One of the worst things about growing up is that we need to keep constant vigilance on our health. Don’t you miss those days when you could do almost anything to your body and you would bounce back in no time? Well, as we age, the number of pills and vitamins that we ingest increases as well. It comes to a point where it is so difficult to remember when we need to take this certain pill. That is where the Multi Alarm Pills Reminder comes in so handy.

You don’t have to go through the pain of reminding yourself manually of the timing for each pill. Let the Multi Alarm Pills Reminder medical gadget help you with that task. This is a mighty handy container to store your pills in. It allows you four compartments whereby you can place the pills that you need to take. You can also pre-set alarms up to 8 times a day for the different pills in the box. That way you will constantly be reminded of the exact timing for each pill.

You can also set up to 5 different alarm sounds so feel free to play around with the sounds – you can definitely set different ring tones for different pills that you put in the pill box. The Multi Alarm Pills Reminder is also extremely tiny and small enough for you to bring and carry around anywhere. So mobility is not a problem at all. At $6, this is the perfect companion for those who need to take pills regularly.

Available: Amazon

Price: $1.99

Dental flossing, the second essential element of a good oral hygiene program after tooth brushing, should be done daily. Dental floss has been shown to be the most effective way to remove bacterial plaque and other debris from otherwise inaccessible areas of the teeth.

Dental floss is available in several forms and should be chosen according to the patients’ manual skills and preferences. Unwaxed floss are often easier to pass through spaces where teeth are close together compared to their waxed counterparts, therefore contribute to more efficient cleaning. However, floss has to be used carefully as highly energetic flossing might cause bleeding gums.

Philips Sonicare Air Floss HX811 might just be the ingenious solution to these unattractive properties of manual dental flossing. This novel device can also be used for inter dental cleaning to compensate for a decline or lack of fine motor skills. In conventional devices similar to this, one of the unsatisfactory features is a lack of clear design philosophy that needs a considerable amount of water in order to effectively perform the cleaning process (as much as 2 gallon!).

The oral hygiene industry is a large and growing portion in the health care sector, hence rapid access to more convenient products helps to fulfill customers’ need before their competitors do is of paramount importance. Although it comes with a hefty price tag of $90, the cost is certainly justified with a consumer-oriented design and functioning. But hey, it’s a free market and consumers can still opt to save on the moolah and stick to conventional flossing!

Available: Amazon

Price: $89.99

Taking care of your blood pressure in these times is definitely a difficult task indeed. After all, how else can you distance yourself from the temptation to indulge in good food (read: ranging from slightly unhealthy to downright life threatening!) all the time. However, what if I told you that there is a way for you to keep track of your blood pressure right in the comfort of your own home? The only requirement where this device is concerned would be that you need to own an iPhone as well.

The iPhone Blood Pressure Monitor works really well. I think it is a good idea because a) most of us already have at least an older version of the iPhone anyway; and b) it means that home health care is now more affordable for a whole lot of us as compared to before this. That is definitely good news for all especially those who are worried about their blood pressure levels. Best of all is that this application is surprisingly easy to use. You don’t need to have a medical degree to learn how to work it!

All you need to do is to get into the application on your iPhone, place it in the dock and connect it to your blood pressure monitor via the arm cuff that comes along with it. It is as simple as that. Your results will be sent to your doctor and he will be in touch if there is anything to be alarmed about. Best of all, you can access your results through your iPhone as well. This is definitely a revolutionary creation where our health is concerned.

[Source: Tuaw]

Okay, so, everyone hates mosquitoes, unless you’re a frog or a bat. It’s summer time and you’re going to be outdoors often, imagine having a nice barbecue under the starry sky. The thing is, you will be sharing the outdoors with a lot of bugs. If you don’t like to apply bug repelling lotions, this is what you need.

The 120 hour Personal Mosquito Repeller repels mosquitoes, per se. The name give you huge hints on the details. Never mind the long name, what matters is the the function. As the name suggests, the gadget can last for 120 hours. The mosquito repeller doesn’t only repels mosquitoes but other bugs as well. Bugs and mosquitoes won’t be able to get nearer than 15feet radius to you. What’s better is you will become a human magnet, if you know what I mean. Everyone hates donating blood to mosquitoes.

