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For those times when a needle free vaccine won’t work you need a good old fashioned syringe. The problem is that syringes, when reused, spread disease and are major cause of death in the world. Hospitals reusing syringes on multiple patients, drug addicts sharing their needles, or simply syringes left in the garbage all spread disease. Marc [...]  The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which took place last month, is the largest technology trade-show of the year and medical technology certainly made its mark this year. Jonathan Linkous of the American Telemedicine Association discusses the trends in consumer health technology at CES and what it means for the health care industry.
Here’s a nice long video for your Saturday afternoon. I had the pleasure of meeting Craig Venter a few years back where he spoke on this topic at my university. The things he said in that speech still stick with me today. Here is a similar speech that he gave at TEDmed this past year. [...] How is it that with all of the video communication and social networking tools available, we still access doctors the same way our grandparents did (pre-internet)? Fortunately there are people enabling massive change. Check out the facebook-esque medical platform: Hello Health You can also watch Jay Parkinson talk about the project at Pop!Tech:
Anthony Atala has done the unthinkable: in 2006 he transplanted an organ grown in a lab, into a human being. He creates these organs by building scaffolding then growing cells over the scaffold. The result: made to order organs in a matter of weeks. Of course there’s a lot more that goes into the process than I’ve [...] A real juxtaposition in the videos. Aimee Mullins redefines the perception of prosthetics. Dean Kamen (yes, the Segway guy) uses technology to mimic missing arms. Can technology truly imitate reality, or should it attempt to redefine ‘disability’ by completely altering established aesthetics and creating new advantages and abilities?
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