Items tagged with medical
The upcoming Pixel 10 handset might arrive to user's eyes with an upgraded display with less flicker than the existing models in the lineup. The suggestion comes from Android Central's Nicholas Sutrich, who's been spearheading efforts to...
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Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University researchers are training robots to perform complex surgical procedures. These robots perform like human surgeons and even correct errors during surgical operations. Researchers use video...
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There are plenty of instances of folks using Apple’s Vision Pro augmented reality headset irresponsibly, while doing things like driving Telsa Cybertrucks, skydiving, or even getting married. Despite all that nonsense, the Vision Pro has...
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Researchers from Harvard Medical School, the University of Maine, and MIT have developed a method for reversing cellular aging. The groundbreaking research could be an alternative to gene therapy for age reversal, changing how humans are...
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A Hong Kong-based biotech startup has brought its fully developed by artificial intelligence drug into clinical trials with human patients. The company states that its drug, INS0_055, demonstrates the power of its AI platform in drug...
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Google is rightly proud of some of the things that Google Lens can do to make a user’s life easier. In a recent blog post, the tech giant has highlighted a mix of eight great things its visual search tool can help you with. As indicated by...
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Virtual Reality enabled doctors to train for a surgery to separate a set of conjoined twins in Brazil. At nearly four years old, the two boys were the oldest craniopagus twins with a fused brain to be separated.
When most of us think of...
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In a “proof of concept” flight, Unither Bioelectronics delivered donor lungs in a way that should make the likes of Amazon envious. The lungs were in fact delivered via a drone from Toronto Western Hospital to Toronto General Hospital in...
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Researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago have developed a new wearable device, which uses a set of data algorithms tailored to catch early signs and symptoms that are associated with COVID-19. The team says that the wearable...
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One of the most in-demand pieces of medical equipment during the coronavirus pandemic around the world is the ventilator. For some with COVID-19, respiratory distress is a problem, and ventilatory support is required to keep patients...
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The coronavirus/COVID-19 epidemic may have started in China, but it has spread to most of the world at this point. One of the hardest-hit countries in the world is Italy. Italian healthcare providers are fighting a company that is putting...
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Breast cancer is a disease that will impact the lives of many people around the world. One major goal of doctors and medical staff is to diagnose breast cancer early, so treatment can begin sooner and hopefully positively affect the...
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Update - 3:44PM ET 6/21/19: This article has been updated to reflect skepticism of the claims made by researchers and any direct causation with the symptom of bone spurs in the subjects of the study.
Some recent biomechanics research...
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Samsung has been fighting with former employees and their families for over a decade after some of those workers became ill or died due to unsafe working conditions inside its chip and display manufacturing facilities. These types of...
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Implanted ID devices certainly aren’t new; they have been used to help lost pets return home for many years now. These little chips are embedded under the skin of the dog or cat, and if picked up by animal control, the chip can be scanned...
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Apple is working hard to position the new Apple Watch Series 4 wearable as a state of the art health monitoring device. Moving beyond the gadget and Apple fan crowd into the medical device and health monitoring market could certainly...
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Garmin has announced a new wearable that has some very cool tracking capabilities called the vivosmart 4. The device is very slim, and the coolest feature of the wearable is that it has a wrist-based pulse oximeter. A pulse oximeter is a...
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Engineers and researchers are constantly on the lookout for new ways to find problems inside the human body that allow doctors to determine what's going on internally without having to resort to cutting. A team from the MIT Computer...
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We talked not too long ago about a study that had found that the Apple Watch might be usable for detecting high blood pressure and sleep apnea, thanks to the sensitivity of its heart rate monitor and an accompanying app. This week marks...
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We have been talking about benefits of machine-learning investments for quite some time. There's simply an incredible amount of potential and opportunities that can come from these learning machines - especially where the medical field is...
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For decades, one of the most-studied and elusive cures in medical science has been biotechnology that would allow humans to walk again after spinal cord trauma. Other prosthetic devices have advanced enormously over the last 50 years...
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Google is responsible for a lot of things that have made our lives better. Better search, better email, and one impressive mobile operating system. But beyond its commercial success sits a research department that's doing fascinating...
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