At the beginning of this year, Medgadget spoke with Colin Lawlor, CEO of SleepScore Labs about the company’s S+ non-contact sleep monitoring technology. Last month, we again heard from SleepScore Labs about their new SleepScore Max sleep monitoring system, an upgrade to the original S+. Since then, Medgadget was able to give the Sle (Read more...)
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Heart Rate Variability, A Real-Time Method of Health Monitoring: An Interview with Jason Moore of Elite HRV
Elite HRV, creators of a heart rate variability (HRV) app and platform, has recently launched CorSense, their new HRV device, on Kickstarter that raised $100,000 within the first 48 hours. The company’s popular HRV app is available for download on your mobile device. HRV is a complex biomarker that acts as a comprehensive “check-engine (Read more...)
Robotic Pelvic Assist Device Helps Parkinson’s Patients Improve Their Stability While Walking
Researchers at Columbia University have developed a system called the Tethered Pelvic Assist Device (TPAD), which can help Parkinson’s patients to improve their gait stability after just one training session. Fall rates in adults with advanced Parkinson’s disease are twice as high as those in healthy adults of a comparable age. Finding (Read more...)
Medgadget’s Best Medical Technologies of 2017
The year 2017 is coming to a close, and as in years past, we look back with excitement at the medical technologies that have been gracing the pages of Medgadget. As usual, there are trends that have revealed themselves, with many research teams around the world working on similar technologies. There are also new devices […]
Medgadget’s Best Medical Technologies of 2017
The year 2017 is coming to a close, and as in years past, we look back with excitement at the medical technologies that have been gracing the pages of Medgadget. As usual, there are trends that have revealed themselves, with many research teams around the world working on similar technologies. There are also new devices […]
Bioelectronics for Neurological Diseases: Interview with Will Rosellini, CEO of Nexeon
Nexeon Medsytems is a medical device company focused on providing innovative neurostimulation products for patients suffering from debilitating neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s and essential tremor. It was founded in 2005 with the goal of changing how innovative ideas in the medical device industry move from concept to realit (Read more...)
XableCath Blunt Tip for True Lumen Passage of Lesions Cleared by FDA for PAD
XableCath, a Salt Lake City company, won FDA clearance for its XableCath blunt tip support catheter for crossing calcified lesions in the peripheral vasculature both above and below the knee. It results in a tunnel through the lesion, helping to facilitate the placement of stents or other therapies. “In two clinical investigator-led studies, (Read more...)
480 Biomedical Develops Bioresorbable Stent as Strong as Metal
With every heartbeat blood is carried through the arteries to provide organs with life-sustaining oxygen and nutrients. In patients suffering from diseases such as atherosclerosis, arterial blood flow can be severely restricted, limiting the delivery of oxygen and nutrients. To re-establish blood flow, surgeons may place a stent to mechanically re- (Read more...)
Exponential Medicine 2017 Day 1 & 2 Conference Overview: Virtual Reality, Transcriptomics, and an Exciting Announcement by the ACS
Welcome to Medgadget’s overview of this year’s Exponential Medicine (ExMed) conference by Singularity University (SU), which took place, for its fifth year in a row, in San Diego, CA at the Hotel Del Coronado last month. This year ExMed brought together innovators from nearly 40 countries to discuss the technologies and trends rein (Read more...)
New Replacement Heart Valve Grows as Child Gets Older
Children born with congenital heart valve defects number in the thousands each year, yet there are simply no artificial cardiac valves available that were designed specifically for babies. Multiple heart surgeries have to be performed as the child outgrows successive implants. In addition, since the devices were never intended for children, they of (Read more...)
Surgical Sealants and Beyond: Interview with Christophe Bancel, CEO and Co-Founder of Gecko Biomedical
Medgadget recently reported that Gecko Biomedical, a biomedical start-up based in Paris, France received CE mark approval for their SETALUM Surgical sealant. The bioinspired polymer sealant is cured on-demand using light and can supplement conventional sutures during vascular surgery. The material is biodegradable, bioresorbable, and biocompatible, (Read more...)
CleanCision System FDA Cleared to Retract and Protect Abdominal Surgical Wounds
Prescient Surgical, based in San Carlos, California, just won FDA marketing clearance for its CleanCision Wound Retraction and Protection System. The device, which combines a retractor with infection control mechanisms, aims to prevent surgical site infections, a common, dangerous, and costly problem. The CleanCision System protects surgical w (Read more...)
Timestrip Vaccine Indicator Reminder Helps Parents in Poorly Developed Places Stay on Immunization Schedule
In developing nations that lack proper medical systems, kids’ vaccinations are often forgotten about and therefore missed, leading to the development of bigger problems down the road. In more developed nations, parents receive regular reminders via a variety of means and compliance remains quite high outside the community of skeptics. To help (Read more...)
Nanoparticle-Based Imaging of Metastasis Throughout Body
Common radiological tumor detection technique these days is done using contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which can only detect tumors of a certain size or larger. This is a major limitation, as it leaves patients with smaller tumors that grow and spread undetected, preventing early treatment of many cancers. Researchers at Rutgers (Read more...)
Penclic R3 Wireless Mouse: A Medgadget Review
Earlier this year we reviewed one of the most innovative computer mice we’ve ever encountered, the Penclic R2, that was designed to prevent the onset of carpal tunnel syndrome. Your typical boring old mouse puts your forearm into a pronated position, but the Penclic is used like a pen and avoids the most common cause […]
Microfluidic Device for Pushing Flexible Electrodes Deep Into Brain
In order to place electrodes deep into the brain without disrupting too much tissue, they must be stiff and as narrow as possible. There are a number of recently developed materials that are incredibly narrow and electrically conductive, such as carbon nanotubes and graphene, but they’re quite pliable when made at scales of a few […]
Synthetic Lethality Nanoparticles Kill Difficult to Treat Cancers
Researchers at the University of Iowa have developed dual-action nanoparticles that have been shown, in a laboratory study, to selectively kill endometrial cancer (uterine serous carcinoma) cells. The therapeutic approach combines paclitaxel, a common chemo agent, and nintedanib, aka BIBF 1120, a new cancer drug that is typically used to hinder ang (Read more...)
Medgadget Boards the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital
Fresh off a project in Cameroon, the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital paid a special visit to the San Francisco Bay Area for fundraising activities and a resupply before spending the holidays in Arizona for maintenance and its next project in Peru. Medgadget was given a private tour and got a close look at everything from the […]
Sensor Pulls Sweat from Skin to Measure Multiple Biomarkers
Researchers from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and a Swiss company called Xsensio have presented at last week’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco a new sweat sensor capable of detecting a number of useful chemical biomarkers, as well as the sweat’ pH level and temperatu (Read more...)
Plasmonic Biosensor to Detect Exosomes with Naked Eye
Exosomes are vesicles that are released by the body’s cells that end up in our blood, urine, and other bodily fluids. The importance and roles they play within our bodies still has to be elucidated, but there’s already a lot of signs that exosomes are biomarkers of disease and indicators of various cellular processes. Studying [… (Read more...)