Wearing a fitness tracker on your wrist or clipped to your belt is so 2013. Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have demonstrated thin, so... Read more
Novel Sensor Belt Monitors Cardiac Function for up to Six Months – No Conductive Paste or Operation Needed Patients suffering from cardiac diseases may rapidly become emergencies. Then, seco... Read more
Rice University researchers propose touch-to-access security for implanted devices Pacemakers, insulin pumps, defibrillators and other implantable medical devices often have wireless capabi... Read more
IN “SKYFALL”, the latest James Bond movie, 007 is given a gun that only he can fire. It works by recognising his palm print, rendering it impotent when it falls into a baddy’s hands. Like ma... Read more
A new medical device wants to make patient vitals more portable and networked, but designing devices for the medical field is nothing like the consumer electronics sector. Anyone who’s been... Read more
The three products–SCOUT, ScanaFlo, and ScanaFlu–will all be released by the end of 2013. No more searching the medicine cabinet for the thermometer or being worried that your bl... Read more
It opens new possibilities in medical treatment, health care, disease prevention, weight management and other fields Electrical engineers at Oregon State University have developed new techno... Read more
Telemedicine is heading in this direction, with control centres that receive large amounts of information and computer systems that detect and analyse irregularities The Instrumentation, Sen... Read more
The earlier heart attack patients are cooled down, the better Textile cooling pads may be used in future to prevent neurological damage after successful resuscitation following a heart attac... Read more
Digital health It used to be that the word “doctor” brought to mind an image of a kindly old man in a small office with a stethoscope, but now it conjures up an image of an app o... Read more
A young Cameroonian engineer has built the first fully touch screen medical tablet A young Cameroonian engineer has built the first fully touch screen medical tablet that could soon save man... Read more
