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Dash Technology – iPod Touch to help Orthopedic Surgery
Dash Technology developed by orthopedic implant company Smith & Nephew has been used in first commercial non-experimental orthopedic (knee replacement) surgery in Asia with the aid of an iPod Touch by Arun Mullaji. The operation was performed at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, Maharashtra in India. Arun Mullaji is a specialist in computer-aided knee replacement surgery. Arun performed thi knee replacement surgery on 75 years old...
Artificial Pancreas – Device for Diabetes Patients
Scientists at London have used an "Artificial Pancreas" system of pumps and monitors to improve blood sugar control in diabetes patients in the first study to show the new device works better than conventional treatment. Researchers from Britain's Cambridge University tested the device on 17 children with type 1 diabetes during a series of nights in hospital and found it kept their blood sugar levels within the "normal" range 60 per cent of t...
Cancer Tumors Give Off Smell (Part-2)
The team working on this research passed through a weeklong “wash-out” process. In this process they used fragrance-free shampoos and soaps during washings and baths to avoid any type of smell from themselves during working. They wore T-shirts provided by the researchers to eliminate smells emitted from external means. The researchers then took odor samples by touching a funnel with an absorbent fiber on the individual’s skin for half...
Cancer Tumors Give Off Smell (Part-1)
Skin-cancer tumors emit a specific odor that could help in early diagnosis of disease. People who are having tendency of bearing skin cancer must pass themselves through different examination tests and biopsies of suspicious moles so that tissues having disease could be detected and cured at an early stage of the disease. This new discovery gives a new way which is a quicker method to detect the disease without puncturing the skin or entering ...
New Exercise Bed For Patients
Adjustable beds are usually used in hospitals to serve patients to change their positions. They help them in rising with least effort and help. Now Charles Filipi who is a surgeon at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska worked to make it more advance. He strived to take them a step further, literally. He says that many weighty patients are asked to take exercise daily. This exercise is a part of their treatment. But a lot of staff is req...
More Advanced Rainfall Predictions
Weather forecasters would now be able to predict in advance with more precision that when and where heavy rainfalls are expected. This development was made during the research work which started after heavy destruction of floods in the last summer which affected large parts of England. Met Office gave the statement and claimed that this scientific development would now make it possible to predict floods one day more before. Not only this bu...
