19 Dec, 2024 Addressing bias in AI healthcare models — could it be patentable? By Eric McNeil A recent article in The Lancet highlights an important challenge facing developers of AI-powered healthcare solutions: so-called...
09 Dec, 2024 Can AI help in the treatment of sepsis and reduction of antimicrobial resistance? By Martin Hyden Bloodstream infection (BSI) such as sepsis can be difficult to detect at an early stage. The laboratory tests to determine BSI can take...
14 Oct, 2024 Earbuds as Hearing Aids By Duncan White According to an article in the Guardian, Apple's Airpods (RTM) can be used as hearing aids. And not just as a gimmick, but clinically...
09 Oct, 2024 3D-printed death capsule By Mitasha Bharadwaj The famous Star Trek-styled 3D-printed coffin, Sarco Pod, is facing another controversy. The famous Australian physician Dr Philip...
03 Oct, 2024 New blood vessel scanner with the ability to image in real time By Annabel Williams A new handheld scanner uses photoacoustic tomography (PAT) to produce highly detailed imaging scans in real time. The new scanner will...
28 Aug, 2024 Coming soon: robots for injecting into the human body By Annabel Williams Exciting times ahead. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a cell-sized battery that works by...
15 Aug, 2024 Combatting antimicrobial resistance By Gareth Williams Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is one of the major current health concerns. Resistant strains which have emerged recently include...
01 Aug, 2024 Video processing and AI provide new way to track Parkinson's disease progression By Patrick Scott Virtually all areas of innovation have been touched by artificial intelligence, and medical technology is no exception. In recent...
24 Jul, 2024 Taking Charge of Our Health: Medical Wearables By Kameel Kaur Bassi Medical wearables have come a long way from the traditional fitness trackers and heart rate monitors that first flooded the market. From...
18 Jul, 2024 Concussion biomarkers linked to MND By Tom Grendon If you have been following the news recently, you may well have seen that Motor Neurone Disease (MND) has been in the headlines more and...
09 Jul, 2024 Celebrating a vaccine success By Paul Chapman Vaccines are not new. Edward Jenner, although not the inventor of vaccination, certainly pioneered vaccination and developed the first...
09 Jul, 2024 Don’t sweat it: 3D printing facilitates manufacture of intricate sensors By Frank Lee Thomas Prock With the rapid advancement in medtech, medical devices have been made increasingly based on additive manufacturing techniques. According...