Traditional MRI systems used in hospitals are tuned to the resonant frequency of water, and so are designed to visualize “wet” organs. The cost comes when MRI is used in imaging the lungs which are full of air, leading to low quality images. To address this, Massachusetts researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and [...]

Base on the press release of Medtronic, the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery will issue a new policy statement that recommends the use of micropressure devices as a treatment option for people with Meniere’s disease, a disorder stemming from excess fluid in the inner ear. Medtronic’s Meniett device has already been [...]

Having this edge of technological advancement nowadays, the US military is looking into modifying a fleet of their transport planes to install systems that would allow any of the planes to be rapidly converted into a transport hospital. From Defense Industry Daily For several decades, the USA had a fleet of dedicated aircraft, the last [...]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is reporting that its scientists, together with a group at Berkeley, developed a microchip device that incorporates a miniature atomic magnetometer with a fluid channel for studies of tiny samples. How sensitive is the magnetometer in such a device? Reportedly it can detect magnetic field variations as [...]

With ever-improving technological advancement in Medical equipments, an interdisciplinary group of Canadian, Australian, and American scientists has developed a lenseless X-ray imaging technique that can provide high resolution imaging of components below the surface of the object being observed. Now don’t get too excited, the lab tech friends, since the technique requires tremendous X-ray energies [...]

New research by Basque scientists has led to a patented device, which measures the electric impedance and temperature of organs before transplantation, and can supposedly provide guidance as to the health of the organs. Hopefully this new invention will really help in the medical society and provide more efficiency with the care of the clients. [...]