Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi combines his career with medical innovation - and stand-up comedy. Image source, Getty Images. Dr Chaturvedi has co-invented medical devices to help address inefficiencies in Indian healthcare.
Dr Chaturvedi has also launched a platform to connect Indian doctors with the innovation industry. Getting the message across. Image source, Amy Mace. Dr Lydia Yarlott was amazed at how much time colleagues wasted trying to contact each other. Army innovator. Image source, JC Choy. Lt Col Choy developed an app to help improve communications in the Singaporean army. Conjuring designs from thin air in a virtual world Could aviation ever be less polluting?
Why is the white hot Chinese tech sector cooling down? Could high-flying drones power your home one day? How tech is bringing Israelis and Palestinians together. Col Choy says he's already received positive feedback from fellow soldiers on his app. Related Topics. Apps Medical technology. Together with vaccination, antibiotics have facilitated the near eradication of epidemic diseases such as tuberculosis. Today the medical community is looking at resistant bacteria that has evolved due to overuse of antibiotics.
Most medical innovations are pioneered by highly-educated individuals, but in this case, the opposite was true. The disposable catheter was invented by David S. Sheridan who only had an 8th grade education and was working in a floor refinishing business at the time.
Sheridan created a hollow plastic tube that was designed to be discarded after a one-time use. He later went onto hold over 50 patents before passing away in at the age of One of the most miraculous inventions, the idea concept of defibrillation had been known for decades. Today, the cardiac defibrillator is used daily around the world and has saved millions of people from life-ending scenarios. After the invention of the X-ray revolutionized the detail of an examination, medical practitioners wanted access to even more detail — leading to the invention of the CT scanner, which displays different layers within multiple X-ray images.
Godfrey Hounsfield developed the first commercial CT scanner, which saw its first application on a patient in London. Raymond V. Damadian invented a technique to differentiate between cancerous and normal cells using nuclear magnetic resonance which later was improved and called functional magnetic resonance imaging or MRI. The invention of the prosthesis has been a big breakthrough, enabling the physically handicapped to live a life that is not limited to wheelchair and crutches.
Nevertheless, the first iterations of this invention were limiting. Over the years prosthesis technology has blossomed offering wearers more flexibility and mobility. Bionic prosthetics would eventually follow, coming into fruition in The modern bionic prosthesis is made from carbon fiber making it lighter and stronger than metal. The durable artificial limb is intuitive, features, inbuilt myoelectric sensors that enable gripping and holding, may incorporate 3D printed technologies, can connect to a wearer's mind, and may eventually allow wearers to feel objects again.
It will be interesting to see how artificial intelligence and machine learning continue to improve the modern bionic prosthesis. Today, defibrillators save millions of lives from the brink of death around the world. The heart is the most important organ in our body, keeping us alive and transporting blood to various parts of our body. One of the leading causes of death is heart disease.
Aside from standard medication and medical treatments, transplants are a great option to combat these statistics. Yet, the number of patients who need a heart transplant far exceeds the supply. Though the ideas of the artificial heart can be traced all the way back to Jean Cesar LeGallois in , with multiple.
Robert Jarvik is the first person to create a permanent artificial heart, in The artificial heart has evolved over the decades saving countless lives. Modern disposable catheters were invented in the s by David S. Sheridan , a man who is also known as the Catheter King. Either related to illness or accident, there are people around the world that suffer from a neurological disorder that impairs or even impossible to naturally empty their bladder.
Disposable catheters give these people the opportunity to live lives relatively normal lives through the process of intermittent self-catheterization. Molecular breast imaging is the process of using a radioactive tracer and a special camera to find breast cancer. The invention is revolutionary.
Mammography is still one of the primary tools for the screening of breast cancer. However, this screening test is known to underperform in some women.
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