Medical Innovations - Vortex Ultrasound Enabled Endovascular Thrombolysis Feb 02, 2023 3 days ago
Medical Innovations: With the incidence of COVID-19, Post COVID and also Post vaccine associated cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) skyrocketing globally, a new medical innovation by medical scientists from the North Carolina State University-USA could not have arrived at a more opportune time.
The research team have developed an ultrasound transducer that can disrupt blood clot...
Source: COVID-19-Innovations Sep 14, 2021 1 year ago
COVID-19 Innovations: Scientist from Ohio State University along with researchers from the Ford Research and Innovation Center-Michigan have in a new study explored the use of heat treatments to inactivate SARS-CoV-2 in passenger vehicles including cars, van and buses.
According to the study abstract, “Heat is an established method to inactivate coronaviruses, and there is utility in...
Source: Medical Innovations And Startups Jul 12, 2021 2 years ago
Medical Innovations: Australian researchers from RMIT University, Melbourne in collaboration with biotech start-up Soterius have developed a new sensor that can detect the presence of tiny amounts of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants from a person’s breath or even the environment despite minute amounts present. It works extremely well even with those that are asymptomatic.
The new senso...
Source:Medical Innovations Jul 02, 2021 2 years ago
Medical Innovations: Scientist and engineers from MIT and Harvard University have developed an innovative face mask that can diagnose if the wearer has COVID-19 within about 90 minutes. The masks are embedded with tiny, disposable sensors that can be fitted into other face masks and could also be adapted to detect other viruses.
Face Masks with sensors that detects SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Credit...
Source: Medical Innovations Aug 27, 2020 2 years ago
Medical Innovations: A new study by Japanese Conglomerate Panasonic in collaboration with Dr Mayo Yasugi, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Science, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University has verified and demonstrated the inhibitory effect of the hydroxyl radicals contained in water (nano-sized electrostatic atomized water particle) on...
Source: Medical Innovations - John Hopkins University Aug 13, 2020 3 years ago
Medical Innovations: Researchers from John Hopkins University have developed a new robotic system that allows medical staff to remotely operate ventilators and other bedside machines from outside intensive care rooms of patients suffering from infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
The remotely controlled robotic system is still being tested, but initial trials have demonstrated how i...
Source: Medical Innovations Aug 03, 2020 3 years ago
Medical Innovations: MIT engineers have developed an innovative method to monitor pneumonia or other lung diseases by analyzing the breath exhaled by a patient. The new platform can also be improvised to detect pathogens including SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19.
MIT engineers have designed nanoparticle sensors that can diagnose lung diseases.
If a disease-associated protein is present in t...
Source: COVID-19 Innovations Jul 25, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Innovations: Scientists from George Washington University (GW) have developed a miniscule device that could allow public health professionals to immediately diagnose and track COVID-19 infection using cell phones.
The university’s Technology Commercialization Office (TCO) awarded a US$50,000 COVID-19 Technology Maturation Grant to the team, led by Dr Mona Zaghloul and...
Source: COVID-19 Disinfectants Jul 01, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Disinfectants: PNNL or Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has created a new superhydrophobic material, called ElastiDry that repels bacteria and viruses.
Water beads off ElastiDry due to the substance’s superhydrophobocity.
Image credit: Andrea Starr | PNNL
PPEs or personal protective equipment has been at the center of the fight against COVID-19. The unforgiving...
Source: Health Tech Startups Jun 30, 2020 3 years ago
Health Tech Startups: A team of National University Of Singapore (NUS) researchers have developed a portable COVID-19 micro-PCR diagnostic system called Epidax that enables rapid and accurate on-site screening of infectious diseases and significantly reduces the time required to analyze patient samples. With this new innovation COVID-19 screening can soon be conducted directly at various testing s...
Source: COVID-19 and Mixed Reality Jun 10, 2020 3 years ago
Mixed Reality (MR): An innovative project at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has brought the versatility of mixed and augmented reality products to the forefront of the news. Called the Imperial led project, the initiative has doctors wearing the Microsoft Hololens headsets whilst working on the front lines of the COVID pandemic, to aid them in their care for their patients. ht...
Source: Medical Innovations May 21, 2020 3 years ago
Medical Innovations: A research team from the University of California-San Diego has developed a wearable, non-invasive Vitamin C sensor that could provide a novel highly personalized option for users to track their daily nutritional intake and dietary adherence.
First-author Juliane Sempionatto, a PhD Candidate in nanoengineering in Joseph Wang’s lab at the UC San Diego Jacobs Scho...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 17, 2020 3 years ago
A novel medical imaging startup based in Israel, aiming to upend the medical imaging business just raised US$26 million in its most recent round of funding, more than doubling its total support from investors that include Fujifilm and
Foxconn.
