Medical News

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today announced the 2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars. These individuals are early- to mid-career pro...

(European Society of Cardiology) An ingenious necklace which detects abnormal heart rhythm will be showcased for the first time on EHRA Essentials 4 You, a scientific platform of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)....

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Early use of the app by more than 2.5 million people in the US and the UK has generated valuable data about COVID-19 for physicians, scientists, and public officials to better fight the v...

Silicon Labs announces a new line of energy-friendly power management ICs (PMICs) serving as dedicated companion chips for EFR32 wireless devices and EFM32 microcontrollers (MCUs). The EFP01 PMIC family provides a flexib...

The IBIV-8 module for Daxus DXS-100 and SmartCorder DDX-100 data acquisition systems incorporates internal bridge completion, shunt calibration, and support for the most common bridge resistance values, making the IBIV-8...

IEEE will hold its 5G World Forum, a virtual event, from September 10 to 12, 2020. Paper submissions are still open, but close on May 23. Paper submission timeline: Technical paper submission: May 23, 2020 (Firm Extensio...

Cornell Dubilier Electronics, Inc. announces the availability of its Q Series film capacitors for medical defibrillator applications. Designed specifically for today's quick response and professional use defibrillators, ...

Renesas Electronics Corporation announced a new precision temperature sensor, the TS5111, targeting DDR5 memory modules as well as a host of other applications such as solid-state disks (SSDs), computing motherboards, an...

TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG announced the TMCM-1617, single-axis servo controller module, designed for servo drives with 18A RMS and 8 to 28V DC supply voltage. The TMCM-1617's EtherCAT, CAN and RS485 interface...

As the Internet of Things (IoT) delivers greater connectivity for industrial and home applications and as connected vehicles enhance cabin and operational features, higher-performance microcontrollers are required for be...

Many use the term "attenuation" without completely understanding it. The term is used in several areas, including medical, audio, and even attenuation terminology associated with brewing beer. Generally speaking, attenua...

by Rich Fry, Director ICT, TDK Corporation of America The adoption of Power over Ethernet (PoE) in various applications is growing significantly, largely due to the added benefit it can provide for both the designer and ...

STMicroelectronics has released three functional-safety packages that simplify development of safety-critical industrial, medical, consumer and automotive products based on STM32 and STM8 microcontrollers and microproces...

Q-Tech Corporation introduces the QT625S/QT725S Series of space-qualified hybrid surface acoustic wave (SAW) crystal oscillators, offering satellite and spacecraft designers exceptional performance for geosynchronous orb...

Harwin now offers both its Datamate J-Tek and Gecko high-reliability connectors with flexible printed circuits (FPCs) attached for situations where there is little space above the board surface. Highly suited to aerospac...

Antibodies should indicate if someone has had an infection in the past. But the promise of "immunity testing" is plagued by uncertainty about how the immune system responds to the coronavirus, as well as concerns about t...

The development of smart manufacturing relies on sensors, which acquire data, which automate the manufacturing process and thereby enable predictive maintenance. To meet the future needs of the industrial automation mark...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Offering $750 to emergency medicine physicians exponentially increased those trained to prescribe buprenorphine.

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new Tel Aviv University study provides evidence for a direct link between electrical fields in the atmosphere and those found in living organisms, including humans.

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Daily symptoms logged by more than two and a half million users of the COVID-19 Symptom Tracker, a mobile application launched in March 2020, suggest the tool could h...

(Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.) Because of wide variation in demographic, case definition, testing and other parameters, comparisons are difficult. Future comparisons based on number of cases will...

(Flinders University) Girls and young women shouldn't spend a lot of time editing selfies for social media because it negatively influences their thoughts about their looks, according to a new Flinders University publica...