Medicine

Can the Metaverse and Virtual Reality Contribute to Better Healthcare?

Pari Natarajan, CEO of Zinnov, a global management and consulting firm focusing on digital transformation in healthcare. Credit: Pari NatarajanAn expert offers an overview of AR and VR for provider organizations and discusses what these advanced technologies might help hospitals' health systems accomplish.The metaverse and virtual reality are promising technologies that might benefit healthcare.Medical...

Immersive New App Permits Customers to Manage Their iPhone Using Eye-Tracking Innovation

Credit: CanvasAthena Accessible Modern technology launched a life-changing free application that allows clients to control an iPhone with their eyes. The app, Athena Eye Control, utilizes eye-tracking as well as AI to determine when, where, and just how quickly someone reads and also promptly scrolls the display screen as necessary.There are no brand-new user actions...

New Tau Regulators and Therapeutic Targets for Neurodegenerative Disorders Discovered

Image credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.comThe neurodegenerative illness affects millions of individuals globally. As our life expectancy grows, more individuals will be affected in the coming years. Tauopathies such as Alzheimer's illness are a class of neurodegenerative problems involving an accumulation of tau proteins, which gradually cause massive loss of brain cells. There´s little consensus about...

New Blood Test Accurately Predicts Alzheimer’s Years Ahead of First Symptoms

Clumps of proteins surrounding neurons in the brain are associated with the development of Alzheimer's. Credit: Ozgu Arslan/Getty ImagesA new type of blood test can spot a hidden toxin behind Alzheimer's illness years before a patient shows memory loss or confusion symptoms.Suppose the proof-of-concept can be further tested and scaled. In that case, the test...

Green Light Seems to Relieve Pain, And a New Research in Mice Shows Why

Tan Kaninthanond/UnsplashResearch recommends there could be a "basic, safe, and also economical" way to relieve pain: green light. And a new creature research reveals the biological underpinnings of how it may function.Scientists have been exploring the pain-relieving impacts of green light for at minimum half a decade, revealing an occasional clue on exactly how...

Medical City Plano Adopts Anovo ™ Surgical System

Credit: Momentis SurgicalMomentis Surgical ™ announced that Medical City Plano acquired the Anovo ™ Surgical System for transvaginal benign gynecological procedures, including benign hysterectomies. They are the first medical facility in Texas to use this system.Anovo ™ Surgical SystemThe Anovo System is the first and only FDA-authorized surgical robot with miniature humanoid-shaped arms, with...

Study Finds no Evidence that an Aspirin a Day Lowers Risk of Fractures in Healthy Older People

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA group of investigators associated with multiple organizations in Australia and the United States has discovered that taking an aspirin daily does not reduce the danger of bone ruptures in healthy older individuals. In their paper publicized in JAMA Internal Medicine, the team explains their investigation, which contained providing hundreds of...

Investigators Look Into Combating Tumours With Magnetic Bacteria

Magnetic bacteria (gray) can squeeze through narrow intercellular spaces to cross the blood vessel wall and infiltrate tumors. Credit: Yimo Yan / ETH ZurichScientists worldwide are investigating how anti-cancer drugs can most efficiently reach the tumours they target. One probability is to use modified bacteria as "ferries" to bring the medications with the blood...

A Molecular-Based, Finite-State Device

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA little group of scientists at the College of Manchester has created a method for producing a molecular based, finite-state device. Their research study was released in the journal Nature.In computer science, there is a virtual tool referred to as a Turing machine, established by Alan Turing as a means to...

An Automatically Adjusting Exoskeleton that Adapts to Your Way of Walking

A close-up of the untethered exoskeleton. Credit: Stanford University.A new robotic, boot-like exoskeleton utilizes wearable sensors to adapt to each individual that wears it, marking a considerable progression for robotics. The device, explained in a study released yesterday, helps address one of the major obstacles in developing systems that aid people to walk:...