Microfluidic Wearable Device Could Keep Athletes Hydrated Better Than Gatorade
A wrist-worn sensor could detect levels of various electrolytes instantaneously, alert athletes to rehydrate, or could even deliver electrolytes on-demand.
A wrist-worn sensor could detect levels of various electrolytes instantaneously, alert athletes to rehydrate, or could even deliver electrolytes on-demand.
Google’s massive servers will store and analyze 10,000 complete genomes of autism patients and related clinical data, the largest project of its kind, in order to make it easier for researchers to devise better treatments or find a possible cure for autism.
The showpiece integrated medical facility in Saudi Arabia’s ambitious plan to build world-class health centers, King Khalid Medical City would serve approximately seven million people in the kingdom’s Eastern Province when completed by 2018
A personal robot called ‘Pepper’ who can read human emotions and assist in daily activities will be available for sale starting next year in Japan, which has arguably the highest proportion of elderly citizens in the world.
The “Can I Eat This?” mobile app from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gives travelers easy tips on how to avoid gastrointestinal illnesses that result from ingesting contaminated food and water.
The 4-in-1 technique combines chemotherapy, radiation, lasers and nanoparticles in the highly-specific targeting and destruction of aggressive tumors without the typical harmful side effects associated with conventional cancer treatments.
A new study reveals that one in three people worldwide is now either obese or overweight, with the greatest weight gainers found in the Middle East, and no country has reduced obesity rates in more than three decades.
Capable of detecting the full spectrum of light, this new light sensor could allow non-invasive, low-cost imaging of tumors or monitoring blood oxygenation levels through the use of smartphones.
Healthcare executives, entrepreneurs, thought leaders and innovators networked and exchanged ideas on the future of digital health during the HealthXL Global Gathering 2014 event held in Dublin, Ireland.
Healthcare experts and leaders gathered in Abu Dhabi for a two-day mHealth summit to share knowledge on the benefits of using mobile health applications in gamification, interoperability, and the fight against threats such as MERS.
Samsung announced Simband, a concept watch loaded with sensors that collect health data, and SAMI, a cloud-based sensor data platform, during a digital health event in San Francisco.
At Stanford’s Big Data conference, healthcare and information technology professionals, executives and leaders discussed the advantages of big data to medicine and how expectations are tempered by privacy and security concerns.
The device with a nanoparticle-coated network of microfluidic channels only needs a drop of blood to quickly and accurately analyze protein markers and detect certain types of cancer at the earliest stages.
The Dubai Health Authority and the Imagine Institute of Genetic Diseases in France would collaborate on genetic research and education to better treat genetic disorders in the United Arab Emirates.
Abu Dhabi’s first medical school at Khalifa University will train home-grown talent who in the future would provide world-class health services to residents, expatriates and medical tourists.
University of Texas engineers have built the smallest and fastest nanomotor that could fit inside a cell and deliver drugs, the latest development in research efforts to use nanotechnology in medicine.
The Saudi Health Exhibition & Conference 2014 brought together healthcare companies, industry leaders, healthcare executives, medical care providers, suppliers and government delegates from 35 countries to explore new opportunities in the changing healthcare sector landscape in the Kingdom.
Al Masah Capital says that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) healthcare market will be valued at USD$144 billion by 2020, with a third of the market controlled by the private sector.
Engineering students from the American University of Sharjah (AUS) won first prize at the Imagine Cup 2014: United Arab Emirates finals for developing a brain-computer interface with accompanying mobile app that lets locked-in, paralyzed patients communicate with care providers and loved ones.
Using a newly-developed technique called mid-field wireless transfer through a thin metal plate placed over the skin, Stanford engineers successfully and safely powered an embedded device the size of a grain of rice to regulate the cardiac rhythm of a rabbit’s heart.
