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Courtesy of Whitesides Research Group How do you bring modern science to the whole world without the cost? Print it on paper of course. George Whiteside, a chemistry professor at Harvard University, has developed a prototype med lab on a paper chip which could be customized to diagnose a large number of diseases. The eventual [...]
by David Pincock Secret DNA databases cataloging citizens of the U.S might sound like science fiction but recently the Department of State Health Services of Texas was caught doing just this. It was found that 800 blood samples from newborns across Texas were taken, without permission, for the purpose of creating a DNA [...] Every once in awhile if I see a news item that I find extremely interesting I’ll ignore one of the two requirements for my posts: Health and Technology. These posts will be marked “Just Health” or “Just Tech.” This speech has been making waves around the net and with Michelle Obama’s recent decision to tackle childhood [...]
An interesting study featured in the journal BMC Neurology studied over a thousand teenagers and looked for causes of headaches. The result: computers, cell-phones, and video games are not associated with headaches. This is great news! The bad news is that listening to 1 to 2 hours [...] Fashion meets high-tech. Designaffairs Studio from Germany have developed a new hearing aid concept that borrows aesthetics from stretched ear lobe jewelry. Sure it looks like a hipster device, but it also incorporates the TriMic directional microphone system that will drastically improve quality of sound for individuals with severe hearing loss. Designaffairs wants people to display [...] In a crushing blow to start-up e-marketers everywhere a study funded by the National Cancer Institute found that E-Cigarettes deliver almost no nicotine to the body. The idea behind these fake cigarettes is that they vaporize nicotine for ingestion. This is supposed to curb cravings and help smokers quit. If no nicotine is actually being [...] For those of you not familiar with the DaVinci robot, it is a fantastic set of equipment used to minimize the invasiveness of surgery. It has been around now for over ten years but has undergone many re-designs. To truly understand the precision this machine is capable of you need to see it in action. [...] While the title might sound like some late night TV salesman pitch, this development is nothing to laugh about. Cartilage is one of the fundamental building blocks of our bodies. The thing with cartilage is it does not regenerate like bones, when you become an adult, you stop growing any new cartilage. The ‘Nanogel’ developed [...] I know most of you are getting ready to watch the big game today so I’ll take it easy on your brains with a video. In the past couple of months there have been a string of unfortunate/fortunate (depending on your viewpoint) discoveries involving patients in vegetative states being not so vegetative. These patients [...] Before the launch of the iPad there were questions of whether apple’s slate device could make it’s way into medicine. A new survey of 178 physicians, nurses, medical students and healthcare IT professionals shows that this could be the year for Tablets to really make their mark in healthcare but maybe not the year for [...] |
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