Google’s DeepMind Teams With Moorfields For Early Eye Disease Detection [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 12, 2016 | General News, Medical

We’ve already seen strides in using artificial intelligence to help with healthcare tasks (see “IBM Watson Learns to See Medical Images” for one example). Now Google is taking aim at your eyes. Well, more precisely, Google DeepMind, a British...

Synthetic Biomedical Dental Fillings Prompt Cell Growth

by Bruce Brown | July 11, 2016 | General News, Medical

Imagine a world without root canals. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful world? Typically people need root canals as the result of a failed cavity filling. When you have a cavity, a dentist drills out the decay and puts in a filling. If soft tissue inside the tooth...

Learning to Control a Phantom Hand [video]

by Alfred Poor | July 11, 2016 | General News, Medical

Amputees often report that they can feel a “phantom limb” where theirs used to be. One of the great challenges is not just to create prosthetic replacements that the patient can control, but that also provide sensations as they are used. This closing of...

Helmet Uses Magnetism to Treat Depression [video]

by Alfred Poor | July 8, 2016 | General News, Medical

We’ve covered devices that are designed to send electrical currents through your head (such as “Coffee, Tea, or Thync?”) but this is about a product that uses magnetic fields instead. Brainsway has created a padded helmet that a patient wears for...

Portable $2 Zika Test on the Fast Track for Testing

by Bruce Brown | July 7, 2016 | General News, Medical

  It’s safe to say the whole world is concerned if not terrified by the Zika virus. Particularly now that it has been discovered that the virus can be spread by sexual contact by previously infected males for at least 62 days after infection, even if the...

Hand Sensor Speeds Rehab [video]

by Alfred Poor | July 7, 2016 | General News, Medical

At first glance, the device shown in this picture resembles a robotic prosthetic that might help patients move their hands. In fact, the device is passive and is designed to accurately measure a patient’s hand motions, right down to individual fingers. This is a...