Medical Technology

Health care is decimated, leaving the region more vulnerable than ever to infectious diseases

What’s called ResearchKit enables scientists to more easily write mobile apps that take advantage of iPhone sensors to study asthma, Parkinson’s and other diseases. Larry Greenemeier reports

 

A call by scientists to halt precision gene editing of DNA in human embryos would allow time to work out safety and ethical issues

The FDA announced strict new recommendations for preventing the transmission of antibiotic-resistant infections from reusable medical devices such as those that have spread recently at several hospitals

Cognition, social interactions and quality of life may improve for older people with hearing loss when hearing is restored with a cochlear implant, according to a new study

Gaps in immunization could cause as many deaths as the current epidemic itself

New inner-ear drug delivery systems could stop relentless ringing or restore lost sound sensitivity

Each year it seems a little less like science fiction to ask your phone for advice about local chinese food or trust your car to get you to a new location.

There are many reasons to seek help from a dog trainer, and Cat Warren confronted almost all of them when a new puppy came barreling into her life.

What innovations are leaping out of the labs to shape the world in powerful ways? Identifying those compelling innovations is the charge of the Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, one of the World Economic Forum’s network of expert communities that form the Global Agenda Councils, which today released its Top 10 List of Emerging Technologies for [...]

The last place anyone expects to find a designer is in a hospital, clinic or operating room, but those are exactly the spaces where I embed myself.

Questions surround whether brain-scan measures of whether someone is in pain are reliable enough to be used in legal proceedings