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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


A group of engineers from Northwestern and the George Washington University recently developed a new balloon-shaped catheter that will improve treatment for cardiac arrhythmia. They have already created a company called NuSera Biosystems that will help commercialize the instrument.

Northwestern engineers develop new medical instruments to improve treatment for cardiac diseases

September 24, 2020

A group of engineers from Northwestern and The George Washington University recently developed new medical instruments with smart sensors that improve the diagnoses and treatments of cardiac diseases. Cardiac...

A team of Northwestern researchers, in collaboration with Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, developed a wearable device that can monitor COVID-19 symptoms. The device was originally designed for stroke patients to help improve speech and swallowing rehabilitation protocols.

NU researchers develop wearable device that helps monitor COVID-19 symptoms

July 14, 2020

A team of Northwestern researchers recently developed a wearable device that helps detect early symptoms associated with COVID-19 and monitor these symptoms as the illness progresses. The wireless device...

The developers of the device say this can be a powerful way to address some consequences of the opioid epidemic.

Inside Northwestern scientists’ bid to make an overdose prevention implant

February 5, 2020

At the size of a USB drive, an implantable device created by Northwestern researchers can detect an opioid overdose, automatically alert first responders and administer a life-saving dose of naloxone —...

Northwestern Trustees Lou Simpson and Kimberly Querrey donate $10 million for bioelectrics research

November 18, 2019

Northwestern trustees Louis Simpson (Weinberg ‘58) and Kimberly Querrey donated an additional $10 million to establish the Kimberly K. Querrey and Louis A. Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. The...

Interdisciplinary research team awarded $10 million NIH grant to develop device to treat opioid overdose

Interdisciplinary research team awarded $10 million NIH grant to develop device to treat opioid overdose

October 29, 2019

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Northwestern and Washington University in St. Louis won a $10 million grant to develop a device that can identify a life-threatening level of opioids in the...

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