Medical News

News Comcast has rebuffed a news report from BestAppleTV last week that claimed, among other things, the cable giant does not plan to create an Xfinity Stream app for Apple TV. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Cable

(University of Kansas) Analysis of soil samples the University of Kansas' Jennifer Roberts collected in the Kongsfjorden region of Svalbard, Norway, shows antibiotic-resistant genes have transferred into soil-microbe pop...

Article Things have evolved, is what Dr. Victor Fura, inventor of the Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK), stated in his session, "Unmet Needs of Wearable Organs," at MD&M West 2019... Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: Wea...

News The New England Patriots' competitive but action-starved Super Bowl victory over the Los Angeles Rams was seen by 100.7 million people on television and streaming services, the smallest audience for football's annua...

News Verizon has sweetened its Fios Gigabit Internet offering by tacking on a free year of Netflix premium. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Broadband

Product Announcement DowDuPont Specialty Products Division is introducing its new DOW CORNING™ MG 7-1020 Soft Skin Adhesive, the latest addition to a growing portfolio of solutions for skin-adhered medical devices. Bas...

Videos Jacqueline Linnes, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue University, has been developing technology with her team that would make lab detection tests both faster and portable, thanks to the in...

News At Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City, a task force developed a 1-hour educational program on opiate use and misuse, the role of the orthopedic prescriber, multimodal analgesia, and state laws regar...

News Supercomputing is normally associated with high-speed processors crunching data at breathtaking speeds, but the technology is now giving scientists an ability to better understand the properties and behaviors of mat...

Product Announcement Qosina has introduced three new needleless, swabbable injection sites. These ISO 80369-7 compliant components are ideal for use in flushing, sampling and IV applications. They prevent dripping and le...

News Google parent company Alphabet beat Wall Street expectations for its fourth quarter earnings Monday, although its stock slid in after-hours trading over investor concerns about increased spending. Contributed Author...

News John Landgraf, the FX Networks chief executive who has frequently pointed out the glut of scripted TV, said Netflix is using cloudy measurements to claim increasing dominance among viewers. It's an approach he said ...

News By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have created the first "electron liquid" at room temperature... Contributed Author...

News Teamwork is successful when it's based on mutual trust and respect. This becomes complicated when teamwork is meant to occur between humans and autonomous systems. Humans do best by observing and... Staff Author: As...

Product Announcement Flex Power Modules introduces the PKU4217D, the industry's first DC-DC converter in the sixteenth-brick form factor that can provide output power up to 260W, at an output voltage of 10.4V. This means...

News Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a method to change the shape of a flat sheet of elastomer, using actuation that is fast, reversible, contro...

News Vast amounts of material exist that warn against "Big Brother" using technology against its citizens. One thing that comes to mind is the Bourne Series, where governments use people and technology at their disposal....

News Autonomous machinery and smart technology have slowly begun integration within big business. From Amazon using autonomous warehouse vehicles to college campus delivery bots, innovation technology is... Staff Author:...

News It's the hope of most that technology advances are used for the good of the world. However, that fantasy must be taken with a grain of salt. There is evil in the world, capable of unspeakable acts, and sometimes the...

News Keeping the men and women of our military safe is a serious priority, and should continue to be in the future. Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan regularly carry between 60 and 100 lb of gear, including weapons, armor...

News You wake up one morning to discover that your child is ill: His forehead feels hot to the touch, and his rapid breathing has a wheezing sound. You live in Malawi, where your health care options are few. When the... ...

News The first privately funded mission to the moon will center on SpaceIL's Beresheet spacecraft, which is Hebrew for "In the beginning." After its lunar landing, Beresheet will also be the first spacecraft to "hop"... ...