Medical Devices

Saying one thing while feeling another is part of being human, but bottling up emotions can have serious psychological consequences like anxiety or panic attacks. To help health care providers tell the difference, a team led by scientists at Penn State has created a stretchable, rechargeable sticker that can detect real emotions — by measuring things like skin temperature and heart rate — even when users put on a brave face.  The researchers recently unveiled the wearable patch that can simultaneously and accurately track multiple emotional signals in a study published in the journal Nano Letters.

Read more: Penn State Research.

Northwestern University researchers have developed the first wearable device for measuring gases emitted from and absorbed by the skin.

By analyzing these gases, the device offers an entirely new way to assess skin health, including monitoring wounds, detecting skin infections, tracking hydration levels, quantifying exposure to harmful environmental chemicals and more. Source: Northwestern Now

Many cancer drugs fail to penetrate deep into tumors, but new research suggests magnetism could help pull them through.

Researchers are developing a preclinical method to stimulate the brain without drilling into the skull by guiding a catheter through the cerebrospinal fluid.

A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University has discovered that bacteria can invade the brain after a medical device is implanted, contributing to inflammation and reducing the device’s long-term effectiveness.

Their groundbreaking research, recently published in Nature Communications, could improve the long-term success of brain implants now that a target has been identified to address. Source: Case Western Reserve University: The Daily.