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First-in-world robot-assisted spinal surgery
Noah Pernikoff is back to his life in New York City after becoming the first patient in the world to undergo successfully a complex...
Chip-based blood test for multiple myeloma may relegate bone biopsy
The diagnosis and treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting plasma cells, traditionally forces patients to suffer through a painful bone biopsy. During that...
Artificial mole as an early warning of cancer
Swiss researchers have developed and tested in mice a synthetic gene network that is implanted and serves as an early warning system against the...
Micro-chip implant to monitor alcohol intake
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a miniature, ultra-low power injectable biosensor that could be used for continuous, long-term alcohol...
Smartphone app effectively assesses blood flow in wrist artery
A smartphone application using the phone's camera function performed better than traditional physical examination to assess blood flow in a wrist artery for patients...
Novel way to treat 'freezing of gait' in Parkinson's patients
A small Tel Aviv University study suggests a novel way of treating the affected areas of the brain that apparently cause freezing of gait,using...
Rwanda's life-saving drones expand into Tanzania to serve 12m people
The world’s first national drone delivery network, started in Rwanda by the Silicon Valley company Zipline, is now opening in Tanzania, serving 1,000 clinics...
Recyclable, self-healing malleable 'electronic skin'
Researchers have developed a new malleable, self-healing 'electronic skin' with sensors that measure pressure, temperature, humidity and air flow, which has applications ranging from...
Improving flu forecasting with 'smart thermometer' data
A new approach tested by researchers at the University of Iowa shows that de-identified data from a "smart thermometer" connected to a mobile phone...
FDA approves epileptic seizure monitoring watch
The Embrace seizure monitoring watch from Empatica, a company with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Milan, Italy, has won clearance from the US Food...
Stethee, the Aussie AI-enabled electronic stethoscope
M3DICINE, a Australian firm, just launched an “AI enabled” electronic stethoscope called Stethee. Medgadget reports that the device, originally profiled a few years ago...
Computer analysis of speech to predict psychosis risk in youths
Computer-based analyses of speech transcripts obtained from interviews with at-risk youths were able to predict which youths would later develop psychosis within two years,...
New device selects the faster and healthier sperm cells
A new device developed by a team of researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Stanford University uses an 'obstacle course' to sort and select...
Laser shoes 'significantly' help those with Parkinson's to walk
Freezing of gait, an absence of forward progression of the feet despite the intention to walk, is a debilitating symptom of Parkinson's disease. Laser...
Sugar and hydrogel dressing to speed wound healing
A new way of stimulating blood vessel formation, using a combination of simple and inexpensive sugar added to a hydrogel bandage, has been developed...
Low-cost, rapid test for iron and vitamin A deficiencies
Cornell University engineers and nutritionists have created a swift solution for a challenging global health problem: a low-cost, rapid test to detect iron and...
Engaged people and empowered doctors: the real wonder drug
With lifestyle diseases draining more than 55% of healthcare spend in South Africa as a result of chronic conditions, technology should be leveraged to help people...
Using artificial intelligence to identify colorectal adenomas
A new computer-aided endoscopic diagnosis system has been shown to automatically identify colorectal adenomas during colonoscopy, in one of the first prospective trials of...
Easy-to-produce prostate cancer tracer developed
An easy-to-produce, low-cost, prostate cancer tracer has been developed by King’s College London PhD student Jennifer Young. Known as 68Ga-THP-PSMA, the new tracer, which...
30-minute Caltech test identifies antibiotic resistant bacteria
A new test developed at the California Institute of Technology identifies antibiotic-resistant bacteria in as little as 30 minutes, allowing medical professionals to better...
Successfully using surgical screws from donated human bone
Biomechanics from TU Graz, are developing surgical screws from donated human bone material for foot and jaw surgery together with surgebright, a start-up from...
Wits engineering students lend a hand with cheaper prosthetics
Prosthetic hands that use brain signals to control movement sell for up to R150,000 but a team of engineering students from the University of...
New tool rapidly identifies cancerous tissue
A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has invented a powerful tool that rapidly and accurately identifies cancerous...
Fast, affordable new test to detect E coli in water
Canadian researchers at the have invented a fast, affordable way for developing communities to test their drinking water for potentially deadly E. coli. Unlike...
Speedy, wallet-sized test to measure blood alcohol content in saliva
The Finnish company Goodwiller has launched a rapid alcohol test it has developed in collaboration with VTT that measures the blood alcohol content from...
Simple, inexpensive device to quickly assess malarial progression
Canadian researchers have developed a simple mechanical device, ideal for resource-poor countries, to measure malarial progression.
Left untreated, malaria can progress from being mild to...
Rapid test to check antibiotic efficacy against urinary-tract bacteria
Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for rapidly determining whether urinary tract infection-causing bacteria are resistant or susceptible to antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance...
Handheld spectral analyser turns smartphone into diagnostic tool
Researchers have developed technology that for $550 enables a smartphone to perform lab-grade medical diagnostic tests on blood, urine and saliva samples as that...
Patient receives 3-D printed skull after traumatic brain injury
When a coma patient with frontal lobe trauma needed emergency surgery to relieve brain swelling with the intent of replacing the skull after the...
Wearable biofeedback rehab for patients with Parkinson’s
A University of Houston research team is developing the Smarter Balance System (SBS), a smartphone-based biofeedback rehabilitation system that guides Parkinson's disease patients through a...
New MIT hydrogel improves patients' experience with catheterisation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or rubber devices, providing a softer,...
Portable device for detecting tumour cells in the blood patented
Spanish researchers have successfully tested and patented a non-invasive portable device that counts the number of cancer tumour cells in blood by analysing antibodies...
3-D printing lowers the cost of laboratory equipment
Laboratory equipment is one of the largest cost factors in neuroscience. Now researchers, using 3-D printed components, have developed FlyPi, a low-cost imaging and...
Electronic glove translates sign language into text for wireless display on devices
A glove fitted with wearable electronics can translate the American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet and then wirelessly transmit the text for display on electronic...
Device quickly finds sepsis infection markers in a drop of blood
A new portable device can quickly find markers of deadly, unpredictable sepsis infection from a single drop of blood. The lab-on-a-chip is the first to...
Some hearing assistance devices perform as well as hearing aids
In a highly controlled comparison study, several over-the-counter hearing assistance devices performed almost as well as a conventional hearing aid that cost thousands of...
Experimental foot mat to predict foot ulcers in diabetics
An experimental foot-temperature monitoring system might one day be able to detect when diabetic patients are developing foot ulcers, a common complication that can...
SA's medicine dispensing ATM wins prestigious German health award
An ATM-like Pharmacy of the Future, using electronic and robotic technology to dispense medication and developed by South African and German innovators, has won a global...
Wound dressing to counter antimicrobial resistance
Polish researchers have harnessed the existing hydrogel dressing manufacturing technique to additional benefit, incorporating an antibacterial and biodegradable substance called chitosan, extracted from the...
Robotic drill 50-fold faster than standard cranial surgery procedures
Researchers at the University of Utah have developed a computer-driven automated drill that produces fast, clean and safe cuts, reducing the time the wound...