A Stanford team has developed a guiding device to help woman self-catheterize, with the goal of improving patient comfort and preventing infections
Tag: Biodesign
Ears, noses and throats: New Biodesign fellows to innovate in otolaryngology
The new Stanford Biodesign fellows — a group of physicians, business specialists and engineers, will address medical challenges in otolaryngology.
Advice for the next generation of health technology innovators
Todd Brinton offers words of wisdom as he steps down from his post as director of the Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship after 14 years.
Stanford Biodesign tackles gender diversity in health technology innovation
While promoting diversity within its programs, Stanford Biodesign is also working to foster gender diversity in the medtech industry.
Innovating to help newborns breathe
Former fellows with the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign developed a resuscitation device to help clinicians in lower-income countries save newborns.
The reluctant entrepreneur: How a Stanford neurosurgeon advanced radiosurgery treatment and access
During a recent lecture on campus, Stanford neurosurgeon John Adler discussed his entrepreneurial journey.
Raising awareness of rheumatic heart disease in India through biodesign
A team of Stanford Biodesign innovators has developed a video to increase awareness in India of a serious heart condition, RHD.
What digital health companies need to do to succeed
Health care innovators should take a needs-driven approach, writes Paul Yock, founder of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.
New Biodesign fellows will focus on vision care
This year, Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellows will concentrate on ophthalmology, spending 10 months to address needs in that field.
How Stanford Biodesign technologies have helped more than 1.5 million people
Stanford Biodesign trainees have developed new medical devices and diagnostics that have been used to help care for more than 1.5 million patients so far.
Making it easier to help struggling newborns breathe
A group of Stanford-India Biodesign Fellows developed the first foot-operated resuscitator for newborns.
Biodesign fellows address surgical site infections
Researchers worked to solve the problem of surgical site infections, which can lead to longer hospital stays, additional surgeries, and higher mortality.
Biodesign fellows simplify heart rhythm monitoring
A former Stanford biodesign innovation fellow describes how he and colleagues came to develop an inexpensive and simple tool to diagnose arrhythmias.
Biodesign fellows develop and test solution for enlarged prostate
A group of biodesign fellows developed a potential treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia, an age-related condition that affects many men.
Biodesign fellows tackle preventable pneumonia
A look back at how a team of biodesign fellows developed a potentially life-saving device to treat patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Biodesign fellows make wearing hard contact lenses easy
When a team of biodesign fellows encountered a large population of patients who suffered from contact lens-induced dry eye, they set out to fix the problem.