Medical

In the U.S. alone, 1.25 million Americans suffer from type 1 diabetes, a potentially debilitating and life-changing condition. Every year, more and more people are diagnosed, and the only common treatment is regular insulin injections. A research team hoping to revolutionise diabetes treatment has developed an artificial pancreas that automatically detects changing blood sugar levels and administers insulin automatically, as announced by Harvard ...

Scientists at Loughborough University and the University of Cordoba have developed a new method for the rapid diagnosis of poisoning in apparently drunk patients. The saliva-based test offers the potential to screen for poisons commonly associated with the cheap or imitation manufacture of alcohol and γ-hydroxybutyric acid - the so-called ‘date rape’ drug GHB.The results are published in the Journal of Breath Research.

Beauty giant L'Oreal has unveiled a smart skin patch that can track the skin's exposure to harmful UV rays at the technology show CES in Las Vegas. The product will be launched in 16 countries including the UK this summer, and will be available for free. It contains a photosensitive blue dye, which changes colour when exposed to ultraviolet light. By Zoe Kleinman, BBC.

  Designed for use in the filtering, hold-up, timing, and pulsing circuits within implantable, non-life-support and non-implantable life support applications, the T4C series HRC4000 medical grade, solid tantalum microchip capacitors have been unveiled by AVX.

The new PMP92 Series of AC-DC desktop power supplies from Protek Power North America have the ability to provide 90W of continuous output power. The units are enclosed in a 5.51” x 2.79” x 0.87” 94V-0 rated polycarbonate case with an IEC 320/C6 or IEC 320/C8 inlet that mates with an interchangeable cord for worldwide use.

The variety of wavelengths and the high optical powers required create many of the demands in medical and industrial applications. Laser Components can provide a wide range of fibre types including sapphire for Er:YAG lasers and hollow core for infrared wavelengths, as well as a range of silica and plastic optical fibres.

A team in France has just come up with a foamy cement which, when injected into bones, could not only help fix an injury but also encourage new bone formation. It’s based around calcium phosphate, a family of minerals that includes hydroxyapatite, which makes up around 70 percent of our bones.

Foreseeing the vast market potential in the future for the medical field and the increasing demands for standard power supply, in order to further meet the application requirements of the built-in type medical power supplies from global medical equipments and inspection instruments, MEAN WELL is pleased to unveil the new gen miniature green open frame type medical power supply.

The chaos in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq has led to a well documented influx of refugees throughout Europe. Many of these refugees have had to endure extremely traumatic journeys in order to simply arrive at the refugee camps that are spread across the continent – with many in dire need of food, shelter and medical attention.

Powerbox proudly announced that its Medical Power supply Medline series OBM03 and OBP03 have been selected by UBM’s EDN as part of the most significant products of the year. UBM's EDN announced the 2015 EDN Hot 100 celebrating the electronics industry's most significant products of the year based on innovation, usefulness and popularity.