Biomedical technology
New tool helps 'tune' cochlear implants to improve hearing
A Chopin or Mozart composition loses its meaning and magic when played on a piano that's out of tune.
May 27, 2021
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IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Medical research
Head and neck positioning affects concussion risk
If you're about to run headfirst into something, your reflex might be to tense your neck and stabilize your noggin. But according to new research from Stanford University that may not be the best way to stave off a concussion. ...
Aug 22, 2018
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Low-cost, sensor-equipped insole to monitor gait of patients with mobility impairments
An interdisciplinary team of University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers has developed a low-cost shoe insole, equipped with force-sensitive resistors (FSR), that aims to improve the management of health conditions that ...
May 4, 2022
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Radiology & Imaging
Low-cost, 3D-printed device may broaden focused ultrasound use
Researchers and clinicians have been working to use focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles to open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for both noninvasive diagnostic use as well as to deliver treatments to the brain for ...
Feb 22, 2022
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Neuroscience
Heart rate variability predicts epileptic seizure
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes seizures of many different types. Recent research from Japan has found that epileptic seizures can be more easily predicted by using an electrocardiogram to measure fluctuations ...
Apr 1, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Terahertz biosensor detects skin cancer with remarkable accuracy, advancing new era of early detection
Researchers have developed a revolutionary biosensor using terahertz (THz) waves that can detect skin cancer with exceptional sensitivity, potentially paving the way for earlier and easier diagnoses. Published in IEEE Transactions ...
Feb 20, 2024
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Diabetes
Researchers discover a more accurate way of checking blood flow in type 2 diabetes patients
Aston University scientists have discovered a more accurate way of checking the blood flow in the feet of patients with type 2 diabetes.
Feb 8, 2023
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Cardiology
Listen to your heart: AI tool detects cardiac diseases that doctors often miss
When your doctor listens to your heart through a stethoscope they're listening to the distinctive lub-dub sound made by the heart's valves as they open and close, and straining to detect the subtle squelches and murmurs made ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Non-invasive fetal oxygen monitor could make for safer deliveries
A device to directly measure blood oxygen saturation in a fetus during labor has been developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis. By providing better information about the health of a fetus right before ...
Jun 17, 2020
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Biomedical technology
A new type of hand prosthesis learns from the user, and the user learns from the prosthesis
Aalto University doctoral candidate Dennis Yeung and his research group have developed and tested a new type of technology that enables better compatibility between a prosthesis and the amputated area. The study was conducted ...
Mar 18, 2022
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