The Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Madras, launched India’s first “indigenously designed” standing wheelchair which can enable a person with a disability to stand independently. The IIT has achieved this feat in collaboration with Phoenix Medical Systems. Known as “Arise”, the apparatus was designed by the TTK Centre for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development(R2D2) under the […]
A new biomedical device can now measure the “tissue stiffness” and predict the patient’s risk of diabetic foot complications. The device has been introduced at an innovation camp at IIT-Bombay. According to Nishant Kathpal, the 27-year-old innovator who won a Rs 50-lakh grant for his startup, this is possibly the first device that can measure […]
A team of MBBS students from AIIMS jointly with IIT Delhi has developed a unique broadcasting stethoscope to help the medical students and teachers. The students can learn the auscultation technique- listening to sounds from the heart, lungs and other organs for diagnosis- while the faculty can use this stethoscope for mass teaching. “While teaching, […]
India is considered as the capital of coronary diseases globally. In India, sudden cardiac arrests kill over seven lakh people every year which means almost 2,000 people per day or about 80 every hour! The key reasons behind these staggering numbers are lack of life-saving equipment and the cost of treatment. In an attempt to […]