A new stethoscope designed by the Acoustical engineer Adrianus Houtsma can help the doctors in the critical situations when life and death hang in balance.
This new stethoscope cuts external noises and helps the doctors to diagnose the symptoms...
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Siemens has developed a new mobile X-ray system dubbed MOBILETT XP CR, which will be showcased at the running annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. The MOBILETT XP CR comes with computed radiography (CR) reading technology and...
Staffing and cot shortages in the hospitals of the UK are one of major problems posing risk to the lives of newborn babies.
In the UK, one in eight babies needs to be looked after in a neonatal unit at some point, and about 17,000 babies a year...
Due to the complexities of modern existence and busy work schedules, life has become so tiring and hectic that people hardly gets any time to refresh their mind as well as body.
Keyton has come up with the Innova Massage Chair that not only gives a...
A Hitachi-led group has developed a communication device that can be used by the paralyzed.
The device is named 'Kokoro Gatari' which means Mind Talk.
The device is for people who are suffering from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). It allows...
Cardiologists at the Royal Brompton Hospital have developed a new technique of medical scanning that can spot the children that have weak hearts and are at a risk of a sudden death.
The scan shows the heart scar tissue giving the doctors an important...
A mobile phone can provide you with regular assessment of your health and fitness. The FitFone Exercise Physiology System developed by Dr Conor O'Brien is a gift for all people who are health conscious but don't have time to visit their physicians...
Esaote S.p.A is using the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Technology of Texas Instruments Inc. to good effect.
One of the technologies powered by this DSP technology is called XStrain™ and is installed on Esaote's new MyLab™ XVision series of...
A recent report by federal health officials stated that the older people are at higher risk of death due to falling in US. To combat such situations, a team of German scientists from the Franhofer Institute for Experimental Software Development in...
The scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory claim to have developed a novel type of Biochip based on a somewhat old technology dubbed polymerase chain reaction. The lab-on-a-chip is expected to detect infectious disease strains in fewer than 15...
Though it looks like a business card, it is actually a life-saving emergency card that fits right into your pocket. The easy to use and interactive EMI r911 Card has the capability to store the personal health info on detail for the doctors and emergency...
ALR Technologies are about to launch a new product called the Constant Health Companion™ in the market. It is a portable device which can be with patient all the time and will help him remind him of the schedule of his drugs that he needs to take....
Artificial blood? Yes, I am talking about the artificial blood that will sometime in the near future replace our blood. Oxycyte is a man-made pure white compound that has the ability to carry oxygen 50 times more efficiently than our own blood....
Like the Mitsubishi D702iF cellular phone, the Sagem's myc-3b handset monitors the menstruation cycle for the ladies and informs when they are most fertile. All you have to do is to enter your menstrual dates into the handset's calendar and its 'pink...
Now, the health care professionals have an X-ray vision. Well, a bioscience company named Luminetx has developed VeinViewer that will enable the health care workers an x-ray vision by highlighting veins. No doubt, nurses will be at ease while poking a...
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