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Back in April we covered the SmokeSignals smoking cessation system, which monitored your intake of cancer sticks and doled out dosages according to a plan. It's not a big jump from there to doling out drugs that are actually good for you. From the same people who brought you SmokeSignals, we now ha read more »
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Your anatomy textbooks are 2D. CAVEman is 4D, meaning it's as cool as your average text book squared. Of course, if your text book's coolness is University of Calgary unveiled their 4D (that's typical 3D + time) high-resolution model of a functioning human. Essentially, they integrated data from as read more »
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The last we heard about the CPR Glove, it was just some students' entry for the University of Ontario's School of Engineering Competition. Now they're working on obtaining patent protection and securing investors to help launch the CPR Glove. The CPRGloveTM is a significant development in cardiopul read more »
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As a follow up to a previously reported The potential and the pitfalls of nanomedicine article, Michael Berger of Nanoblog has an excellent review titled A closer look at nanomedicine, featuring "emerging nanomedical techniques such as nanosurgery, tissue engineering, nanoparticle-enabled diagnosti read more »
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A new study from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (yes, the David Geffen) demonstrates, using fMRI, that pumping a patient full of pure oxygen is not the best plan of action. The study concludes that it is important to have at least a little bit of CO2 in the mix when giving high concent read more »
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Thanks to Harvard and Princeton scientists, we'll be able to tell our grandchildren that "back in our day we had to walk to school uphill both ways, in the snow, all year long. And we didn't have any fancy-shmancy molecular bio-computers that monitored our health..." Researchers at Harvard Universi read more »
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Here is a sensor that's long been overdue. Designed to "hear" respiratory flows in the upper airway, this prototype from the Masimo Corporation has already shown great results is the latest series of studies: Masimo reported that three new independent studies, including one presented the recent Int read more »
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A new web-based antenatal screening service has been launched to supplement screening available on the NHS. read more »
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Australia's IBA Health is tonight expected to make a £230m offer to buy its far larger UK rival iSoft, reports the Times newspaper today. read more »
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