Wyss Institute Models a Human Disease in an Organ-on-a-Chip Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have mimicked pulmonary edema in a microchip lined by living human cells, as reported [...]

“Many of the patients are children who live with pacemakers for many years” An experimental device converted energy from a beating heart to provide enough electricity to power a pacemaker , in a study presented [...]

This isn’t the only prosthesis with an actuated ankle, but the low power is key. The majority of protheses available today that replace the lower leg, ankle, and foot are passive devices that store energy in [...]

Would eliminate the need to send samples to central labs and wait for the result In an advance toward analyzing blood and urine instantly at a patient’s bedside instead of waiting for results from a [...]

What if your heart stopped and a flying robot landed to shock you back to life before ambulances could arrive? A USA Today investigation a few years ago found that, of the 250,000 fatal cardiac arrests that occur [...]

An electronic nose, used to detect the presence of molecules in the breath of a patient, could be used to diagnose obstructive sleep apnoea. A new study, published online today ahead of print (25 October [...]

It will now be easier to detect microbes that cause illnesses in the physician’s reception, or to monitor allergens at home. Researchers at have succeeded in developing a durable and affordable nanofibrillar cellulose film platform [...]

The Breast Tissue Screening Bra in the works is non-invasive, painless, and may even be more accurate than 3D mammography. Those breast exams women are supposed to regularly give themselves in the shower are no [...]

“I tell them that their first reflex should be to look at the patient, not the computer,” Dr. Alvin Rajkomar was doing rounds with his team at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center [...]

Diabetic patients in particular may benefit from the device. In the operating room, surgeons can see inside the human body in real time using advanced imaging techniques, but primary care physicians, the people who are [...]

Acoustic cell-sorting chip may lead to cell phone-sized medical labs A technique that uses acoustic waves to sort cells on a chip may create miniature medical analytic devices that could make Star Trek’s tricorder seem [...]

A new Mayo Clinic study confirms the use of smartphones medical images to evaluate stroke patients in remote locations through telemedicine. The study, the first to test the effectiveness of smartphone teleradiology applications in a [...]