The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made an announcement recently regarding Medical Device Data Systems (MDDS) after which InTouch Health confirmed that it complies with regulations issued by the a…
Since launching its healthcare business division in 2009 and demonstrating a prototype of its robotic home health assistant at TEDMED the same year, iRobot has been relatively quiet about its plans fo…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved DaTscan (Ioflupane I 123 Injection), a radiopharmaceutical agent developed by GE Healthcare. DaTscan is designed to help physicians evaluate neurod…
Stanford Cancer Center recently announced that it will be treating cancer patients with the TrueBeam linear accelerator, which could cut typical radiation treatment times in half. In addition, because…
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, in collaboration with a nationwide research team, have developed a prototype fo…
Potomac Photonics, a company that specializes in the microfabrication of miniaturized products, recently announced successful completion of Phase 1 its NSF SBIR contract for miniaturization of wireles…
German scientists have developed a hand prostheses designed to reduce phantom pain after an underarm amputation. Researchers at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, in collaboration with trauma sur…
Biomechanical engineering students at Johns Hopkins and their faculty adviser have built a prototype ring designed to detect electrical signals from uterine contractions in order to prevent premature …
Human clinical trials of a long-lasting implantable glucose sensor for diabetics are beginning soon, as the sensor and wireless telemetry system were recently shown to work successfully in animals. Th…
A recent study showed that the DizzyFIX, a plastic device patients can clip to a baseball cap and use at home, was effective against an intense form of vertigo known as benign paroxysmal positional ve…