Category: Health & Medicine
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Measure Your Strength During Workout Using Gymwatch ArmBand
Everyone of us has the desire to look smart and healthy? That’s why a lot of fitness and health tracking devices and equipment are available in the market. They help you monitor the key health parameters like your heart rate, blood pressure or the calories burnt per day. However, these devices that come in the…
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Grush Smartbrush Introduces Gaming To Improve Kids’ Dental Health
One of the main issues for parents is the health of their kids and more particularly the dental health. Healthy dental habits are specially very important to have a childhood free of toothaches. On the other hand, kids mostly do not want to brush their teeth daily. To make the brushing experience a fun for…
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Thanks To A Revolutionary Implant Paralyzed Regain Partial Use Of Their Limbs (Video)
Losing the use of one’s legs is a tragic event. Fortunately, scientists have been searching for an effective way to restore mobility to people with paralysis. They could well be on the right track: the patients have regained the use of their limbs through an electrical stimulator implanted in the spine. We explain this wonderful innovation.…
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LifeStraw Can Save Millions Of Lives By Cleaning Dirty Water
Millions of people worldwide do not have access to safe drinking water. Hence, a Swiss company has invented a revolutionary tool: a filter straw. With it, one can now even drink unsafe water without worrying about catching diseases. We explain to you this wonderful invention. It is to the Swiss company Vestergaard, specializing in the design of…
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CT Scans of Mummies Reveal Heart Diseases Even 4000 Years Back
It is believed that modern unhealthy lifestyles are responsible for the heart diseases nowadays. However, a recent research on mummies of Egypt simply puts this belief in question. This research is done on mummies of Egypt by Al Azhar University which reveals that clogged arteries are found in those mummies as well. Scans of 4000…
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Researchers have developed An Electrical Impulse Band to Heal Migraines
If you are suffering from regular migraines, this device could relieve you from the daily pains. If the drug treatments have little effect on you, you can opt for this electrical impulse band. Designers consider it as the most effective against migraine. We explain to you this innovative band. Cefaly Technology is a company founded in 2004…
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Surgeons Implant World’s First Entirely 3D Printed Skull
The 3D printing had never been previously used in skull surgery. A team of Dutch surgeons has implanted a completely 3D printed skull. The operation lasted for 23 hours and was performed in Netherlands. Discover without delay this awesome work! A 22 years old girl was suffering from a disease which results in the thickening of…
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Augmented Reality Makes The Life Of Alzheimer Patients More Joyful
Alzheimer and dementia are two serious diseases that affect older people worldwide. While these disease are still Waiting for a cure, an Australian company is using augmented reality to make the daily life of patients more enjoyable patients. We tell you all about this project. The Forest Project uses the Unreal Engine 4 which includes a Smart TV and Microsoft Kinect 2 to create an immersive…
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Alert Shirt Lets You Feel The Same Sensations As Your Favorite Footballer
Alert Shirt is a unique and innovative product for the rugby passionate. This connected T-shirt, created by an Australian sports television, allows people to have exactly same sensations as that of a football player. We explain to you its operation. Along with the advertising agency CHE Proximity, Foxtel has launched a new advertising campaign for a T-shirt like…
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Scientists Have Discovered A Bacteria Species Thats Feeds Upon Electricity
Some bacteria have the ability to generate energy from mineral sources such as sulfur and minerals. However, a team of Harvard scientists has discovered a new bacterial species that can acquire energy from electricity. We tell you more about this study. Rhodopseudomonas palustris, is the name given to a bacteria of the type Gram-negative. It…
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This Membrane Can Make Human Heart Beat Outside Of body (Video)
Scientists have developed a revolutionary membrane that can enable the heart to beat outside the body. This new and very convenient to use membrane will be big leap forward in scientific development. We explain to you the operation of this membrane. Igor Efimov, is a biomedical engineer at the Washington University in St. Louis. He has been…
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Doctors Use 3D-Printed Heart Model To Perform A Life-Saving Surgery (Video)
One of the recent wonders of 3D printing involve the use of a 3D printed heart model to perform a heart surgery on a 14-month child. The model had been made by the joint collaboration between University of Louisville and J.B. Speed School of Engineering, from a CT scan of the patient. The 3D model…
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The World’s First Artificial Lung: A Major Breakthrough For The Future Of Transplantation
The lung transplantation operations have suffered from two major drawbacks: First of all there are not enough donations of lungs, secondly, very often after lung transplantation the immune system of the patient may deem the lung as some foreign body and react against it. In order to permanently solve these two problems, American scientists are designing the…
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Scientist Can Now Control The Pain In Mice Using Different Type Of Light
Researchers at stanford have been able to genetically modify the mice so that the exposure of their paws to one type of light increases the sense of pain, while the exposure to another type of light reduces the sensation to the pain. This innovation can be very useful to relieve the suffering of patients with…
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A Teenager Swedish Girl Walks Again Thanks To A 3D-Printed Hip Implant
The most fascinating aspect of the 3D printing is the fact that we can make customized objects for ourselves, without going through the traditional lengthy manufacturing cycle. 3D printing has found many application in the field of biomedical engineering specially development of customized implants for the patients. Here, we explain to you how Mobelife, a…