More and more studies are proving telemedicine is effective in helping patients modify their lifestyle to manage health conditions. Telephone counseling combined with home-based blood …
Category: Innovation
Tools to track health decisions grow in popularity
A new startup called Keas aims to help individuals take control of their health. Users complete a personal health survey and are provided with online …
The blind can see
Via the New York Times, here's a story that gadget-lovers and medical professionals alike can appreciate: With the help of a tiny camera and an …
A pill that polices patients
Wireless technology is increasingly becoming a popular solution to streamline health-care practices, but one company is taking the integration of wireless services a step further. …
Switching drugs on and off with magnetism
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have devised a technique that aims to deliver medication to patients on an as-needed basis for an extended period of …
Why health-care professionals should blog
There's a reasonably good post today on the Better Health blog about why health-care professionals should blog. While I don't agree with some of the …
OK, now drivers who text REALLY freak me out
I'm a vociferous talking-on-cellphone-while-driving opponent. I think people who do it are dumber than dirt, and I USED to think that people who text are …
Gene therapy may cure color blindness
A gene therapy technique developed by researchers at the University of Washington has just been used to cure color blindness in adult monkeys. In the …
Stephen Quake talks about decoding his genome
Yesterday I wrote about how bioengineering professor Stephen Quake sequenced his own genome for less than $50,000 and with a team of just two other …
Stephen Quake has decoded his own genome
Stanford bioengineering professor Stephen Quake has decoded his own genome for only $50,000. By comparison, the most recently sequenced human genome cost $250,000 to decode. …
Americans increasingly browsing before breakfast
According to an article in the New York Times yesterday, many Americans now make the Internet their first stop of the morning: After six to …
WolframAlpha improves its medical capabilities
WolframAlpha has improved its abilities to handle medical queries. Wolfram explains the changes in an entry on the WolframAlpha blog: Wolfram|Alpha allows you to query …
List of biomedical journals on Twittter
A medical librarian in the Netherlands, @laikas, has started a comprehensive list of biomedical journals on Twitter. Readers are also invited to make updates to …
Obama tries the da Vinci surgical robot
According to the White House blog, President Obama tried out the Da Vinci surgical robot during a visit to the Cleveland Clinic last week. The …
Medscape now available on iPhone
According to Medgaget: Medscape has released a free iPhone application featuring a drug database and interaction checker, as well as a directory of physicians and …
Biologists create a living computer from E. coli bacteria
It appears E.coli may be useful for something other than tainting food. According to the Guardian, a team of US scientists have engineered a bacterial …