Comprehensive health monitoring has never been easier! ECG-Guard is a very small and easy to use wearable health monitor with advanced wireless Bluetooth® connectivity. ECG-Guard records your heart activity with clinical accuracy and displays critical parameters on your iPhone / Smart phone or Tablet. ECG-Guard is the ideal companion for many sports activities and will guard...
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New Microfluidic Chip Detects Circulating Tumor Cells in Real Time
At the Rovira i Virgili University in Catalan, Spain, researchers have developed and patented a microfluidic device for detecting circulating tumor cells within whole blood that originate from breast cancer tumors and which are responsible for metastasis. The device, reported on in journal Scientific Reports, and already tested on blood of breast cancer patients at different stages...
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Hemopurifier Filters Ebola, Hep C, Metastatic Melanoma: Interview with James A. Joyce, CEO of Aethlon Medical
Filtering infectious pathogens and cancer cells directly from whole blood has been an almost fantastic proposition, but the Hemopurifier from Aethlon Medical does just that. We’ve been covering it for over 10 years on Medgadget as it proves itself in clinical trials and new applications for it are discovered. It has already been studied as a treatment...
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Creating music by thought alone
Neurologists have created a hands-free, thought-controlled musical instrument, which they’ve recently described in a report in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Researchers hope that this new instrument will help empower and rehabilitate patients with motor disabilities such as those from stroke, spinal cord injury, amputation, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). “The Encephalophone is a musical instrument that you control...
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Mother, 47, is spared amputation after being treated with a revolutionary bandage: Bruise on her toe caused 95% of the flesh on her foot to ROT and medics told her she would lose her leg
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Angela Montes de Oca, 47, was clueless as to how the bruise developed Antibiotics failed to treat the infection, making doctors suggest amputation Ms Montes de Oca found a doctor online who said he could treat with a bandage She has now fully recovered and has returned to work without a wheelchair...
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New device detects tumor cells in blood
A team of researchers has patented a mobile device that can monitor cancer quickly, cheaply, effectively and noninvasively IMAGE: THE DEVICE IN OPERATION: A FIBER OPTIC SHINES A BLUE LIGHT ON THE SAMPLE, HIGHLIGHTING THE CELLS AS THEY FLOW FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. Researchers at the URV’s Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, led by...
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Needle-Free Viscous Drug Injections: Interview with CEO of Portal Instruments
High viscosity biologic drugs generally require syringe injections, but many patients are extremely uncomfortable around long needles and injection times can create a great deal of anxiety. Portal Instruments, a company out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has developed a nearly automatic needle-free injector that reminds us of something doctors in science fiction movies would use. We spoke...
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High-tech wound dressing glows if it has to go
Open wounds are something of a paradox – they need to be checked regularly, yet taking the dressing off too often just increases the risk of infection. That’s why a group of Swiss researchers has developed a new “glowing” bandage that lets caregivers monitor the healing progress of wounds, from the outside. Known as Flusitex...
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This Wearable MRI Device Could Help Us Read Minds
IN BRIEF Mary Lou Jepsen, former head of display technology at Oculus, has founded a startup called Openwater that hopes “to create a wearable to enable us to see the inner workings of the body and brain at high resolution.” A WEARABLE MRI What if you could “see” directly into another person’s brain? The ability to read minds,...
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New handheld scanner to give instant heart disease diagnosis
With worldwide cardiovascular deaths at an all-time high, European scientists have developed a new handheld scanner that can read your heart’s vital signs like a supermarket barcode reader can scan items at the checkout, allowing a GP to diagnose even preclinical patients for the early onset of a disease. According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular...