Researchers at the University of British Columbia and PSI in Switzerland have created a microneedle drug monitoring system that could one day replace costly, invasive blood draws and improve patient comfort. The…
Category: Medical
Portable test rapidly detects Zika in saliva for $2
Anxiety over the Zika virus is growing as the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro approach. To better diagnose and track the disease, scientists are now reporting in ACS’ journal Analytical Chemistry…
Heart in BackPack: This 25-year-old lived for more than a year without a Heart
All transplant patients are exceptional, but Stan Larkin’s successful heart transplant comes after living more than a year without a human heart and relying on a heart device he carried in a…
Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK) may replace Dialysis for Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease
The results of an exploratory clinical trial indicate that a wearable artifical kidney could be developed as a viable, new dialysis technology. Some redesigns would be required to overcome device-related, technical problems…
Stroke survivors walk again after Stanford injects Stem Cells into Brain
People disabled by a stroke demonstrated substantial recovery long after the event when modified adult stem cells were injected into their brains. Injecting modified, human, adult stem cells directly into the brains…