The device helps control diaphragm contractions, preventing hiccup-causing muscle spasms.

Scientists are lending their expertise—whatever it may be—to help develop tests, medical devices, and other tools to try to save lives during the pandemic.

In just a few months, researchers have constructed low-cost ventilators that can keep sedated pigs alive. Getting them to work safely and reliably in people is the next challenge.

A device that illuminates and oxygenates blood outside of the body before pumping it back in removes the gas by freeing hemoglobin from CO.

An experimental hearing aid differentiates speakers and monitors the wearer’s brain activity to amplify the one she is trying to listen to.

A long-acting contraceptive patch with microscopic needles releases a drug slowly over time.

A new device uses anchored nanowires to capture extracellular vesicles from pee for microRNA analysis.

A microfluidic device collects microRNAs for analysis.

Rather, the breast cancer mutation screen was classified as a type of medical device with obligations for the company to reduce risks to customers.

The incubator exhibitions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries publicized the care of premature babies.

An ingestible, electronic capsule can harvest energy from stomach acid for up to a week in a pig model system.

A new fabrication strategy enables scientists to manufacture fully biocompatible, implantable medical devices. 

Expanded US Health and Human Services rules will require the results of more human studies to be made public.

Flexible patches of silicone that stick to skin and conduct electricity could serve as the basis for a new, reusable electrode for medical applications.

The US Senate has found hospitals, a device maker, and federal regulators dragged their feet on reporting contaminated endoscopes.

Just half of the clinical studies used to gain premarket approval for cardiac devices ever make it into the scientific literature.

A newly approved visual aid translates the appearance of objects to electrical stimulation on the tongue.

Two teams have developed tumor-implantable drug delivery devices to study real-time responses to multiple therapies in cancer patients.

The number of deaths attributable to certain medical probes may go beyond a recent outbreak in Los Angeles.