Medical

Biomedical devices make the Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 medical innovations for 2010.

LED-based surgical lighting from Steris Corp.

A tongue-activated sensor lets patients paralyzed from the neck down maneuver a wheelchair or run a computer program.

The VHX-600 Generation II digital microscope features 16-bit imaging resolution, which makes subtle color differences visible, and optimizes previously too dark or bright areas.

The new Sanitrx MP rupture discs are designed for the pharmaceutical, biotech, and food and beverage industries.

Rollon Corp. Compact Rail linear bearings let mobile hospital expand.

Motors from Maxon Precision Motors move the slats of a multileaf collimator for radiosurgery, creating an adjustable aperture through which radiation travels to the tumor.

Cool or atmospheric-pressure plasmas are finding applications in medicine, energy production, and cargo transport.

Genetic pioneers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a “lab-on-a-chip,“ the first automated device that combines high-resolution imaging with sorting. In the future, it will let us perform genetic screening a lot faster than traditional methods and speed discovery of new genes.

Engineers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to get drugs that normally cannot be delivered through the skin to do just that.

Engineers at Georgia Tech Research Institute have developed a faster, less-expensive method for decontaminating bioterrorist sites in the future.

Not all medical innovation comes from the West.

The University of Calgary can boast that it’s got the first surgical robot able to operate in the 1.5 to 3-Tesla fields of magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) machines.

The use and development of new mechanical circulatory support devices, which allow the improvement children suffering serious congenital heart conditions, undergo discussion and research at the 28th annual meeting of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transportation.