When stroke patients are discharged from a hospital or rehabilitation center, their recovery often slows or plateaus. Without regular intensive therapy and feedback, improving damaged speech and ...

Washington — Peek into any U.S. hospital’s baby ICU, and you’ll see sick and premature newborns covered in wired monitors that tear at fragile skin and make it hard for parents to cuddle their kids.

As people strive ever harder to minutely quantify every action they do, the sensors that monitor those actions are growing lighter and less invasive. Two prototype sensors from crosstown rivals ...

Researchers have developed a wearable, noninvasive sensor that monitors for a biomarker of inflammation in the wearer’s sweat. They say the device could be used at home by people with chronic ...

Doctors need to track fluctuations in protein levels to get a full picture of what’s happening in the body. Northwestern University scientists have designed a new implantable device that can monitor ...

Researchers have combined earlier work on painless microneedles with nanoscale sensors to create a wearable sensor patch capable of continuously monitoring the levels of a ‘last line of defense’ ...

EVANSTON, Ill. --- An interdisciplinary Northwestern University team has developed a pair of soft, flexible wireless sensors that replace the tangle of wire-based sensors that currently monitor babies ...