Medical Innovations
The pace of innovation and change in the health and medicine space is accelerating wildly, as a broad range of new technologies and scientific discoveries unlock new treatments and therapies we couldn't have dreamed of 10 or 20 years ago. This section focuses on the frontiers of medicine, including medical AI, imaging & diagnostics, medical devices, robotics, bionics, prosthetics, surgical devices, brain-computer interfaces, personalized medicine, psychedelics and more.
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Americans will soon have access to an infusion treatment that provides round-the-clock relief of Parkinson's symptoms. The US FDA has green-lit this innovative drug delivery system, which is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2025. -
A surgical procedure to restore the power of sight to blind patients using their teeth is gaining traction around the world, with Canada opening its first clinic for this treatment. Here's how Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis works, and who it's for. -
Nobody likes being carsick, seasick or airsick, but what can you do to keep from getting that way? Well, according to a new study, simply listening to an audio tone for one minute might be all it takes to stop you from losing your lunch.
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April 09, 2025 | Abhimanyu GhoshalDid you know you emit gases through your skin? These vapors, which include CO2 and volatile organic compounds, can provide insights about your metabolic status, disease states, and overall health. A new wearable can help make sense of it all. -
April 04, 2025 | Ben CoxworthIf someone is afflicted with heart disease, it's important that their cardiac activity be monitored as accurately as possible. An experimental new wearable device is designed to make that happen, by copying the body structure of the starfish. -
April 04, 2025 | Abhimanyu GhoshalEngineers at Illinois' Northwestern University have developed the tiniest pacemaker you'll ever see. It's several times smaller than a regular pacemaker, and it's designed for patients several times smaller than the average pacemaker user. -
April 03, 2025 | Rich HaridyA landmark clinical trial testing the effect of microdosing LSD on symptoms of ADHD recently delivered its first data readout and the results have been surprising, to say the least, raising questions over the efficacy of this popular trend. -
April 01, 2025 | Abhimanyu GhoshalA team of California-based researchers has developed an incredible AI-powered system to restore natural speech for paralyzed people in real time and using their own voices. -
March 28, 2025 | Ben CoxworthIt's never a good thing, when a bacterial biofilm forms on the surface of a medical implant. There could soon be a new way of eradicating such films, however, using tiny remote-control liquid-bodied robots. -
March 28, 2025 | Abhimanyu GhoshalUCLA researchers have developed a tiny sensor to monitor metabolites – substances produced or used when your body breaks down food or medication – far more extensively than current methods. It could unlock better disease diagnosis and drug development. -
March 27, 2025 | Bronwyn ThompsonLove them or hate them, chatbots are here to stay. And while an increasing number of people have been turning to bots like Claude and ChatGPT for help, there's only anecdotal evidence as to their mental health usefulness. That is, until now. -
March 26, 2025 | Bronwyn ThompsonScientists have made a major breakthrough in the accuracy and speed at which serious and often deadly pathogen infections can be diagnosed and treated. Often, this is time that is critically important in saving a patient's life. -
March 25, 2025 | Abhimanyu GhoshalInjection needles can be scary, and the larger ones for longer-term medications are far more intimidating. Researchers have created a better way to deliver drugs into patients' systems, and it involves turning those drugs into tiny crystals. -
March 23, 2025 | Bronwyn ThompsonA new AI model can predict the likelihood of premature death from inflammatory bowel disease, with 95% accuracy. This is good news – by looking beyond the gut for early treatment of other chronic illnesses can greatly reduce the early mortality rate. -
March 20, 2025 | Michael FrancoThe cannabis-derived compound cannabidiol is gaining traction as a treatment for a multiple conditions, but it's notoriously hard for the body to use. Now a breakthrough production method has removed a major roadblock to its bioavailability. -
March 19, 2025 | Ben CoxworthOur soft tissues swell and shrink throughout the day, so a wearable that fits in the morning may not do so in the afternoon. A new adaptive lining for the sockets of prosthetic limbs was designed with this important fact very much in mind. -
March 14, 2025 | Michael FrancoA man has lived for more than 100 days with a maglev heart beating inside his chest. In a landmark moment, he was discharged earlier this year, becoming the first person in the world to leave the hospital with the device embedded in his body. -
March 13, 2025 | Paul McClureA new study has tested innovative proof-of-concept technology that syncs electrical stimulation with rehabilitation robotics to enable individuals paralyzed after spinal injury to move more naturally. The tech should improve recovery outcomes.
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