Medgadget Sci-Fi Contest 2017: Meet The Winning Stories
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment you have all been waiting for – the day that the winners of the Medgadget Medical Sci-Fi Competition are announced and their fantastic stories are published!
First, we would like to thank Eko Devices, the wonderful sponsors of our contest, that make the coolest and most advanced digital stethoscopes out there.The winner of our contest will receive an Eko CORE stethoscope that is both acoustic and electronic, has all the features of both, can amplify sound, record audio waveforms, and connect to your phone. Thank you, Eko!
Since we announced our Medical Sci-Fi Writing Contest i...
Source: Medgadget - December 15, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Data Driven Predictive Medical Devices: An Interview
In 1987, James Gleick wrote the book Chaos which was a layman’s description of different instances where chaotic behavior was displayed in systems. In one of the last chapters titled Inner Rhythms, he described the then latest research regarding physiological system characteristics and the seemingly oxymoronic idea that variable response of the system indicated health versus illness, specifically with regard to heart rate variability, and that these systems exhibited characteristics of nonlinear dynamics in which physiologists ‘began to see chaos as health.’ That book, which I read in 1988, and in particular that cha...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - November 13, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bridget Moorman Tags: Clinical Decision Support Interviews Source Type: blogs
Sleep Sensors for Data-Driven Asthma Management: Interview with Tueo Health ’s Dr. Bronwyn Harris
About 10% of children between 5-17 years of age, or more than 7 million kids in the US alone, suffer from asthma. In half of these cases, the child’s asthma is not well controlled. This is typically due to a variety of reasons, such as inconsistent use of inhalers or the inability of parents or caregivers to successfully identify signs of poor asthma control. Given the difficulty that families face in keeping track of their child’s symptoms, solutions that enable better measurement of asthma control are urgently needed. That’s why Tueo Health (pronounced as “too-ee-oh”) , a startup out of Stanford Univers...
Source: Medgadget - November 13, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mohammad Saleh Tags: Exclusive Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
PhD position in the O-Lab at Duke University
We are looking for a highly motivated young scientist to join the O-Lab, led by Prof. Tobias Overath, in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Work in our lab investigates how sounds, from simple sinusoids to complex speech signals, are processed in the brain, using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging methods (fMRI, EEG, ECoG) to track the underlying neural processes. Current projects investigate the transformation from acoustic to linguistic analysis of temporal speech structure, online measures of statistical learning, as well as optimization of cochlear implant coding strategies.Inte...
Source: Talking Brains - November 13, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Postdoc, PhD, and Lab manager positions available in the O-Lab at Duke University
We are looking for highly motivated scientists to join theO-Lab, led by Prof. Tobias Overath, in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Work in our lab investigates how sounds, from simple sinusoids to complex speech signals, are processed in the human brain, using a combination of behavioral (psychoacoustics) and neuroimaging methods (fMRI, EEG, ECoG) to track the underlying neural processes. Current projects investigate the transformation from acoustic to linguistic analysis of temporal speech structure, online measures of statistical learning, as well as optimization of cochlear implant ...
Source: Talking Brains - November 13, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Students Win Dyson Award for sKan Melanoma Detector
A team of biomedical engineering students have won the 2017 international James Dyson Award, and the £30,000 ($39,000) prize that goes with it, for their innovative sKan device that uses skin temperature measurements to diagnose skin cancer. The James Dyson Award runs in 23 countries, and is open to university level students and recent graduates studying product design, industrial design, and engineering.
The final year students at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada used their skills of ingenuity and invention to tackle the problem of affordable and reliable melanoma diagnosis. Current diagnostic options for melanoma...
Source: Medgadget - November 10, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tom Peach Tags: Dermatology Source Type: blogs
LabBag Automates Preparation, Management of Stem Cells
Stem cells are a way to test new drugs and therapies that would otherwise require the use of animals or difficult to obtain patient samples. While they have great potential for medicine, stem cells are hard to manage, particularly growing and differentiating them into other cells, and then storing them for later use.
Now a team of German researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging have developed a cheap and simple to use device that helps to automate some of the steps involve...
Source: Medgadget - November 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Genetics Source Type: blogs
Neuroengineering pioneer Randal Koene to discuss neural interfaces at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
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Proud to announce one great addition to the incredible Speaker Roster for the upcoming the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5-7th).
