Using technology invented at MIT, doctors may one day be able to monitor patients’ vital signs by having them swallow an ingestible electronic device that measures heart rate and breathing rate from within the gastrointestinal tract.
This type of sensor could make it easier to assess trauma patients, monitor soldiers in battle, perform long-term evaluation of patients with chronic illnesses, or improve training for professional and amateur athletes, the researchers say.
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Linking Sense of Smell to Alzheimer’s
Researchers at The University of Florida asked over 90 participants to smell a spoonful of peanut butter at a short distance from their nose. Some participants had a confirmed early stage Alzheimer’s diagnosis, some had other forms of dementia, while others had no cognitive or neurological problems.
Of those participants, only those with a confirmed diagnosis of early stage Alzheimer’s had trouble smelling the peanut butter. Additionally, those patients also had a harder time smelling the peanu...
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‘Bite Counter’ is a watch that counts bites to help watch weight
Researchers at Clemson University have been working for several years on the relationship between the number of bites you take and caloric intake. They designed and have run extensive studies with a bite-counting wristband that they now sell as a separate business.
https://youtu.be/G8BfxRz-J8I
The Bite Counter is a watch that also counts bites based on pattern recognition of wrist movements. The Bite Counter comes with PC software for configuring the device and connects via a micro USB por...
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FDA Approved – ‘Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation’ to treat variety of brain-related disorders
Israeli medical device maker Brainsway has developed a helmet-like device that uses Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Deep TMS) to treat a variety of brain-related disorders. Deep TMS is a noninvasive procedure that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate nerve cells in the brain. The pulses are sent through an electromagnetic coil (H-coil) placed near the patient's scalp in the area a therapist wants to treat for 20 minutes at a time.
According to the company, the treatment has no side effects. P...
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Google’s DeepMind helping detect early signs of sight-threatening diseases.
Google’s DeepMind is initiating a new research project to aid doctors spot the early signs of sight-threatening diseases.
The team uses machine learning to analyze more than a million eye scans and thereby creating algorithms that can detect early symptoms that humans might miss. The research project is DeepMind’s second collaboration with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).
https://youtu.be/d58_mb95oVY
Moorfields Eye Hospital in London will partner with Google and DeepMind for a fi...
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Artificial Intelligence Used to Predict Onset of Alzheimer’s
Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence that allows computer programs to learn when exposed to new data without being programmed. Now, researchers in The Netherlands have coupled machine learning methods with a special MRI technique that measures the perfusion, or tissue absorption rate, of blood throughout the brain to detect early forms of dementia, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
“MRI can help with t...
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Surprising New Role for the Immune System Discovered
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have made a surprising discovery: the immune system directly impacts – and even controls – creatures’ social behavior, such as, for instance, their inclination to interact with others. The researchers' findings suggest that immune system problems could potentially contribute to the inability to have normal social interactions, a fact that could have important implications for neurological disorders like schizophrenia.
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Intestinal Bacteria Can Predict Susceptibility to Rheumatoid Arthritis
The bacteria in your gut don’t just break down food. According to Dr. Veena Taneja, an immunologist at Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine, they can also can predict susceptibility for rheumatoid arthritis.
Over 1.5 million Americans have rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder in which the body mistakenly attacks itself. The body breaks down tissues around joints, causing painful swelling in the joints. At present, scientists have a limited understanding of the processe...
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‘Tinké’ – Smartphone Based Fitness And Wellness Tracker
Fitness: By taking a vita measurement, Tinké measures 3 parameters (blood oxygen levels, respiratory rate, heart rate) and indicates your fitness level in 30 seconds. Wellness: By taking a Zen measurement, tinke provides a 60 seconds breathing exercise to practise mindful breathing, and indicates your level of relaxation at the end of the exercise via your heart rate variability. Monitor and chart your Vita and Zen measurements with Tinké. Know your progress and be empowered in taking active ste...
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FDA approval – Kit to measure the amount of hepatitis C virus in a patient’s blood
The cobas® HCV is a laboratory test used to measure the amount of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA (ribonucleic acid) in a patient’s blood. Viral RNA is genetic material from HCV.
Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by HCV. Hepatitis C is transmitted when blood or another body fluid from a person infected with the Hepatitis C virus enters the body of someone who is not infected. This can happen through sharing needles, syringes, or other drug-injection equipment, from mother to baby at birth, ...
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Nasa’s Research Agrees To ‘An Orange a Day Keeps Scurvy Away’
Centuries ago, ships often sailed with crews numbering in the hundreds returning with tens. Cause of death: Scurvy – a severe depletion of Vitamin C. Today’s explorers cross miles of space with no hope of finding an island with food and nutrients along the way. All nutritional needs must be met aboard.
