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If you’re blessed enough that you haven’t had blood drawn in a while, you might not have thought much about the process. You might imagine that a needle goes in, …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: Vacuum Blood Collection
Even before 3D graphics and advanced shaders became common in the gaming world, there were concerns that virtual violence looked too realistic. Fighting games in the 1990s were routinely toned-down …read more Continue reading A New Blood Hack For An Old Game
If you’ve ever had a medical team investigating cardiac issues, you’ve probably had a bunch of electrodes stuck all over your chest and been hooked up to an electrocardiogram. This …read more Continue reading How Pulse Oximetry Figures Out Your Blood Oxygen Levels
Nobody enjoys giving blood samples, but it’s a necessary part of many hospital stays and doctor visits. Soon we might not have to, thanks to a new device that can isolate biomarkers for different diseases using sound waves, from a single drop of blood,… Continue reading Handheld diagnostic performs 1-hour blood tests from a finger prick
If a medical professional has ever had a hard time getting a needle into your veins, you’ll welcome this new gizmo from Adison Technology. By effectively turning your skin transparent, it makes needle sticks more accurate and therefore less painful.Con… Continue reading 3D vein viewer sees right through your skin
If a medical professional has ever had a hard time getting a needle into your veins, you’ll welcome this new gizmo from Adison Technology. By effectively turning your skin transparent, it makes needle sticks more accurate and therefore less painful.Con… Continue reading 3D vein viewer sees right through your skin
If a medical professional has ever had a hard time getting a needle into your veins, you’ll welcome this new gizmo from Adison Technology. By effectively turning your skin transparent, it makes needle sticks more accurate and therefore less painful.Con… Continue reading 3D vein viewer sees right through your skin
Toxic “forever chemicals” are a major environmental problem, and a growing body of research shows they’re also a major health problem. A new study has found people with higher levels of PFAS in their blood have poorer sleep.Continue ReadingCategory: Sl… Continue reading Toxic “forever chemicals” in the blood linked to poor sleep
Leeches may be creepy, but many people find hypodermic needles even creepier. That’s one of the reasons why scientists have developed a new leech-inspired blood collection device, which draws blood samples without the need for a big jab.Continue Readin… Continue reading Leech-inspired device may make for kinder, gentler blood sampling
There’s a global shortage of blood supplies needed for life-saving transfusions due to factors that include an aging population with a higher demand for it and a lack of volunteer donors. However, even if there was an ample blood supply, it’s not as si… Continue reading Bacterial enzyme strips away blood types to create universal donor blood