Medical News
BLE 50 module measures just 7.5 x 9.5 mm, supports IEEE802.15.4
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2019 21:56
u-blox has announced its latest ultra-small, high-performance Bluetooth low energy 5.0 module, the BMD-380. Measuring only 7.5 x 9.5 mm including the ceramic antenna, it features Bluetooth 5.0 specifications, with its lo...
Shielding cans cut EMI on PCBs
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2019 19:45
Assisting engineers dealing with EMI/RFI issues in their PCB designs, Harwin has just announced the introduction of three new shielding cans. Supplied in a tape-and-reel format, these cans increase the company's existing...
ATE sockets handle QFN40 packages
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2019 21:36
A new QFN socket design uses high-performance elastomer capable of 60+ GHz and has a low inductance to handle ATE applications. The GTP-QFN-1001 socket is designed for a 5.9×5.9-mm package size and operates at bandwidth...
Timing and power devices support adaptive compute acceleration platform
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2019 21:08
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced that its power solutions, as well as timing solutions from IDT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Renesas, support the Xilinx Versal adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) devi...
Accelerometer carries built-in noise filtering
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2019 20:05
Rohm Group company Kionix recently announced the availability of an accelerometer ideal for high accuracy, low power motion sensing applications in the industrial equipment and consumer wearable markets. In recent years,...
TMR sensor ICs optimized for AGV apps
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2019 19:52
MultiDimension Technology Co., Ltd. (MDT) has released a new product series of TMR magnetic guide sensors featuring the AGV-TMR360C module that can detect three magnetic marks simultaneously with an ultra-wide 950mm dete...
MOSFET-based SSRs feature 1 pA leakage current
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2019 19:37
OMRON Corporation of Kyoto, western Japan globally released its new MOSFET relay module, the G3VM-21MT. The product is the first electronic component in the world to adopt a T-type circuit structure. With T-type circuit ...
The rise, fall, and modern uses of CRT technology
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2019 18:17
A few decades ago, virtually all computer monitors, radar installations, TVs and oscilloscopes employed cathode ray tubes for the user's visual interface. Today, except for a few educational models and replacements for r...
Altran's 50+ diverse 5G engagements worldwide cover range of industries and use cases
Medical Design Technology - 17 Dec 2019 17:04
Altran announced that it has more than 50 active 5G-related projects underway worldwide. The engagements span all major regions - North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific - and serve a broad range of clients, including com...
First study on human-grade dog food says whole, fresh food is highly digestible
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) some pet food companies are developing diets that more closely resemble human food, incorporating human-grade meat and vegetable ingre...
Gastric cancer susceptibility marker discovered
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(Institut Pasteur) Gastric cancer is often associated with a poor prognosis because it tends to be diagnosed at an advanced stage. To reduce the death rate, it is essential to identify a biomarker enabling early diagnosi...
Genomic insights: How female butterflies alter investment in attractiveness vs. fecundity
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(Stockholm University) Tradeoffs have been a major focus of evolutionary biologists trying to understand phenotypic diversity, yet almost nothing is known about the mechanistic basis of tradeoffs. An international team o...
First US study shows strong results for procedure to treat knee pain from OA
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(University of North Carolina Health Care) Ari Isaacson, M.D., director of clinical research in the UNC School of Medicine's department of radiology, led a pilot study to investigate the effectiveness of using genicular ...
Blood lipid profile predicts risk of type 2 diabetes better than obesity
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(Lund University) Using lipidomics, a technique that measures the composition of blood lipids at a molecular level, and machine learning, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a blood lipid profile tha...
Fatty meal interrupts gut's communication with the body, but why?
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(Duke University) Gut cells that normally tell the brain and the rest of the body what's going on after a meal shut down completely for a few hours after a high-fat meal, a team of Duke University researchers discovered ...
In some children with autism, 'social' and 'visual' neural circuits don't quite connect
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers combined eye gaze research with brain scans to discover that in a common subtype of autism, in which ASD toddlers prefer images of geometric shapes over those of childre...
In mice, a high-fat, high-sugar diet remodels the microbiome and endocannabinoid system
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(American Society for Microbiology) Weight gain and diet have long been known to shuffle the population of gut microbes. More recently, studies have also connected weight gain and diet to changes in the intestinal endoca...
Interest in presidential eating habits may affect the public's food choices
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(Penn State) A recent study by a Penn State researcher examined how President Donald Trump's reported fondness for fast food may affect the public's perception of fast food and the likelihood, based on their media habits...
Large study links sustained weight loss to reduced breast cancer risk
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(American Cancer Society) A large new study finds that women who lost weight after age 50 and kept it off had a lower risk of breast cancer than women whose weight remained stable, helping answer a vexing question in can...
Legionella Conference 2020 moves to Chicago with a health care focus
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(NSF International) Legionella Conference 2020 will be held in Chicago Aug. 19-21, 2020, with an emphasis on preventing deadly outbreaks in hospitals and health care settings. NSF Health Sciences, an NSF International co...
Long-acting contraception has proven highly effective but is restricted by some hospitals
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Long-acting reversible contraceptives like intrauterine implants have greatly reduced unintended pregnancies and abortions, but government protections allowing religious h...
Mass General team detects Alzheimer's early using electronic health records
EurekAlert! - 17 Dec 2019 07:00
(Massachusetts General Hospital) A team of scientists has developed a software-based method of scanning electronic health records to estimate the risk that a person will receive a dementia diagnosis.