Concussion Diagnostic Tech Locates Brain Damage Area [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 7, 2020 | Medical

Uncertainty and worry about concussions and other traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are a one-two punch; the injury might not get to you, but the stress can wear you down. Professional athletes and their families and parents of student-athletes in particular often face...

Quick Test Detects Age-Related Eye Disease Early [video]

by Amantha May | August 7, 2020 | General News, Medical

By 2030, one in five United States residents will be retirement age, meaning that age-related illness will increasingly account for substantial healthcare costs. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the number one cause of severe, permanent vision loss in people...

Wearables and AI Enlisted to Assess Endometriosis Pain Objectively

by Amantha May | August 5, 2020 | General News, Medical

[Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash] Endometriosis, a reproductive health condition affecting roughly 11% of adult women and teenagers in the United States, causes debilitating pain symptoms. A new partnership between Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. of Japan, and...

Ocular Pressure Sensor Heads Off Blindness [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 29, 2020 | Medical

As if a diagnosis of glaucoma isn’t bad enough, the progressive disease is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide according to the World Health Organization. An undetected and untreated IOP increase can result in permanent blindness due to optic nerve...

AI Assists Early Sepsis Identification and Treatment

by Bruce Brown | July 28, 2020 | Medical

Sepsis is a killer; the CDC reports that each year at least 1.7 million adults in the U.S. develop sepsis, and one in three patients who die in a hospital have sepsis. Assigning the cause of death to sepsis is tricky because it’s not a disease nor an infectious...

3D Printed Heart Could Transform Cardiac Research

by Amantha May | July 27, 2020 | Medical

Historically, cardiology research has faced inherent limitations because of the simple fact that live, naturally pumping hearts don’t exist outside of the body. A groundbreaking new study recently published by researchers at the University of Minnesota could...