News tagged with implantable devices
Graphene is thinnest known anti-corrosion coating
New research has established the "miracle material" called graphene as the world's thinnest known coating for protecting metals against corrosion. Their study on this potential new use of graphene appears ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Protecting medical implants from attack
Millions of Americans have implantable medical devices, from pacemakers and defibrillators to brain stimulators and drug pumps; worldwide, 300,000 more people receive them every year. Most such devices have ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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New class of implantable monitoring devices for heart patients
CardioMEMS, a graduate of Georgia Tech’s ATDC startup accelerator, is a rising star in the medical device industry. Pioneering a new class of monitoring devices for heart patients, the company completed ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 04, 2011 |
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New technique boosts high-power potential for gallium nitride electronics
Gallium nitride (GaN) material holds promise for emerging high-power devices that are more energy efficient than existing technologies – but these GaN devices traditionally break down when exposed to ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Project uses smartphones to improve cochlear implants (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many cochlear implant users may soon be able to easily modify the settings on their hearing devices using a smartphone interface, selecting one setting for a bustling restaurant, another for a hushed library.
Jan 28, 2011 |
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Individuals with partial hearing loss may benefit from hybrid cochlear implant
Hearing loss can affect anyone, at any time. But it can be especially frightening for someone who suddenly starts to lose his hearing during adulthood. Tom Groves, 77, first noticed his diminishing hearing when he was in ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 11, 2011 |
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World’s first diamond nanoelectromechanical switch
Japanese researchers have succeeded in the batch fabrication of suspended structures (cantilevers and bridges) of single crystal diamond for nano/micro electromechanical systems.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 24, 2010 |
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Researchers develop first implanted device to treat balance disorder
A University of Washington Medical Center patient on Thursday, Oct. 21, will be the world's first recipient of a device that aims to quell the disabling vertigo associated with Meniere's disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Microfluidic devices advance 3-D tissue engineering
A research team, co-headed by Dr. Woo Lee and Dr. Hongjun Wang of Stevens Institute of Technology, has published a paper describing a new method that generates three-dimensional (3D) tissue models for studying bacterial infection ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Southampton to conduct UK's first cochlear implant operation to give sound in both ears
The UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant capable of giving sound in both ears takes place this Friday (27 August), thanks to the work of the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC), based at the ...
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Working toward the next battery breakthrough (w/ Video)
If battery-making is an art, then University at Buffalo scientist Esther Takeuchi is among its most prolific masters, with more than 140 U.S. patents, all in energy storage.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Stretchable electronics device holds promise for treating irregular heart rhythms
The electronics can bend, stretch and twist. No small feat. Now the flexible and stretchable electronics can map waves of electrical activity in the heart with better resolution and speed than that of conventional ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Test of implantable cardioverter defibrillator linked to cognitive problems
A standard test of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is linked to significant thought-processing problems that improve for most patients within a year after the device is inserted, according to research reported ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 02, 2010 |
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New device implanted by surgeons help paralyzed patients breathe easier
Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center soon will begin implanting a new device designed to improve breathing in patients with upper spinal-cord injuries or other diseases that keep them from breathing independently.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Magnetism Turns Drug Release On and Off
Many medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes and chronic pain, require medications that cannot be taken orally, but must be dosed intermittently, on an as-needed basis, over a long period of time. A few delivery techniques ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 30, 2009 |
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