The Nanox.Arc
The medical device startup called Nanox has developed a new digital x-ray device that carries a much smaller footprint and cost when...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 26, 2019 3 years ago
MolecuLight, a Toronto-based healthtech startup has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its handheld medical device used for detecting infected wounds through fluorescence imaging, called i:X. The approval means the healthtech startup can now market and sell its medical device in the United States for its intended purpose. This regulatory clearance will also assis...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 16, 2019 3 years ago
AWAK Technologies, a Singapore-based medical startup focused on dialysis using regeneration technology for end-stage kidney diseases, has raised US$40 million in an oversubscribed financing round. The company’s products are expected to disrupt the global dialysis industry that is worth more than US$ 80 billion a year.
AWAK's PD (Peritoneal Dialysis) wearable device eliminates the curr...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 01, 2019 3 years ago
Australian molecular diagnostics startup: Genetic Signatures has raised US $25 million, it said last week.
The participating investors in the financing were Regal Funds Management, Perennial Value Management, Asia Union Investments, and Karst Peak Capital, a spokesman for Genetic Signatures said. Asia Union Investments is the family office of Genetic Signaures majority holder and Cofounder Chris A...
Source : Thailand Medical News Nov 27, 2019 3 years ago
Biomedical researchers from California Institute Of Technology or Caltech have developed an ultrasensitive wearable sweat sensor that can monitor various metabolites and nutrients in the human body. Blood tests are a tried-and-true way of evaluating what is going on with your body, but the discomfort is unavoidable.
In a new research paper, biomedical engineers led by Dr Wei Gao, assistant...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 25, 2019 3 years ago
These are some of the applications of a new wireless skin patch developed by Northwestern University that can be used in many medical and health applications:
-The stick-on device makes it possible to share a virtual touch on social media, feel strikes from a video game, and detect pressure on a prosthetic
-A mother smiles at her toddler via a live video feed, then runs her fingers a...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 24, 2019 3 years ago
Researchers from University Of Winconsin-Madison have developed a prototype hat that emits electrical pulses to the scalp to help stimulate hair on patients suffering from male baldness.
In their studies of which the findings were published in the Journal Of American Chemical Society, an electric patch made hairless mice grow fur and may reverse balding in men when fitted inside a specially desig...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 23, 2019 3 years ago
Diagnostics Startup Rheonix said that it has filed its first 501(k) to seek clearance for a molecular test system from the US Food and Drug Administration. The Ithaca, New York-based diagnostics startup is seeking authorization to market its PCR-based system along with a triplex test for a sexually transmitted infections.
The startup is seeking clearance for its MDx test system, called th...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 23, 2019 3 years ago
Cancer Diagnostics Startup, Lucence announced on Tuesday the closing of its Series A financing round, bringing in US $20 million.
Tan Min-Han CEO and Medical Director Lucence Diagnostics
Investors IHH Healthcare led the round and was joined by SGInnovate and existing investors Temasek Holdings subsidiary Heliconia Capital, Lim Kaling, Koh Boon Hwee, and others. Lucence said the funding wi...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 3 years ago
One of the leading Universities in the Southern Hemisphere, University Of New South Wales, Sydney has developed a simple to use app for testing for dementia among elderly merely by talking into a smartphone thanks to speech-analyzing technology developed by its engineers.
The new app uses machine learning technology to look at paralinguistic features of a person's speech such as proso...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 20, 2019 3 years ago
A new fertility tech startup, Mojo has announced that it has secured a US$ 2 million seed funding led by Nordic seed fund Inventure,Doberman and Privilege Ventures (an investor in Ava), plus a number of angel investors including Josefin Landgard (founder and ex-CEO of Kry) and Hampus Jakobsson (venture partner at BlueYard, BA in Clue & Kind.app).
Co-fou...
Source: Thailand Medical News Oct 21, 2019 3 years ago
Apple is moving towards installing smart technology into clothing as part of a new venture to hit the healthcare industry with its latest filing of a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Smart Clothing” which would be able to connect with other Apple devices such as the Apple Watch to track health vitals. The patent image filed in 2018 and publish...
Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 22, 2019 3 years ago
Apple has acquired Tueo Health, a start-up, which secured US$ 1.1 million seed funding in 2017 and was focused in developing a system to help parents monitor asthma symptoms in sleeping children. How much Apple paid for Tueo Health was not disclosed.
Tueo Health was founded by Brownyn Harris who is also the CEO. While its COO is Anura Patil.
The World Health Organization (...
Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 14, 2019 3 years ago
One of the world’s research hubs is getting a new biotech accelerator called Petri to help launch startups focused on the commercialization of new biotechnologies, as this sector becomes more central to new innovations in healthcare, material science and manufacturing. The biotech accelerator is backed by Boston-based venture capital company Pillar and has a three year US 15 million co...
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