Medical News
Spectrum Enterprise and Moviebeam Offer In-Room Programming Packages for Hotel Guests
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
News Spectrum Enterprise, a part of Charter Communications, Inc., has partnered with Moviebeam, a video systems integrator, to offer hotels an in-room guest experience with programming packages from Spectrum Enterprise d...
EKG, Other Heart Health Features Come to Apple Watch
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 23:01
News Apple Watch is now fulfilling its promise to let people take EKGs of their heart and notify them of any irregular heartbeat. Apple announced the heart features in September, but didn't make them available until Thur...
Energy-Saving Low-Noise LDO Regulator
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 22:04
Product Announcement The STMicroelectronics LDO40L 400mA low-dropout linear regulator delivers quiet and efficient power for always-on automotive modules and noise-sensitive loads... Contributed Author: STMicroelectronic...
Patients With Paralysis Use Brain Signals to Operate a Tablet
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 21:38
News New clinical trial results show that people with paralysis who have been equipped with a technologically advanced, baby-aspirin-sized brain implant can learn to directly... Contributed Author: Stanford University To...
"Sun in a Box" Would Store Renewable Energy for the Grid
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 21:34
News MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, and deliver that energy back into an... Contributed Author: Massachusetts Institute of Techno...
Paving the Way for More Efficient Hydrogen Cars
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 21:24
News Hydrogen-powered vehicles emit only water vapor from their tailpipes, offering a cleaner alternative to fossil-fuel-based transportation. But for hydrogen cars to... Contributed Author: American Chemical Society Top...
Ultra HD Now the Sought After TV, Says Report
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 21:05
News High-definition flat-panel TVs have become popular items for many consumers, and during this holiday season those TVs are likely to be of the Ultra-HD variety. That's the conclusion of a new report by market researc...
LIGO Supercomputer Upgrade Will Speed Up Groundbreaking Astrophysics Research
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 19:57
News Penn State recently invested in an upgrade to its portion of the data grid that will roughly quadruple the cluster's capacity for conducting cutting-edge astronomy and astrophysics research. The new cluster, 192 ser...
Cuba to Begin Full Internet Access For Mobile Phones
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 19:28
News Cuba announced earlier this week that its citizens will be offered full internet access for mobile phones beginning this week, becoming one of the last nations to offer such service... Contributed Author: Andrea Rod...
Top Digital Health Trends in Healthcare, According to Quantzig
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
News Quantzig, an analytics solutions provider, has released their latest news on the top digital health trends that are driving the US healthcare industry. As digitization continues to innovate and redesign the healthca...
New Material Could be the Answer to Infrastructure Woes
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
News In the early 1990s, Victor Li developed Engineered Cementitious Composites, also known as ductile or bendable concrete. More than 20 years later, researchers at LSU are close to bringing this material to mass adopti...
Smart Medical Device for Early Intervention of Congestive Heart Failure
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
News A research team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Tan Tock Seng Hospital have invented a smart handheld medical device that could enable early intervention for patients with congestive heart failu...
Endeavor Reveals Scorpion Robot Designed for US Army's CRS-I Program
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
News Scorpion is a multi-mission, 'back-packable' unmanned ground vehicle that has been developed by Endeavor Robotics for the U.S. Army's Common Robotic System-Individual (CRS-I) program... Staff Author: Tierney King To...
Blending Medicine and Mechanical Engineering
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
News Assistant Professor Ellen Roche develops revolutionary medical devices through research at the crossroads of medical science and engineering... Contributed Author: Mary Beth O'Leary, MIT News
First 'Piggyback' Kit for Monitoring Space Weather Launched
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
News Tiny sensors for measuring the Earth's space weather environment have launched attached to a South Korean satellite. On top of its own ordinary weather-monitoring mission, the South Korean satellite has taken on a p...
Bacteria Killing Robot Navigates Through Germ-Infested Hotel Beds
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
Videos If you've ever worried about bacteria on hotel beds, or just germs in general, this bacteria-killing robot called CleanseBot may be just what you need... Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: Home Healthcare
Non-Invasive, Intracardiac Blood Flow Visualization Technology
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
Product Announcement Hitachi Medical Systems Europe has revealed a new way of intelligent Vector Flow Mapping. This third generation of non-invasive intracardiac blood flow visualization technology... Contributed Author:...
Smart Tires Pave the Road for Future of Autonomous Cars
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
News Focused on the future of mobility, two Hankook concepts from the Essen Motor show could change the design of rubber tires... Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: Automotive
Designs that Make a Difference
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
News Projects from three NUS Design and Environment graduates were selected from more than a thousand applications to be featured at this year's Global Grad Show in Dubai. One of the NUS projects was an axe, a common imp...
Micro-Manufacturing Technology Promises Revolution in Blood Testing
Medical Design Technology - 6 Dec 2018 17:00
News Imagine a pocket-sized device that can conduct laboratory-scale testing in an instant. Now imagine that device applied to the medical industry, affording a revolution in diagnosis and health monitoring worldwide... ...
Kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury suitable for transplant
EurekAlert! - 6 Dec 2018 09:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Organ procurement teams are sometimes leery of accepting kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury (AKI), fearing they will harm the recipients. However, a national study chaired by a...
Hybrid prevalence estimation: Method to improve intervention coverage estimations
EurekAlert! - 6 Dec 2018 09:00
(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) LSTM's Professor Joseph Valadez is senior author on a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which outlines proposals for a more accurate...