Tag: "prototype" at medical news

Gentleness Of Surgeon Can Now Be Gauged Using New Device

...The report quoted Maker as saying that the current prototype alerts the surgeon if his or her touch is gentle, not very gentle, or bad during surgery. Eventually, he wants to have the device on a scale of one to 10 or one to 15. The device comprises a laptop screen and an electronic push device, like that of...

University Envisages Improvements in Artificial Arm

...r 'talk' to a small number of fibers in a nerve. A prototype of the bionic arm will be available for testing in four years. Source: Eureka Alert...

Assam's Floating Hospital To Render Medical Services To Islanders

...aign vehicle during the lean season, the boat is a prototype built locally but with more powerful engines to help it negotiate its way through the turbulent Brahmaputra waters during floods. The Assam Medical College at Dibrugarh provides the medical staff for regular camps health-camps to be undertaken by A...

Virtual Reality Simulation Could Help In Training Surgeons

...no risk to patients." He is currently working on a prototype robot, that can allow doctors to perform open-heart surgeries on "live" hearts rather than dead ones. This robot could potentially eliminate the need for heart-lung machines. "Traditional coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery has undesirable si...

$ 1.7 Million NYSTAR Award for Binghamton University to Flex Electronics Research Muscle.

.... This will bring about the realization of the R2R prototype manufacturing line that will support the design of flexible electronic manufacturing. The M.D., Executive director of NYSTAR, Russell W. Bessette has expressed, that through this partnership, the Binghamton University has received an impetus to invi...

Manned Mars Mission May Become A Reality

...the spacecraft providing propulsion. Tests on a prototype at ESA’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory in the Net...ssion craft, and four times faster than the latest prototype ion engine designs. ‘Crewed or heavyweight robotic missions to Mars become a distinct possibility...

Bird flu may cause a blackout in New Zealand

...y to spread from one person to another whereas its prototype did not spread among humans. To tackle the problem awareness among people should be created. Various preparative measures, fast response and quick recovery alone will save the people from this pandemic. There will be closing of work places and ...

Biovac, Hepatitis A Vaccine Marketed By Wockhardt

...ldren and confers immunity for fifteen years. The prototype of this vaccine (Zhepu) was formulated in China (1992) and statistics reveal that till date around 120 million people have been vaccinated. The vaccine showed appreciable results when tested on 200 children in Pune and if advertised properly to all...

Results Of Human Trials Of Hungarian Bird-Flu Vaccine Expected Today

...rinary services department (ANTSZ) has said that a prototype //of a vaccine developed against the disease was p...fective against birds. 'The effectiveness of the prototype vaccine against the Asian H5N1 strain of bird flu is proved among poultry and so it can be used to v...

New form of ultrasonic vision

... seem translucent right in front of your eyes. The prototype device merges the visual outer surface of the patient’s skin with a live ultrasound scan of what lies beneath. It creates the effect of a translucent ultrasound image floating in its actual 3D location with the patient, showing blood vessels, muscle ...

Pollution Free Hydrogen based fuel for Energy

...ogen filling stations. Most car manufacturers have prototype hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. California even has a test fleet of hydrogen buses. An interesting aspect discussed was about the concern about hydrogen's explosiveness, Jacobson said "another property of hydrogen - its lightness--may lessen this dan...

Latest device for identifying Melanomas

...ialists from around the world who used a SolarScan prototype as part of clinical trials. In the United States, a prototype was used at the Florida clinic of Dr. Harold Rabinovitz, a member of the Telemedicine Task Force of ...

Prototype Detector detects Anthrax Quickly

A prototype handheld detector under development at Sandia National Laboratories can identify the fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) of anthrax in less than five minutes. //Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program supported the work. Sandia is a...

Lancing tumours into the body

... carry drugs to the sites of infection. His latest prototype is even armed with a tiny metal spike that heats up when you apply a second magnetic field vibrating at 100 kHz. The hot spike could be useful for destroying cancerous tissue, Ishiyama believes. The high frequency field used to heat the metal tip do...

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