota, won FDA clearance for its CADence system, which is a novel combination of a stethoscope and ECG in one device. The CADence is intended to be used by primary care physicians to help spot suspicious cardiac murmurs that should be referred to cardiologists. The physician places the device...
Category: <span>Devices</span>
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Xavant’s NMS 460 Peripheral Nerve Stimulator for Pain Relief Cleared by FDA
Xavant Technology, a company based in Pretoria, South Africa, won FDA clearance for its NMS 460 peripheral nerve stimulation system. The device is used to address chronic intractable pain, post-surgical pain, post-traumatic acute pain, and for pain control arising from rehab routines. The device delivers a hybrid pulsed radio frequency (PRF) waveform, developed by Xavant, through the skin via...
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Mind-controlled hearing aids filter out background noise by tracking the wearer’s brain activity
The technology allows the user to focus on just a single strand of conversation Monitors the user’s brain activity to determine a ‘main’ voice, which is amplified According to the researchers, this process takes approximately 10 seconds Current hearing aids are unable to determine the person who is being listened to Previous research reveals more...
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Breakthrough device heals organs with a single touch
Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State’s College of Engineering have developed a new technology, Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the patient’s own body. This technology may be used to repair injured tissue or restore function of aging tissue, including organs,...
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Immune system may mount an attack in Parkinson’s disease
A new study suggests that T cells, which help the body’s immune system recognize friend from foe, may play an important role in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The study, published in the journal Nature, was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health. “This collaboration between...
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Smart underwear proven to prevent back stress with just a tap
TV infomercials offer a world of potential solutions for back pain, but most of them have at least one of three problems — they’re unproven, unworkable or just plain unattractive. A team of Vanderbilt University engineers is changing that with a design that combines the science of biomechanics and advances in wearable tech to create...
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Over-the-counter devices hold their own against costly hearing aids
Hearing aids that can cost more than $2,000 apiece are only slightly more effective than some over-the-counter sound-amplification devices that sell for just a few hundred dollars, according to a recent study. The study bolsters legislation pending in Congress, which would have the Food and Drug Administration set regulations for cheaper over-the-counter products and is...
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This Is How We Will Reduce Anxiety In The Future
Stressed Out Every year, the world around us moves a little faster, and it’s easy to stumble and get stressed out as we try to catch up with it. Almost every fifth person in the United States has an anxiety disorder, costing the country more than $42 billion a year. Nearly half of those who suffer from...
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Battery-powered bedside scanner that takes just three minutes to detect if someone may have had a heart attack
The device can tell doctors almost instantly if a patient’s chest pain is due to a serious cardiac issue, such as a heart attack or angina, or unrelated to the heart It could spare hundreds of thousands of patients a year with chest pain the worry of waiting for hours in hospital to find out...
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Stanford Researchers Develop a New Type of Soft, Growing Robot
magine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of life, they bring out a small, air-tight cylinder. They place the device at the entrance of the debris and flip a switch. From one end of the cylinder,...