Top 12 Cities and States For Practicing Physicians
Here are 12 best cities and states for physicians to practice, according to Medscape’s Best and Worst Places to Practice: 2013 report. The cities and states are listed by region. Here are the cities and states that topped the list for 2013: Southeast and South Central regions Best state: Texas, with low physician density and cost of […]
ASC Success: 5 Things To Know In The Next 5 Years
Earlier this month at the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, Luke Lambert, CFA, CASC, chief executive officer of Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America, answered questions about the best strategies for ambulatory surgery centers to thrive in the next five years. 1. What still works today. One of the best strategies for […]
Medical App Of The Week: Heart Decide
Heart Decide is one of the top rated free medical apps for patient education. One of the keys to success for the iPhone is its form factor. Few apps take advantage of that fact in the way that the Decide series from Orca Health does. Here, we look at Heart Decide as an example of […]
Doctors Use 3-D Printer To Save A Child’s Life
3-D printers are now being used in the medical field. Doctors recently used a 3-D printer to create an emergency airway tube that saved a 20-month old boy’s life. After imaging the child’s faulty windpipe, doctors at the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital printed 100 tiny tubes and laser-stitched them together over the trachea. “Quite a […]
New Hope For HIV Vaccines Through Supercomputer Powered Research
While it is still an ongoing struggle for scientists to find an effective, safe HIV vaccine, a new supercomputer-aided discovery is offering new hope. Researchers from the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh were able to accurately map the four million atoms that make up the HIV capsid (a protein shell that contains […]
How Smartphones Can Do Almost Everything Your Doctor Can, But Not Quite
For most of time medicine was a complete guessing game. Doctors, or witch doctors, or shaman would inspect a patient, stir a potion and hope it would work. With some notable exceptions, modern medicine isn’t so different. Collecting things like blood pressure, heart rate, weight, reflexes is largely rudimentary. We’re getting by, but technology can […]
New Mind-Controlled Prosthetics Have Gotten Even Better
We’ve known for a few years now that DARPA-funded prosthetics research is yielding some pretty incredible technology. Now DARPA is literally building super heroic technology that enables amputees to control prosthetic limbs with their minds. In science fiction terminology, you might say DARPA is building cyborgs, bionic men and women who for one unfortunate reason or […]
Honda Walking Assist Device Finally Goes Into Broad Hospital Trial
It’s been 5 years now since we first saw Honda’s Walking Assist Device and now it will finally be used on a broader scale. The first 100 units are being sent out to 50 different hospitals across Japan as a part of a loan program. The device weighs 2.6kg and straps onto the legs and […]
New Virus From The Middle East Being Labeled A Global Threat
The World Health Organization (WHO) has now made it clear that a new Middle Eastern virus is a threat to the entire world. In her closing speech at the organization’s annual international meeting in Switzerland yesterday, WHO Director General Margaret Chan said: “looking at the overall global situation, my greatest concern right now is the novel coronavirus.” […]
How Google Glass Will Be Used In Healthcare
Google Glass is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display that is being developed by Google. The device is hands free and displays information in a smartphone-like format that can interact with the internet via voice commands. While Google’s advertising for Glass thus far has focused on the social uses of its features, the technology is likely to have extensive applications for […]