The 120 Hour Personal Mosquito Repeller is about the size of your palm, so you don’t have to carry a vintage radio sized bug killer all over the place. It runs on 2 AA sized batteries. It normally comes with 2 cartridge of Geraniol, which is the ingredient to keep the bugs and mosquitoes at bay. The silent fan is in-charge of sending out the Geraniol. Basically the 120 hour Personal Mosquito Repeller will silently and effectively chase away the bugs without drawing much visual attention to it.

You can say goodbye to those mosquito repellents that smell weird and sometimes feel sticky. Try this useful gadget and the outdoors will be itch free.

Available: Amazon

Price: $19.36

Cataracts comes as one of the symptoms of many major diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension. Hence, early diagnosis tests for these diseases should be carried out by checking if the patient is suffering from a cataract.

MIT’s Media Lab has come up with an ingenious attachment called the Catra that allows individuals to carry out cataract test by using only their smart phones. The technology behind it may be rather simple but it definitely takes lots of tedious calculations and also in depth understanding of optics to produce reliable results.

The wide spread use of the technology is doubtful as many don’t find the need of purchasing an attachment when checkups could be done with the doctor. However, the Catra medical gadget comes within the size of a palm which enables the attachment to be both convenient and easily accessible. Serving as an alternative to the usual trips that a patient needs to make for an eye test, now it’s not only the apple that’s able to keep the doctor away.

The simple way of how the attachment operates is by allowing patients to view an image and having the patient response if the image seen was clear. Patients may be viewing the same image from time to time, but the repetition of the whole process is to send light to the different sections of the lens.

Determining which part of the lens is opaque relies on the response of the patients and the Catra will further compute the size and also the density of the cloud. With further programming that’s done in the smart phone itself, a full map of the different positions of clouds could be made for the patients.

[Source: MIT Media Lab]

iPhone is well known because of the many things that the mobile device can do, which seems to be endless if we consider the fact that many people continue to develop different things and apps to even make it useful. iTrem is another amazing app to watch out for as this is not just an ordinary iPhone apps since it is useful for those with health problems.

Georgia Tech Research Institute develops the amazing iTrem app for iPhone that could help individual suffering from neurological conditions and Parkinson’s disease to monitor their health by using the tremors that comes from the hand and arm for data gathering.

iTrem app uses the accelerometer in iPhone that is already built-in to collect data of patients even when they are at home or office. The collected data gathered afterwards is sent to the medical personnel responsible to analyze the patient’s info. The advantage of iTrem app if you have a neurological condition and own an iPhone is that you can monitor your condition without going to the hospital to get check, which can be very costly and time consuming.

Take note, the iTrem app is useful for caregivers and their patients, as they can monitor the condition of the latter even if they are not together. In addition, since the app is downloadable as soon as it hits Apple iTunes store then it further becomes helpful, as the app is definitely cost effective and convenient to use.

iTrem apart from being a great app for people with neurological condition it is also design for users to connect socially with friends or other people as the program also let people share data, pictures and stories.

At the moment, iTrem is still undergoing clinical study for FDA approval but the developer of the app hope to include the app to the Apple iTunes store, later of this year.

[Source: Modern Health Talk]

iPhone is recognized worldwide as the most versatile device these days, along with iPad and iPod Touch. In fact, Apple’s well known iOS devices is widely used in every industry, and continues to be a forerunners when it comes to helpfulness because of amazing applications.

French Company called Withings recognized the many ways that iOS devices are use today. This factor is also the main reason why they decided to create a cuff that monitors the blood pressure of a person. The cuff is plugged into an iOS device and together with the Blood Pressure Monitor iPhone app that is downloadable from app stores for free, users can now read the blood pressure effectively.

Withings BP Cuff and BP Monitor app turns iPhone devices into a wonderful medical gadget that is definitely one of a kind, which many people could benefit. It is ideal for travelling, since it is easy to carry, as you only need the cuff and your mobile device to start reading yours or someone else blood pressure.

