Medical News

(American Heart Association) A new, non-invasive wearable magnetic device that stimulates the brain to rewire itself is safe and could improve recovery for stroke survivors. The technology could be a step to help improve...

The RBD 9103 USB Graphing Picoammeter is a compact, versatile, general-purpose picoammeter designed to accurately measure dc current from nanoamps to milliamps via its isolated BNC input. This rugged, portable, and affor...

With the launch of its RPMB-3.0 series, RECOM has expanded its range of compact, non-isolated DC/DCs in its standard 12.19 x 12.19 x 3.75mm DOSA-compatible, thermally-enhanced LGA package. Preset outputs available are 3....

A one-year burn-in test helps refute a small piece of fake news about LED bulbs. We’ve torn down a number of LED bulbs over the years to analyze their content and design strategies. But when we published some of our fi...

Silicon Labs announces a new family of secure, proprietary wireless system-on-chip (SoC) devices designed for power- and size-constrained IoT products powered by batteries or energy harvesting sources. Target application...

by CET Technology The intent of this write-up is to provide engineers with an understanding of how a few of their most useful equations are derived. Most engineers are familiar with Faraday's Law of Induction and from th...

In today's world, industrial, consumer and even medical sectors are adopting digitalization to collect sensor data. While certain devices are fitted with analog-to-digital converters, the market demands increased accurac...

The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) Semiconductor Committee is sponsoring a total of four Industry Sessions at APEC 2020 that address the rapid emergence of wide bandgap semiconductors as a significant pow...

A new Electrical Safety and Test Equipment product catalog provides detailed information about Vitrek's electrical safety and test equipment including hipot and ground bond testers, power analyzers, high voltage meters, ...

Telit announced Bravo, a turnkey evaluation kit for rapidly developing and deploying a wide variety of IoT solutions, including drones, wearables, smart home devices and more. Featuring Telit’s ME910C1-WW LTE module, b...

The RidleyBox combines the following--a lifetime license for RidleyWorks Design Software, a four-channel Frequency Response Analyzer, a four-channel 200-MHz oscilloscope, a Ridley Universal Injector, and an Intel compute...

The new R&S NGP800 power supply series includes two and four-channel models and further extends the functions and performance available for dc power provided by Rohde & Schwarz. For any test and measurement application r...

AVX Corporation launched an updated version of its user-friendly SpiCAT online simulation tool, which enables the quick, easy, and accurate parametric characterization of an extensive range of multilayer ceramic, tantalu...

(University of Houston) The largest ethnic minority in the US, at 18% of the population, Hispanics/Latinos are 50% more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than non-Hispanic whites, yet they comprise less than 1% of cl...

(Gladstone Institutes) A team of Gladstone Institutes scientists led by Senior Investigator Nevan Krogan, PhD, has been cataloging host proteins that physically bind to virus proteins. These physical interactions identif...

(McMaster University) Researchers at McMaster University have peered into the most intimate moments of sexually active women and men across Canada to ask if they're using condoms, all in an effort to gather data that cou...

(University of Colorado at Boulder) The governing body for the Paralympics recently lowered the allowable height for sprinters who use prosthetic legs, or blades, during competition. The rules are based on the assumption...

(University of Portsmouth) Millions of people might eventually be spared the embarrassment and extreme isolation caused by wetting themselves, thanks to new research.

(American Heart Association) Placing stents in cholesterol-clogged brain arteries may be an option to reduce the risk of a repeat stroke.However, it is too soon to know if stenting in the brain arteries improves long-ter...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) An experimental drug already shown to be safe and help some patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma, a deadly form of kidney cancer, effectively disables its molecular target.

(University of Barcelona) The RAF protein could be a therapeutical target to treat the tumor growth in regulated pathways by the p38 protein, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports by a team...

(Society for the Study of Addiction) A real-world study of over 600,000 adult participants without a history of depression has found that the stop-smoking medication varenicline (marketed as Chantix and Champix) does not...