3D Printed Medical Devices a $6.1 Billion Market

by Bruce Brown | September 13, 2019 | Medical

In a few short years, 3D-printed medical applications progressed to the point we’re no longer surprised to read about developing 3D technologies for use outside or inside the human body. We’ve written about 3D prosthetic arms, legs, hands, eyes, and...

Emergency Defibrillator Locator Update [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 12, 2019 | Health

According to the CDC, 70% to 90% of people who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) die before reaching the hospital. In 2015, about 357,000 people in the U.S. had OHCA. Before emergency response personnel arrive, the best chance for survival is when another...

Boston Biotech Lab to Award Startup Space

by Bruce Brown | September 11, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Global healthcare company Novo Nordisk wants to give three biotech startups a Golden Ticket, one each year for three years. The Golden Ticket is one year of free access to a scientist and a bench for research at LabCentral, a state-of-the-art biotech innovation lab in...

In-Home Monitoring Detects Diabetic Foot Ulcers

by Bruce Brown | September 10, 2019 | Medical

The latest CDC diabetes report found nearly 10% of the U.S. population — more than 30 million people — have diabetes and another 84 million have prediabetes. From 10% to 15% of the people who have diabetes will have a foot ulcer during their lives....

Graphene Makes Tiny Sensor Chip Practical

by Alfred Poor | September 10, 2019 | Enabling Tech

The wearable health tech revolution stands on the shoulders of the giant smartphone market. If it were not for the demand for billions of phones every year, the component market would not have reached the scale necessary to support new research and drive down costs....

Robotic Shorts Help Walking and Running [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 9, 2019 | Enabling Tech

In 2017, we wrote about researchers at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering who focus on wearable robotics to assist human walking. The earlier post reported the team’s...