We have to measure sperm quality was going through the licensing process by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The tool works by detecting a specific molecule on the sperm, which are yag antigen molecules on the surface of the sperm head, called the SP-10.

Dr John Herr from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, says that the device is suitable for couples who have become pregnant and have children but not yet ready to see her doctor and wanted to check it personally first.

As reported by Dailymail, Sunday (28/2/010), the price is quite affordable tool, which is around 25 dollars, or USD 250 thousand ($ 10.000/US rate), much cheaper than full sperm tests to determine male fertility.

In the journal Human Reproduction, Dr Herr and his team who developed the device for 1 year to say that the tool has SpermCheck Fertility 96 percent accuracy rate when tested at approximately 225 male participants.

Just so you know, a normal sperm count is generally 20 million milliliters or more. By using a tool to measure fertility talker, a man can know how much the average sperm count, whether the above standard or even below.

“Basically, the instrument is made to find out how much the level of male fertility. If the two strips on the tool negative, meaning there is a problem in the sperm and he needs medical help,” Dr Herr said.

So far only a hypothesis, but the authors suggest that further studies in depth to say if confirmed as true or, conversely, can not be demonstrated.

The first step to see if the argument is true they have given themselves Italian researchers, who have measured changes in heart rate of 43 infants in incubators, none of whom was premature or seriously ill. Following a series of experiments, the team concludes, as published in ‘Fetal and Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood’, that electromagnetic fields from these machines alter the frequency of the beat of hearts of infants.

Before reaching this result, ruled first that this alteration was due to noise or vibration produced by the motor of the incubator. For this, the researchers simulated a device with the intensity of noise and vibration typical of incubators and measured heart rate of children who were quiet for 15 minutes with noise simulator on and off. There was no difference in the heartbeat.

They also studied the heart function of small every five minutes in the incubator on, then turned off and turned to her again. Then they saw that the heart rate decreased when the machine was running, something the authors suggest it may be due to the electromagnetic field.

The decrease in heart rate is a factor indicating a worse prognosis in adult patients with coronary disease and also in the general population, but whether it is the same with children. Therefore, researchers call for more studies on the subject, as to whether this exposure could result in a complication for long-term health.

No worry
“It’s the first time he says this and there is no evidence nor any reason to be concerned,” says a elmundo.es Dr. Manuel Sanchez Luna, neonatal intensive care at the Hospital Gregorio Maranon de Madrid. “Although everything is studied to improve the safety of children is fine,” he admits.

Siena’s team explains that “you can make some modifications to the design of incubators to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields. But he also recognizes that “it is not known if this exposure has consequences for the health of babies in the long term.”

The question on electromagnetic fields and its relation to health is controversial for years. Many appliances have been, on occasion, have been linked to health risks such as mobile phones, antennas, etc. But so far, the Italian authors assert that “there is no certainty that these areas be the cause of alterations in the body.”

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These dolls are being used at the Munich University Clinic for students to conduct their practices, and perhaps it has spread to other Universities of Medicine. The truth is that it is a very complete team, with all the necessary complements both maternal and fetal monitoring (different monitors) as interchangeable parts, simulators bleeding.

You can practice vaginal delivery, cesarean section, vacuum extraction with the suture of the various types of episiotomy. In my opinion it’s OK for future physicians to practice with these dolls that try to imitate real life situations so achievedextraordinary. Although as they say, then reality is always stranger than fiction.

I also hope that, with this instruction so contrived and processes focused on instrumentalized, they will have to use in the future to allow at least the same efforts to teach that childbirth is a natural process that can also be taken with minimal intervention when the situation of the mother and baby permit.

But if robots are to babies to practice new parents, in the field of health care delivery could not be otherwise. I imagine that a student does not let you do real match practice, so these simulators, which are close in what they can to a real situation, are an interesting option.

In any case, this type dolls for virtual delivery practices seem to me a breakthrough technology, and hopefully serve to carry out more effective care delivery.

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However, these machines are usually quite large, and the most modern “portable” is the size of a printer.

For now the GE (General Electric) has demonstrated a truly portable ultrasound system the size of a cell phone, which he calls the vscan GE Ultrasound System.

In this first generation, the device can operate for up to 1 h duration with a battery (exchangeable) integrated, and microSD cards can store images and videos, which can later be downloaded to PCs and traditional computers can even burn notes voice separately.

The standard equipment is configured for HP, OBGYN, and Abd (terms such equipment operators understand) and color Doppler support across the screen, which step can be manipulated with your fingers to issue commands and make JOINING zoom like an iPhone.

The device will be available next year at U.S. $ 10,000, and it is currently being tested in some health centers.

It is important to note that these teams started costing millions of dollars and being the size of an entire room, after hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now cost $ 10,000 and fit in the palm of the hand. A great testament to the exponential growth of technology, which incidentally causes a reduction in costs exponentially.

In the future I imagine that these devices do not use screens, but images deployed directly onto the retina of the operator with technologies like this.

Ultra-small sensors already exist for some time. The problem: The probes are either sent through the blood vessels or gastrointestinal investigations through the esophagus into the body and has had only one viewing direction. So there was always a rather large blind spot that could not be illuminated in major investigations.

Conventional ultrasound examinations from the outside, which will penetrate deep into the interior of the body to provide physicians with an overview on the state to procure organs, are virtually impossible because the required higher sound track to the detriment of image resolution. Therefore, ultrasound is now used primarily for pregnancy diagnosis. For deeper investigation, however, people take up much more expensive tomography.

With the new probe was developed by researchers at the University of Albuquerque in the U.S. state of New Mexico, are the “tunnel vision problems” of the past. Within a short time, the probe may, if it is swallowed as a pill, for example, more accurately provide a picture of the stomach or digestive tract. In the future, the researchers will see, however, the probe deep in the brain, to explore where the bloodstream and thereby prevent strokes or aneurysms.

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