#medical-device

#medical-device

Dining out at new restaurants can be a fun way to try different cuisines and get together with friends. For people with allergies, though, eating food they haven't prepared themselves in a new place can pose a serious threat. Cross-contamination can happen anywhere, and food-related anaphylaxis sends patients to the emergency room every six minutes, according to the Journal for Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Coro, a new device created by Coroflow, accurately monitors breast milk intake in real-time, down to the 0.1 milliliters -- the first product on the market to do so. Coro is a silicone nipple shield with a patented micro-flow meter that measures milk intake, which you can view in an app. The app translates the data into insights on breast milk volume and feeding trends for each breast to help new parents better understand their baby's feeding patterns.

If you look past the rust, an ancient Roman speculum is instantly recognizable as an instrument a gynecologist might put inside you today. There are two curved metal bills, a screw to hold them apart, and the ghostly echo across the eons of a patient grunting in pain as the doctor employs it. For centuries, the speculum's job has been simple and essential: Hold apart the walls of the vagina so a clinician can see inside it, all the way up to the cervix.