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New Liquid Bandage Measures Oxygen Levels in Transplanted Tissues

Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and surgeons from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have conducted the first human clinical trial to confirm the accuracy and practicality of an oxygen-sensing liquid bandage that quantifies the amount of oxygen in transplanted tissues.

23 Dec 2020

Using Data from Wearable Devices to Characterize COVID-19 and Flu

By analyzing Fitbit data and self-reported symptoms, researchers from Evidation Health and collaborators analyzed trends in heart rate, step count, and symptom duration between patients with flu and those with COVID-19. While both showed similar-looking spikes in resting heart rate and decreases in average step count, COVID-19 symptoms lasted longer and peaked later.

22 Dec 2020

Wearable Sensors Could Help Perform Tests to Reduce COVID-19 Detection Time

Scientists from Evidation Health, based in the United States, and their collaborators analyzed Fitbit data and self-reported symptoms to study the trends in heart rate, symptom duration, and step count between patients with flu and those with COVID-19.

22 Dec 2020

New Wearable Device Predicts Onset of Flu and COVID-19 Symptoms

According to a group of scientists from the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, San Francisco (UC San Francisco) and MIT Lincoln Lab, temperature data obtained by wearable devices attached to the finger can be consistently used to spot the onset of fevers—a prominent symptom of both the flu and COVID-19.

15 Dec 2020

Paper-Based Electrochemical Sensor can Enable Rapid Detection of COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the world, testing remains a key strategy for tracking and containing the virus.

8 Dec 2020

New CZT Detector Could Aid in Medical Diagnostics, Homeland Security

Security officials have to ensure that unsafe materials are not smuggled into a country by criminals, but it has become quite costly and difficult to detect nuclear substances.

8 Dec 2020

Wearable Sensor for a 'Smart' Bandage may Help Track Healing in Skin Wounds

Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Texas at Austin have presented a proof-of-concept for a wearable sensor that can track healing in sores, ulcers, and other kinds of chronic skin wounds, even without the need to remove the bandages. The paper was published in the journal ACS Sensors.

3 Dec 2020