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Tag: "sensors" at medical news

Infant Amnesia-not Anymore, Says Experts

...The researchers came about their findings by using sensors to monitor the electrical activity of the brains in their subjects, as they administered simple tests of mental focus and attention. They were able to conclude that by 8 months, most babies could easily put together memories in adult ways. It was al...

DNA-based Detection of Heavy Metals

...our methodology can be used to make cost-effective sensors for other hazardous metals, as well, with extremely high sensitivity and selectivity," Lu said. "We can also construct sensor arrays that detect and quantify many metal ions simultaneously." Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

UC Davis Creates New Nanoparticles

...erties when we want to use [the nanoparticles] for sensors and detecting things in samples," Kennedy said. Antibodies, which can be tailored to bind to specific molecules, can be attached to the nanoparticles to find certain chemicals or objects. Checking food supplies for bioterrorism agents, the environm...

Space-Age Bandage Monitors Patients With Raynaud's Disease

...ed with a bandage or medical tape. It contains two sensors that alternately record skin and ambient temperature -- indicators of surface blood flow -- every 36 seconds. A week's data is held by the monitor's electronics and is retained even if the device's power is unexpectedly interrupted. The monitoring ...

‘Smart House’ Developed to Monitor People With Dementa

...ander aimlessly. The special house has in-built sensors that can tell, for example, if the front door is b...tically turn the water off. Similarly, pressure sensors under the bed can tell if the patient is asleep or wandering around the house in the night. The d...

Robot Nurses Ready For Hospitals 'In Three Years'

...sist of a mobile platform mounted with a module of sensors and equipment for different tasks. It might be f... the right area. The robots would be fitted with sensors and cameras allowing them to avoid collisions while travelling through wards and corridors. High-s...

‘Smart Way of Living’ for Dementia Patiens

...al or going into long term care. It uses special sensors that can wirelessly ‘talk’ to devices, such as the cooker, taps and light switches, in response to the behavior of the resident. By monitoring movement within the home, the system is able to respond to many different situations without having to cont...

Unbelted Backseat Passengers Produce Deadly Results

...rding to Mayrose. The injuries were indicated by sensors mounted to and within the dummies. The sensors showed significant acceleration of the dummies' head, neck and chest, as well as dramatic impact loa...

Telemedicine Offers New Possibilities in Health Care

...aps around his or her chest before sleeping. Using sensors attached to the body, the device records the patient's breathing, pulse, heartbeat, oxygen level in the blood, and sleeping position. The data are transmitted via short-range radio with Bluetooth technology to a base station in the patient's home, ...

Mobile Robots Offer 24/7 Care to Neurosurgical ICU, Stroke Patients

...side a patient bed, and are equipped with infrared sensors to help the physician navigate. The robots allow physicians, patients, nurses and other staff to 'virtually' interact and talk at a moment's notice. 'Having the ability to see our patients and the ICU nursing staff and talk with them face to face w...

Prototype Bandages Developed that Could Detect Fractures

...colleagues at Purdue University in Indiana contain sensors which pick up slight changes in sound waves created by tiny cracks in damaged bones, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. They then sound an alarm, warning the patient to rest so that the injured bone is given a chance to heal properly. The...

New System Monitors Tiny 'Earthquakes' in Bones to Prevent Fractures

...or. "All of the technology is available, and the sensors exist off the shelf," he said. "We just have to mo...ack formation. "Recently, flexible polymer-based sensors have appeared on the market, and these could be incorporated into athletic apparel, such as running ...

A young scientist recognized for biomechanics innovations

...ine, Duma equips the Hokies' football helmets with sensors that record impacts in terms of G (gravity) forces. The sensors transmit real-time data to a sideline computer system that keeps track of a range of head impact inf...

'Smart Beds' Could Help to Prevent Elderly Patients from Falling

...eloper said Wednesday.// The innovation relies on sensors installed under the mattress. When a patient tries to get up, a buzzer goes off at the nurses' workstation, a light comes on along the corridor and an SMS is sent to the duty nurse's mobile phone, enabling her to arrive at the bedside in time to pr...

Drugs Activating PXR May Help In Treating Niemann-Pick type C disease

... nervous system steroid similar to the cholesterol sensors used by healthy cells. Both efforts met with moderate success. When the labs combined the treatments, though, a single dose 7 days after birth extended the average mouse lifespan from 78.8 days to 135.7 days, or 72 percent. After an extensive s...

Sour Taste Sensors Identified

...sense -- sweet, bitter, and umami. The sour taste sensors have been found to be the primary gateway in all m...ble to detect sour proved that these cells are the sensors for sour taste, and that indeed no other taste cells detect sour," said Zuker. In an interesting e...

SWAN system for navigation

...tegrating all the information from all the various sensors in real time so you can accurately guide the user ...er worn in a backpack, a tracking chip, additional sensors including GPS (global positioning system), a digital compass, a head tracker, four cameras and light...

Hunger Mapping

...integrate the information provided by these neural sensors to maintain similar levels of activity across comparable behavioral states," they concluded. "This distributed code acting across separate hunger phases might constitute a neural mechanism underlying meal initiation under different peripheral and met...

Biological Basis Behind a Couch Potato

...baseline measurements of each rat's activity using sensors to measure even minor movements, such as grooming and standing. They found that the lean group moved significantly more during this baseline period than the obese group, Kotz said. This was true even though the rats were young and both groups weig...

Sensors placed at home capable of signaling onset of early signs of dementia in elderly

...ersity study has demonstrated that motion and door sensors placed in elders' homes can assist in keeping// a ...ty data. Each system included wall-mounted motion sensors placed in every room, door-mounted magnetic contact sensors, and wireless transceivers that sent the...

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