OraSure Technologies, a name in oral fluid diagnostics and maker of the OraQuick ADVANCE® Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test is trying its darn good to get an FDA's approval for its HIV testing products to be used at home.
The OraQuick ADVANCE is the first...
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Engineers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana are working to develop a grain-sized wireless device that the doctors can implant in the tumors to notify them with the exact dose of radiation and the location of the tumor.
The wireless...
In the meantime, when Intel is quite busy announcing new technology for its next-gen laptops, it revealed its plans for a novel mobile computing platform aimed at healthcare professionals.
The special tablet PC dubbed as the mobile clinical assistant...
While Otologics developed the fully implantable hearing aid a few days back, it's the time to take a look at the HiResolution Bionic Ear System developed by Boston Scientific. The cochlear implant system eases the kids and adults who are prone to...
Today we are proud to launch a new blog on portable gaming-Portagames.org.
The Portagamesblog endeavors to bring to you the latest portable gaming news, reviews, press releases on the home consoles and the PC platform. Edwin, who lived in cyber cafes...
If a human being can receive a bionic body part, the animals also should not be deprived of the valued technology. Prosthesis will reach the new heights if Steve McCulloch, director of dolphin and whale research at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic...
A team of French doctors will be attempting the world's first zero-gravity operation on a human being on Wednesday. The gravity free conditions will be offered by an Airbus A300 dubbed "Zero-G". In a custom-made operating block, this teal will remove a...
Spire Corporation has got FDA thumbs up for its new Silver Coated Hemodialysis Catheters. The company claims that the lubricious silver coating, nanocrystalline can reduce bacterial colonization for up to two months on its long-term dialysis...
Hardly a few days have passed after we had a look at the Pupil, the Robotic chair for the visually impaired, the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities in Japan has come up with the new 'Intelligent Wheelchair' for physically...
Active Implants Corporation (AIC), has received green signal from the CE Mark certification to market AIC's flagship, the AIC Hip Buffer™, an acetabular cup polymer implant. The low wear wear polycarbonate polyurethane acetabular cup increases the...
Damaged corneas lead to blindness in around 10 million people worldwide. A team at Stanford University have made an artificial cornea made from a hydrogel and stated that it would soon come to the market for commercial use.
The material used for the...
Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center are working on implantable living chips to monitor patients that could be developed possibly in a few years from now and could act as 'living chips.' The pictured above is a prototype of the...
FDA has made the first portable LeadCare II Blood Lead Test System developed by ESA Biosciences, a Chelmsford, Mass. Company available to the 115,000 certified point-of-care locations nationwide. The new system will ease the testing and treatment of the...
The source of the anthrax-by-mail attacks remains a mystery. Lot of people fall prey to the deadly substance that is found in spills from an envelope. At the moment, there is no technology for the first responders to identify that whether the powder...
In this high-tech world, you need to sit in front of the computer for long hours. And when you stand up, you are caught with the eyestrain. I just stumbled upon the EyeZone Eye Massager that comforts your exhausted eyes, stimulates circulation and tones...
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