Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) using implants is an emerging research frontier in psychiatry and neuromedicine. DBS technique blocks tremors using implants in brain has already been tried on Parkinson’s patients. More than 40,000 Parkinson’s...
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With significant development in medical diagnostics and imaging, we see a lot of new products coming to health care market. Anyone who has undergone the traditional Endoscopy would vouch about the difficulty he faced while swallowing the rigid or...
After I saw an amputee drag himself up Mt.Everest with his prosthetic leg, I knew that the world of prosthesis still has a long ways to go. Although, many would argue that it has come a long ways already. The artificial hands and legs are being...
A new X-Ray scanner, developed by Phillips, allows the radiologists to check out our body parts in detail. The Brilliance Computerized Tomography machine allows the body parts to stand out and present themselves in 3D format. Basically, it strips the...
Imagine how painful it is for a thin tube with a camera sent from the groin to inside the heart. Imagine the risks involved; of the catheter rupturing or bruising any of the delicate blood vessels. Now think of a heart patient getting simply a less...
A new mammography system developed by investigators from Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with a group from Germany will produce better imaging, lowering deaths and increasing early detection and prevention of cancer.
The Ultra-High...
You have used mints and sprays to freshen your breath, but have you ever imagined that a stainless steel stick could do the trick?
How does it work?
Just suck on it like a lollipop for 2 minutes, and your mouth is left miraculously odour free....
Right diagnosis of a diseased part of body is important factor for permanent cure a patient. Am I sounding like a doctor? Yes! I am. Have a look on this portable ultra sound machine that is introduced by Siemens Medical Solutions, one of the world's...
It is bit hard to believe that DVD's and videos can decelerate your child's vocabulary development but study conducted by US researchers witnessed it. Thus, if your infant is crazy about watching videos and DVD's it is time to put halt because amount...
The other day while I was watching an amputee climb the dizzy heights of Mt. Everest with his prosthetic leg, I was fascinated. That showed what the field of prosthetics can achieve. The latest news in the prosthetics industry is the new...
Fixing a micro device into human body to monitor how tired you are might sound awkward to you, but, C3B researchers are working tenaciously to make it a reality. The researchers are developing an implantable biosensor for soldier to monitor lactate...
Imagine if your T-shirt or blouse were intelligent enough to detect the condition of your heart and also conveys the same to your doctor without u even knowing that. This might sound like lines from a popular science fiction but researchers at University...
For most of us, the fact that modern technology isn't actually 'ingenious' but an extension of ancient practices would be hard to digest. Accept it or not, most of modern medicinal 'technology' had been an integral part of ancient medicine and surgery....
Do you often wake up feeling weary after a full night's sleep? Have you been told frequently that you snore very loudly while sleeping? Do you feel lethargic and sleepy through out the day? If the answer is yes to all of them, then, maybe you are...
The new life-saving device that can emerge as godsend for all the heart patients called Bluetooth heart monitor. Developed by scientists from India this avant-garde device measures electrical signal from the heart, analyse them to produce an...
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