Medical

Protek Power announces the release of the PM1100 series. This series of medical AC/DC switching power supplies delivers 1100W of continuous power (with 1250W peak) in a compact package layout of 5.91x9.25x2.4”. Supplies are highly efficient and intelligently designed with innovative technologies including a resonant, zero-switching topology.

Advancements in electronics technology are enabling medical electronic equipment designed for faster diagnosis, improved patient quality of life and new drug-based therapies. Patient monitoring, display and testing equipment is becoming more accurate, versatile, compact and portable allowing for improved bedside treatment. Such equipment includes blood glucose monitoring systems, insulin pumps, defibrillators and neurological stimulators. Reducin...

Designed to save space in wearables and medical patient monitoring systems, a dual-colour red and IR emitting diode has been introduced by Vishay Intertechnology. The VSMD66694 features wavelengths of 660 (red) and 940nm (IR) in a compact 2x2x0.87mm package and is built on SurfLight technology for best-in-class radiant power of 9.5 and 8.5mW, respectively.

Integrated Pathology Partnerships (iPP) is improving efficiency and ensuring better patient care by using Checkit Automated Monitoring within its Somerset laboratories. iPP manages Southwest Pathology Services (SPS), a joint venture between iPP and the Foundation Trusts of Taunton & Somerset and Yeovil District Hospital, and has deployed over 100 Checkit sensors across its Taunton Hub and Essential Service Laboratories (ESLs) at Musgrove Park...

Researchers have introduced the world's first infant exoskeleton designed to help children with spinal muscular atrophy, a degenerative illness. Weighing 12 kg, the apparatus is made of aluminium and titanium, and is designed to help patients walk—in some cases, for the first time. It can also be used in hospital-based physiotherapy to prevent secondary effects associated with the loss of mobility associated with spinal muscular atroph...

A method developed by UCLA scientists uses data about patients' genetic sequences to produce more reliable projections for survival time and how they might respond to possible treatments. The technique is an innovative way of using biomedical big data—which gleans patterns and trends from massive amounts of patient information—to achieve precision medicine—giving doctors the ability to better tailor their care for each individua...

With the recent finding in Pennsylvania of a hospital patient with an E.coli infection that resists colistin, an antibiotic used as the last line of defense against multi-drug resistant bacteria, the scientific and medical communities continue to search for answers to the menace of superbugs. While common antibiotics were able to treat the patient, the major concern is the spread of an antibiotic resistance factor previously unseen in the Un...

The overuse of antibiotics gives harmful bacteria the opportunity to evolve into drug resistant strains that threaten health care. To help tackle the problem, scientists in China have begun a pilot study examining biomarkers exhaled by patients. The team’s goal is to develop an efficient (fast, accurate, painless and affordable) test that will assist doctors in prescribing antibiotics only when the treatment is absolutely necessary.

Doctors have a powerful arsenal of cancer-fighting chemotherapy drugs to choose from, though a key challenge is to better target these drugs to kill tumors while limiting their potentially harmful side effects. Now, researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are helping to develop and test materials for a device that can be inserted via a tiny tube into a vein and soak up most of these drug...

Tanaka has developed the world's first kit able to directly detect the ZIKA virus (ZIKV) in blood. The kit is capable of rapid ZIKV detection in just 10 to 15 minutes. Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo plans to supply samples for clinical evaluation with a view to collaboration with domestic and overseas medical manufacturers.