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Ingestible Sensor Calculates Heart and Breathing Rates

Using technology invented at MIT, doctors may one day be able to monitor patients’ vital signs by having them swallow an ingestible electronic device that measures heart rate and breathing rate from within the gastrointestinal tract.

20 Nov 2015

Sigmascreening Mammogram Product Features ClearOhm Silver Nanowire-Based Flexible Sensor

Cambrios Technologies, the Sunnyvale, CA-based leader in silver nanowire technology, today announced its ClearOhm® silver nanowire-based flexible sensor made by Netherlands-based Claymount, are being used in a first-of-its-kind mammogram product from Amsterdam-based Sigmascreening.

19 Nov 2015

InvenSense Introduces SaaS Fitness Tracking Platform for Smartphone and Smartwatch Applications

InvenSense, Inc., a leading provider of MEMS sensor platform solutions, announced Coursa Sports, a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) fitness tracking platform for smartphone and smartwatch health and fitness applications. The platform is designed to provide more accurate and always available speed, distance, and route tracking and at least a 3X improvement in relative elevation reporting for walking, hiking and running at up to 50% reduced power consumption.

From InvenSense Inc. 18 Nov 2015

Innovative Sensor Device Measures and Monitors Glucose in Urine

The project was recognized as one of the 10 most outstanding creations among innovators under 35 delivered by the MIT Tech Review.

13 Nov 2015

Fine-Tuned Electric Potential Sensing Technology Helps Detect Electrical Activity of Developing Hearts

Highly sensitive sensors have been successfully used to map the electrical activity of the developing heart in embryos, in a University of Sussex study published today (10 November 2015).

11 Nov 2015

MEDICA 2015: ForaCare Suisse Showcases Innovative FORA Diamond Blood Glucose Monitors

ForaCare Suisse AG located in St. Gallen, Switzerland, announced today it is featuring its line of FORA® Diamond blood glucose monitors at MEDICA 2015 and spotlighting its innovative device that produces sound results. The FORA® Diamond VOICE provides an audible simulated human voice to deliver blood glucose measurements to elderly and hearing and visually impaired patients.

11 Nov 2015

UMass Medical School Researchers Working on Ways to Remotely, Noninvasively Monitor Cardiac Patients

Researchers at UMass Medical School are working on ways to remotely and noninvasively monitor patients with serious cardiac disease in the hopes of keeping them healthier and preventing emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

5 Nov 2015

Sensitive and Low-Cost Biosensor Measures Glucose Level in Saliva

Diabetic patients have to monitor blood glucose regularly and frequently, but conventional method of taking blood sample for measuring glucose level is painful. It is therefore important to develop high performance biological sensors for monitoring the glucose level at a reasonable cost.

3 Nov 2015

CASMED Sells Assets Related to 740 SELECT Vital Signs Monitoring Product Line to Zoe Medical

CAS Medical Systems, Inc. (CASMED), a leader in medical devices for non-invasive patient monitoring, announces the sale of assets related to its 740 SELECT® vital signs monitoring product line to Zoe Medical, Inc. The sale of the 740 SELECT product line coupled with the phase-out of earlier generation monitors completes the Company's exit from the vital signs monitoring market.

2 Nov 2015

New Method Brings Down Production Time for High-Tech Flexible Sensors

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a method that cuts down by half the time needed to make high-tech flexible sensors for medical applications. The advance brings the sensors, which can be used to monitor vital signs and brain activity, one step closer to mass-market manufacturing.

30 Oct 2015

Medical Sensor News

Ingestible Sensor Calculates Heart and Breathing Rates

Sigmascreening Mammogram Product Features ClearOhm Silver Nanowire-Based Flexible Sensor

InvenSense Introduces SaaS Fitness Tracking Platform for Smartphone and Smartwatch Applications

Innovative Sensor Device Measures and Monitors Glucose in Urine

Fine-Tuned Electric Potential Sensing Technology Helps Detect Electrical Activity of Developing Hearts

MEDICA 2015: ForaCare Suisse Showcases Innovative FORA Diamond Blood Glucose Monitors

UMass Medical School Researchers Working on Ways to Remotely, Noninvasively Monitor Cardiac Patients

Sensitive and Low-Cost Biosensor Measures Glucose Level in Saliva

CASMED Sells Assets Related to 740 SELECT Vital Signs Monitoring Product Line to Zoe Medical

New Method Brings Down Production Time for High-Tech Flexible Sensors

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