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Charlotte Maxeke doctors innovate to limit contact during intubation
Three weeks ago, emergency doctors at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg came up with an innovation to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19. The Times...
MIT prototypes a safe, inexpensive ventilator alternative
A volunteer team centred at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has designed and prototyped a low-cost portable mechanical ventilator for use in mass casualty...
FDA’s emergency use authorisation for rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorisation for a new rapid point-of-care molecular SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic.
The test, which was...
FluSense turns coughing sounds into data for flu and pandemic forecasting
University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientists tested 'FluSense' in campus clinic waiting rooms.
The FluSense creators say the new edge-computing platform, envisioned for use...
3D printing saves patients' lives in Italian hospital
When a hospital in Brescia, in one of the hardest-hit Italian regions for coronavirus infection, urgently needed valves for a breathing devices that the...
First successful robotic surgery for brain aneurysm
Using a robot to treat brain aneurysms is feasible and could allow for improved precision when placing stents, coils and other devices, according to...
NHS trials sleep pods for doctors' and nurses' power naps
The UK National Health Service (NHS) is trialling sleep pods for doctors and nurses to grab power naps during their shifts, reports The Guardian....
'Wristwatch' monitors body chemistry to boost athletic performance, prevent injury
Engineering researchers have developed a device the size of a wristwatch that can monitor an individual's body chemistry to help improve athletic performance and...
Swiss transplantation breakthrough keeps human livers alive for a week
Until now, livers could be stored safely outside the body for only a few hours. With the novel perfusion technology, livers – and even...
Artificial Intelligence can detect low-glucose levels via ECG without fingerprick test
Two pilot studies in the UK have found that using artificial intelligence (AI) the Currently Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) used by the UK's National...
The top tech developments in 2019
Medgadget reports on the top technology trends and devices of the past year.
Opioid Overdose Treatment: Opioid addiction, and accompanying overdoses, have become disturbingly common...
Google Health using AI to improve breast cancer screening
A large Google Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) data trial produced a 5.7% reduction of breast cancer false positives in the US, and a 1.2%...
Disruptive magnesium-based, bone-bracing technology — A new 'gold standard'?
When an orthopaedic in-patient tells visitors, ‘they had to put metal pins in,” the sympathetic murmurs normally assume it was ‘one of those titanium...
New test assists with quicker treatment decisions for sepsis
A new rapid blood culture test system for sepsis can reduce identification to 12 hours, from the two-to-three days of standard-of- care culture...
Impact of life-saving technology confirmed in Malawi study
Malawi's national adoption of affordable, rugged, neonatal CPAP technology as a part of routine hospital care resulted in sustained improvements in the survival of...
Stroke patients relearn how to walk with peculiar shoe
Following successful clinical trials in the US, a therapeutic shoe engineered to improve stroke recovery is expected to be available commercially by the end...
Wearable sensor provides minimally invasive glucose monitoring
Abbott has developed wearable sensor, used in conjunction with a smartphone, to to get a real-time glucose measurement, as well as trends, simply...
Electronic nose detects bacteria in breath
An ‘electronic nose’ that can sniff out bacteria could be used to curb the use of antibiotics when not necessary, according to scientists at...
FDA okays first cuff-free blood pressure monitors
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Biobeat, an Israeli firm, clearance for the company’s wrist watch and patch that measure blood...
Triage monitor to determine CO poisoning cleared by FDA
The ToxCO, an instant, non-invasive breath analysis monitor that measures exhaled carbon monoxide (C0) to give an idea of CO levels in the blood,...
First trial of dizziness monitoring device a success
A ground-breaking wearable diagnostic headset to help patients with dizziness problems has moved a step forward following a successful trial. Researchers from the University...
Device to remove rings from swollen fingers without cutting
A new device, called RingRescue, makes it possible to easily deal with many cases of swollen fingers with trapped rings, reports Medgadget. It helps to...
Low-cost OCT scanner to boost diagnosis of retinal diseases
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a low-cost, portable optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner that promises to bring the vision-saving technology to under-served...
New e-tattoo gives accurate uninterrupted heart monitoring
A new wearable technology developed at the University of Texas and made from stretchy, lightweight material measures cardiac health by taking electrocardiograph and seismo-cardiograph...
SA engineer wins prize for innovative dispenser for repeat Rx
An invention by a South African engineer that dispenses pills has won a major African engineering prize, reports BBC News. Neo Hutiri invented the...
Getting vaccines to inaccessible corners of the world
Researchers at McMaster University have invented a stable, affordable way to store fragile vaccines for weeks at a time at temperatures up to 40°C,...
Dressing uses electric field to disrupt infections
US researchers have developed of a dressing that uses an electric field to disrupt biofilm infection.
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have found a...
Cape Town gynae invents device to staunch post-birth bleeding
A Cape Town gynaecologist has made giving birth a little safer by turning a cheap surgical glove into a device that stops excessive post-birth...
Self-inflating capsule as alternative to intra-gastric balloon
A team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National University Health System (NUHS) has developed a self-inflating weight management capsule that...
Hand-held ultrasound scanner shows its potential in rural Africa
A hand-held, battery-powered ultrasound scanner called the Butterfly iQ has huge potential in rural Africa, where the nearest X-ray machine may be hours away and the...
Researchers print 3D heart with some of patient's own cells
In a medical breakthrough, Tel Aviv University researchers have "printed" the world's first 3D vascularised engineered heart using a patient's own cells and biological...
New insulin pump is user-unfriendly for nearly 20% of diabetes patients
Among first-time users of a new insulin pump that automatically delivers insulin to people with type 1 diabetes, nearly one-fifth stopped using the device,...
The potential — and disadvantages — of wearable tech diagnostics
Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have presented preliminary results of the Apple Heart Study, an unprecedented virtual study with over 400,000...
Anti-bacterial coating for intravascular catheters
Brown University researchers have developed a new antibacterial coating for intravascular catheters that could help to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections, the most common type...
Using smartphones in sub-Saharan Africa to control infectious diseases
An international review outlines how healthcare workers in low-income countries, like those in sub-Saharan Africa, could use existing smartphones to diagnose, track and control infectious...
Wearable respiration monitor made with children's toy
Researchers at the University of California-Irvine have developed a wearable, disposable respiration monitor that provides high-fidelity readings on a continuous basis. It's designed to...
Perfect human blood vessels grown in a petri dish
Scientists have managed to grow perfect human blood vessels as organoids in a petri dish for the first time. The breakthrough engineering technology dramatically...
NHS trials smart electricity meters to monitor homes of dementia patients
A National Health Service (NHS) trial in England will use data from 'smart' electricity meters in the homes of mental health and dementia patients to...
The best new medical technology in 2018
Medgadget has released its list of the most notable developments in medical technology in 2018. The selection was based on a technology’s clinical importance, the...
Injectable, low-cost hydrogel helps wounds heal faster
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have created an easy-to-make, low-cost injectable hydrogel that could help wounds heal faster, especially for patients with...