A laser beam hits the eye. This sounds more like a risk of injury at first, but in this case it opens up a chance of healing. “We use laser light to obtain…
The attempt to mimic human's five senses led to the development of innovative electronic devices such as camera and TV, which are inventions that dramatically…
3D MRI computing can measure strain in the heart using image registration method. Traditional method involves giving the patient a dose of gadolinium which can…
The development of a retina-on-a-chip, which combines living human cells with an artificial tissue-like system, has been described today in the open-access…
2001 the first endoscopic capsule took its journey through the small intestine of a human patient. With its miniature camera, the capsule captured thousands of…
Those who were humiliated, beaten or sexually abused in childhood are more likely to suffer from mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety attacks in…
We tend to take our skin's protective function for granted, ignoring its other roles in signaling subtleties like a fluttering heart or a flush of…
Each year, more than 200,000 people receive a prosthetic hip in Germany. The success of these operations has a major impact on the quality of life of those…
While the presence of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain may be a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, giving patients an amyloid PET scan is not an effective…
The technique, known as Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH), has allowed the researchers to overcome many challenges associated with…
This is funded with around 50,000 Euros (56,000 US Dollar) by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the…
Treating prostate cancer with higher doses of proton therapy over a shorter amount of time leads to similar outcomes when compared to standard dose levels and…
Endovascular interventions are an integral part of the medical routine with 6 million procedures done worldwide annually. During the procedure, doctors insert…
For patients with chest pain and presumably stable coronary heart disease (CHD), therapy depends primarily on how constricted the arteries that support the…
In an article published in the peer-reviewed SPIE publication Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO), “Frequency-domain differential photoacoustic radar: theory…
The procedure improves patients' quality of life by allowing them to breathe easier, be less short of breath and be more active and energetic. The treatment,…
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