Category: Health & Medicine
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iPhone Application To Effectively Control Sugar Levels In Diabetics
Researchers have developed a great tool that will be of great service to individuals with diabetes. Called “bionic pancreas” it allows patients to monitor their blood sugar better than ever. We present this device that proves that technology can be also be used in the well-being of the people who need it the most. This innovative…
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MIT Researchers Develop Behind The Wall Patient Monitoring System
MIT researchers claim that they have made a system that can monitor the vital signs through the walls. The system basically transmits a low power wireless signals through the wall. Some of this signals gets reflected back by the human beings on the other side of the wall. These reflections are used by computer software to…
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Scientists Discover A Laser Based Regenerating Treatment For Teeth
Researchers have made a stunning discovery: pointing a laser on a damaged tooth is able to initiate a self-healing phenomenon to restore the health of the tooth. A promising innovation that could revolutionize dentistry by reducing costs and inconvenience of conventional treatments. So far this laser based new healing technique has only been tested on…
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Wear: A Voice Recording Hearing Aid That Can Be Worn Like Necklace
Technology continues to evolve! Engineers have now designed a new hearing device which can be worn like a necklace. It allows deaf people to hear a conversation and even register it for replay later. We let you know of this incredible innovation! The people with hearing impairments can now follow a conversation easily with this new hearing…
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Researchers Develop A Highly Flexible Material That Can Wrap Around Veins
U.S. researchers have just made a huge step forward in the technology of medical implants. They have designed a flexible printed circuit so microscopic that it can be wrapped around blood vessels in the human body! We explain to you this incredible invention. Medical implants will soon be flexible enough to be bent and move with…
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Wirelessly Charged Heart Pacemaker To Revolutionize The Biomedical Engineering
Transferring power wirelessly deep into the body of humans can revolutionize the biomedical devices. A technology is being developed in California to do all this. The technology developed has the potential to eliminate the use of heavy and boorish batteries whose implantation in the body requires to complicated medical surgeries. The system is already being…
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A Cancer Patient Cured By Modified Measles Virus Injection
A woman suffering from cancer has been completely cured by injecting her with a large amount of modified virus of measles. For the first time ever, virotherapy (treatment of disease by viruses) proved capable of eradicating cancer. We explain to you everything about this very promising discovery. It is a team of U.S. researchers headed by…
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Lucid Dreaming: Scientists Make Patients Control Their Dreams
Scientists have succeeded in making their patients dream while they are fully aware of it. It is achieved by sending electrical impulses to some specific parts of brains. This discovery could help to treat the patients of trauma and mental illness. The lucid dream is a dream in which the sleeping person is fully aware…
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Vidameter: A Comprehensive Health And Workout Monitoring Gadget
Multiple handheld gadgets are in the markets which monitor the health related parameters. But recently developed Vidameter has much to offer than mere few fitness parameters. It also helps you in the general well-being and personal safety. Vidameter is also a handheld polymer-made device which can be tied on the wrist. The characteristic that makes…
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Researchers Isolate The Anti-Aging Protein In The Blood
Researchers have made a startling discovery: they were able to isolate the protein in the blood that can reverse the effects of aging. We explain everything about this unprecedented revelation that could shake the humanity. Scientists from Harvard Stem Cell Institute are behind this amazing discovery. Since 2005, we know that injecting the blood of young mice in older…
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Top 10 Professions With Maximum Number Of psychopaths And Those With Least
If you find that your office colleague or your boss gives the impression of being a psychopath, you may not have it wrong! Time magazine has made a list of 10 occupations having most and least number of psychopaths. We give you the details. In our collective imagination, a psychopath is a person who decides to…
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DermoScreen: A Smartphone App to Diagnose Skin Cancer With 85% Accuracy
With the arrival of summer many people visit beaches to get tanned, but excessive sunlight exposure may produce sunburns which can ultimately leads to skin cancer. That is why, the doctors advise to take special protective measures. Odd looking moles in the skin must be located at an early stage to avoid skin cancer. However,…
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Researchers Discover AIDS Blocking Protein In Australian corals
Researchers say they have discovered an anti-HIV protein that blocks the virus infection. The particularity of this protein is that it is found in some corals of Australia. We explain the details. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute say they have discovered a new protein capable of blocking infection of the AIDS virus. These researchers found it in an unexpected place:…
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Scientists Have Succeeded In Creating Sperm From Human Skin
New hope for infertile men. Researchers have managed to create a fertile sperm using human skin cells! We tell you about this incredible scientific breakthrough. In 2012, a team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, discovered that it was possible to create stem cells that can lead to the production of fertile sperm…
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For The First time: A Vaccine Against AIDS Enters A Decisive Step Before Marketing
This is indeed a great news for the health of humanity. For the first time ever a vaccine for AIDS treatment, designed by a French firm, has now reached the stage of clinical trials. This may be the beginning of a revolution for the treatment of this disease which will give hope to many patients. We…