tumors fluoresce!

Boston Researchers are now working on a system that will make tumors fluoresce through the help of some dyes and light emitting diodes. This device should give surgeons the ability to completely remove tumors and solve the problem of differentiating tumor from healthy tissue during excisions. With this new innovation, if successful enough tumor will [...]

21st Century Chinese Medicine?

Base on the Information Week a Chinese company that markets an experimental stem cell therapy directly to patients, without going through the proper regiment of double-blind clinical trials. Seemingly, Chinese regulatory agencies don’t do much regulating when it comes to domestic medicine, allowing companies to collect payments of tens of thousands of dollars without having [...]

Canon’s New Panel Detector

Set your mind as ease guys with the Canon’s release its new portable X-ray detector, the CXDI-60G, to the US market. This will differently rock the medical technologies! From Canon’s press release: The Canon CXDI-60G Portable Flat Panel Detector succeeds the Company’s popular CXDI-31, the world’s first portable cassette-type DR system, introduced in September 2001. [...]

Microneedles get their design from Mosquitos?

In the recent studies with engineers from India and Japan, they have developed a new hypodermic microneedle that is completely painless. The design is based on nature’s grotesque horror, the female mosquito, is the unique micro-electro-mechanical based suction system. This system uses an intermittent sucking motion to draw up blood, which is how most god-awful [...]

Pipette Remixed

I am not that sure enough that this newly designed pipette adds any more grandeur to the institution where it is coming from, the University of Cambridge. However, it does seem to offer a more convenient way for those in labs to go though routines. Mmmm, hopefully this will help ease the works in the [...]

Obstetrics on The iPhone?

News are spreading that Apple’s new iPhone is here, medical informatics companies also are starting to announce their wares for the mobile platform. AirStrip Technologies, will be releasing an application that should allow an obstetrician to access his hospitalized patients’ fetal heart rates and uterine tonometry data while having a walk through a park. Wow! [...]