CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new class of small, thin electronic sensors can monitor temperature and pressure within the skull - crucial health parameters after a brain injury or surgery - then melt away when ...

Dr. Marc Abreu s fascination with temperature arose during morning rounds in medical school, when he found many patients dead. Many succumbed during the night to bacterial infections accompanied by ...

The newly developed “lab on a tube” is a catheter equipped with multiple sensors capable of continuously monitoring numerous physiological and biochemical changes in the brain, simultaneously. The ...

Evidence-based recommendations on therapeutic hypothermia with intracorporeal temperature monitoring for hypoxic perinatal brain injury. This involves cooling either the baby's head or whole body to ...

Cerebral blood flow is essential for normal brain function and often perturbed in neurological disease. If one shines a ...

Fiber optics are a means of transmitting information at incredibly high speeds; however, the technology can be used for more than just providing a fast internet connection. Researchers reporting in ...

From pacemakers to insulin pumps, electronic implants are a powerful medical tool, but they present their own suite of risks -- scarring, rejection and sepsis among them. Now a team of researchers has ...