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September 24, 2011 The Brain stops growing?

The Biomedical Researchers at the University of Alberta found evidence that the human brain develops well into it’s 20’s.  Structural changes in white matter was found as they took MRI scans of people’s brains in a series of tests. They theorized a few ideas as to why the brain keeps growing.

Source : The Times of India

September 13, 2011 Something Better Than Plastic Surgery?

Johns Hopkins Biomedical engineers developed a liquid that restores damaged soft tissue. The liquid is made of synthetic materials that mimic cell tissue. It has shown prosperity in experiments and could one day be used to heal blast wounds of soilders.

Source:  Insciences

August 30, 2011 Perfecting the Flu Vaccine?!

The research team at Children’s Hospital Boston has conducted study to perfect the flu vaccine so we can be protected continuously instead of needing to get a new vaccine every season. This will protect against multiple viral strands such that any mutations and the antigenic drift will be prevented.

Source: Children’s Hospital Boston

March 18, 2011 Anti-Migraine Patch

“Zelrix is an active, single-use, transdermal sumatriptan patch in development for the treatment of migraine. Zelrix is designed to provide migraine patients fast onset and sustained relief through a tolerable, non-oral route of administration. Zelrix may provide an attractive treatment option for many migraine patients because it avoids the need for oral administration and does not depend upon gastrointestinal absorption.”

Source: MarketWire

November 2, 2010 Vitamin B12 can protect you from Alzheimer’s

Vitamin B12

A new study done with senior citzens has found that having vitamin in their blood have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, Alzhiemers affects one in eight Americans aged 65 and older.  A similar study was done last summer, with B12 and folic acid would alleviate patients who had suffered strokes or heart attack.

Source: Reuters

August 9, 2010 Don’t like shots? Use a microneedle

Little kids don’t like shots with the sharp needles, but that day might change. Researchers are Georgia Tech have developed a a new method of vaccine delivery that uses a patch. It is called a patch with microneedles. The needles are so small that you can’t feel them since your pain receptors are disrupted, and you don’t may have noticed that some areas on your body is more sensitive that other areas. The microneedles can be attached to a bandaid, and dissolves after releasing the drug.

Source: AP

June 25, 2010 Using a cellphone to give a low cost eye exam

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to test one’s eye sight. It consists of a cellphone attached to a simple plastic device clipped onto the screen to estimate refractive errors and focal range of eyes. This device is ideal for low cost eye exams, and for use in third world countries where optometry equipment is very expensive, and hard to transport. The device works when “the patient looks into a small lens, and presses the phone’s arrow keys until sets of parallel green and red lines just overlap. This is repeated eight times, with the lines at different angles, for each eye. The whole process takes less than two minutes, at which point software loaded onto the phone provides the prescription data.”

June 22, 2010 The Future Pharmacy

In the future, your pharmacy, might be not be the CVS down the street, but it might just be a RedBox like vending machine in your local supermarket or Wal-Mart. 99 percent of most pills are actually useless. Only a very small portion of the pill contains the active ingredient. Researchers have developed a new method to create pills that would as easy as sending a print job to your printer. The pill printer would dispense the active ingredients on one side of the tablet, and then seal the tablet. The new benefit of the printing pills is that the pills are designed around the patient. If the patient is under multiple medications, the printer can add additional active ingredients to that one pill. Thus, the patient would only need to swallow one pill instead of 6 or 7 pills. Another benefit to printing pills is the active ingredients take less time for the drug delivery, thus the pills act more quickly.

April 5, 2010 MEDGDGT’s new plans for expansion

We plan on offering the best experience for our users. We will expand to offer a community to our site.

We want to still bring you the latest news updates, our promised podcasts by our experts, and now the best experience when choosing your medical device.  We know before we buy any type of gadget we go online and look for a review or user reviews. We believe this should be true for medical devices as well.  We want to offer the best experience before you choose your device, and we will want your feedback to help us educate new users, and society as well.

January 28, 2010 MedGDGT needs you!

MedGDGT is looking into growing it’s staff and we need you! If you interested in traveling the world to check what devices people are using in healthcare, then MedGDGT is for you. We need people interested in writing, editing, developing the podcast, editing the podcast, page layout, and new media. If you are interested please post in the comments, and there will be more details when comment.