OcuSound: An affordable, non-contact solution for monitoring glaucoma

OcuSound: An affordable, non-contact solution for monitoring glaucoma

An estimated 80 million people around the world suffer from glaucoma, a group of chronic, progressive eye diseases caused by damage to the optic nerve often due to excessive fluid buildup in the eye. Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness, especially in...
Student Engineers Flex Their Mussels to Fight Nutrient Pollution

Student Engineers Flex Their Mussels to Fight Nutrient Pollution

A team of Johns Hopkins undergraduates partnered with Baltimore City to clean up Back River and the Patapsco the natural way By Danielle Underferth A team of Johns Hopkins University seniors studying environmental health and engineering worked with the City...
Johns Hopkins Student Design Sparks Hope for Migraine Relief

Johns Hopkins Student Design Sparks Hope for Migraine Relief

Electrical engineering students are developing a device targeting the root cause of chronic headaches By Dino Lencioni A team of undergraduate engineers at Johns Hopkins University is working on a noninvasive, wearable, and reusable device that combats migraine...
Hot or not: A new device for treating temperature-related emergencies

Hot or not: A new device for treating temperature-related emergencies

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers rely on an array of life-supporting interventions to provide on-the-spot care to patients. Yet they lack a way to accurately measure a patient’s core body temperature (CBT), or the temperature of the body’s internal organs,...