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Innovations: High-tech retainers let paralyzed patients control wheelchairs and computersThe Tongue Drive System being developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology www.gatech.edu (gatech.edu) lets incapacitated people, those with high-level spinal chord injuries, operate a computer or maneuver an electric wheelchair, all by moving their tongues. The device consists of upper and lower dental “retainers” a person wears and an Apple iPod or iPhone. 
Creative design cuts cost out of high-mix, low-volume manufacturingHow one company saved $2.5 million in tooling and reduced individual part cost by nearly 74%.... Did you hear? Hearing aid elastomers meet multiple challengesFlexible material choices advance hearing options.... R&D Notebook-The America Invents Act and how it affects medtechAfter six years of lobbying, arm-wrestling, horse-trading and debate the most comprehensive reforms and changes to US patent system in over 60 years is now law. This is The Leahy (D-VT) Smith (R-TX) “America Invents Act” or “AIA.”... 
MPC 2011 Photo GalleryPrototyping, Proto Labs, Stratasys, Inc, Meier Tool & Engineering, Morris Technologies, Hexagon Metrology, Inc, Objet Geometries, and Directedmfg.... New ProductsAntimicrobial plastic extrusionsSafe Surfaces extrusions by Sandee Manufacturing, Franklin Park, IL, bring antimicrobial properties to translucent, opaque and other plastic materials... ASIC innovation for advancing ultrasound appsSamplify Systems, a Silicon Valley semiconductor and solutions start-up, has applied its 
MSC Minneapolis photo galleryKeynote sessions on post-recession strategies and the evolving legislative and regulatory environment, coupled with sessions on materials and processing topics, exhibits by key silicone material and processing suppliers, and a networking lunch and reception helped make the second MSC Minneapolis a resounding success. |
advertisement most recent newsMedtronic artificial pancreas study meets efficacy endpointsIn the next step toward the development of an artificial pancreas, Medtronic Inc announced that the results of its in-clinic ASPIRE (Automation to Simulate Pancreatic Insulin REsponse) study have been published online and in the March edition of Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. The ASPIRE study met its efficacy endpoints and showed a 19% reduction in time spent below the low glucose threshold in patients using the MiniMed Paradigm System featuring Low Glucose Suspend (LGS) automation, compared with conventional pump therapy. ... NextGen establishes new diagnostics subsidiaryLondon-based NextGen Group Plc, a provider of biomarker discovery and testing services, has established its new diagnostics subsidiary company, NextGen Sciences Dx Inc. The board of NextGen believes that the creation of the diagnostics business as a separate corporate entity is an important milestone in the transformation of the group from solely providing outsourced research work to owning a portfolio of valuable intellectual property.... Bimba adds live chat functionA live online chat services feature with actuation technology specialists has been added to the Bimba Manufacturing Web site. ...
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Many people think of Parkinson’s disease (PD) merely as uncontrolled shaking or tremors. Yet, virtually all people with PD’s suffer from a wide variety of afflictions and symptoms, including bradykinesia (slow body movements), dyskinesia (uncontrolled body movements, e.g. flailing), impaired speech, dizziness, loss of the sense of smell, urinary incontinence, constipation, and muscle stiffness. Many times shuffling replaces normal gait and posture becomes stooped-over....
