A host of products are in development that aim to inform and empower health-care consumers. But the gadgets’ capabilities should raise at least a few …
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Health-care applications from the Community Health Data Forum
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, …
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, …
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 …
Why physicians aren't using LinkedIn
I've been at the School of Medicine for well over two years, and I've frequently heard that LinkedIn isn't really popular with physicians and researchers. …
More concern over synthetic biology patents
I'm a few days late to this, but Duke Law School Professor James Boyle has written an insightful opinion piece outlining his concerns about the …
Nanoparticle "tattoo" may one day help diabetics monitor blood sugar
More than 13,000 young people in the United States are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes each year, according to the most recent data from the …
British scientist infects himself with a contagious computer virus
British scientist Mark Gasson is the first person in the world to become infected with a computer virus, the BBC reported today. Gasson infected an RFID chip in his hand with a virus that was able to spread to an external computer system.
British scientist Mark Gasson is the first person in the world to become infected with a computer virus, the BBC reported today. Gasson infected an RFID chip in his hand with a virus that was able to spread to an external computer system.
Venter's "synthetic life" is a different disc in an old player (but it's still music)
Human-genome-sequencing pioneer Craig Venter, PhD, and his group have announced the achievement of a significant milestone: They've reconstructed the known genome of a bacterial organism, …
Crossing the valley of death: bridging the drug-development divide
Newsweek science columnists Sharon Begley and Mary Carmichael have written a cogent and provocative article about the impediments to moving promising early drug research out …
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 …
An iPhone app for preventing, diagnosing Lyme disease
Just in time for hiking season, researchers at Yale University have released a new iPhone application that offers tips on how to protect yourself against …
Collaborative web applications for medicine
The Healthcare Blog discussing collaborative web applications for clinicians: Clinical Groupware heralds a shift away from medical applications that are primarily based in local hardware …
California hospital to test iPads for reading X-rays, vital signs
Network World reported yesterday that Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Visalia, Calif., is planning to deploy 100 iPads for testing by health-care workers in …
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 …
Protecting medical records from prying eyes
A new technique developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University may allow data from health records to be used for medical studies while protecting patients' privacy, …