Medical & healthcare

4D Health Tech aims to promote the use of innovative materials that degrade predictably and promote faster healing and combine this with expertise in automated design, advanced manufacturing processes and patient specific pre-clinical testing

UK team to pioneer next-gen health tech for better patient outcomes

Wael Othman and Mohammad A. Qasaimeh with the off-the-jaw tactile feedback system

Off-the-jaw system adds tactile feedback to minimally invasive surgery

Roliner smart prosthetic liner adapts in real-time to an amputee’s residual limb

Roliner offers personalised fit for amputees

A smart sensory t-shirt is helping post-surgery patients get discharged up to 36 hours earlier by monitoring vital signs remotely

Sensory T-shirt enables earlier hospital discharge

Q&A: The IEEE president on the $2m Medal of Honor prize

The NHS spent £64.3m on all tooth extractions in children aged 0 to 19 in the 2022-2023 financial year

Dental treatment uses industrial coating to fight tooth decay

Spinal stimulation and robotics aid paralysis rehab

Direct tracking of AuNPs inside the body could lead to more effective cancer treatments

Gold nanoparticle imaging boosts cancer treatment

The number of design requirements or engineering standards that guide design and development efforts varies depending on the complexity of the device

Comment: How to avoid the pitfalls of MedTech

Around 153,000 people live with Parkinson's in the UK

Wrist stimulation to be trialled for Parkinson’s tremor

Over 75 per cent of astronauts in space experience some changes in their vision

AI app could transform eye health diagnosis

The AI system learns the ‘signatures’ or ‘features’ that the EEG signals create for different imaginations

Brainwave reader helps people with MND communicate with thoughts