2012
Medical
A colostomy is a surgical procedure in which a stoma is formed by drawing the healthy end of the large intestine or colon through an incision in the anterior abdominal wall and suturing it into place. This opening, in conjunction with the attached stoma appliance, provides an alternative channel for feces to leave the body.
Stress is a popular topic these days. There is rarely a week that passes without hearing or reading about stress and its deleterious effect on health. The word stress is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "state of affair involving demand on physical or mental energy.” Work-related stress and mental fatigue mainly blamed on expectations of better performance,
Every year in the United States, over 2 Million people get an infection after they are admitted to a hospital. Of these infections, 100,000 of them are fatal. This is more deaths than AIDS, breast cancer and car accidents combined.
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO),
Synthetic bone graft materials are required to reduce the dependence upon harvested patient bone or donated cadaveric bone. All current bone graft materials fail to adequately meet the needs of orthopedic surgeons or patients. Existing products have difficulty in matching the structure of patient bone;
Product idea: Prototype synthetic bone scaffolds manufactured by selective laser sintering (SLS) using NOVEL BORATE-BASED BIOACTIVE GLASS (BBG) mimicking the structure and mechanical properties of normal healthy trabecular bone tissue and which can be used for trauma repair.
How it works: Medical imaging can provide non-destructive characterization of 3D bone density, structure, connectivity, and mechanical properties.
Need: Assist the blind and improve their lives by facilitation of their mobility both indoors and on the streets and sidewalks. Improve the safety, confidence, and overall well being of the totally blind, by means of a panel worn in front of the waist and suspended by the belt and shoulder straps, extending forward,
THE NEED FOR AN INVENTION
According to several recent studies, foot temperature measurement can be an important tool for diabetics. Foot inflammation can be readily monitored via temperature. As simple and effective as this solution sounds, in practice it has failed to see wide spread acceptance.
According to a recent study by Doctors Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM, MPH,
Have you ever been to the hospital to see a friend or family member and found them with tracheotomy, ventilator or unable to speak because of a heart attack?
To communicate becomes a problem, as the patients understands you, but you may not understand them. I they can use paper and pencil or tablet computer the problem goes away.
INTRODUCTION: TruFlavorWare is a revolutionary, new tabletop flatware that “Simply makes Food taste Better!” It is totally non-metallic, highly organic, Eco-friendly and made of a proprietary composite material that has the substantial weight, feel, strength and durability of quality stainless steel flatware.
TruFlavorWare simply makes food taste better by totally eliminating the three negative, scientifically known,
My brother of 13 years has had asthma since he was born. His spacer for meter dose inhaler (MDI) is very big, dificult to transport and wash.
Tubee is a totally new concept for a spacer for MDI patients. Previous products aren't portable and being a large balloon-like piece of hollow transparent plastic,
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