Dr. Randal Koene is the Lead Scientist at Kernel, a $100-million-funded start-up building advanced neural interfaces to treat disease and dysfunction, illuminate the mechanisms of intelligence, and extend cognition. A neuroscientist and neuroengineer, Dr. Koene also heads carboncopies.org, a nonprofit organisation trying to reverse engineer neural tissue and complete brains, and acts as Science Director of the 2045 Initiativ...
Source: SharpBrains - October 24, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Technology carboncopies.org extend cognition intelligence Kernel neural interfaces neuroengineering Randal-Koene Source Type: blogs
Cast21 Offers a Lightweight, Waterproof Cast: Interview with CEO Ashley Moy
Anyone who has been in an orthopedic cast knows their inconveniences. They are cumbersome, must be kept dry, which makes bathing difficult, and can cause the skin underneath to become itchy, smelly, and irritated.
Cast21 has designed a cast that solves those problems. The Chicago-based company uses a lattice frame that provides more breathability, while the material itself is waterproof and performs better in a few key metrics when compared to traditional fiberglass casts. The company’s cast takes about three minutes to set and can last for the duration of the casting.
The concept started as an undergraduate enginee...
Source: Medgadget - October 23, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Exclusive Orthopedic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Joins the Verily Baseline Project Study, Part 1: The First Visit
Over the past few years, just about all the major tech giants have shown significant interest in health. It’s basically now a necessity for smartphones and smartwatches to contain sensors, apps, and other features to monitor your health and fitness. And many of these companies are partnering with research institutions to analyze and mine user data for insights about our bodies, such as Apple’s and Stanford’s recently announced study to use Apple Watch data to identify cardiac arrhythmias.
One of the other notable studies uses technology from Verily (Alphabet’s life sciences division) and medical exp...
Source: Medgadget - October 18, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Exclusive Medicine Net News Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Swallowable Flexible Sensor to Detect Stomach Movements
Scientists at MIT have developed a flexible sensor that patients can swallow. The sensor sticks to the stomach wall and can relay information about stomach peristalsis. This could help doctors to diagnose disorders that slow down the movement of food through the gastrointestinal tract, or monitor food intake in obese patients.
The research team wanted a minimally invasive solution for monitoring stomach movements. To achieve this, they created a flexible device for increased safety. Because of the sensor’s flexibility, it can be rolled up and squeezed into a small capsule, which patients can swallow easily. The capsule b...
Source: Medgadget - October 12, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics GI News Source Type: blogs
Smartfoam Can Measure Impacts in Football Helmets
Biomedical engineers at Brigham Young University have developed a nanocomposite “smartfoam” lining for football helmets, which measures impacts and can help coaches know if a player may have sustained a brain injury.
Football players risk concussions during games. If a player is involved in a collision, it can be difficult to know whether they should stop playing, or play on. Concussions aren’t always obvious right away, but continuing to play with a head injury can be very dangerous.
To address this problem, the team at Brigham Young University developed a new smartfoam lining for football helmets that can m...
Source: Medgadget - September 25, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Neurology Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Like ECog? Like New York City? Cool new positions with Adeen Flinker at NYUMC
NYU School of Medicine is looking for candidates for two post-doctoral positions in Human Electrocortigoraphy (ECoG) research. Both positions will be under the supervision of Dr. Adeen Flinker, investigating speech processing and cortical network dynamics.The research will be conducted at NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center working with a population of surgical patients undergoing treatment for refractory epilepsy. Research paradigms will be conducted in close collaboration with the clinical neurology team. The candidate will conduct neurophysiological research in patients implanted with intracranial electrodes (su...
Source: Talking Brains - September 14, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Tiny Microchips Give Tracking Capabilities to Medical Devices Inside Body
As we develop a wide array of new implantable, injectable, and swallowable medical devices, the need to accurately track their location within the body becomes ever more critical. Currently, ultrasound, electromagnetism, and other methods are employed to track objects introduced into the body, but these modalities suffer from a number of imperfections that limit their accuracy, usefulness, and applicability. Now a team at Caltech have come up with a radically new way of localizing small devices introduced into the body with an impressive level of accuracy.
ATOMS, the acronym for the technique that stands for “address...
Source: Medgadget - September 13, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology GI Medicine Radiology Surgery Source Type: blogs
