Wristband Promises Bloodless Glucose Monitor [video]

Wristband Promises Bloodless Glucose Monitor [video]

And now we present you with YANIGM: Yet Another Non-Invasive Glucose Monitor. While diabetes patients continue to prick their fingers multiple times a day, the idea of a reliable non-invasive glucose monitor system remains a Holy Grail of sorts for the wearable health...
Pacemaker Powered by Microwaves

Pacemaker Powered by Microwaves

  Implanted pacemakers have helped millions of people since Wilson Greatbatch accidentally invented them in the 1950s while building a device to record the sounds of a working heart. At that time heart pacemakers were huge external devices and often shocked...
Terahertz Scanner from Carbon Nanotubes

Terahertz Scanner from Carbon Nanotubes

One of the most useful types of technology in medicine is the kind that lets doctors look inside the human body. X-rays images are one of the most familiar, but ultrasound and other methods are also used. There is growing interest in “terahertz” imaging...