Koogeek sent us another device from its line of IoT products to review. The Koogeek S1 Smart Health Scale comes as one of the lower-costing digital connected scales on the market. It takes eight measurements: weight, body mass index (BMI), fat mass, lean mass, total body water, bone mass, visceral fat, and basal metabolic rate (BMR). It [ (Read more...)
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PIVO Gathers Blood Samples from Peripheral IVs, Gets FDA Clearance
Velano Vascular won FDA clearance for its second version of the PIVO needle-free vascular access device. The disposable device helps to gather blood samples from indwelling peripheral IVs, helping to avoid extra needle sticks and not using central lines to draw blood. The PIVO has a catheter that is placed into the peripheral IV and pushed [&h (Read more...)
New Method for Integrating Flexible Electronics Into Skin Patches
At the Waseda University in Japan, researchers have come up with a new, cheaper way of producing electronic devices that are flexible, elastic, and adhere to the skin. This development may help body monitoring electronic skin patches that interface with smartphone apps to become commonly used in medicine and by consumers. The technology relies on&n (Read more...)
Artificial Intelligence System to Diagnose Skin Cancer: Interview with Stanford Scientist Andre Esteva
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a deep convolutional neural network that can diagnose skin cancer by examining images of skin lesions. Skin cancer is the most common human cancer, and one in five Americans will be diagnosed with it at some point in their lives. At present, skin cancer is primarily diagnosed through an […]
FlowAid FA100 Contracts Calf Muscles to Stimulate Increased Blood Flow, Now FDA Cleared
FlowAid Medical Technologies, a company based in New York City, won FDA clearance for its FA100 Sequential Continuous Contraction Device (SCCD). It’s designed to help promote blood circulation, reduce swelling, prevent atrophy, and lower the chances of venous thrombosis in post-surgical patients by electrically stimulating the calf muscl (Read more...)
TinyLogics Memo Box Mini: A Mini Medgadget Review
The goal of every effective consumer medical product is to be that perfect balance of attractiveness, simplicity, and practicality. Even modernizing something as basic as a pillbox requires seamless integration and minimal distraction to effectively and consistently improve medication adherence. TinyLogics, a company out of Cambridge in the UK, thi (Read more...)
Individual Control of Magnetic Micromachines Within The Body
Magnetic micromachines can be delivered into the body and then controlled externally using a magnetic field. Such micromachines could be used to deliver a therapeutic agent to a specific location in a minimally invasive manner or control adaptive implants. However, in many cases multiple micromachines may be required. For example, a ‘swarm&rs (Read more...)
Clarius Wireless, Handheld Ultrasounds Cleared in Europe
Clarius, a company based in British Columbia, Canada, received European CE Mark approval for its wireless C3 and L7 ultrasound scanners. These devices are highly portable, battery powered, and use an Android or iOS smartphone or tablet for displaying the scans. They’re even water resistant, so can be used in a wide variety of in-clinic a (Read more...)
DNA Computer Can Sense Multiple Antibody Inputs, With Potential for Smart Drug Delivery
Researchers at the University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands have developed a DNA computer that can respond to the presence of specific antibodies and make calculations, with the potential for intelligent drug delivery in the future. DNA computing involves using DNA molecules and other molecular biological components as molecular circuitry, instea (Read more...)
Cheap Ultrasensitive HIV Sensor to Help Screen Virus in Poorer Places
At the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid, researchers have developed a tiny, cheap, portable sensor potentially capable of detecting HIV in people within a week of infection. These days nucleic acid amplification is the clinical standard, but it’s too expensive for many places around the world. Besides preventing early detection, (Read more...)
Common Sensing and Welkin Health Partner to Launch Health Coach-Driven Insulin Adherence Program [Interview]
At Medgadget we cover a lot of companies that either build medical hardware or create software platforms and tools for healthcare. But what happens when you align medical hardware from one company with complementary software from another to work in tandem? Arguably the best of both worlds. Today we had the opportunity to hear from […]
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Masimo MightySat Rx Oximeter Cleared in Europe to Measure Breathing Rate
Masimo has announced that European regulatory authorities have given clearance for its MightySat Rx fingertip pulse oximeter to be used to measure the respiration rate of patients, in addition to all the other measurements it performs. The respiration rate from the pleth (RRp), as Masimo calls it, notices how the respiratory cycle changes the natur (Read more...)
Novel Material Made of Living Cells Glows When Touching Certain Chemical Compounds
Scientists at MIT have developed a unique material that contains living, genetically engineered cells that fluoresce in the presence of specific chemicals. So far the potential of the technology has been demonstrated in gloves and bandages that light up when a certain compound is present in the exudate they come in contact with. The material [&hell (Read more...)
DOT Telemedicine Backpack, an All-in-One Solution Brings Remote Doctors Anywhere
A company called swyMed out of Lexington, Massachusetts is releasing a portable telemedicine solution designed to link patients with doctors, whether they are at home, in an ambulance, or in a hard to reach location. The plug-and-play solution can be quickly deployed to begin a consultation, particularly important in emergency scenarios. The DOT Te (Read more...)
QuiO and MedCrypt Partner to Add Data Security Sophistication to Smartinjector Devices
QuiO’s Smartinjector platform, as covered previously on Medgadget, is poised to become the first set of cloud-connected injectable therapy delivery devices available for in-home use. Following their recognition at January’s Accenture Startup Health Festival as the winner of the HealthTech Innovation Challenge, the QuiO team has see (Read more...)
Magnet-Powered Implant Releases Drugs in Controlled Fashion
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed an implantable device designed to release a drug when triggered by an external magnet. The amount of the drug that’s the implant ejects into the body can be controlled by using different strength magnets. Such technology may be of particular use in treating localized conditions (Read more...)
Ultrasound Therapy for Musculoskeletal Injuries: A Medgadget Interview with Michael Slayton, CEO of Guided Therapy Systems
Guided Therapy Systems (GTS), a company based in Mesa, Arizona, is at the forefront of ultrasonic therapy and imaging. Founded in 1994, GTS is the first company in the world that commercialized the combined use of ultrasound imaging with intense therapeutic ultrasound (ITU). Actisound, their latest product to be developed using ITU, is a low-cost, (Read more...)
Interview with Dexcom CEO & President Kevin Sayer
For the nearly 21 million Americans diagnosed with diabetes, regular and painful finger pricks to monitor blood glucose levels are a fact of life. Dexcom has developed a glucose monitor that can continuously keep an eye on glucose levels without finger pricks. The Dexcom G5 mobile continuous glucose monitoring system involves a small, discrete (Read more...)
LifeFlow Rapid Infuser for Sepsis and Shock Rolling Out in U.S.
410 Medical, a company out of Durham, North Carolina, is releasing in the U.S. its LifeFlow Rapid Infuser for treating patients afflicted by sepsis or shock. The device can help infuse 500 milliliters of crystalloid fluid into a patient within two and a half minutes, including in both adults and children, and an entire liter […]
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RJL Systems Launches the Quantum V BIA Device for Body Composition Analysis
RJL Systems, a company based in Clinton Township, Michigan, launched last week the latest successor in their line of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) products, the Quantum V. The Michigan-based company, often considered the originators and chief innovators of BIA instrumentation for use in determining body composition, has regularly worked to (Read more...)