Medical

GPS Enabled Asthma Inhaler

Asthma is caused by an inflammation of the airways. When an attack occurs, the muscles surrounding the airways get tight as the lining of the air passages swell. This reduces the amount of air that can flow through them. In most people, asthma is triggered by a variety of environmental factors, including: Animals (pet hair

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Inventor Missed Out On A Fortune

According to NewsCore, the former eye doctor who discovered the wrinkle-reducing properties of Botox missed out on a fortune after she and her dermatologist husband failed to patent the anti-ageing procedure they discovered in Canada. Dr. Jean Carruthers’ eureka moment came in 1987 when she spotted that the injections she used to stop eye spasms

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The End of Dentures

A team from Columbia University Medical Center has pioneered a technique to regrow adult teeth from a person’s own stem cells. An animal-model study has shown that by homing stem cells to a scaffold made of natural materials and integrated in surrounding tissue, there is no need to use harvested stem cell lines, or create

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Tech: Another Healthcare Reform

When you think of health care reform you immediately think of government intervention in the healthcare market, right? But there is another “reform” underway that is more of a transformation: decentralized innovation fueled by low cost computers, digital sensors and the web. The NY Times reports: The trend promises to shift a lot of the

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Students Build Centrifuge For $30

Futurity reports that a group of college students has turned a salad spinner into a rudimentary centrifuge that medical clinics in developing countries could use to manually separate blood without electricity. They built it for about $30–including the spinner–using plastic lids, cut-up combs, yogurt containers, and a hot-glue gun. The centrifuge was designed as a

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