News and Research on Medical Gadgets

World’s First 5G Disinfection Robot Removes Bacteria On The Go

The world's first 5G-based disinfection robot automates anti-infection efforts against COVID-19 in health care facilities. The telecom operator said it partnered with Yongin Severance Hospital to deploy the robot, which uses a real-time ...

New Gadget Claims to Stop Airborne Spread of Coronavirus

New electronic gadget helps in containing airborne spread of COVID-19 by performing real-time sterilization. The 'Wolf Airmask' ruptures the SARS-CoV-2, having proven its efficiency at tests conducted by the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for ...

Fitbit launching Wrist-based Blood Pressure Tracking

Wearable brand Fitbit is searching if it can measure blood pressure with a new study for Sense smartwatch users. Fitbit Sense comes with electrodermal activity (EDA) to measure daily stress and comes with a heart rate tracker, ...

Home Dialysis is Evaluated by a New Instrument

Patients' home dialysis experience is assessed by a newly developed tool – 26-item Home Dialysis Care Experience as per a research by the American Society of Nephrology, described in an upcoming issue of CJASN. Home dialysis is the ...

Smartphone App Helps Monitor Chronic Kidney Disease

Smartphone app helps patients with chronic kidney disease to take their prescribed medications properly, as per a one-year trial in Washington, DC. The app – eKidneyCare sends patients monthly reminders to review their medications and ...

Human Organs May Be Printed Using 3D-Bioprint

New bio-ink allows small human-sized airways to be 3D-printed with the help of patient cells for the first time, designed by the researchers at Lund University in Sweden, published in Advanced Materials. The important first step towards ...

Around 20 percent Smartphone Users Are Dependent

Around 20 per cent of South Korean smartphone users are at increased risk of dependence on the devices. The Ministry of Science and ICT said 23.3 per cent of smartphone users in the country were at risk last year, up 3.3 percentage points from ...

Pulse Oximeters: How Accurate Are They?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, pulse oximeters have become popular for people to track their oxygen saturation. In a new guidance released on 19th February by the FDA, they said that pulse oximeters may not always be accurate. The FDA said that ...

Artificial Bone That Mimics Natural Bone Is Finally Designed

Exact replica of a bone is designed using biothermal imaging with a heated "nano-chisel" called bio-thermal scanning probe lithography (bio-tSPL), as per the study "Cost and Time Effective Lithography of Reusable Millimeter Size Bone Tissue ...

Can a Smartphone Technology Predict the Next Pandemic?

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is used in smart watches to monitor pulse and heart rate. However, millions of smartphones contain PPG biosensors, which currently have no clinical applications. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a simple optical ...

Virtual Reality (VR) Technology Monitors Executive Functioning

Virtual reality has greatly attracted the gaming industry but apart from it, virtual reality (VR) can also be used by researchers to assess individuals’ attention, memory, and problem-solving abilities in real world settings. With the ...

Advanced Technology Yields Accurate Diagnosis Of Liposarcoma

Latest advances in RNA technology and machine learning methods have contributed to the development of a gene panel test called NanoString technology that provides quick and highly reliable diagnosis of the most common types of liposarcoma, as ...

Saliva And Tears: Wearabe Device Monitors Health And Administers Drugs

In patients with eye or mouth diseases real-time medical data can be delivered by a new kind wearable health device. The study conducted by Huanyu 'Larry' Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in the Penn State Department of ...

Ultrasound Reverts Life of Coma Patients

Remarkable progress had been made by a 25-year-old coma patient following an ultrasound treatment to jump-start his brain, as per a research team led by UCLA's Martin Monti in 2016, published in the journal Brain Stimulation. ...

New Thread-based Sensors Developed

Thread sensors developed by Tufts University engineers are attached to the skin to measure movement in real-time, with potential implications for tracking health and performance. The flexible thread-based sensors can measure the movement of ...