“Nutrition is vital to the mission,” Scott M. Smith, Ph.D., manager for NASA’s Nutritional Biochemistry Lab said. “Without proper nutrition for the astronauts, the mission will fail. It’s that ...
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My UV Patches track your real-time UV exposure
MY UV PATCH is a real breakthrough in skin wellness. It coaches you to protect your skin from damage and premature aging. While using with the app, it will determine your personal skin-type, track your real-time UV exposure and alert you when your level of sun exposure might no longer be safe.
UV PATCH is a real breakthrough in skin wellness. It coaches you to protect your skin from damage and premature aging. While using with the app, it will determine your personal skin-type, trac...
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Masimo has gained FDA clearance for its wireless, wearable patient monitor
Masimo is an American Irvine, California-based manufacturer of noninvasive patient monitoring technologies. The company is best known for its pulse oximetry and it sells more pulse oximeters to hospitals than any other company. Masimo was founded by electrical engineer Joe Kiani, who was later joined by fellow engineer Mohamed Diab.
Masimo invented measure-through motion and low perfusion pulse oximetry, known as Masimo SET (Signal Extraction Technology). Masimo has been recognized for its in...
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FDA approved – Prestige LP Cervical
Prestige LP Cervical Disc treats one diseased disc in the neck (cervical disc) that causes arm pain and/or weakness or numbness (radiculopathy or myelopathy). The Prestige LP Cervical Disc consists of a titanium-ceramic alloy that fits between the top and bottom surface of the neck bones (cervical vertebrae).
How does it work? The implanted device is placed between two adjacent cervical vertebrae to replace a diseased cervical disc. It is designed to maintain the distance between two adjacent...
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NASA Light Technology Successfully Reduces Cancer Patients Painful Side Effects from Radiation and Chemotherapy
A NASA technology originally developed for plant growth experiments on space shuttle missions has successfully reduced the painful side effects resulting from chemotherapy and radiation treatment in bone marrow and stem cell transplant patients.
In a two-year clinical trial, cancer patients undergoing bone marrow or stem cell transplants were given a far red/near infrared Light Emitting Diode treatment called High Emissivity Aluminiferous Luminescent Substrate, or HEALS, to treat oral mucosit...
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FDA Approved SenoClaire is a mammography device that produces 2D digital images
SenoClaire is a mammography device that produces 2D digital images as well as multiple cross-sectional images of the breast for the screening and diagnosis of breast cancer.
How does it work? The SenoClaire device consists of hardware and software upgrades to the Senographe Essential 2D full-field digital mammography system, which is FDA-approved for conventional mammography. The hardware upgrade produces multiple, low-dose x-ray projection images of the breast; the software upgrade uses the ...
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PICOOC Smart Digital Body Fat Scale
Smart weighting-scale.
It can analyze the user’s body conditions in details and offer effective suggestions according to her/his age, height with a combining of weight. It is suitable for any group of people we mentioned above. It provides you with a set of digital methods depending on it measuring result.
This device can help you know the state of your body better, because it can analyze your physical data like weight, fat percentage and rate of fresh, etc. In this way, it offers you a he...
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NASA’s Nanotechnology-Based Biosensor Helps Detect Biohazards
NASA has developed a revolutionary nanotechnology-based biosensor that can detect trace amounts of specific bacteria, viruses and parasites. This biosensor will be used to help prevent the spread of potentially deadly biohazards in water, food and other contaminated sources.
NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California licensed the biosensor technology to Early Warning Inc., Troy, N.Y. Under a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement, NASA and Early Warning jointly will develop biosenso...
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FDA has approved ‘KAMRA’ Inlay (“inlay”) a dark, ring-shaped device that is implanted in the cornea to improve near vision for patients
KAMRA Inlay ("inlay") is a dark, ring-shaped device that is implanted in the cornea, which is the clear, front surface of the eye. The inlay improves near vision in patients whose eyes have lost the ability to change focus for near vision, which is a normal part of aging (presbyopia). The device is 3.8 mm in diameter with a 1.6 mm diameter hole in the center. It has 8,400 tiny holes to allow oxygen and nutrients to flow across the cornea.
How does it work? The eye surgeon uses a laser to make...
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Profusa Debuts Tissue-integrated Sensors for Long-term Continuous Monitoring of Body Chemistry
Injectable biosensors that become one with the body’s tissue may one day replace the clinical lab for making our body chemistry continuously accessible for improved personal wellbeing in health and disease. Promising a new era in digital health, Profusa, Inc., based in South San Francisco, Calif., today debuted its injectable Lumee™ biosensor technology at the Pioneers Festival held at the grand Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria.
