Category: Technology & Devices
1 patient database to serve all public health-care institutions
SINGAPORE – All 43 public health-care institutions have adopted a centralised database that records patients’ medical history in a single document. This means that when a doctor wants to treat a patient, the patient is no longer required to recount […]
Laser Device to Reduce Pain Due to Injections Developed
South Korean researchers have developed a new laser device that could lead to less painful injections, a new study published in the Optical Society journal Optics Letters reveals. Researchers at Seoul National University say that their device could one day […]
Stretchable electronic skin being developed to monitor vital signs
Just when you thought tattoos couldn’t get any cooler, scientists at Cambridge, Massachussetts startup MC10 are working on stretchable electronics that can be applied to a person’s skin. The ultimate goal with these polymer patches is to allow them to […]
Test Your Blood Sugar Levels With IPhone
A new gadget allows patients with diabetes to test their blood glucose levels with iPhone. Sanofi will be releasing the iBGStar on Thursday to be sold in pharmacists across the country for 90 dollars, the Daily Telegraph reported. The technology […]
New Apple IPod Touch Helps Adults With Autism Function in the Workplace
Apple iPod Touch benefits people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) function in the workplace, state studies. “Strategies that provide enlightened workplace supports are clearly needed in order to help people with ASD find useful work and perform successfully on the […]
Scientists Develop Wirelessly Powered Cardiac Device
A super-small, implantable cardiac device that gets its power from radio waves transmitted from outside the body has been developed by a team of engineers. The implanted device is contained by engineers from Stanford in a cube just eight-tenths of […]
New CT Scans Accurately Assess Coronary Blockages
New, ultra-fast computed tomography accurately sorts out which people with chest pain need or don’t need cardiac angioplasty, states study. “The CORE 320 study is the first prospective, multicenter study to examine the diagnostic accuracy of CT for assessing blockages […]
Power of New Chip to Diagnose Disease And Analyze Protein Interaction Details In Stanford/Intel Study
Researchers along with Intel Corp. have collaborated to synthesize and study a grid-like array of short pieces of a disease-associated protein on silicon chips normally used in computer microprocessors. The researchers are from the Stanford University School of Medicine. They […]
Cancer Patients in Central Vietnam to Gain Access to Advanced Radiotherapy Treatments
Cancer patients in Vietnam, a country of 88.5 million people, will get expanded access to advanced radiotherapy treatment using technology from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) as a result of close cooperation between the company, the US Embassy in Vietnam […]
Bill Gates kicks off search for toilet of the future
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft co-founder turned global philanthropist Bill Gates on Tuesday launched a search for a new toilet better suited to developing countries. The charitable foundation founded by Gates and his wife kicked off a “Reinvent the Toilet Fair” in […]
