At the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine, researchers in its Laboratory for Retinal Rehabilitation have been studying the potential of a class of drugs aimed at inhibiting MDM2
proteins that occur in the eyes of patients with age-related macular
degeneration (AMD). Positve results in testing these inhibitors in mice
models of the disease suggest a promising path to treatment of AMD, a
disease that affects 11 million persons in the U.S. alone.
Did you ever think that during your lifetime you would witness an organ
transplant that was made by a 3D printer? That if you desperately needed
a liver or a
kidney transplant, you would not have to be at the top of a national
list of recipients, and then be lucky enough to find a compatible donor? That time is coming very soon if the British TTP Group has anything to say about it. It’s got the patents on the new Vista 3D Nozzle.
The Emergency Sanitation team at WASTE are looking to creative inventors from around the world to develop a sanitary public urinal system to be installed in emergency situations. Do you have a golden design to share?
No, the de-stressing vest, invented by a quartet of Cornell University
students, doesn’t look like a medical device, and I bet it doesn’t feel
like one either. I just have two questions: Where do I have to go to
get into the device testing pool? and When?
Though some research has previously indicated that statin users may
lower their risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease by taking the drug, a
Taiwanese study looked at the relationship on a very large scale,
studying the effects of statins on Alzheimer’s risk on more than one
million subjects. This study, as well as another meta-study on the
effects of statins on the risk for cataracts, was presented in reports
to the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) over the past weekend.
The first hospital in-patient rehabilitation program for Internet addicts is about to open at the Bradford Regional Medical Center in north-central Pennsylvania on September 9, 2013, but get in line now if you’re ready to commit yourself;
the program will only accept four patients at a time. Once admitted to
the program, patients will be subjected to a ‘digital detox’ for 72
hours. If they survive that…
In the aftermath of disasters, clean drinking water may be impossible to find. Now, a porous gel infused with silver nanoparticles is in development. The invention may change the way water purification happens. The gel sucks in contaminated water and squeezes out purified water in mere seconds.
Is the world around you too darn loud? The In-Ear Amplifier from Able Planet gives you super hearing of a sort.
If there was a way to relieve the pain and discomfort of uterine fibroids without having major surgery, I’m sure more women wouldn’t suffer with their symptoms as long as they do. Well, now there is a way. The new Acessa™ Procedure uses radiofrequency ablation (RFA) to destroy the fibroids in an out-patient procedure and most women can be back to their routines the next day.
Just about everyone who has ever broken a bone knows that it is a pain — and not just from the break. The skin under the cast will inevitably start to itch and you can drive yourself nuts trying to find the right size stick or knitting needle to slide inside for a scratch that just never seems to be quite the relief you were looking for. Then there is the problem of being able to shower without getting the cast wet. That is until now. Jake Evill, a designer in London, has come up with a lightweight exoskeletal cast that can be created by using a 3D printer.
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