About 25% of NG tubes used for feeding, medication delivery, or release of stomach gas get clogged from food and medicine residue. When this happens, it interferes with the tube's function as well as taking health care personnel away from their jobs. Until now, tubes were cleaned with an enzyme treatment or a combination of warm water and cola, both of which took anywhere from th...
The most common treatments for cancer are surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Surgery can be invasive and have a long recovery period. But now, there is new technology that can help cancer patients through an outpatient procedure. Called a Femtosecond Laser, this device has been developed to precisely locate, map and destroy cancer tumors non-invasively. The laser uses ultra-short light p...
Some consider it controversial. Some consider it life changing. A new procedure, called transcranial magnetic stimulation, is proving effective for treating major depression. Neurostar is the first device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to perform transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS. With this device, the clinician uses magnets to send electrical currents to the f...
It is estimated that 50% of patients who use prescription drugs do not receive the full benefit of these medications due to inconsistencies in dosage which include forgetting to take their pills, taking the incorrect dose, or other factors such as timing or interaction with ingested substances like certain foods or drinks. Proteus Digital Health has developed a system that provides a sol...
Imagine that you are a patient who has symptoms of a life-threatening disease such as cancer or a stroke. Typically, your doctor would have to take blood samples and send them to a lab, which means you would have to wait a week or more for the results. But what if you could get the results within 15 minutes right there in the office?
A new technology has been developed that can do just t...
It's been said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. With health care costs on the rise, the shift to real time monitoring and mobile diagnostics that require minimal visits to facilities help to contain costs. The Metria Wearable Sensor Technology keeps tabs on a wearer's vital signs, giving a doctor or patient the chance to watch for patterns that may indicate issues wi...
The wait for a doctor to return a call, or the necessity of travel from one health care facility to another for a consultation can be frustrating and time consuming as well as detrimental to the patient in some cases. Thanks to today's technology, a solution to the problem of the long wait has been developed.
DocBookMD is an app which works off both iPhone and Dr...
In 2009, the CDC reported that one in 12 people had asthma, up from one in 14 in 2001. It's the fifth most expensive condition to treat on the list of chronic illnesses. The numbers continue to climb, and while the understanding of the disease itself has grown, the reasons why more people are developing it are not clear to researchers. Helping to manage the disease on the persona...
Sunglasses are useful for a number of reasons. They allow us to see objects in bright light, protect our eyes from harmful ultraviolet rays and can even be a cool fashion accessory. But what if sunglasses could help you see how people are feeling or thinking? Sounds like the basis of a science fiction novel, but recently the scientists at the 2AI Laboratory in Boise, Idaho have created sunglasses ...
The Cybram 001 (Cybernetic Brain Artery Model) is a teaching device that can be used for training medical students and residents to perform vascular surgery on the brain and neck areas without the dangers associated with practicing on live patients. The transparent plastic body has tubes to simulate the vascular system running from the brain to the groin, a circulating pump that moves fl...
About 25% of NG tubes used for feeding, medication delivery, or release of stomach gas get clogged from food and medicine residue. When this happens, it interferes with the tube's function as well as taking health care personnel away from their jobs. Until now, tubes were cleaned with an enzyme treatment or a combination of warm water and cola, both of which took anywhere from th...
The most common treatments for cancer are surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Surgery can be invasive and have a long recovery period. But now, there is new technology that can help cancer patients through an outpatient procedure. Called a Femtosecond Laser, this device has been developed to precisely locate, map and destroy cancer tumors non-invasively. The laser uses ultra-short light p...
Some consider it controversial. Some consider it life changing. A new procedure, called transcranial magnetic stimulation, is proving effective for treating major depression. Neurostar is the first device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to perform transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS. With this device, the clinician uses magnets to send electrical currents to the f...
It is estimated that 50% of patients who use prescription drugs do not receive the full benefit of these medications due to inconsistencies in dosage which include forgetting to take their pills, taking the incorrect dose, or other factors such as timing or interaction with ingested substances like certain foods or drinks. Proteus Digital Health has developed a system that provides a sol...
Imagine that you are a patient who has symptoms of a life-threatening disease such as cancer or a stroke. Typically, your doctor would have to take blood samples and send them to a lab, which means you would have to wait a week or more for the results. But what if you could get the results within 15 minutes right there in the office?
A new technology has been developed that can do just t...
It's been said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. With health care costs on the rise, the shift to real time monitoring and mobile diagnostics that require minimal visits to facilities help to contain costs. The Metria Wearable Sensor Technology keeps tabs on a wearer's vital signs, giving a doctor or patient the chance to watch for patterns that may indicate issues wi...
The wait for a doctor to return a call, or the necessity of travel from one health care facility to another for a consultation can be frustrating and time consuming as well as detrimental to the patient in some cases. Thanks to today's technology, a solution to the problem of the long wait has been developed.
DocBookMD is an app which works off both iPhone and Dr...
In 2009, the CDC reported that one in 12 people had asthma, up from one in 14 in 2001. It's the fifth most expensive condition to treat on the list of chronic illnesses. The numbers continue to climb, and while the understanding of the disease itself has grown, the reasons why more people are developing it are not clear to researchers. Helping to manage the disease on the persona...
Sunglasses are useful for a number of reasons. They allow us to see objects in bright light, protect our eyes from harmful ultraviolet rays and can even be a cool fashion accessory. But what if sunglasses could help you see how people are feeling or thinking? Sounds like the basis of a science fiction novel, but recently the scientists at the 2AI Laboratory in Boise, Idaho have created sunglasses ...
The Cybram 001 (Cybernetic Brain Artery Model) is a teaching device that can be used for training medical students and residents to perform vascular surgery on the brain and neck areas without the dangers associated with practicing on live patients. The transparent plastic body has tubes to simulate the vascular system running from the brain to the groin, a circulating pump that moves fl...