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Garmin International Announces vívosmart HR with Elevate Wrist Heart Rate Technology

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., today announced the vívosmart HR, a touchscreen activity tracker1 with ElevateTM wrist heart rate technology that provides a full suite of smart notifications.

From Garmin 30 Oct 2015

Novel Sensor Monitors Usage of Inhalers

Rescue inhalers are commonly used by asthmatics, as necessary, during asthma attacks. But people with asthma sometimes use maintenance inhalers, on a prescribed schedule, to prevent attacks.

28 Oct 2015

Advances in PET Scanning Technology Helps Reduce Radiation Dosage

Researchers in Manchester have used recent advances in PET scanning technology to reduce the radiation dose for both patients and staff by up to 30%, allowing an addition of an annual 100 scans a year at Central Manchester University Hospitals.

28 Oct 2015

Prosthetic Limbs with Sense of Touch Through Direct Interface with the Brain

A new study led by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago brings us one step closer to building prosthetic limbs for humans that re-create a sense of touch through a direct interface with the brain.

27 Oct 2015

Blood Pressure Monitoring Testing Market Estimated to Grow at 11.5% CAGR During 2013-2019

The report, titled 'Blood Pressure Monitoring Testing Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019', shows that the market is growing at a CAGR of 11.5% from 2013 to 2019. It is expected to reach an estimated value of US$3,661.3 million by 2019, from a value of US$1,713.3 million in 2012.

22 Oct 2015

Buddi Integrates OriginGPS Nano Spider Module into Mobile Personal Emergency Alarm System

OriginGPS today announced that Buddi, a leader in the field of assistive technology, has integrated the Spider module into its mobile personal emergency alarm system.

19 Oct 2015

InvenSense Offers Motion Artifact Correction and Heart Rate Variation Solutions for Photoplethysmography Sensors

InvenSense, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent sensor system on chip (SoC) for Motion and Sound, announced its motion artifact correction and heart rate variation platform solutions for Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors.

16 Oct 2015

UCLA Professor Awarded $4 Million to Explore Use of Ingestible Medication Sensors

The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded $4 million, through July 2020, for a research project led by principal investigator Honghu Liu, a UCLA professor of public health and community dentistry.

9 Oct 2015

Smartphones and Health Care Apps Benefit Patients, Physicians and Researchers

A recent cartoon in the New Yorker magazine depicts a human resource manager behind a desk, holding up a form and emphatically telling the person in front of him, “You can’t list your iPhone as your primary physician!”

7 Oct 2015

UC Davis Receives Transformative Research Award to Build Total-Body Positron Emission Tomography Scanner

A UC Davis research team has been awarded $15.5 million to build the world’s first total-body positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, which could fundamentally change the way cancers are tracked and treated and put the university on the nation’s leading edge of molecular imaging.

7 Oct 2015

Medical Sensor News

Garmin International Announces vívosmart HR with Elevate Wrist Heart Rate Technology

Novel Sensor Monitors Usage of Inhalers

Advances in PET Scanning Technology Helps Reduce Radiation Dosage

Prosthetic Limbs with Sense of Touch Through Direct Interface with the Brain

Blood Pressure Monitoring Testing Market Estimated to Grow at 11.5% CAGR During 2013-2019

Buddi Integrates OriginGPS Nano Spider Module into Mobile Personal Emergency Alarm System

InvenSense Offers Motion Artifact Correction and Heart Rate Variation Solutions for Photoplethysmography Sensors

UCLA Professor Awarded $4 Million to Explore Use of Ingestible Medication Sensors

Smartphones and Health Care Apps Benefit Patients, Physicians and Researchers

UC Davis Receives Transformative Research Award to Build Total-Body Positron Emission Tomography Scanner

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