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Boston researchers have created a potential N95 mask alternative

July 8, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Brigham & Women’s Hospital says it is developing a new, sustainable alternative to N95 respirator masks that are in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic. A team of bioengineers and clinical experts at the Boston-based hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on the “injection molded autoclavable, scalable, conformable” iMASC system for providing […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Research & Development, Respiratory, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dow Corning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Apple announces medical studies using new Research app

September 12, 2019 By Sean Whooley

Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) said yesterday that it is launching medical studies into women’s health, hearing, and heart function and movement with its new Research app. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company said the app will show how medical research is conducted and allow participants to contribute to potential medical discoveries. The Research app will be available as a free […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Clinical Trials, Featured, News Well, Otolaryngology/Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT), Women's Health Tagged With: American Heart Association, Apple, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, National Institutes of Health (NIH), World Health Organization

Study: Researchers develop ingestible capsule for insulin delivery

February 11, 2019 By Sarah Faulkner

A team of researchers from MIT developed an ingestible, blueberry-sized capsule that can deliver insulin orally. In animal models, the capsule lowered blood sugar levels and performed comparably with the traditional route of insulin delivery – injections. The capsule features a small needle made of freeze-dried, compressed insulin. The needle is attached to a compressed spring, which […]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Novo Nordisk

Study: Use of long-acting reversible contraception spiked after 2016 election

February 6, 2019 By Sarah Faulkner

In a study published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers reported that use of long-acting reversible contraception increased in the month following the 2016 presidential election. Adjusting for seasonal trends and patient characteristics, the researchers from Brigham & Women’s Hospital found that insertion of contraceptives such as intrauterine devices increased by 21.6% after the election of President […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceutical, Women's Health Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital

Neuromodulation: Using the brain’s internal language to relieve pain

January 15, 2019 By Sarah Faulkner

When a patient walks into Dr. Jason Yong’s clinic at Brigham & Women‘s Faulkner Hospital complaining of pain, his work has just begun. “Pain is a common symptom and it’s totally generic,” Yong explained to MassDevice. “The other thing that makes it challenging is that it’s so subjective.” After Yong exhausts the pharmaceutical possibilities for […]

Filed Under: Featured, Neurological, Pain Management, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Abbott, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Researchers design ingestible sensor for controlled drug release

December 31, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

Researchers from MIT, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Draper have developed a Bluetooth-controlled ingestible capsule that can sense the temperature of its environment and reside in the stomach for at least a month. The device, which was tested in an animal study and composed of 3D-printed parts, is powered by a small silver oxide battery and relays data to a […]

Filed Under: Digital Health, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Patient Monitoring, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital, draper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Researchers use microparticles for targeted delivery of brain cancer therapy

August 7, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

A team of researchers from Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Mass. Institute of Technology and Mass. General Hospital demonstrated that localizing the delivery of NAMPT inhibitors can extend survival in a mouse model of glioma, according to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists created a test to check for a mutation linked […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Oncology, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Researchers develop capsule to deliver a week’s worth of HIV drugs

January 24, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham & Women’s Hospital have developed a drug-delivery capsule that can deliver a week’s worth of HIV drugs in a single dose. The technology is designed to make it easier for people with HIV to deal with the strict schedule of medications they need to take to […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital, lyndra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Using digital pills, researchers find patients consume fewer opioids than expected

November 21, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Clinicians at Brigham and Women’s Hospital published a paper in the December issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia showing that digital pills successfully monitored patients taking opioids following an injury and addiction may occur, here in this site https://www.addictionadvocates.com/arizona-drug-rehab-centers/ you can prevent addiction from drugs. To track the participants’ opioid use, researchers used etectRx‘s ID-Cap system, which includes a capsule embedded with an […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Hospital Care, Pain Management, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital, etectrx

How slugs, snails & worms inspired Gecko Biomedical’s biocompatible sealant

October 24, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

The story behind Gecko Biomedical’s biocompatible sealant starts in the summer of 2009, when Boston Children’s Hospital‘s chief of cardiac surgery reached out to Jeffrey Karp about a problem he was experiencing in the operating room. Dr. Pedro del Nido told Karp, a professor of medicine at Harvard and the director of the Laboratory for Accelerated Medical Innovation […]

Filed Under: Pediatrics, Regenerative Medicine, Research & Development, Surgical Tagged With: Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Gecko Biomedical, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Responsive, ingestible drug-delivery material could boost patient compliance

July 25, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham & Women’s Hospital have developed a novel, responsive drug-delivery material that can reside in the stomach for up to nine days. The teams work was published today in Nature Communications.  Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery Business News.

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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