MyCare – the ‘card’ that could save your life
Healthcare technologies:
It looks like a credit card…it slips into a wallet or purse…but it could mean the difference between life and death in a medical emergency.
Issued: 28 July 2011
Bioengineering: Helping humans repair themselves
Healthcare technologies:
Tissue Regenix, a spin-out company specialising in human tissue regeneration products, believes its cutting-edge technology could revolutionise medicine.
Issued: 22 June 2011
How the bones of our ancestors could help treat modern back pain
Healthcare technologies:
The unlikely combination of old human bones and the latest computer modelling techniques are being used to develop new ways of treating chronic back pain. It is the first time old bones have been used in this way.
Issued: 10 May 2011
New spinal implant to help people with paraplegia
Healthcare technologies:
Engineers have developed a new type of microchip muscle stimulator implant that will enable people with paraplegia to exercise their paralysed leg muscles.
Issued: 06 May 2011
‘Smart’ tattoos could make their mark on diabetes
Healthcare technologies:
For decades, a simple and convenient way of enabling people with diabetes to monitor their own blood sugar levels has eluded medical science. But now advances in nanometrology are bringing the prospect within reach with ‘smart’ tattoos.
Issued: 04 August 2010
Pathogen hunter
Healthcare technologies:
Ever since their discovery, bacteria have held both scientific and creative minds in their thrall; nor are the public immune to an obsession with these microscopic yet high-profile life-forms.
Issued: 16 March 2010
Phantom recorder
Healthcare technologies:
When a limb is lost, the mind often develops a phantom sensation.
Issued: 16 March 2010
Synthetic immune system
Healthcare technologies:
Biology – the science of life itself. Engineering – the application of science to practical ends.
Issued: 16 March 2010
On the spot diagnosis for prostate cancer patients
Healthcare technologies:
A new nano-scale screening device named the ‘i-Screen’ has 100 times more accuracy than current tests for prostate cancer.
Issued: 15 March 2010
Designing infrastructure to combat disease
Healthcare technologies:
People are not the only things to hop on and off buses and trains. Viruses and bacteria also take advantage of man-made infrastructure to travel and spread.
Issued: 16 September 2009
New designs for 21st century healthcare
Healthcare technologies:
Innovative equipment and vehicle design, supported by EPSRC, could help healthcare professionals treat more 999 patients on the spot.
Issued: 11 June 2009
Rocket fuel powers new scanning technology
Healthcare technologies:
New technology that improves the sensitivity of MRI scans has been developed with support from EPSRC.
Issued: 11 June 2009
Advances in artificial joint replacements
Healthcare technologies:
Collaboration developing computer simulations of wear and tear.
China | INTERACT network grant
Issued: 22 December 2008
New insights into anti-cancer drugs
Healthcare technologies:
Mathematical models to assess the effectiveness of treatments.
Issued: 02 May 2007
Spread of diseases
Healthcare technologies:
Computer models to understand patterns of disease transmission through populations.
Issued: 02 May 2007
Getting a mathematical hold on life
Healthcare technologies:
New techniques to understand complex biological systems that control our bodies.
Issued: 02 May 2007
Shaping up to viruses
Healthcare technologies:
Understanding the geometric assembly of viruses to help destroy them.
Issued: 02 May 2007
Faster and more effective treatment for wounds
Healthcare technologies:
Improved products and an increase in turnover of over 50%.
Issued: 29 March 2007
A profitable partnership
Healthcare technologies:
A small medical devices company reaps large rewards from working with a local university.
Issued: 29 March 2007
New antibiotics resistant against superbugs
Healthcare technologies:
Three drugs identified by a spin-out company using grid computing and e-science techniques.
Issued: 29 March 2007
On the Horizon
Healthcare technologies:
The innovations of engineers, doctors and biomedical researchers have clearly improved our quality of life and prolonged our lives. Their expertise is improving the design of artificial organs and implants every year.
Issued: 04 January 2007
Get Pumping
Healthcare technologies:
For patients with heart problems, bioengineers are using all their expertise in metals, plastics and electronics.
Issued: 04 January 2007
Boning Up
Healthcare technologies:
When engineers, biologists and medical scientists first started to work together on the problems of biomedical science, a new era was born. Now, almost everyone has a biomaterial of some sort in their body, whether it is a filling or a contact lens.
Issued: 04 January 2007
Soft Stuff
Healthcare technologies:
Tissue engineering, combining cells, engineering materials and biochemical factors, could be used to grow a range of tissues including some ligaments, cartilage, skin or liver tissue.
Issued: 04 January 2007
Medicine and Materials Timeline
Healthcare technologies:
Major events in the advances of medicine and materials.
Issued: 04 January 2007
Medical Imaging Timeline
Healthcare technologies:
Major events in the advances in medical imaging technology.
Issued: 21 December 2006
An Image for the Future
Healthcare technologies:
Combining imaging techniques can already improve the detection of diseases, and pioneering research in imaging will undoubtedly provide even more powerful diagnostic tools in the future.
Issued: 21 December 2006
PET
Healthcare technologies:
Positron emission tomography (PET) was first proposed in the 1960s, but it is only recently that its importance as a clinical tool has been recognised in the UK.
Issued: 21 December 2006
Ultrasound Imaging
Healthcare technologies:
Ultrasound is best known for monitoring unborn babies. But it can also be used to detect liver, kidney, heart and vascular problems.
Issued: 21 December 2006
CT and MRI
Healthcare technologies:
X-rays have long been used in medicine to help diagnosis. But in 1972, a new imaging technique based on x-rays was invented.
Issued: 21 December 2006