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 …
Category: AI, Technology & Innovation
A pill that spills the beans
Take two of these pills and they'll call your doctor in the morning. Engineers at the University of Florida have designed a pill that tells …
The addictive properties of Web analytics
Much has been written about the potentially addictive qualities of massively multiplayer online role-playing games such as World of Warcraft and Eve. And a similar …
Pondering the Twitter practices of pharmaceutical companies
In the context of pharmaceutical companies, Steve Woodruff discusses the tradeoffs of a personalized Twitter feed versus a homogenized feed on KevinMD: As more and …
How the Internet is reshaping the doctor-patient relationship
Patients are increasingly turning to the Internet for health information. In an article published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Pamela Hartzband, MD, …
On crowdsourced relief efforts in Haiti
Lukas Biewald discusses the crowdsourced relief efforts in Haiti: The advantages of a flexible crowdsourcing workflow to managing disaster relief are huge. Businesses like crowdsourced …
Old 8th grade algebra sucks new medical information from blood
0.24a + 0.41b + 0.35c + 0.12d + . . . = 1.00 0.21a + 0.29b + 0.20c + 0.08d + . . . = …
Study suggests new strategy for spinal muscular atrophy
Some little souls are here with us for just a few months, but leave lasting impressions. A Nature Biotechnology article this week gives yet another …
Web tools built for disaster response in Haiti repurposed for Chile
Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Radar has assembled a list of Web tools that were designed for the disaster response in Haiti and are now also …
Study says Facebook profiles capture your true personality
Anyone who has dipped a toe in the Internet dating pool knows that occasionally the social network profile doesn't quite match up with the physical …
A Wii fracture reported in the New England Journal of Medicine
Yesterday the New England Journal of Medicine reported that a 14-year-old patient in England has sustained a fracture as a result of an intense session …
Dan Gillmor on the future of journalism education
This is a bit of an aside from medicine, but I think it's relevant to what we do on Scope. Yesterday Dan Gillmor, author of …
More than half of U.S. adults turn to the Internet for health information
UPDATE: In 2003, Stanford's Laurence Baker, PhD, conducted similar research and found that 40 percent of adults with online access used the Internet for health …
CIO's thoughts on the iPad's role in medicine
John Halamaka, MD, has compiled some initial thoughts on the iPad's role in medicine. (Halamaka is chief information officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center …
Comparing the Wii Fit board to a clinical force platform
The balance board used to perform exercises while working out with Nintendo's Wii Fit system may offer a cheaper solution to laboratory-grade force platforms, according …
Using cell phones to save lives
Got an old cell phone you'd like to toss? Stanford medical student Nadim Mahmud would gratefully take it and put it to good use helping …