by Medgadget Editors | Apr 30, 2021 | Materials, Neurology, Neurosurgery
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) often lead to cognitive disabilities and permanent neural tissue damage, for which effective therapies do not exist. The serious cognitive impairments that patients experience and the burden on caretakers can be enormous, necessitating a...
by Medgadget Editors | Apr 29, 2021 | Neurology, Rehab
Neurolutions, a company with offices in Santa Cruz, CA and St. Louis, MO, won FDA de novo authorization to introduce its IpsiHand stroke rehab system in the United States. This is the first approval of a brain-computer interface technology for the rehabilitation of...
by Medgadget Editors | Jul 7, 2020 | Diagnostics, Informatics, Neurology
To monitor, treat, and better understand how seizures arise and develop, scientists and clinicians have been looking for more objective measures and analyses of brain activity. Currently, a typical electroencephalography (EEG) recording of brainwaves throughout a...
by Medgadget Editors | May 1, 2020 | Cardiology, Diagnostics, Geriatrics, Informatics, Materials, Medicine, Telemedicine
Stretchable electronic technologies offer the potential to monitor the body over extended periods of time in unprecedented ways. The heart’s rhythms, flexion of joints, and other biomedical parameters can be tracked with high fidelity and continuously using devices...
by Medgadget Editors | Apr 30, 2020 | Diagnostics, Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Oncology, Radiology
Synaptive Medical is reporting that its Evry MRI scanner has won FDA clearance. The device is designed to make magnetic resonance imaging of the head more accessible, cheaper, and easier to manage than many current systems that require specially-built facilities,...