Come to think of it! There are just too many things to like with the Withings BP cuff, and one of them is the feature that allows recording of stats. In fact, once reading done the BP monitor app will then saved the results and of course, the app will record not just one result but two or even more, which is necessary for proper comparisons of blood pressure. What more, the saved blood pressure reading is possible to send or emailed to your doctor or Microsoft Health Vault for later use.

The BP monitor app is downloadable for free, but it is useless without the Withings cuff, as this Apple gadget is the one that connects to the iPhone and use to take the reading. By the way, the FDA already approved the device, which further makes it a must have medical equipment.

[Source: Withings]

Medical tape is a commonly used material for medical procedures and dressings. However, the removal of medical tape can be a very painful process, especially for those patients with a lot of skin hair or with sensitive skin. Sometimes, it may even result in injuries to the skin. With the launch of the 3M Kind Removal Silicone Tape by 3M, tape removals will not be that painful again. You also won’t hear of complications due to tape removal anymore.

3M claims that this new silicone medical tape can be removed with greater ease compared to traditional paper or cloth tapes. The adhesion provided by this tape is commendable, and they improve the comfort of patients as well as highly reduce the risk of injury, which is good news to both medical practitioners and also patients.

The special feature of the 3M Kind Removal Silicone Tape is just like how its name suggests. This skin-friendly tape provides kind removal from the skin of patients. According to a study conducted by medical professionals, the 3M tape causes considerably lower degree of damage to skin, compared to a commonly used medical tape used as a control.

Besides that, it also makes medical dressings more affordable in some cases, as it eliminates the need for any work-around or secondary products to protect the skin from damage or complicated follow-up procedures to heal skin injury. Hence, compared to these complications, the 3M Kind Removal Silicone Tape provides speed, consistency, simplicity, and also affordability to its users.

[Source: 3M]

Melbourne researches has developed a fibre like material or as they like to call it the Smart Bandage. The Smart Bandage can detect infections and indicate the state of an underlying wound by just changing its colour. It has the ability to show a change in temperature of less than 0.5 degree Celsius and the Smart Bandage makes identification of healing problems that is mostly followed by a decrease and increase of local temperature faster and easier. They can identify problems such as interruption to blood supple or an infection fast and efficiently. It makes a doctor’s job easier and patients wouldn’t have to spend a lot of money just to check their health condition.

The invention of the Smart Bandage can reduce the $500 million cost of chronic wound care in Autralia. The lead inventor of the Smart Bandage, a Monash PhD student and CSIRO materials scientist known as Louise Van Der Werff mentioned that by weaving the fibre in to a bandage like shape will enable clinicians to detect and identify the temperature across the wounded area and its surrounding tissue. By comparing the colours found on the fibre with a calibrated chart, clinicians can determine the state of the wound and can immediately treat the wound without any help of other types of machine whatsoever.

The Smart Bandage medical gadget itself can save the trouble of using electronic equipments commonly used by doctors and clinicians and it will also save a lot of money for the patient. With the Smart Bandage, patients can also self diagnose problems themselves.

[Source: FreshScience]

The Pain Relieving Neuromuscular Stimulator System is a cordless home electrotherapy system that delivers hours of drug free pain without the need to go visit a specialist or doctor. This device uses TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) therapy which is a type of pain relief method commonly used by medical professionals.

The electrode pad is self-adhesive and when it is placed on sore spots, it emits low electrical frequency that is harmless to the human body into the tissue that helps block the pain signals going through nerves and straight to the brain.

The Pain Relieving Neuromuscular Stimulator System increases an individual’s blood flow to the injured area to let out comfort, relaxation and healing at the same time. According to APTA (American Physical Therapy Association) the TENS therapy can be a great way to deal with pain and help an individual to manage pain without any discomfort whatsoever, for example, muscle soar and lower back pain in vital spots. It allows you to choose from 10 types of treatments with 10 types of pressure level.

The medical gadget comes with a pair of small and large electro pads and an adjustable belt to secure the electrodes for lower back pain relief. It also comes with a carrying bag. This device operates with two pairs of triple A batteries and it is included when you buy the system. It is advisable for those who are using pacemakers to not wear this device as it will affect the pace maker. The retail price for the pain relieving neuromuscular stimulator system is $129.95.

Available: Hammacher

Price: $129.95