Alex Howard at O'Reilly Radar has posted a giant entry that rounds up some interesting health-care applications from the Community Health Data Forum in Washington, …
Month: June 2010
Stanford team places second at BMEidea Competition with low-cost ventilator
A Stanford team has won second place in this year's Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Award (BMEidea) Competition. The team's winning entry, called OneBreath, …
Cancer biologist breaks it down
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Jonathan Garlick, DDS, PhD, director of the Division of Cancer Biology at Tufts. Garlick's video might not have the sensory snap …
The penalty for malpractice in ancient Babylon
There's a rather interesting entry on KevinMD today excerpting a historical issue of the the Journal of the American Medical Association. The excerpts describe how …
Mobile Health 2010 presentations now posted
Excessive TV or computer use might (literally) be painful
The long hours spent by teens watching TV, browsing the web or playing video games is often blamed for rising obesity rates among young adults, …
Synthetic antibodies may be able to mimic the real thing
A team of scientists from the United States and Japan has created a plastic antibody that can function in the bloodstream of living animals to …
Parsing caution and corruption in the case of the H1N1 pandemic declaration
It was a sensational allegation echoed Friday by Britain’s Daily Mail and the Washington Post: In the heat of the H1N1 scare, opportunistic drug firms …
Sleep deprivation more common in the U.S. than Europe
Americans' struggle to get enough sleep is well documented, but it is less clear whether sleep deprivation is a symptom of modern life or of …
International stem cell group provides website for patients seeking stem cell treatments
Today the International Society for Stem Cell Research, or ISSCR, announced that it has launched a website dedicated to helping patients, families and doctors understand …
WolframAlpha integrates World Health Organization data
I'm a bit late to this announcement, but WolframAlpha recently integrated data from the World Health Organization for your querying pleasure: We recently added data …
Understanding the social context behind heavy TV viewing
When I was 5 years old, my dad took my family's little black-and-white TV and heaved the dense cube into a parking lot dumpster. It …
Just a few days left to ask a Stanford cardiologist questions on YouTube
If you haven't done so already, we invite you to head over to the Stanford YouTube channel and ask cardiologist Euan Ashley, MD, questions about …
AIDS in France
Year: 1987 Setting: Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, France Position: Specialist in tropical diseases I am a consultant in tropical diseases at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in …
Eye movement in REM sleep: Rapid, but perhaps not random
A new study published in the journal Brain suggests our eyes may shift their gaze to focus on the people and places present in our …
Rattled by one child's injury, a whole family becomes accident-prone
As pediatrician-journalist Perri Klass, MD speculates, the stress from one child's injury might actually make the entire family more accident prone for months afterward.
As pediatrician-journalist Perri Klass, MD speculates, the stress from one child's injury might actually make the entire family more accident prone for months afterward.