Qualcomm staged a second announcement at CES on Tuesday of the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize for the development of mobile diagnostic devices much like those depicted on Star Trek. While our readers knew about this when first announced in spring… Read more'Tricorders' galore: X Prize update at CES

Far from the hullaballoo of CES, the US Navy Office of Naval Research, which also supports medical research, announced the FDA approval of the first handheld, battery-powered medical device, the Infrascanner, that can image an intracranial hematoma in that other… Read moreFDA approves mobile medical imager for brain hematomas