Medical

Murata has launched its latest whitepaper, ‘Evolving Healthcare Technology: Murata’s Role in Advancing Wellness Technology’. The paper provides insights into the wellness and healthcare environment, sharing how Murata’s components can support engineers in meeting challenging goals, continuing to innovate, and driving electronic-based wellness products in this space.

As the UK’s healthcare sector looks to modernise with artificial intelligence (AI), SOTI’s latest report, ‘Healthcare’s Digital Dilemma: Calculated Risks and Hidden Challenges Exposed’, reveals that outdated and legacy technologies continue to cause issues. The report also highlights an increase in data breaches yet a decline in IT teams seeing data security as a concern. 

Authorised distributor Mouser Electronics is now stocking the USM-500 preconfigured medical computer from Advantech.

A team of engineers at Tufts University have designed dental floss that can detect the stress hormone cortisol in saliva. The goal is to create an accurate, non-invasive tool that can be easily integrated into daily routines.

In a pioneering approach to counter age-related cognitive decline, researchers from Japan and the UK have developed a virtual reality (VR) game that trains the brain using the power of smell.

imec have announced their collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to research nanoelectronics-based solutions for minimally and non-invasive diagnostic devices for personalised medicine.

Researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind wearable device capable of continuously scanning the lungs and heart of hospital patients while they rest in bed – offering a revolutionary alternative to CT scans. 

Imagine a bandage that detects infection before symptoms appear. Smart bandages with tiny sensors to monitor temperature, pH, and bacteria could enable early diagnosis, faster treatment and fewer complications. But developing these sensor-driven devices is far from straightforward.

A new type of smart bandage, described as a ‘lab on skin’, has shown promise in both monitoring and treating chronic wounds, thanks to innovations from researchers at Caltech and the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

With the increasing demand for underwater and implantable medical electronics, a stable and continuous power supply is essential. However, conventional wireless charging methods (such as electromagnetic induction and radio frequency-based charging) used in smartphones and wireless earphones suffer from short transmission distances, low energy transfer efficiency in biological tissues, and electromagnetic interference.