Interventional radiologists use 3-D printers to develop personalized medical devices that can deliver antibiotics and chemotherapy in targeted manner 3-D printing could become a powerful too... Read more
Thousands of liquid crystal data points give portable device its accuracy A new wearable medical device can quickly alert a person if they are having cardiovascular trouble or if it’s simply... Read more
When a foreign material like a medical device or surgical implant is put inside the human body, the body always responds. According to Northwestern’s Guillermo Ameer, most of the time, that... Read more
Shanghai researchers develop new way to combat bacterial biofilm formation with titanium encrusted with gold nanoparticles Bacteria love to colonize surfaces inside your body, but they have... 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
Despite good intentions, life-saving medical donations often end up discarded or broken. New training programs aim to change all that Medical equipment donations enable hospitals in developi... Read more
Scientists today described key advances toward practical uses of a new genre of tiny, biocompatible electronic devices that could be implanted into the body to relieve pain or battle infecti... Read more
State-of-the-art device to assist the elderly and disabled with sitting, standing and walking Five years ago, Anurag Purwar, a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical En... 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 findings could dramatically alter the scale of medical devices implanted in the human body. A team of engineers at Stanford has demonstrated the feasibility of a super-small, implantable... 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
“‘This is your heart speaking. Call 911′” More than 30% of the one million heart attack victims in the United States each year die before seeking medical attention. A... Read more
A Texas company is developing an innovative medical device to reduce the risk of infection during surgery. Many surgical procedures leave patients with a high risk of infection, especially a... Read more
The patented technology is key to ViewRay’s new radiation therapy system, which is being designed to capture soft-tissue images continuously during treatment. “The technology is... Read more
Engineers from Princeton University have developed power-generating rubber films that could be used to harness natural body movements such as breathing or walking in order to power electroni... Read more
