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05/13/13 — They kill at least 100,000 people every single year, and the collective medical costs associated with treating people who contract them tops $30 billion a year, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics. But hospital "superbugs" have a new contender in the fight for people's lives that involves the use of both roving and stationary robots designed to kill superbugs with ultraviolet (UV) light, hydrogen peroxide, and various other alternative interventions.As reported by USA Today, superbug-fighting robots and other novel equipment are increasingly turning up at U.S. hospitals where deadly superbugs are on the rise. An estimated one in…
05/09/13 — The idea of a robotic hand goes back a long way, though mostly as a fictional concept. But thanks to the 3D printer, the robotic hand is getting a whole new life, as are those who are benefiting from the combination of Robohand and MakerBot, who are bringing out a 3D printed mechanical hand. Robohand started when Richard Van As, a woodworker from Johannesburg, South Africa, lost four fingers in a woodworking accident. After looking around for conventional prosthetic fingers and discovering that said fingers were way out of his price range at the sum of $10,000 apiece, Van As decided…
05/02/13 — As technology continues its steady march onward to the future, the question isn’t always “can” it be done, but rather “should” it be done. And this isn’t always asked from the ethical perspective. We humans often have to come to an understanding of just what we will and will not…
04/23/13 — As people enter old age it can become increasingly difficult to maintain a good quality of life without help. Perhaps a faltering memory leads to missed meals or drinks, or a decrease in mobility leads to loneliness and social isolation. Many elderly people are lucky enough to have a carer,…
04/18/13 — An ankle is necessary for standing, walking, running and keeping you stable. It performs these functions while bearing the weight of your entire body, which makes it highly susceptible to injuries. Beside physical trauma, strokes and cerebral palsy, other neurological impairments can cause ankle injuries that require rehabilitation. Each year,…
04/11/13 — Surgical robots could make some types of surgery safer and more effective, but proving that the software controlling these machines works as intended is problematic. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have demonstrated that methods for reliably detecting software bugs and ultimately verifying…
04/04/13 — Although bladder cancer is the sixth most common form of cancer in the U.S. and the most expensive to treat, the basic method that doctors use to treat it hasn't changed much in more than 70 years. An interdisciplinary collaboration of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt and Columbia Universities intends…
03/27/13 — IBM's Watson—the same machine that beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy—is now churning through case histories at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, learning to make diagnoses and treatment recommendations. This is one in a series of developments suggesting that technology may be about to disrupt health care in the same way it has disrupted so…
03/20/13 — This robot vomits so we don’t have to. Larry the projectile vomiting robot spews all over the place, and it’s for a good cause. Larry was created by microbiologist Catherine Makison-Booth at the United Kingdom’s Health and Safety Laboratory in the Occupational Hygiene Unit. The lab’s scientists hope this robot can show exactly how the…
03/13/13 — Of the various effects that a stroke can have on a person, one of the most common is paralysis of one side of the body – needless to say, this has a severe impact on the victim’s ability to walk. Treatment often consists of therapists retraining the person’s body by…
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02/27/13 — When he was a child, Kinova's co-founder and CEO Charles Deguire used to spend his summer vacations with his family in the beautiful region of Gaspesie in Quebec, Canada. Among the family members were three uncles who lived with muscular dystrophy. This muscle disease, which weakens the musculoskeletal system, caused Charles' uncles…
02/21/13 — The U.S. Army Medical Research & Material Command’s (USAMRMC) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), along with Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center and Parallax Inc. are offering over $25,000 in awards to inspire the next generation of medical innovation. The 2013 National microMedic contest is an opportunity to…
02/14/13 — While climbing mountains and helping disabled tourists are fine pursuits, Cyberdyne's HAL robot suit has found an even nobler occupation: helping patients rehabilitate from debilitating nerve and muscle illnesses. Cyberdyne has been developing and testing its HAL suit and various other exoskeleton technology for the service and health care industries for several years now. Straigh from…
02/07/13 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may have recently approved iRobot's telepresence robot RP-VITA for use in hospitals, but as far as medical robots are concerned Japan and Korea remain ahead of the curve. The latest in a line of nurse droids is the KIRO-M5, a compact transportation robot that can carry…
01/31/13 — Imagine an intelligent system managing the surgical tool sterilization process in a hospital – ensuring safe delivery of care, enabling new levels of hospital efficiency, and delivering with surgical accuracy all of the medical devices doctors need to perform life-saving procedures. At GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the…
01/22/13 — A new robot which controls the pharmacy at Craigavon Area Hospital has revolutionised services, healthcare bosses have claimed. The $580,000 automated storage and dispensing machine is 1.5 miles long and holds 850 shelves. It uses lasers and barcodes to identify medicine. Dr Tracey Boyce, Southern Trust director of pharmacy said…
01/16/13 — Global Innovation Network (GIN) is bringing another new product to the global laboratory automation market, and its name is Delilah. At SLAS 2013, GIN will debut its new automated dispenser technology, the Delilah EMB dispenser. In a market set to reach $4.1 billion by 2015, the new dispenser could not come at…
01/10/13 — Tasks in the life sciences, pharmaceutical and biomedical industries have always been complex and time-consuming. With the advent of new diseases and medical disorders, these undertakings will only grow in complexity. Due to their speed and precision, robotics are called upon to meet the ever-increasing scope and range of chores in…
01/03/13 — About 30 percent of the more than 70,000 bladder cancer cases expected in 2012 are muscle invasive. In such cases, radical cystectomy is the preferred treatment. In a pilot trial, a team of investigators assessed the efficacy of open radical cystectomy (ORC) vs. robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical cystectomy (RARC). While there…
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