A reusable cryotherapy system that could bring low-cost breast cancer treatment to women in rural South Africa has won the bronze prize for a Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering team in the undergraduate category of the 2016 National Collegiate Inventors Competition. Prize winners were announced Friday at an event in Washington, D.C. The Johns Hopkins […]
Smithsonian Magazine online reported on a prototype headband device that biomedical engineering students designed to treat Parkinson’s disease at home.
The Baltimore Sun reported that a group of Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering students have developed what they hope will become a third option: a non-invasive device Parkinson’s patients could use at home to treat their symptoms.
In developing regions where the economy is weak and medical services are limited, global health experts say as many as 200 million women want access to long-term, reversible contraceptives to avoid unintended pregnancies and to help space out the births of their children. One of the most convenient and effective options—a tiny implant that can […]
Fast Company reported on the JHU team’s design of a new “breakaway” Ebola suit that was among the winners in an international competition through USAID. Read the story and see the video here.
Professor Youseph Yazdi, director of the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design in the Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, tells us how he and his team have tried to improve the design of the Ebola protective suit. Listen here.
An advanced protective suit for health care workers who treat Ebola patients, devised by a Johns Hopkins team, is one of the first five awardees in a federal funding contest aimed at quickly devising new tools to combat the deadly disease. The Johns Hopkins prototype is designed to do a better job than current garments […]
With the goal of reducing the risk of infection among frontline health workers, an Emergency Ebola Design Challenge event will be held this weekend, Oct. 24 to 26, on Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Campus. Participants from the university will be asked to help improve the design of personal protection gear that health workers wear and use while treating patients […]
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have designed a lightweight, easy-to-conceal shirt-like garment to deliver life-saving shocks to patients experiencing serious heart problems. The students say their design improves upon a wearable defibrillator system that is already in use. Their design changes, the students say, should help persuade patients at risk for sudden cardiac arrest to […]
A Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering team has finished first in the 2013 Collegiate Inventors Competition for its PrestoPatch heart treatment device.
