Medical News
Surface-mount current sensors handle up to 400 A
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 21:45
Allegro MicroSystems announced significant ease-of-use enhancements to its popular high current fully integrated ACS772/3 current sensor "CB" package family. These industry-leading, automotive-grade high voltage isolatio...
High-power-density PoL regulator puts out 15 A/50 W
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 19:22
Flex Power Modules announces the BMR4615001/001, a new variant of its popular BMR461 series of digital point-of-load (PoL) regulators. The new module provides up to 15A/50W at an adjustable output voltage of 0.6-3.3V, wh...
ASH announces top trainee abstracts of 2019 Annual Meeting
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(American Society of Hematology) ASH is pleased to recognize the following trainees, whose meritorious scientific abstract has received one of the awards in the ASH Abstract Achievement Award program portfolio, at the 61...
DDR and other memory sockets target development, failure analysis chores
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 21:41
Technology Licensing and Operations agreements executed between Ironwood Electronics and HSIO Technologies now allow Ironwood to provide the Gypper DDR and other memory sockets. The DDR4 Ironwood Grypper socket, P/N 1070...
Selecting a replacement external power supply - what you need to know
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 20:36
Fundamentally, you need to know four basic things when selecting a new power supply for a broken electronics device. The voltage coming from the socket at the wall (Europe/Japan/US), the voltage output, the current, and ...
Low power transformers now UL recognized as Class 2 models
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 20:09
Signal Transformer, a Bel group company, announced selected models of the ST and DST Series of high isolation split bobbin, low power transformers, are now recognized by UL as Inherently Limited Class 2 transformers per ...
DSP processor IP handles high-performance signal processing apps
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 19:38
Synopsys announced the new DesignWare ARC VPX5 DSP and VPX5FS DSP Processor IP that is based on an extended ARCv2DSP instruction set and optimized for a broad range of high-performance signal processing applications, suc...
Film capacitors handle up to 3 kV for dc link apps
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 19:33
TDK presents the new B2568 series of EPCOS MKP DC link power capacitors, which offer outstanding robustness under harsh environmental conditions. The new capacitors are designed for voltages of between 900 and 3000 V DC ...
Eval board carries three-phase SiC power module for motor drives
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 19:12
Silicon carbide (SiC) is en route to mainstream for applications like photovoltaic and uninterruptable power supplies. Infineon Technologies AG is now targeting the next group of applications for this wide bandgap techno...
Innovative bidirectional buck-boost controllers earn Renesas Electronics a 2019 Leap Award
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 17:29
The votes are in. Business-to-Business publisher WTWH Media, LLC, has announced the winners of the second-year Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program (LEAP) Awards, a design engineering product competition honorin...
Innovative GaN ac-dc converter IC from Power Integrations earns 2019 Leap Award
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 17:05
The votes are in. Business-to-Business publisher WTWH Media, LLC, has announced the winners of the second-year Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program (LEAP) Awards, a design engineering product competition honorin...
Digi-Key to handle new series of 12-bit scopes
Medical Design Technology - 7 Nov 2019 14:33
The electronic components distributor Digi-Key Electronics says it will handle the Teledyne LeCroy WaveSurfer 4000HD High Definition Oscilloscope (HDO) series, the first in its class to feature a 12-bit vertical resoluti...
NUS researchers discover enzyme's role in 'natural killer T cell lymphoma'
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(National University of Singapore) Researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore uncovered an enzyme which could serve as a potential biomarker for 'natural killer T cell lymphoma' and could lead to new targ...
Eight tips for promoting men's health
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of British Columbia) With November comes Movember, putting the spotlight on men's health, and UBC nursing professor John Oliffe has a few tips that can help ensure the success of men's health programs.
Layman receives top reproductive medicine researcher award
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Dr. Lawrence C. Layman, chief of the Section of Reproductive Endocrinology, Infertility and Genetics in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical Colleg...
Implantable artificial kidney achieves preclinical milestone
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of California - San Francisco) The Kidney Project, a national effort to develop an implantable bio-artificial kidney that could eliminate the need for dialysis, will announce a key milestone in a November 7, ...
Dundee researcher honoured with prestigious award
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of Dundee) A University of Dundee researcher has been presented with a prestigious science award from the British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG).Azul Zorzoli, a PhD student from Argentina, has received ...
Bloodlines may matter more than love when it comes to health
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(American Psychological Association) Strained relationships with parents, siblings or extended family members may be more harmful to people's health than a troubled relationship with a significant other, according to a s...
Prevalence of hepatitis C rates in Ohio may indicate highest areas of opioid misuse
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(Ohio University) The Ohio Alliance for Innovation in Population Health (The Alliance) studied hepatitis C rates within the state and discovered consistently high rates in the southern Appalachia region over a five-year ...
Program improves short term nutritional outcomes in a conflict zone
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A study led by a researcher at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health finds that a multidisciplinary program within a conflict zone in Armenia was ...
Protein decoy stymies lung cancer growth in mice, Stanford-UCSF study finds
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(Stanford Medicine) Scientists at Stanford and UC-San Francisco have developed an experimental drug that targets a currently untreatable type of lung cancer responsible for generating roughly 500,000 newly diagnosed case...
Researchers discover how cells know their future and forget their past
EurekAlert! - 7 Nov 2019 07:00
(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) All cells in the body contain the same genetic material. The difference between cells therefore depends solely on which genes are expressed or 'turned...