Diabetes
Can a sensor prevent diabetic foot amputation?
In the global effort to prevent diabetic foot amputations, one of the most effective tools is a fairly simple, comfortable boot.
Feb 12, 2013
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News tagged with sensor technology
Health
Sensors help to prevent falls
More than one third of all over-65s in Germany are at acute risk of falling. Electrical engineers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) want to remedy this with new sensor technology that looks at movement and the environment, ...
Nov 13, 2018
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Medical research
Tiny tools help advance medical discoveries: Researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale
To understand the progression of complex diseases such as cancer, scientists have had to tease out the interactions between cells at progressively finer scales—from the behavior of a single tumor cell in the body on down ...
Jan 8, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Dogs help sniff out ovarian cancer in Pa. study
Researchers in Philadelphia have begun an ovarian cancer detection study that relies on dogs' keen sense of smell.
Aug 9, 2013
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Sensors harnessing light give hope in rehabilitation
Recently, a Korean company donated a wearable robot, designed to aid patients with limited mobility during their rehabilitation, to a hospital. These patients wear this robot to receive assistance for muscle and joint exercises ...
Aug 29, 2023
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Surgery
New technology helps patients suffering joint damage
Biomedical engineering researchers say better implantable sensors and cartilage-growing techniques are making engineered cartilage a clinical reality for patients suffering from joint damage.
Jul 2, 2012
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Health
Researchers invent real time secondhand smoke sensor
Making headway against a major public health threat, Dartmouth College researchers have invented the first ever secondhand tobacco smoke sensor that records data in real time, a new study in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco ...
Mar 19, 2013
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Medical research
Glove and armband device that gives 'sense of touch' haptic feedback to amputees to be trialed
A glove and armband that gives people with upper limb prosthetics a sense of touch through haptic feedback is in development at the University of Bath, with a unique at-home trials set to begin in the coming weeks.
Sep 13, 2023
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Health
Residential care for the elderly is moving into the digital age
Sensors under the mattresses of elderly residents with dementia track how much they sleep at night. Others in the showers note how often they bathe, while sensors in the walls watch over their movements.
May 29, 2013
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Medical research
A novel motion tracking system assesses functional rehabilitation of the upper limbs
Upper limb function impairment is one of the most common sequelae of central nervous system injury. Conventional assessment methods cannot provide objective evaluation of patient performance and the effectiveness of therapies.
Aug 5, 2013
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