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AngioVac Removes 2’ Blood Clot
AngioVac
A 62 year old man at the UCLA Medical Center presented a blood clot that stretched 24 inches [MORE]
Nanotube Dental Implants
Bone Cells Adhering to Nanotubes
Two part dental implants—a bone screw and an artificial tooth—are expensive in the first place [MORE]
The $1,000 Advanced Prosthetic Hand
Dextrus Hand
Workable prosthetic hands now exist, but cost up to $100,000. In a classic example of “building a better [MORE]
Sprint’s mHealth Accelerator
Dr, Bill Crounse
Earlier this year, cellular provider Sprint announced its Mobile Health Accelerator Program whereby it will solicit applications [MORE]
Smartphone/Microscope
Smartphone Microscope
With smartphone cameras now having super pixel capacity that was hardly imaginable more than a year or two [MORE]
Nurse Telepractitioners Filling Shortage in Primary Care
One implication of the Affordable Care Act is that health maintenance will have greater emphasis as it’s thought that [MORE]
Spray-On Nanotubes for Inexpensive Sensors
Spary-on Carbon Nanotubes
This piece, about carbon nanotubes in an aqueous solution that can be sprayed onto any kind of [MORE]
IBM’s Neuro-Synaptic Chip
Neuron Chip
Most computer chips process instructions in a series, while human neurons do the same in massive parallel. IBM now [MORE]
Molecular Probe for Earlier MS Detection
Whether Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease or an infectious disease caused by an unknown pathogen, the demyelization of nerves [MORE]
Clinical Genomics Today
For more than 20 years, scientific genomics has promised clinical advantages, and now those promises are proving true with such [MORE]
The Heart of the Hospital
Mount Sinai Data Bank
It’s a fair guess that the “heart” of the hospital of the future won’t be the ER [MORE]
New Materials: New Medical Solutions
New medical technology owes much to materials science, as this piece illustrates with liquid crystal polymers for artificial muscles, and [MORE]
Sniffing Out Sepsis
Blood poisoning kills a quarter of a million people each year in the US and costs more than $20 billion [MORE]
iPSC’s Produced by Removing One Protein
Dr. Shinya Yamanaka
Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize last year for showing how the insertion of just four genes (by [MORE]