Category: Technology & Devices
Mayo Clinic app helps patients lose weight
Heart attack recovery patients who used a digital health app were lost four times as much weight than those who underwent 12 weeks of cardiac rehabilitation alone. The study included 80 patients — 68 years old, on average — who […]
Google glass meets organs-on-chips
Organs-on-chips is a hardware and software system that can mimic the human body system. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) developed organs-on-chips to test drugs and accurately predict the body’s response. But monitoring the results of such experiments from […]
3-D printing could help fix damaged cartilage
Researchers found a way to produce cartilage tissue by 3-D bioprinting an ink containing human cells, and they have successfully tested it in a mouse model. The development could one day lead to precisely printed implants to heal damaged noses, […]
This necklace hears what you eat
University at Buffalo computer scientist Wenyao Xu, who is creating a library that catalogues the unique sounds that foods make as we bite, grind and swallow them. The library is part of a software package that supports AutoDietary, a high-tech, […]
Why are some people more attached to their smartphones?
Some people frequently check and re-check their mobile phones. Once this impulse is triggered, it may be more a question of not being able to leave the device alone than actually hoping to gain some reward from it. These insights […]
New program could improve hearing aid use for older adults
A new hearing aid adjustment program created by Kari Lane, assistant professor at the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri, may help increase hearing aid use for those who need them. “Being able to hear is very […]
Smartphones could detect skin cancer
Dermatologists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) think that using smartphones as microscopes could improve the detection of skin cancer in developing countries. A smartphone microscope can be made with a 3 mm ball lens, […]
Stopping disease outbreaks through smart mapping
Smart mapping technology – also known as geographic information system (GIS) technology – integrates data from multiple systems, presenting the findings in the format of a dynamic map. By linking data through their common geography, users are able to analyse, […]
Simple tests could improve Alzheimer’s management
A portable biosensor that could show how disease is progressing in patients with Alzheimer’s could greatly improve people’s quality of life in the future, according to a new review published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. The authors of the review, from […]
Mitigating disease outbreaks with smart mapping technology
With Zika virus declared a ‘public health emergency’ by the World Health Organisation (WHO), doctors and scientists world-over are turning to smart mapping technology to learn more about the disease ravaging the Americas and threatening other tropical and sub-tropical […]
