Category: Technology & Devices
Singapore hospitals to use robots to pick and pack medicine
SINGAPORE – More than 15 health-care institutions, including two public hospitals, have signed deals to buy a robotic drug storage-and-dispensing machine that was on display at the recent Digital Healthcare Week 2013 exhibition. The Rowa Vmax from Germany, which costs […]
Chinese researchers develop H7N9 flu vaccine
HANGZHOU- Chinese researchers announced Saturday they had successfully developed the vaccine for the H7N9 bird flu virus, after the flu strain had left more than 130 people infected, with 45 fatalities reported. Shu Yuelong, director of the Chinese National Influenza […]
Painful pinpricks for diabetics may be thing of past thanks to new device
A novel, non-invasive way to make diabetes monitoring easier has been devised by a team of German researchers. People generally do this at home using electronic devices that read sugar levels in a tiny drop of blood. However, the researchers, […]
Work begins on China’s first internal medicine e-book
CHINA – Work on publishing China’s first internal medicine e-book has started in Shanghai, part of a national medical e-book project promoted by the Ministry of Education. Internal medicine is the medical specialty that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and […]
Artificial knee joints tailored for Chinese people
CHENGDU- Artificial knee joints based on the bone proportion of Chinese people were released in China’s southwestern city of Chengdu on Wednesday. Co-developed by a team of 21 experts from France and China’s Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, the joints mean […]
Scientists develop new 3D method to grow miniature pancreas
An innovative 3D method to grow miniature pancreas from progenitor cells has been developed by researchers. The new method developed by professor Anne Grapin-Botton and her team at the Danish Stem Cell Centre allows the cell material from mice to […]
Dental centre sinks teeth into 3-D moulds
Plaster moulds of teeth that are made for every patient who needs to have braces fitted, and then stored for years, are set to be a thing of the past. The National Dental Centre Singapore has, since May, been producing […]
New formula to decode how to get a better night’s sleep
People agonising over a better night’s sleep may now have relief; scientists have decoded a formula to help them better. Researchers have come up with the formula by considering a person’s tiredness, bedtime, mattress comfort, their number of waking hours, […]
Sanofi receives CE mark approval for reusable insulin pen
French drugmaker Sanofi announced that it has received the CE Mark Approval for its reusable insulin pen called JuniorSTAR. The pen comes with half unit dosing increment and has been developed for children and teenagers between six and 18 years […]
A way to drive cancer cells to suicide?
Scientists have found that the difference between life and death for some cancer cells hinges on a tiny molecular change – which could one day be harnessed to drive cancer cells to suicide. Researchers from Oxford University, the University of […]
