Device Detects Cancer in An Hour

Researchers have created a portable device that can detect colorectal and prostate cancer more cheaply and quickly than prevailing methods. The team believes the device may be especially helpful in developing countries, which experience higher cancer mortality rates due in part to barriers to medical diagnosis. Read on to learn more.

How to Design Reliable, Low-Power Wearable Medicine Injectors

Advances in IoT and electronic technology are enabling more personalized, continuous medical care. People with medical conditions that require a high degree of monitoring and continuous medication infusion can now take advantage of wearable medicine injection devices to treat their problems. Read on to learn more.

How Quantum Computing Will Impact Healthcare Data Encryption

Quantum computing is still in its infancy, but recent AI trends prove it doesn’t take long for new technology to disrupt an industry. Read on to learn more about quantum computing and its potential impact.

Soft Implantable Polymer Balloon Enables Controlled and Targeted Drug Delivery

In a paper published in Biomaterials Research, a team led by researchers from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology present data on their nonbiodegradable, ultrasoft, and flexible balloon implant for drug delivery. Their findings demonstrate the balloon’s effectiveness in delivering a model drug both in the laboratory setting and in animal models. Read on to learn more.

EIT-Based Tactile Sensor

Using electrical impedance tomography (EIT), researchers have developed a system using a flexible tactile sensor for objective evaluation of fine finger movements. Demonstrating high accuracy in classifying diverse...

Real-Time Multimodal Tactile Detection System

A tactile perception system provides human-like multimodal tactile information to objects like robots and wearable devices that require tactile data in real time.

Utilizing Blockchain for Better Healthcare IoT Security

As more organizations adopt the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), their cybersecurity strategies must adapt. IoT risks are significant, but other new technologies — namely, blockchain — offer security solutions.

All-in-One Device for Hemorrhage Control

A multi-faceted device is effective for treating deep, noncompressible, and irregularly shaped wounds. The device provides rapid hemorrhage management, has minimal inflammatory effects, and provides infection control.

Leveraging Edge Computing and Wearable Devices in Clinical Trials

Today, the exponential growth of data poses significant challenges for traditional cloud computing models, which struggle to keep up with demand. That’s where edge computing comes in.

Wearable Technology: DOD Investing in Powerful AI Algorithm That Could Rapidly Predict Disease

The Defense Department is looking to expand the use of its wearable technology to other infectious disease detection in service members, which leaders say will aid in readiness.

Superhydrophobic Biosensor Measures Sweat Vapors on the Body

Wearable sensors can be used to monitor a person’s perspiration rate and provide information about the skin, nervous system activity, and underlying health conditions. Some sweat cannot be measured with current sensors.

Powering Research and Discovery with Micromotors

In May 2021, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft left its study asteroid Bennu to return to Earth. Scientists will use the rubble it brings back to learn more about how the planets formed and how life arose on Earth.

Smart Stitches Reduce Infection, Simplify Post-Op Monitoring

Surgical site infections are one of the most common medical infections, occurring in 2–4 percent of patients post-surgery.

Tiny Optical Sensors Could End Hospital Bed Sores

Scientists have designed tiny smart bed sensors embedded in hospital mattresses could put an end to painful and potentially life-threatening pressure sores, thanks to new technology. The...

Risk Management for Cybersecure Networked Medical Devices

For developers and manufacturers of networked medical devices, IT security is increasingly becoming a challenge. While the number of cyber threats is growing significantly,...

Biodata Compensation: An Ethical Responsibility

The global big data market had a revenue of $162.6 billion in 2021.1 Data is becoming more valuable to companies than gold. However, this data has been used, historically, without...

How Data Can Help Solve Manufacturing’s Waste Problem

In reshaping the world toward a new, post-pandemic normal, the industry must leverage digital transformation at an accelerated pace. This shift is already happening — according to IBM,...

Rapid COVID-19 Improves Response to Future Outbreaks

A new COVID-19 test could have a huge social and economic impact and completely change the response in the travel and leisure industries. The project is looking to create a handheld...

Achieving High-Speed Real-Time Image Cytometry

Real-time imaging at high speeds faces three primary challenges.

2022 Technology Trends: Digital Health Marks the Future of Medical Development

Going into 2022, remote monitoring, wearables, sensors, and other "mHealth" products are taking center stage.

How Virtual, Cloud-Based Technologies Are Powering the Next Industrial Revolution

On-premises data centers give way to virtual solutions.

Is Healthcare Ready to Pick Up the Pace in Cybersecurity?

Healthcare organizations face very difficult choices in balancing patient protection with financial demands.

New Imaging Technology Reduces Need for Skin Biopsies

A deep-learning framework transforms images of intact skin acquired by an emerging noninvasive optical technology.

FDA’s Modernization Plans Gain Momentum in Expediting Healthcare Innovation

The FDA will focus on data management and digitizing healthcare.

Programmable Fibers Expand Possibilties for Fabrics

The fabric-fiber has digital capabilities to collect, store, and analyze data using a neural network.

Nanothermometers Improve Temperature Imaging

NIST researchers are in the early stages of a massive undertaking to design and build a fleet of tiny ultra-sensitive thermometers.

Low-Cost, Customized Prosthesis Using 3D Printing

A novel 3D printed prosthetic arm is more comfortable, flexible, and cheaper than a conventional prosthesis.

Designing High Reliability into Life-Saving Cardiac Care Instruments

An industry expert offers tips for overload protection of defibrillators and ultrasound machines used in critical cardiac care.

Reimagining Knee Replacements with Additive Technology and Artificial Intelligence

To produce an additively manufactured prosthesis, REJOINT starts by 3D modelling the patient’s CT scan.