Early Nerve Damage Detection for Diabetics [video]

by Bruce Brown | December 16, 2015 | General News, Medical

According to the American Diabetes Association, 9.3% of the U.S. population had diabetes in 2012. Among Americans over 65, the rate was 25.9%. Lower limb amputation is one of the more common among the nasty complications of diabetes. We experienced this first hand...

3D Models of Brain Tumors Aid Surgeons [video]

by Alfred Poor | December 10, 2015 | General News, Medical

Medical imaging is a modern miracle; doctors are able to peer inside the human body and detect injuries or abnormal growth such as cancer tumors. This digital data can be presented as two-dimensional images: slices through the body at regular intervals. One problem is...

Wearable Device Tracks Children Health Records

by Bruce Brown | December 7, 2015 | General News, Medical

While medicine and health care advance in many parts of the world, there are still large populations with limited or no care at all. Infants are at greatest risk. An estimated 15 million children die each year from vaccination-preventable diseases. Often mothers in...

Track Arrhythmia with New App

by Alfred Poor | December 7, 2015 | General News, Medical

Arrhythmia is a condition that can be difficult to diagnose, because it can often be intermittent. As a result, patients have to wear a monitor that tracks their heartbeats for an extended period of time. And they also must log notable events when they occur, such as...

Tiny Implantable Pump Delivers Drugs

by Alfred Poor | December 4, 2015 | General News, Medical

A typical postage stamp is about 1.0 inch by 0.9 inches. The Swiss company Debiotech has created a miniature pump that is less than one third that size, and about as thick. This device is designed to be implanted under the skin to deliver drugs — such as insulin...

Walk Like You Used To

by Bruce Brown | December 2, 2015 | General News, Medical

Progressive neuromuscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) often rob patients of muscular control early on and get progressively worse, while spinal cord injury can halt mobility immediately. The loss of functional...