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Learn all about medical wearables and the medical wearables market – from smartwatches and smart patches to health monitors and activity trackers.

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Features: Wearables
Engineers are imagining ways for patients to get all their vitals without going to the doctor.
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R&D: Medical

Made of graphene, a cuffless device is worn on the underside of the wrist and can measure blood pressure with comparable accuracy to a standard blood pressure cuff. While the technology is still...

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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A team of engineers has developed an electronic patch that can monitor biomolecules, including hemoglobin, in deep tissues.
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R&D: Wearables

A surface-lighting microLED patch has been developed that inhibits UV-induced melanogenesis. The research team fabricated the skin-attachable surface-lighting microLED (SμLED, 4 × 4 cm2)...

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Features: Wearables
While many wearable technologies began as a way to help people improve fitness, they have evolved to take on much greater diagnostic and other medical uses.
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R&D: Wearables

A novel wearable for infants provides reliable assessment of motor abilities during early development. The smart jumpsuit, called MAIJU (Motor Assessment of Infants with a Jumpsuit), is a...

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Features: Wearables
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From the Editor: Wearables
From the Editor
NuraLogix unveiled its Anura™ Telehealth platform at CES 2023.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Heart failure is a progressive clinical syndrome characterized by a structural abnormality of the heart, in which the heart is unable to pump sufficient blood to meet the body’s requirements.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
For some of the powerful drugs used to fight infection and cancer, there’s only a small difference between a healing dose and a dangerous dose.
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Supplements: Test & Measurement
Learn about the medical manufacturers and cutting-edge applications that stood out in 2022.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

A battery-free, pill-shaped ingestible biosensing system provides continuous monitoring in the intestinal environment. Gut metabolites can be monitored in real time, which...

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INSIDER: Medical

Polymer scientists have developed a starch-based polymer that makes it possible to create a fully biodegradable soft material for sensors. The resulting ‘Advanced Scalable Supersoft Elastic...

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INSIDER: Medical

The world’s first smart vaccine device delivers the COVID-19 vaccine and measures its efficacy through monitoring the body’s associated response.

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News: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Intricon, a developer and manufacturer of medical devices powered by smart miniaturized electronics, has launched a new Biosensors Center of Excellence (CoE)....

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Briefs: Wearables
The next step in wearables is to shrink the size of the devices while offering more comfortable shapes and additional features and wireless communications capabilities.
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R&D: Materials
Researchers have designed a transparent polymer film that conducts electricity as effectively as other commonly used materials, while also being flexible and easy to use at an industrial scale.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers demonstrate that graphene can greatly improve electrical circuits required for wearable and flexible electronics such as smart health patches and other flexible devices.
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Briefs: Wearables
Parkinson's Disease is the fastest-growing neurodegenerative condition in the world and affects 600,000 Americans yearly at a cost of $20 billion to the U.S. healthcare system.
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Products: Medical
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R&D: Medical
Researchers have developed a device to noninvasively measure cervical nerve activity in humans.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Using a simple set of magnets, researchers have devised a sophisticated way to monitor muscle movements.
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News: Regulations/Standards

Movano Health, Pleasanton, CA, has announced successful preliminary results of its pivotal hypoxia trial, which was completed in conjunction with the...

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INSIDER: IoMT

Researchers have developed an Internet of Things (IoT) smart mask, integrating an ultrathin nanocomposite sponge structure-based soundwave sensor. It can detect and classify...

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INSIDER: Wearables

The next generation of wearable computing technology — for health and wellness, social interaction, and myriad other applications — will be even closer to the wearer than a watch or...

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Briefs: Medical
Parkinson’s disease now affects more than 10 million people worldwide, yet clinicians still face huge challenges in tracking its severity and progression.
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R&D: Medical

Individuals who have limited hand function can control devices such as smartphones, computers, and wheelchairs by wearing a smart mouthguard. The novel bite-controlled optoelectronic system contains...

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R&D: Wearables

A 3D printed light-sensing medical device is placed directly on the skin and gives real-time feedback to correlate light exposure with disease flareups. The device could help millions of people worldwide...

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From the Editor: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The market for wearable sensors is expanding, and more people than ever before are turning to wearable sensors to monitor their activity levels.
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