All the stories categorized with: Medical
Chemical circuits for the body?
05/31/2012, The human body can be considered to be a miracle by itself – just take any cell, and break it down to the minutest detail, and you would see the wonder of it all. Well, if you want to call [...]
Laser knows just how much vegetables you have eaten
05/31/2012, Popeye the Sailorman cannot stress enough just how important it is to have your fair share of vegetables in your diet, and exasperated parents over the years did try different methods in making vegetables more appealing, but seemingly to no [...]
Robots crawl through your body to perform internal surgery
05/29/2012, I do know that there are good bacteria in my gut, millions of them hanging around to help break down the stuff that I eat. That idea, I am comfortable with, but to have a small snake robot crawl through [...]
Synthetic vocal cords could be the future
05/28/2012, There are some things in life, just like Humpty Dumpty, that once broken, can no longer be put back together again. The same can be said for one’s ear drums and vocal cords. Singers such as Julie Andrews (of Sound [...]
11 gram titanium pump keeps baby alive for 13 days
05/24/2012, Doctors in Italy were able to save the precious life of a 16-month-old baby boy by implanting a small artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a suitable donor was found. Reuters said that the baby, whose identity was [...]
Jet Injector from MIT offers needle-free drug delivery system
05/24/2012, For those of you who absolutely loathe the way a needle prick seem to make you feel as though your entire body is on fire, then you might be interested to know that you no longer need to go through [...]
Mobile fingerprint scanners see action by police force
05/24/2012, One of our more unique characteristics would be our fingerprints – it seems that no two people have the same set of fingerprints, making it a unique “signature” that is often used by law enforcement agencies to bring crooks to [...]
CANTABmobile is an iPad app that will help detect dementia
05/24/2012, If you know someone who might be suffering from dementia, it looks like there’s an app for that. As cheesy as that motto might sound, it the folks at Cambridge Cognition have put together an app dubbed CANTABmobile which helps [...]
Biosensors attached to Everest climbers to help Scientists study disease
05/22/2012, Members of an expedition sponsored by National Geographic and The North Face are climbing the summit of Mount Everest with body sensors attached to their bodies. The said sensors will monitor the climbers day and night, collecting data to help [...]
Pacifier Activated Lullaby for preemies encourage them to suck
05/22/2012, Premature babies need plenty of love and care, and they do go through a critical period before their condition stabilizes. Well, one thing premature babies lack is the skill known as “non-nutritive sucking,” where it is said to be critical [...]
Video games developed for stroke patients are fun and effective
05/18/2012, There’s still a lot of hope for stroke victims. Stroke experts in the U.K. are developing video games that will help victims restore the normal control of their arms and hands. Neuroscientists from Newcastle University are working with Limbs Alive, [...]
Cel-Factor technology claims to protect humans from EMF radiation
05/17/2012, At the CTIA Wireless event last week, bio-resonance technology company von Hoffmann & Partner Technologies together with CeL-Factor introduced its new line of EMF radiation protection devices. The CeL-Factor technology uses its own Energetic Quanta Cymatics Communication Technology (EQCCT) to [...]
Azumio turns smartphone into biofeedback device
05/17/2012, Your smartphone looks set to become even smarter by gaining additional digital brain cells, so to speak, with the introduction of Azumio. Just what the heck is Azumio? Well, it is a mobile app which will stretch the functionality of [...]
