Category: Technology & Devices
Yahoo! Japan starts simple and easy genomic analysis service
Yahoo! Japan has announced the release of a genomic analysis service for the public from the HealthData Lab project offered by its healthcare division, Yahoo! Healthcare. The service allows users to investigate disease risk factors including 22 different kinds of […]
Soon, wearable tech for troop, civilians to get personalized health alerts
Researchers are working on developing a wearable technology that would help troops and civilians to get personalized health alerts, it has been revealed. The sensor and software development company has been working with UB engineering professor Albert H. Titus to […]
Restoring vision with artificial retina: possibility?
Retinal degeneration and consequent loss of eyesight is a life-altering health issue for most people, especially as they age. But a new development toward a prosthetic retina could help counter conditions that result from problems with this crucial part of […]
Robotic surgery reaches new height
Invented in the United States more than a decade ago, robotic surgery has since reached new levels of competence in China. “We are one of the top teams leading the world in the field of robotic cardiac surgery,” said Professor […]
Can robots end Ebola?
Researchers are looking at the ways on how robots could be sent to join the fight against Ebola, it has been reported. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy encouraged UC Berkeley engineering professor, Ken Goldberg, and researchers in […]
Japanese scientists develop new test method for Alzheimer’s
Two groups of Japanese scientists have developed a method to detect Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages. The joint project was carried out by scientists at the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology and an institute led by the Nobel […]
Medical care goes mobile in China
With functions such as monitoring sleep quality, exercise calculations and body-index tracking, mobile medical care equipment like smart bracelets are fast-gaining popularity in China. More than 2,000 smart phone applications, which match up with mobile medical care equipment, have been […]
Bedside lamp promises to clean the air around you, give you better skin as you sleep
TOKYO — Electronics maker Sharp has announced their latest product – this bedside lamp that emits what they call “plasmacluster ions.” No, they are unfortunately not going to be the baby blue and pink beads you see drifting into the […]
An app that tells you how long you will live
When it comes to pastimes that manage to be both morbid and of dubious scientific rigour, `death calculators’ are up there with Ouija boards and tarot cards. However, unlike these also-rans, the death calculator has now been updated for the […]
Cooling the throat to protect the brain
Researchers at Okayama University, in collaboration with several medical centers in Japan, have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of a hypothermal treatment—pharyngeal cooling—for cardiac arrest patients. This research has been published in the journal Resuscitation. Cooling the brain is known […]
