Aug 08
For the first time in history, scientists have completed successful human trials of a malaria vaccine that provides 100% protection against the often fatal disease.
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Aug 07
When you’re suffering through a cold or fever, you don’t always have the presence of mind to check the expiration date of your meds as you rifle through the medicine cabinet. But finding and decoding when your meds have gone bad isn’t always easy, especially when you’re under the weather. So designers Kanupriya Goel and Gautam Goel have envisioned a new type of medication packaging that also expires, providing easy to interpret clues that the meds have gone bad.
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Aug 06
To give you an idea of how micro this video is, those dots you see moving diagonally toward the top of the screen are individual white blood cells. What you’re looking at is a microchip that sorts out white blood cells from a blood sample. It makes a great visual, but more importantly, it could seriously improve the way we diagnose disease.
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Aug 05
For the longest time, the medical community hasn’t had any idea what to do with people who have locked-in syndrome, the condition of being completely paralyzed from head-to-toe. Sometimes doctors don’t even know if they’re even conscious. The answer to communicating, it turns out, is to look in their eyes.
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Aug 02
There’s fate, and then there’s science. But sometimes—just sometimes—the two will join in an unholy union, spawning a monster bearing the worst qualities of both. And that is where cosmetic, surgical palm line adjustment comes in. Because occasionally destiny needs a little shove in the right direction. With a scalpel.
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Aug 01
If Playing God taught us anything, it’s that surgeons with shaky hands and crippling prescription painkiller addictions are not long for their profession. That’s why robots like the Da Vinci
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Jul 30
Most of the Google Glass videos we’ve seen thus far don’t seem to tap this device’s enormous potential. Used as a miniaturized camera phone or just another vehicle for porn
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Jul 30
Sometimes, good oral hygiene
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Jul 29
We’re all painfully aware that there isn’t a cure for Alzheimer’s. There isn’t even a reliable way to diagnose it. But a new blood test, the first of its kind, indicates that we can hold out hope for a surefire diagnosis, one that might catch the disease earlier than the current battery of brain scans and cognitive tests.
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Jul 29
Robots are everywhere. From making noodles in the background to serving diners and waiting tables, they’re no strangers to the restaurant scene. And now they might be making their way into hospitals.
This isn’t the first time a robot was built for the healthcare industry, but Veebot has built one that will draw blood from your arm. They’ve combined robotics with image-analysis software so that nurses and medical technologists can be on call elsewhere.
First of all, the machine inflates the cuff and tightens it around your arm. It shines an infrared on your arm to locate a vein and uses an ultrasound to check if blood’s ripe for the taking.
Before it goes to clinical trials, Veebot wants the robot to be right 90% of the time when it decides to plunge the needle into the vein. As of now, that value is at 83%.
[via iEEE Spectrum via DVice]
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