Functional human hearts regenerated from skin cells

The day that heart transplant patients no longer need to wait for a donor match just got a little closer. Researchers from Massachusetts...

GM mosquitoes could block spread of Zika in Florida

Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida to block the spread of the Zika virus after the FDA confirmed they would caus...

What IBM Watson's Big $2.6B Acquisition Means for the Hospital Field

Analytics company's purchase of Truven on Thursday sets it up as an even larger force in health care. Following another big acqui...

Fingertip surgery

A stretchable electronic sensor may replace the scalpel and other operating room tools for some surgical procedures. It lets physicians ...

A health check chair

Checking health signs such as blood pressure, temperature and mobility usually involves multiple tests and can be time-consuming. A chair...

The orderly robot

The UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay now has a fleet of about two dozen Tug robots delivering drugs, linens and meals and carting away...

Battery-powered germ-killers

As the number of joint replacement surgeries grows, so do concerns about the complications of infection from antibiotic-resistant superb...

Press-and-print body parts

Last year, Cornell University scientists used a 3-D printer to produce an artificial ear that, according to Randy Reiland’s January 2014 ...

Google glass aids trauma care

Trauma surgeons at the Forbes Hospital Trauma Center near Pittsburgh are testing Google Glass technology using a software called VIZR, Vis...

The Medical Technologies That Are Changing Health Care

New, eye-popping medical technology provides earlier diagnoses, personalized treatments and a breathtaking range of other benefits for ...

'IVF chip' helps capture images of sperm fusing with egg

Every mammal on this planet starts in the same way: a sperm encounters an egg and fuses with it. This process is familiar to every eighth g...

Easy to Use Navik 3D Cardiac Mapping System Cleared in U.S.

APN Health, a firm based in Wisconsin, got hold of an FDA clearance to introduce its Navik 3D cardiac mapping system in the U.S. The sys...

New Flexible Electronic Films for Body-Worn Medical Devices

At the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland researchers have created a new method for making stretchable electronics th...

Medtronic’s CRT-Ds Now Approved for 3 Tesla Scanning in Europe

Medtronic won European CE Mark approval for a number of its cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds) to be safe for use u...

FDA Approves New ScandiDos System That Measures XRT Dose

When radiation treatment is delivered by a medical accelerator, the amount of exposure that is actually absorbed by the patient has been e...

Automatic Suturing by Robotic Surgical System

At Case Western Reserve University engineers are working on integrating autonomous suturing abilities into the da Vinci robotically-assis...

Top 5 Medical Technology Innovations

Against the backdrop of health care reform and a controversial medical device tax, medical technology companies are focusing more than ev...

Scientists improve DNA technology for detecting, treating disease

One of the drawbacks of DNA aptamers - synthetic small molecules that show promise for detecting and treating cancer and other diseases -...

Heart Disease Detection Goes High Tech

Experts review the latest techniques that reveal whether you have heart disease When former President Bill Clinton was diagnosed with ...