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Bluetooth with wireless link facility helps blood pressure patients

Bluetooth technology firms such as Intel and Philips is about to invent a blood pressure monitor that will have a wireless link facility to a PC or Cell phone. The Bluetooth SIG is planning to go for health-related applications for … Continue reading

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Havannah, a new concept for electronic medical record

Here is a new concept of accessing electronic medical record. Havannah seems to be a potential conception to access electronic medical record in coming ten years. It applies movable OLED technology using a 12″ diameter screen in an 8″ body. … Continue reading

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CAT scan and PET scan together advances cancer detection process

The combined technology of computer assisted tomography or CAT scans and positron emission tomography or PET scans may detect the cancer and other diseases easily. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania showed a new combination of both the scan mechanisms. … Continue reading

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New EDAC Quantifier system detects emboli in blood

This new medical device applies quantitative ultrasound technology to count the emboli in the blood stream. A Virginia company, Luna Innovations Inc., has innovated this new device Embolus Detection and Classification Quantifier (EDAC Quantifier) system. The primary release of EDAC … Continue reading

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Device that helps to re-grow teeth and bones

The researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton have developed a artificial device that allows teeth and bones to re-grow. This device is based on the low-intensity pulsed ultrasound technology. Jie Chen, the nano-circuit design expert says that he … Continue reading

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Rheolog, a new device to measure blood viscosity

Rheologics introduced a research device in the year 2001 for measuring the biophysical properties of circulating blood. The ‘Rheolog’ measures the rheological properties of blood in an environment that imitates blood flow in the human vascular system. Dual riser tube … Continue reading

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Protein-Coated Dental Implants Helps Bone Regeneration

Researchers at Medical College of Georgia have introduced a new technology to treat the tooth loss due to gum disease, that would embed specialized proteins onto dental implants to stimulate native stem cells to differentiate and become bone-forming cells thereby … Continue reading

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Automatic MD.2 Personal Medication System

Forgot to take your medicine? Here is the MD.2 Personal Medication System, about the size of a coffee maker that helps patients take their medication regularly. This helps patients take their medication regularly so that it works effectively: The device … Continue reading

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CCNE Develops Self-Illuminating Quantum Dots For In Vivo imaging

You must be aware of the Quantun dots that helps to trace out the disease molecule inside cells or body. According to National Cancer Institute’s Alliance for Nanotechnology, Stanford investigators have introduced self-illuminating bright quantum dots, thereby no need for … Continue reading

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Implanon: Long Term Solution To Birth Control

The world’s first needle-sized single-rod implantable contraceptive, Implanon, has got the FDA’s thumbs up which would be a news of relief for the women who are longing for a long-term solution to avoid pregnancy. Toon Wilderbeek, Akzo Nobel’s Board member … Continue reading

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