Medical News
New Nanomaterial to Replace Mercury
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 23:44
News The nano research team has succeeded in creating light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, from a nanomaterial that emits ultraviolet light. It is the first time anyone has created ultraviolet light on a graphene surface... C...
Wristbands Do a Health Check While You Work Out
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 23:10
News Next-generation fitness sensors could give deeper insights into human health through noninvasive testing of bodily fluids. A stretchy patch developed at KAUST could help this approach by making it easier to analyze ...
Electronic Health Records May Pose Challenges for Chemotherapy Patients
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 23:09
News Electronic health records were originally supposed to make accessing patient data easier and more streamlined, but since they've taken off, health workers claim EHRs have only complicated the system. Additionally, E...
Students Design and Build Devices to Improve the Lives of Individuals with Disabilities
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 23:08
News Students are making devices that help individuals who have different disabilities. This includes a device that enables blind archery shooters to shoot and other projects such as a modified exercise device that plays...
Scientists Develop Swallowable Self-Inflating Capsule to Help Tackle Obesity
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 23:08
News A team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National University Health System (NUHS) has developed a self-inflating weight management capsule that could be used to treat obese pat...
A First in Medical Robotics: Autonomous Navigation Inside the Body
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 23:07
News Bioengineers at Boston Children's Hospital report the first demonstration of a robot able to navigate autonomously inside the body. In an animal model of cardiac valve repair, the team programmed a robotic catheter ...
Flexible Shaft Solutions for Medical Applications
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 23:06
Product Announcement S.S. White Technologies, a company in the design and manufacture of flexible shafts, highlights their bespoke flexible shaft solutions for medical applications. Flexible shafts transmit rotary motion...
Verizon Names 20 New 5G Cities, Technology VP Says Industry Must Maintain Momentum
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 22:12
News Speaking at the Brooklyn 5G Summit in New York on Thursday, Verizon VP of Technology Development & Planning Bill Stone touted Verizon's 5G progress and capabilities the next-generation technology will bring, but ack...
Magnets Can Help AI Get Closer To The Efficiency Of The Human Brain
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 21:59
News Purdue University researchers have developed a process to use magnetics with brain-like networks to program and teach devices such as personal robots, self-driving cars and drones to better generalize about differen...
Nokia Books Surprise Loss Amid Tough Competition in Networks
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 19:58
News Telecoms gear maker Nokia reported Thursday a surprise first-quarter loss amid tougher competition for the new, superfast wireless 5G networks that are expected to increase in business this year. Contributed Author:...
UK Government Says it Hasn't Decided Yet on Huawei 5G Role
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 19:56
News The British government has not yet decided whether to allow China's Huawei to supply parts for the U.K.'s new 5G wireless network, Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright said Thursday, as he condemned leaks from private go...
Comcast's Broadband Subscriber Base Continues to Grow, as Video Shrinks
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 19:53
News Comcast continued to lose pay TV subscribers in the first quarter, but cable revenues increased as the operator's broadband base keeps expanding. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Cable
New Lens System for Brighter, Sharper Diffraction Images
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 19:52
News To design and improve energy storage materials, smart devices, and many more technologies, researchers need to understand their hidden structure and chemistry. Advanced research techniques, such as ultra-fast electr...
The First Laser Radio Transmitter
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 19:22
News You've never heard Dean Martin like this. Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences transmitted a recording of Martin's classic "Volare" wirelessly via a semiconductor l...
Battery Research at TU Graz: New Breakthroughs in Research on Super-Batteries
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 19:13
News Since 2012, Stefan Freunberger of the Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials at TU Graz has been working on development of a new generation of batteries with enhanced performance and longer useful lives...
NASA, FEMA, International Partners Plan Asteroid Impact Exercise
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 18:43
News NASA and other U.S. agencies and space science institutions, along with international partners, will participate in a 'tabletop exercise' that will play out a realistic― but fictional ―scenario for an asteroid o...
New Robust Device May Scale Up Quantum Tech, Researchers Say
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 18:20
News Researchers have been trying for many years to build a quantum computer that industry could scale up, but the building blocks of quantum computing, qubits, still aren't robust enough to handle the noisy environment ...
Self-Powered 'Pacemaker for Life' in Pigs Unveiled
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 18:00
News Scientists on Tuesday unveiled a battery-free pacemaker that generates its energy from the heartbeats of pigs in what could pave the way for an "implant for life" in humans suffering from heart defects... Topics: Ca...
Orthofix Announces Implants of Patients with M6-C Artificial Cervical Disc
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 18:00
News Orthofix Medical Inc., a global medical device company focused on musculoskeletal products and therapies, announced the first commercial implants of patients with the M6-C artificial cervical disc... Contributed Aut...
Inline Laser Marking and Laser Cleaning Solutions
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 18:00
Product Announcement Laserax has developed a complete line of laser markers that enables direct part marking to help manufacturers trace every product from early production steps to the assembly of the final products and...
Pipe Beveling Tool
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 18:00
Product Announcement A new pipe beveling tool with an operating range from 4.5" I.D. to 24" O.D. that requires only one mandrel and 10 clamps for the entire range of the tool has been introduced by Esco Tool... Contribut...
Polymer Reversibly Glows White When Stretched
Medical Design Technology - 25 Apr 2019 18:00
Videos Researchers have developed a method to tailor the properties of stress-indicating molecules that can be integrated into polymers and signal damages or excessive mechanical loads with an optical signal... Contribut...