In a recent TED Talk, Tan Le of Emotive Systems demonstrates a wireless headset that can read your brainwaves thus allowing for control of electronic …
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Vaccination: Replacing the needle with a patch
In a shift from the usual needle used to deliver the Influenza vaccine, a Nature Medicine paper shows that researchers from Emory University and the …
HealthMap provides global surveillance of health outbreaks
In a special report from the New England Journal of Medicine, a Web-based interactive mapping system called HealthMap is cited as an exemplar of a …
New online TV channel, MDiTV, broadcasts medical videos
Medical Doctor Interactive Television (MDiTV) has launched as an online television channel aimed at presenting the latest medical news. Founded by Robert Lazzara, MD, a …
A journalist's experience as a 'standardized patient'
As a medical student, I can't help but feel sympathetic for standardized patients. These trained actors take on the persona of someone with a real …
FDA launches medical device transparency site
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently launched a Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Transparency Web site as part of its initiative to …
2010 Neuro Film Festival Highlights Winners
The American Academy of Neurology Foundation supports an annual film festival competition aimed at awarding films that highlight neurological disorders and the need for more …
Dean Kamen's robot arm shakes hands on The Colbert Report
If you haven't seen it yet, earlier this week Dean Kamen (of Segway fame) showed off the Luke Arm he's been working on the last …
Psychiatric trained dogs help in the battle of PTSD
In an entry on The Huffington Post, Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society, discusses how dogs are helping veterans from Iraq and …
Disrupting moral thought with magnetic fields
According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that has been getting quite a bit of coverage, researchers at …
Gender gap in academic medicine investigated
Women in academic medicine may earn less than men do, even when their academic accomplishments are comparable, according to a study being published in the …
Stem cells from ordinary skin may treat rare skin disease
A recent New York Times article highlighted advances in applying stem cell technology to treat skin diseases. These techniques may offer a more advanced method …