GE is developing wireless medical monitoring systems that could replace the traditional tangle of bedside cables used to capture a patient's vital signs. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Elizabeth Armstrong ...

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and sensor technologies are rapidly transforming healthcare and personal monitoring by integrating advanced sensing devices with unobtrusive communication systems.

Last summer, Northwestern University researchers introduced the first-ever transient pacemaker — a fully implantable, wireless device that harmlessly dissolves in the body after it’s no longer needed.

DUBLIN, Sept. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Wireless Body Sensor Networks: Technologies, Applications, Markets and Prospects" report to their ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Vulnerable groups in society, such as the disabled, elderly, and infants, often require special care and are at risk of severe illness or even death. For example, each year around ...

Researchers have incorporated metamaterials into conventional clothing to dramatically improve signal strength between wearable electronic devices. This innovation could have future applications in ...

Engineers have taken their transient pacemaker and integrated it into a coordinated network of four soft, flexible, wireless wearable sensors and control units placed on different anatomically ...