Wearable technology and health care
02 December, 2014Equipped with a three-year, $322,800 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant beginning in 2015, UNSW engineers hope to make wearable devices secure enough to feed the information they collect into the mainstream health system.
Piezo-powered medical implant chip
16 October, 2014Stanford engineers are working on tiny electronic devices that could be planted deep inside our bodies to monitor biological processes and deliver pinpoint therapies to treat illness or relieve pain.
US issues medical device security recommendations
06 October, 2014The US Food and Drug Administration has finalised recommendations to manufacturers for managing cybersecurity risks to better protect patient health and information.
Nanotubes improve paediatric heart-defect patches
25 September, 2014Texas Children's Hospital and Rice University have developed new patches infused with conductive single-walled carbon nanotubes that enhance electrical connections between cells.
Picene - the future face of molecular electronics
22 September, 2014Researchers from five Japanese and Taiwanese universities have identified a potential candidate for use in small-scale electronics: a molecule called picene.
Graphene droplets could be used for drug delivery
11 August, 2014Researchers from Monash University have discovered that graphene oxide sheets can change structure to become liquid crystal droplets spontaneously and without any specialist equipment.
Mean Well medical power supplies
13 July, 2014Mean Well has a range of power supplies with medical safety approvals.
Self-powered cardiac pacemaker
04 July, 2014Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a self-powered artificial cardiac pacemaker that is operated semi-permanently by a flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator.
Analytica commences Pericoach production
02 June, 2014Analytica, an Australian listed medical device company, has commenced production of the Pericoach sensor devices on schedule with first domestic sales expected in the next few weeks.
Electronics that change shape inside the body
16 May, 2014Researchers have developed electronic devices that become soft when implanted inside the body and can deploy to grip 3D objects, such as large tissues, nerves and blood vessels.
Self-fitting hearing devices for developing countries
08 May, 2014The HEARing Cooperative Research Centre (HEARing CRC) has conducted a proof of concept that has shown it is viable to create a self-fitting hearing aid with existing technology.
New technology provides super listening to hearing impaired
14 February, 2014Australian researchers have developed Super‐directional Beamformer technology which cuts though background noise to provide super listening to hearing impaired.
Researchers develop wirelessly rechargeable cochlear implants
11 February, 2014MIT researchers have developed a new, low-power signal-processing chip that could lead to a cochlear implant that requires no external hardware. The implant would be wirelessly recharged and would run for about eight hours on each charge.
Grants to help medical developments
27 March, 2009National Instruments says it will continue its investment to further medical device development by offering software and training grants in 2009.
Electronic structure of DNA revealed
07 April, 2008Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists and others have revealed the electronic structure of single DNA molecules.
