Medical News
Majority of U.S. Now Streaming Over The Top Content, Survey Says
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 23:05
News OpenX has announced a massive consumer shift toward Over The Top (OTT) video content consumption, after a nationwide survey was conducted by The Harris Poll. Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: Content Delivery Netwo...
Active ingredient of aconite root against peripheral neuropathic pain is identified as neoline
EurekAlert! - 10 Apr 2019 08:00
(Nagoya City University) Aconite root is used in East Asian traditional medicines to treat pain. Since its toxicity, it is used after heat-processing for detoxifying. The present study revealed that processed aconite roo...
Innovation Studio at Children's Hospital Los Angeles Announces Gamifying Pediatrics Hackathon
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 18:00
News The Innovation Studio at Children's Hospital Los Angeles has announced a Gamifying Pediatrics Hackathon that will take place April 12-14, 2019 at BCG Digital Ventures... Contributed Author: The Innovation Studio Top...
U.S. Praises German 5G Standards as Huawei Battle Simmers
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 22:32
News The top U.S. diplomat for cybersecurity policy on Wednesday praised Germany's draft security standards for next generation mobile networks, which he said could effectively shut out China's Huawei. Contributed Author...
Honeywell Integrates Intel® Vision Products To Add Artificial Intelligence Capabilities To Video Security And Surveillance
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 19:12
News Honeywell has announced a first-of-its-kind technology integration with Intel that will enable new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in its MAXPRO® connected security platform. The new security platform, wh...
Association between household workload, career dissatisfaction for physician moms
EurekAlert! - 10 Apr 2019 08:00
(JAMA Network) This study used data from an online survey of about 1,700 physician mothers to examine how responsibilities at home are associated with career dissatisfaction and whether that differs by specialty. Nearly ...
Philadelphia hospitals responded to equivalent of 54 mass shooting-type events in 11 years
EurekAlert! - 10 Apr 2019 08:00
(Temple University Health System) A research team led by Temple's Dr. Jessica H. Beard, set out to calculate the number and analyze trends in the rates of firearm-injured patients (FIP) transported at clustered time inte...
New Model Accurately Predicts Harmful Space Weather
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 18:08
News A new, first-of-its-kind space weather model reliably predicts space storms of high-energy particles that are harmful to many satellites and spacecraft orbiting in the Earth's outer radiation belt... Contributed Aut...
Too Many Airplane Systems Rely on Too Few Sensors
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 18:00
Blog The apparent connection between fatal airplane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia centers around the failure of a single sensor... Contributed Author: Carlos Varela, The Conversation Topics: Design and Prototyping
Dismantling Nuclear Bomb Video Evokes Conversation About a Safer World
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 18:00
Videos Although dismantling a nuclear bomb isn't on many of our resumes, it's on Smriti Keshari's list of skills. In the video below, two hands disassemble a model of a Minuteman III missile... Staff Author: Tierney King...
Researchers Discover New Technique to Test for Viral Infections
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 18:00
News Researchers have developed technology that can detect extremely small amounts of antibodies in a person's blood. Antibodies develop to infect cells or kill pathogens... Contributed Author: Mary Guiden, Colorado Stat...
Stanford Children's Health Announces Winners for Pediatric Device Development Competition
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 18:00
News Stanford Children's Health has announced the winners of the pediatric device development competition hosted by the UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium (PDC)... Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: Medical Design...
Air-Breathing Rocket Engine Passes First Phase of Testing with Flying Colors
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 18:00
News SABRE, an air-breathing rocket engine, as successfully passed the first phase of its high-temperature testing, making it one step closer to being in the air... Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: Test
Europe Takes First Steps Toward a Secure Quantum Communications Network
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 17:02
Videos Cyber criminals are always prowling today's networks. In preparation for Europe's quantum communications network, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission (EC) have joined forces... Staff Author...
Stargazing Technology Used to Spot Cancer
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 17:00
News Cancers are often missed on traditional 2D X-rays so are sometimes only discovered later when the disease is more advanced and difficult to treat... Contributed Author: United Kingdom Space Agency Topics: Oncology
Astro-Ecology: Counting Orangutans Using Star-Spotting Technology
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 16:58
News A ground-breaking scientific collaboration is harnessing technology used to study the luminosity of stars, to carry out detailed monitoring of orangutan populations in Borneo. Liverpool John Moores University... Con...
New Algorithm Helps to Detect and Analyze Suspicious Activity in Surveillance Footage
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 16:56
News New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York, could make it easier to track and process suspicious activity in surveillance footage. Traditional surveillance cameras do not always... Contrib...
This Compact and Cheap Lidar Could Steer Small Autonomous Vehicles
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 16:52
News Researchers in Sweden have developed cheaper, lighter and more efficient lidar technology that could pave the way for smaller autonomous craft such as drones and robots, and help enable better profitability... Contr...
Team Develops Robotic Machine Vision Solution for Shiny Objects
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 16:50
News Southwest Research Institute and ROS-Industrial developed a solution that enables industrial robots to scan and manipulate metallic objects that had previously been too "shiny" for machine vision to process... Contr...
Graphene Coating Could Help Prevent Lithium Battery Fires
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 16:48
News Lithium batteries are what allow electric vehicles to travel several hundred miles on one charge. Their capacity for energy storage is well known, but so is their tendency to occasionally catch on fire - an occurren...
Army to Field New Night Vision Goggles
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 16:46
News A more advanced binocular night-vision goggle will soon be coming to the Army's ranks. For the past nine months, the service has been testing the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular, or ENVG-B, and taking... Cont...
USB-IF Certified Reference Designs
Medical Design Technology - 10 Apr 2019 16:45
Product Announcement Renesas Electronics Corporation announced two new reference designs that simplify and speed the development of USB Power Delivery (PD3.0) and USB-C™ battery charging applications such as USB-C comp...