A gel that sticks where others slipMost wearable health monitors capture one signal at a time, and they struggle with hair, sweat and movement. A team led by Penn State has developed an ultrasoft, adhesive, printable hydrogel designed to conform to dry, wet, moving and hairy skin, Medical Product Outsourcing reported on October 30. The work was published in Science Advances.What is in itThe researchers call it RTLR gel, a name that refers to its radically tuned setting time and two forms of gra...
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A noninvasive way to measure pressure in the brain.
MIT researchers team up with Boston Medical Center and Philips to test a noninvasive way to measure intracranial pressure. Current methods to check for increased pressure in a patient’s brain are invasive. One widely used technique is to drill a hole in the skull to insert a catheter or sensor into the brain tissue. Because of the risk of brain injury and infection, doctors typically only measure intracranial pressure or ICP when a patient is very sick, even though knowledge of this pressure cou...
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The Assisi Loop: Non-invasive pain relief treatment for pets
The Assisi Loop provides non-invasive pain relief therapy for pets, an alternative to conventional drug-based treatments.
Assisi Animal Health is a science-based company specializing in offering clinical therapeutic solutions to veterinarians or by veterinary prescription to pet owners.
As of today, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are the primary therapy mode for treating pain in animals. Yet they account for the largest number of adverse drug reactions as reported to the FDA. To add...
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