(Natural News) Navigating the maze that is your menstrual cycle? There’s an app for that. However, as a recent study revealed, most of these period tracking apps are seen as inaccurate and should be way less pink. According to the study by researchers from the University of Washington, most women are disappointed with most of the available period-tracking […]

(Natural News) Amputees may soon be able to find relief from the phantom limb sensation that haunts them, stated an article in Science Daily. American researchers have created an electronic skin for prosthetic hands that can return a sense of touch to the user. Developed by engineers at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the e-skin is […]

(Natural News) An unintended consequence of automation and the speed in which it is improved is that humans can’t keep up. While this may not seem important to you now, consider that the newly graduated surgeon performing on you may have no idea what he’s doing. This is the warning given by Matthew Beane, an […]

(Natural News) Psychiatric medicine is attempting to understand mental illnesses by giving form to the many phantoms that plague millions of patients globally. This moves away from traditional psychiatry which assumes that mental health was something that could only be “cured” either through medicine or long, sometimes tedious, psychiatric sessions. In an attempt to treat […]

(Natural News) The simple but important job of drawing and testing the blood of patients can now be taken over by a robot, an article on News Wise reported. That is because New Jersey-based engineers came up with a fully-automated blood drawing and testing machine that can work much faster than humans in a laboratory. […]

(Natural News) In the near future, contact lens might become self-powered wearable tools that can diagnose your health based on your tears. That is because U.K. researchers have found a way to print nanostructure “holograms” on their surface that turns the lenses into “smart” electronics, an article from Nano Werks states. Human tears contain biomarkers that […]

(Natural News) A workshop to explore, define, and promote the adoption of lighting systems, particularly for healthcare environments, was carried out and sponsored by the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications (LESA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Illumination Engineering Society (IES). The workshop was attended by lighting and human health researchers, healthy-lighting design […]

(Natural News) Detecting heart disease is now easier – thanks to a team of researchers at the University of Southern California who have developed a smartphone app that can measure a key risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and arterial stiffness. When the arteries are stiff, they become less elastic and more rigid. In turn, this causes increases […]

(Natural News) Many present-day conveniences are rooted in once-exclusive space industry innovations. As it turns out, the same can also apply to certain types of high-level medical equipment. Back in the 1980s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) came up with Canadarm, a robotic manipulation system that was designed to be used in zero […]

(Natural News) British researchers have developed a new imaging technology for analyzing tumor biopsies. Furthermore, they claim their Digistain technology enjoys greater reliability compared to subjective diagnoses by human health professionals, according to an article in ScienceDaily. The Imperial College London (Imperial) research team promised that their new method can reduce the subjectivity and variability often […]