Medical News
Drones Halt Flights at Dublin and Dubai Airports
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 18:19
News Friday, February 15, Dubai International Airport had to stop flights for a short period of time, between 10:13 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., "due to suspected drone activity," according to the Associated Press (AP)... Staff A...
Treatment to a T? Taking a 'BiTE' out of lung cancer
EurekAlert! - 22 Feb 2019 09:00
(Osaka University) An Osaka University-led research team assayed T cell cytotoxicity in tumor tissue in lung cancer, along with normal lung tissue and peripheral blood. They found associations of tumor T-cell cytotoxicit...
InSight Is the Newest Mars Weather Service
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:42
News No matter how cold your winter has been, it's probably not as chilly as Mars. Check for yourself: Starting today, the public can get a daily weather report from NASA's InSight lander. This public tool includes... Co...
A Robot You Can Hack
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 18:19
Videos To help bolster science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) abilities, Sphero has developed an all-terrain, high-torque, programmable robot named RVR (pronounced "rover"). Right out of... Staff Author...
Powerful New Technology Maps Townsville Floods in near Real Time
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 18:18
News UNSW Sydney researchers are providing accurate maps of the Townsville flood frontier within an hour using the latest satellite radar imaging technology. Record-breaking floods threatening North Queensland... Contrib...
A Prosthetic That Restores the Sense of Where Your Hand Is
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 18:00
News Researchers have developed a next-generation bionic hand that allows amputees to regain their proprioception. The results of the study are the culmination of ten years of robotics research... Contributed Author: Eco...
Wearable Sensor May Cut Costs and Improve Access to Biofeedback for People with Incomplete Paraplegia
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 18:00
Videos A new electromyography biofeedback device that is wearable and connects to novel smartphone games may offer people with incomplete paraplegia a more affordable, self-controllable therapy to enhance their recovery....
Researchers Look to Computing's Past to Unlock 3D-Printed Mechanical Logic Gates for Future
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 18:00
News Taking a page from the past, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and engineers are combining mechanical computing with 3D printing as part of an effort to create "sentient" materials that can respond t...
Robots Will Help Build Seoul's New Robotics Museum
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:58
News An international architecture competition, hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, set to find the best design for Seoul's Robot Science Museum (RSM), a building that will help spur public interest in robotics....
Imec Reports Two Record-Breaking Ringamp ADCs for 5G Base Stations and Mobile Handsets
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:44
News This week, at the 2019 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC2019), imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a compact, highly linear... C...
Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Interiors with Electronic Access
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:40
Article The advent of autonomous (or self-driving) vehicles means that everything society knows about driving a car is about to change. This is more than just a change in technology: drivers and passengers alike will... ...
Radar Transceiver for Presence Detection in Smart Buildings
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:34
Product Announcement This week, at the 2019 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC2019), imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, announces an exception...
Low-Power DC/DC Converters
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:32
Product Announcement The REM3.5E, REM5E and REM6E series of medical grade regulated DC/DC converters feature reinforced 250VAC continuous working isolation with >8mm creepage/clearance providing 2 x MOPP. They... Contrib...
What's In Your Backyard, a Roller Coaster?
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:00
Videos Some of us might have playgrounds or pools in the back of our yards, or extravagant landscaping or nothing at all. Will Pemble has a hand-built roller coaster in his backyard... Topics: Product Design and Developm...
Virtual Reality Intervention Shows Promise for Back Pain Patients
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:00
News A new virtual reality physical activity intervention may be effective for people with chronic low back pain who avoid activity because of fear, helping them to become physically active once again, according to a new...
Using E.Coli to Create Bioproducts Like Biodiesel
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:00
News Who knew a potentially deadly bacteria could be used for good? A student is currently working on genetically engineering and optimizing E. coli bacteria to produce bioproducts, like biodiesel, in a cost-effective ma...
Shape-Changing Element Holds Key to Anti-Bacterial Coating
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:00
News A University of Canterbury research team is another step closer to developing germ-proof surface coatings for environments such as hospitals, after an unexpected development in the lab... Contributed Author: Univers...
Fluorescing Urine Signifies Organ Transplant Rejection, Could Replace Needle Biopsies
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 17:00
News Too often, it's only after a transplanted organ has sustained serious damage that a biopsy reveals the organ is in rejection. A new screening method using sensor particles and a urine test could catch rejection much...
Researchers Develop AI Platform for ALS Care
Medical Design Technology - 22 Feb 2019 16:00
News Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has developed a new artificial intelligence platform for monitoring and predicting progression of neurodegenerative diseases to help identify markers for personalized patient care ...
A 'joint' problem: Investigating marijuana and tobacco co-use
EurekAlert! - 22 Feb 2019 09:00
(Medical University of South Carolina) A survey of marijuana and tobacco co-users by Medical University of South Carolina investigators found that co-users with high degree of interrelatedness between their use of the tw...
UTSA researchers examine patterns of prescription opioid misuse and other substance use
EurekAlert! - 22 Feb 2019 09:00
(University of Texas at San Antonio) Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio have studied the opioid epidemic in a representative sample from the United States and found that the majority of people misusing...
US patient advocacy groups received majority of pharma donations in multi-country study
EurekAlert! - 22 Feb 2019 09:00
(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A new study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers found that U.S.-based patient advocacy organizations received a disproportionate amo...