MEDICAL
SAFTE/FAST – A Fatigue Risk Management tool
Pilot fatigue on extended missions had long been a serious concern in the Air Force. A biomathematical model, dubbed SAFTE, was developed to predict cognitive performance based on the body's own circadian rhythms and sleep/wake cycles. CLICK FOR MORE.
Femtosecond Laser
The IntraLase FS Laser System makes precision cuts using femtosecond laser technology - an infrared light beam that pulses at 60,000 times per second. CLICK FOR MORE.
EZ-IO
The EZ-IO Intraosseous Infusion System provides a rapid, near-foolproof way of getting blood, fluids, or medicine into patients. The device, battery-operated and about the size of a glue gun, has helped those experiencing cardiac arrest, major trauma, shock, and severe dehydration. CLICK FOR MORE.
Film Array by BioFire Defense
FilmArray's Respiratory and Blood Culture Identifications panels test for more than a hundred pathogens. CLICK FOR MORE.
Method for Estimating Core Body Temperature from Heart Rate
This technology aims to prevent heat injury. Hot environments pose a risk of heat illness to people in occupations where heavy workloads and/or protective clothing is necessary. CLICK FOR MORE.
Computer Controlled System for Laser Energy Delivery to the Retina
This technology can be utilized in a variety of settings to provide accurate imaging, diagnosis and treatment of lesions on a retina by accurately delivering laser energy to particular parts of the retina.CLICK FOR MORE.
Smart Inhaler System For Targeted Drug-Aerosol Delivery
A novel method of targeting therapeutics for the treatment of lung diseases, while minimizing potential harmful side effects North Carolina State CLICK FOR MORE.
Medical Tube Securing Device
A bite block that greatly reduces skin damage and improves oral hygiene maintenance with long term intubated patients AMEDD, MD CLICK FOR MORE.
Data Mining Healthcare Records To Optimize Patient Treatment and Aid Medical Studies
Deloitte, which bills itself as the world's largest health consultancy, and Intermountain Healthcare, known around the world for its pioneering work in healthcare informatics, are teaming up to help transform healthcare. CLICK FOR MORE.
Nanotubes
JPL and City of Hope have combined to use NASA made nanotubes as vectors for therapeutics to combat brain tumors
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Hybrid Nanomaterials as Multimodal Imaging Contrast Agents
New hybrid nanomaterials that can be used as multimodal imaging contrast agents. They produce highly efficient MRI contrast agents that can be bound to a targeting group that acts to direct the contrast agent to a specific organ or cancer cells.CLICK FOR MORE.