Medical News
BDNF-VEGF interplay key to rapid antidepressant actions
EurekAlert! - 31 Jan 2019 09:00
(Elsevier) A study by researchers at Yale University reveals a complex interplay of two different growth factors in the rapid and long-lasting antidepressant effects of ketamine.
Eating Breakfast Might Not Matter When It Comes to Weight Loss
Discover - 1 Feb 2019 01:33
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who eat breakfast and those who skip it. Maybe that's exaggerating things a little, but the debate over whether or not adults should eat The Most Important Meal of the D...
Virtual Reality Helps Surgeons Learn Their Craft
Medical Design Technology - 1 Feb 2019 01:20
News GIBLIB, the streaming media platform offering the largest library of on-demand medical lectures and surgical videos in 4K and 360-degree virtual reality, has launched first VR app offering an immersive operating roo...
Huawei Rival Nokia Profits from Demand for 5G Networks
Medical Design Technology - 1 Feb 2019 00:18
News Telecoms gear provider Nokia reported Thursday a rise in fourth-quarter earnings thanks to strong demand for new-generation mobile networks, the so-called 5G systems that have been the focus of a high-stakes dispute...
Robert Swan Moves from Interim to Permanent CEO at Intel
Medical Design Technology - 1 Feb 2019 00:15
News Intel is changing Robert Swan's status as interim CEO, to permanent. Contributed Author: Associated Press Topics: Devices
Epiphany Helps Transform Healthcare with Mobile Technology
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 23:19
News With the mission to simplify the management of diagnostic test results, Epiphany Healthcare has announced its new mobile platform, Cardio Server Mobile. This web technology enables providers to access and edit ECG d...
Ad-Supported Tubi Plans to Spend $100M+ on Content, as Revenue and Viewership Rise
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 23:04
News Tubi turned a profit in the fourth quarter and the ad-supported video-on-demand streaming service said it plans to significantly expand its content library in 2019, shelling out more than $100 million. Staff Author:...
Charter Sees Broadband Growth in Q4, Capital Spending to Decrease Significantly in 2019
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 22:10
News Charter Communications reported solid subscriber metrics for the fourth quarter, adding 329,000 broadband customers while managing to keep its rate of video subscriber decline below that of the industry at large. St...
InfoBionic: Cardia Monitor Disrupts Current Remote Monitoring with 'Full Disclosure Beat-to-Beat' Tech
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 21:26
News Legacy devices could only record segments of data over short periods of time. A new generation of remote cardiac monitors allows for near real-time full disclosure remote monitoring of every single heartbeat... Cont...
New 6U OpenVPX Single Board Computer with Intel® Xeon® E3 CPU
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 18:31
Product Announcement Acromag, Inc. introduces the AcroExpress® VPX6860 6U OpenVPXTM single board computer. The VPX6860 series features the 6th Generation Skylake Intel Xeon E3-1505M processor and CM236 PCH chipset for w...
Most People Overlook Artificial Intelligence Despite Flawless Advice
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 20:35
News If you were convinced you knew the way home, would you still turn on your GPS? Army scientists recently attempted to answer a similar question due to an ongoing concern that artificial intelligence, which can... Con...
New Camstar Electronics Suite Provides Game-Changing Smart Manufacturing Capabilities for Electronics and Mechanical Processes
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 19:31
Product Announcement Siemens announced today the introduction of Camstar™ Electronics Suite software, an innovative manufacturing execution system (MES) for electronics. Building on the successful enterprise-level plat...
How Will 5G Change the Way We Do Things?
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 19:15
News Twenty-first century life is embedded in smartphones and smart technology. It's difficult to imagine what we would do without it; how we used to survive without constant connection to everyone and everything. Smartp...
Your Pet's New Best Friend
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 18:40
News Leaving a pet at home is among the difficult decisions to make as a pet owner. While we'd all like to stay home and cuddle up with our loveable animals, there are real-world responsibilities that take us away. Howev...
AI System Enables Communication Without Uttering a Word
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 18:20
News Sci-Fi lovers rejoice, soon we may be able to communicate with only our brains. In what is considered to be a significant breakthrough, scientists have... Staff Author: Ashley Osbun Topics: Wireless Design and Devel...
Apple and Aetna to Launch Fitness App in Spring
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 18:00
News The insurance company Aetna is teaming up with Apple on a new health-tracking app called Attain. The app has been designed to encourage individuals to participate in healthier behaviors. As users engage in health ac...
Sony Launches Ultra-Sensitive, Two-Piece HD Surgical Video Camera
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 18:00
Product Announcement Sony's latest surgical video camera sets new standards in low-light sensitivity. Available now, the MCC-1000MD is ideally suited for microsurgical applications including ophthalmology and neurology p...
Haptic System Buzzes with Control Room Info
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 17:58
Videos Screens and speakers focus on two main senses, sight and hearing. Haptic displays, on the other hand, target our sense of touch. Pushing the haptic field forward, scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology......
ESA's Solar Orbiter Preps for a High-Temp Mission
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 17:55
News The ESA's Solar Orbiter is primed for a 2020 launch, ready to measure the sun's solar wind from a minimum distance of 42 million km (about 26 million mi). To put that into perspective, that's less than one-third... ...
Engineers Program Marine Robots to Take Calculated Risks
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 17:52
News We know far less about the Earth's oceans than we do about the surface of the moon or Mars. The sea floor is carved with expansive canyons, towering seamounts, deep trenches, and sheer cliffs, most of which... Contr...
UAH Sodium Ion Battery Research Could Power up Renewable Energy Storage
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 17:50
News Longer life and increased capacity for a new technology battery that could be the workhorse of a renewable energy grid are the goals of a study of the effect of charging cycles on the structure of anodes in sodium.....
Optimizing Solar Farms with Smart Drones
Medical Design Technology - 31 Jan 2019 17:40
News As the solar industry has grown, so have some of its inefficiencies. Smart entrepreneurs see those inefficiencies as business opportunities and try to create solutions around them. Such is the nature of a maturing.....