Ben Hwang, Ph.D., Profusa’s chairman and chief execu...
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Samsung’s New Mobile Health Monitoring Smart Bio-Processor
Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced that it is addressing the growing trend of quantified health with an all-in-one advanced system logic chip for the health-oriented wearables market, the Bio-Processor. The Samsung Bio-Processor, now in mass production, is specifically designed to allow accelerated development of innovative wearable products for consumers who are increasingly monitoring their health and fitness on a daily basis.
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App Helps Blind See Their World
VelaSense® is an eyes-free and hands-free assistive software that brings the full power of mobile technology and cloud computing within reach for visually impaired users. The system provides high-accessibility access to routine smart phone functions and also exploits the phone's integrated camera and motion sensors to characterize the user’s environment. Acquired information is then delivered back to the user through non-sight sensory modes such as hearing and touch.
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Transform Your Smartphone into a Breathalyzer
BACtrack is the leader in breathalyzers, offering a full range of innovative breath alcohol testers for both personal and professional use.
How It Works
Breathe
Breathe into the BACtrack and results are sent wirelessly to your iOS or Android device.
See
See accurate reading and a ZeroLine® estimate of when your BAC will reach 0.00%.
Decide
Decide what comes next. Save your number? Test someone else? Switch to water? Hand over your keys?
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EnChroma glasses – Color for the Color Blind
EnChroma glasses, a marriage of color vision science and optical technology.
The only specialty eyewear that alleviates red-green color blindness, enhancing colors without the compromise of color accuracy.
Color blindness (or color vision deficiency), is a condition where a person’s eyes are unable to see colors under normal light. People with color blindness have a hard time telling colors apart from each other.
HOW EYES SEE COLOR
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FDA Approved ‘WATCHMAN’ that prevents LAA blood clots from entering the bloodstream and potentially causing a stroke.
WATCHMAN LAA Closure Technology consists of a delivery catheter and a device that is permanently implanted in the left atrial appendage (LAA) of the heart. The device, often referred to as the WATCHMAN, prevents LAA blood clots from entering the bloodstream and potentially causing a stroke. It is made of a self-expanding, nickel-titanium (Nitinol) frame with an attached woven plastic cap.
How does it work? The physician inserts the delivery catheter into the body through a vein in the leg. Th...
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‘EyeForcer’ glasses monitor wearer’s posture and alerts when slouching
The EyeForcer is a medical tech wearable for kids who use smartphones and tablets. It monitors posture to prevent Gameboy Disease. It helps to stop slouching over their smartphones and tablets every day.
Posture is one of the fundamental things when it comes to muscle activity and fatigue. However, a minute strain can lead to very serious problems. And, for sports professionals and athletes, even a minute injury can lead to serious consequences. One of the major reason which leads to posture ...
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Propeller is the IoT device that helps manage COPD, Asthma, and other respiratory diseases in real-time
Propeller Health now has a connected inhaler. This FDA cleared mobile application and IoT device helps patients, physicians and public health agencies systematically manage COPD, Asthma, and other respiratory diseases in real-time.
The propeller sensor is a small device that easily fits to most inhalers. It wirelessly syncs with your smart phone so that you’re phone automatically captures and records your trends of usage including the time, date, and location of when you use your inhaler. ...
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Nasa’s Nonvolatile Molecular Memory – miniaturized for ultra-high density, low power consumption media
Approaching the limits in miniaturization for ultra-high density, low power consumption media, this capability may enable orders of magnitude increases in on-board data storage capabilities that are compatible with space exploration system resource limitations of mass, power and volume.
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The increasing needs for on-board electronic memory will grow rapidly in order to keep pace with the requirements for subsystems involved in flight demonstration projects and deep space operations. Ex...
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Senza System is an implanted device that can help treat chronic pain in the trunk and/or limbs
Senza SCS System (Senza System) is an implanted, rechargeable spinal cord stimulation system for the treatment of chronic pain of the trunk and/or limbs that is difficult to manage (intractable). The main components include an implanted signal generator that is connected to one or two implanted leads, and external doctor and patient controllers.
How does it work? The doctor implants the signal generator and leads through a small incision in the patient’s back. The implanted signal generat...
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FDA Approved TissuGlu Surgical Adhesive
TissuGlu Surgical Adhesive (TissuGlu) is a urethane-based, liquid surgical adhesive which is activated upon contact with tissue fluid. TissuGlu is applied by a hand-held applicator containing the adhesive.
How does it work? The surgeon applies TissuGlu between layers of tissue to glue them together during a “tummy tuck” (abdominoplasty) procedure. Water in the patient’s tissue starts a chemical reaction that bonds the layers of tissue together, like glue. The surgeon then continues standard c...
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