All the stories tagged with: Medical
New bandages are removable sans pain
10/30/2012, Removing a plaster or a bandage from a wound might be an uncomfortable, even painful, process for some. After all, it is inevitable that some bodily hair would remain stuck to the bandage due to its stickiness, and infants who [...]
SurgiLux laser-activated plaster ups your healing factor
10/28/2012, While we would all like to have the kind of healing factor that Wolverine possesses, we all know that this is but a pipe dream at the moment. What we can rely on, however, would be advances made in the [...]
Rage Control video game to assist in anger management among children
10/25/2012, What do you think about video games – are they capable of turning that cute little child of yours into a rampaging monster many years from now, or could it actually have junior end up as a better person in [...]
Grown Kidney “Organoids” Work in Rats
10/22/2012, With 26 million Americans having chronic kidney disease and almost 100,000 waiting for a kidney transplant, the numbers themselves are rather grim. Although the amount of donors and transplants has risen recently, researchers are still looking for ways to build [...]
Electric pants might just prevent bedsores
10/16/2012, For anyone who were forced to recuperate in bed for months on end without the means of moving oneself, bedsores are a very real and painful situation, as you require your help to move your body from time to time [...]
Breast Tissue Screening Bra sniffs out cancer cells
10/11/2012, Cancer is such a common disease these days, striking just about every strata of society without any kind of prejudice. Good thing newer forms of treatment have been developed over the few years, but nothing quite beats early detection for [...]
Ear infection app relies on smartphone to get the job done
10/11/2012, “There’s an app for that,” or so the saying goes, and when we talk about apps, first and foremost it would be the iPhone that comes to mind as that was the handset which more or less kickstarted the whole [...]
Robotherapist 3D Spanish stroke rehabilitation robot targets worldwide patent
10/09/2012, Being a stroke patient these days, you have a far better quality of life and higher chance of returning to a normal lifestyle with the kind of medical technologies and advances at our disposal. Well, robots come into the picture, [...]
Researchers ready magic carpet for nursing homes
10/08/2012, Nursing homes routinely admit elderly to take care of them. While the staff of most nursing homes is quite diligent in attending to the needs of its residents, there are times when the staff is unable to hear the plight [...]
Researchers use magnets to eliminate cancer cells
10/08/2012, Medical sciences, today, know of a number of methods to kill cancerous cells within a human body. However, often these methods prove a little imprecise because they end up damaging healthy cells too which may, in turn, cause a number [...]
Injection dissolves body fat, could be magic bullet in battle of the bulge
10/08/2012, It seems that more and more people are getting obese these days, which is one of the perils of urbanization as fast food joints, unhealthy lifestyles and stress all add up to the pounds which pile around your waist. Well, [...]
ROHM CIGS near-infrared see-through image sensor
10/03/2012, [CEATEC 2012] The ROHM CIGS (Copper indium gallium (di)selenide) Near-Infrared sensor provides the ability to see near-infrared light waves that are normally invisible to the naked eye. By capturing near-infrared light, it is possible to see through layers of matter [...]
Murata Electric Walking Assist Car isn’t really a car
10/01/2012, [CEATEC 2012] We’re still a long way off from having self-replaceable, robotic legs but that isn’t stopping companies from trying to pave the way for such technology. Murata is one such company. Back in 2011, the company exhibited a concept [...]
