Normally a pacemaker patient has to undergo a surgical procedure about every 10 years for battery replacement, which not only proves too expensive but sometimes cause a grim risk for the health of the patient.
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Year 2006 was full of medical discoveries and there are thousands of medical gadgets that come to forefront in the year. It is never easy to pin down the top ten or twenty out of such a huge record, as every discovery or invention has some special...
Thanks to the developments of a new chip, doctors might be able to treat patients whose speech and movements have been affected by a stroke or an injury to their spinal cord. Patients often suffer such problems because of damage to their neural circuits....
To damage or loose a body part in some accident or mishap is one of the most dreadful catastrophes that the victims have to bear throughout the life. Now such victims, who have lost their hands, may put their worries at rest for a Scottish company Touch...
Betty-Blue is a two year old South-African cheetah, which had lost 2.5-inches of her rear paw, when she was caught in a trap laid down by farmers to protect their livestock.
The cheetah was taken to a vet and the doctors were so shocked at the...
Obstructive sleep apnea -- a terrible breathing disorder -- can lead to serious health problems including memory problems, i.e. memory loss. Although the contraption device used has not gone terribly popular for its being uncomfortable, scientists...
Undergoing a blood test in space has been a thing of the future. The reason being that the currently employed blood testing machines are so bulky that they cannot be taken to space.
In a research funded by the Space Giant NASA, researchers from...
Now, testing for deadly pathogens in food, air and water will no more be a cumbersome and expensive affair. A Michigan State University researcher and his team have made it easier with their new device - it is portable and hand-held device that can...
Blindness really is a curse that not only hinders the sufferer from following the normal routine but defers all the future prospects of growth, especially educational. They will have to rely heavily on other people and insufficient Braille books to...
Daniel Smith and Darell Reneker, researchers at the University of Akron have developed a new type of Nanofiber based bandages that can speed up the healing process of the human body.
The duo used electricity to spin ultrafine polymer fibers and...
Attending patients, especially children and adults, continuously for longer period is really a tough job for nurses and doctors in the hospitals and nursing homes. They will have to on their toes and have a relentless eye on the patient all the time....
Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, are figuring out how the bone cells work and how they heal after an injury.
They will use the information and will artificially try and enhance the cell growth so that the new...
The scientist of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a tiny implant made of Nanoparticles that when implanted in the human body can monitor the growth of tumor and the effect of chemotherapy on the tumor.
It is not the first time...
A new ray of hope has emerged for the paralyzed since scientists are on the way to develop a device that will record brain signals and transmit them to the paralyzed muscles in order to retrieve muscle control. The prosthetic system that is in its...
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