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Hands-On With the iHealth Blood Pressure Dock

Back in 2009, when Apple announced accessory support for iPhone OS, they proposed an at-home medical device capable of sending data to doctors. The iHealth dock is that device, and it could totally transform your relationship with your blood pressure. There are plenty of reasons people take their blood pressure at home, and a blood…

Health Kyle VanHemert Jan 4

Study: Daily Aspirin Can Reduce Your Chances of Dying From Cancer Up to 60%

Researchers have found a drug that’s unexpectedly effective at reducing one’s chances of dying from many common forms of cancer, in some cases lessening fatalities up to 60%. It’s a small, long term daily dose of aspirin. In a new report, stemming from eight long term studies including some 25,000 patients, British researchers found that…

Health Kyle VanHemert Dec 7

Doctors Save Girl’s Hand By Grafting It To Her Leg For 3 Months

In July, nine-year-old Ming Li lost her hand in a tractor accident. Her arm was too damaged to reattach it, so they grafted it to her leg instead. Three months later, her hand’s back on her arm and regaining function. I’m having trouble finding much in the way of detail on the story, which admittedly…

Health Kyle VanHemert Nov 17

SPIDER Spreads Out Your Insides, Helps Surgeons Save Lives

My background is writing partially thought-out gadget blog posts, so you’ll forgive me this brief moment of juvenile amazement:Holy cow surgeons have the craziest tools! Is the SPIDER something you surgeons out there are regularly playing god with, or what? Promising instrument triangulation and flexible, articulating instruments via a 2×2 system of flexible and rigid…

Tech News Jack Loftus Oct 24

Doctors Will Use Dell Streak Tablets When Treating Patients

At 5-inches, the Streak is a lot more portable than the iPad—but still not quite as pocket-friendly (lab coat-friendly?) as the iPhone. Nonetheless, that’s where Dell wants to place its tablets, ramming it with a healthcare software app. https://gizmodo.com/dell-streak-tablet-hitting-us-late-summer-with-at-t-5538841 I wasn’t aware of this, but it seems Dell has quite the reputation in the medical…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 15

Doctors Blog About the Weirdest Stuff They’ve Removed From Patients

That’s a fragment of a Wendy’s spork that was removed from a man’s throat last year. It is by far the least weird thing that shows up on a new, cringe-inducing list of bizarre things doctors have extracted from patients. Sermo, a members-only website for doctors, asked its doctor users to post about the strangest…

Health Kyle VanHemert Aug 19

How The Recipient Of The First Full Face Transplant Looks

The operation took 24 hours and 30 doctors, but the first full face transplant appears to be a success. Here’s how Oscar, the patient, looks with his new face: https://gizmodo.com/its-happened-the-first-full-face-transplant-5522922 You can click on the image for a closer look. This image was taken during a press conference which marked the first time Oscar appeared…

Health Rosa Golijan Jul 26

Paging Dr. iPad

A team of doctors at Kobe University called in a specialist recently to assist with a surgery. And while the iPad may not have been the most practical medical aide, it’s the only one that comes with Plants vs. Zombies. As you can see from the video, the iPad had to be covered in plastic…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 3

It’s Happened: The First Full Face Transplant

The operation took 22 hours and 30 doctors, but the world’s first full facial transplant has been deemed “a success.” In a clandestine operation that took place almost a month ago in Barcelona, a man who’d lost his much of his face in a shooting accident received an entire face—skin and muscles, and as the…

Health Mark Wilson Apr 23

Casttoo X-Ray Cast Wraps Replace Pity with Awe

I’ve never had the pleasure of breaking a bone, but if I did, you can bet I’d be wearing a Casttoo to share my innermost threshold for pain with the world. Casttoos are customizable cast decals. You email in the image of your choice—yes, X-rays work great, though a shattered Terminator endoskeleton might be a…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 24

Wash Your Hands With Plasma Gas

Soap is dead. Never stood a chance, really. It had a good run, but the age of disinfecting our hands in plasma-gas filled boxes has finally dawned. As the NY TImes has it, several laboratories are working on the technology, which bathes your hand in room-temperature plasma gas to kill even industrial grade bacteria like…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 15

Nanodiscs Shake Brain Cancer Into Remission

Conventional treatments are often ineffective for treating brain cancer, but scientists have developed a novel new method of destroying cancer cells in the brain: they tag them with metal nanodiscs and shake them to death with magnets. Scientists at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy have developed a process by which…

Health Kyle VanHemert Feb 13

A Glimpse Into What’s Hopefully the Future of Healthcare

You know Frog Design even if you don’t know Frog Design. Their ideas influenced companies including Sony and Apple. And in a recent piece for Fast Company, they presented a thesis on a tech-savvy future for healthcare that’s worth reading. The entire article is 9 pages of well-reasoned scenarios involve wireless devices galore, dynamic health…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 6

SimMan 3G Patient Simulator Is One Creepy Way to Learn Medicine

The SimMan 3G is a robot that can cry, bleed, convulse, go into cardiac arrest and do any number of other things that humans do when their bodies are malfunctioning. Also, it’s super creepy looking. This is one crazy robot. Here’s just a partial list of features: Quality CPR Feedback Laerdal’s Q-CPR technology measures the…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 11

New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD!

It’s the ultimate home theater system that you’ll (hopefully) never be conscious to see. The old da Vinci was alright, but the new da Vinci Si surgical system displays your intestines in 3D HD (a perspective created through a double-camera, double-display stereoscopic system) so that a surgeon can marvel at the efficiency of your GI…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 6

What’s Up, Doc? (Twenty of the Best Physicians in Science Fiction)

Some of these upstanding members of the medical profession are the epitome of the Hippocratic oath, while others have found less … traditional… methods of drawing blood. Dr. Leonard McCoy (“Bones”) (Star Trek) Kind of the obvious place to start, right? It’s kind of hard to think of something to say about McCoy that hasn’t…

io9 Alyssa Johnson Mar 29

Scottish Scientists Fight Cancer Cells With a Lightsaber

And those pesky physicists said lightsabers weren’t possible. Peshaw, I say, pe-shaw. I say this because Scottish scientists have created a miniature device that attacks individual cancer cells using a cylinder of light. A two millimeter saber of light, or light saber, if you will. The pinpoint accuracy (no Force powers necessary!) will allow doctors…

Tech News Jack Loftus Nov 23

Panasonic’s Toughbook H1: Ultimate Doctors and Nurses Gizmo

We mentioned it before, and were initially upset it wasn’t a revised Speak&Spell…but now Panasonic’s H1 Toughbook for clinical use is out, and its specs list is impressive. It’s water-, dust- and drop-proof from 3-feet, has a smooth-surface and with sealed buttons for hygiene, and is fanless. It’s got a six-hour battery life, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 5

The Real Mad Scientist Is Always Better Than The Movie

Last night, New York’s Imagine Science Film Festival featured four short films about mad scientists — but they left out the maddest parts. Even though the films brought some unjustly overlooked geniuses to light — and shed some new light on familiar ones — they were missing some of the most important, and wildest, historical…

io9 Alex Carnevale Oct 22

Mystery Intel Tablet is Panasonic Toughbook for Medical Types

That mystery tablet PC that appeared at the end of Intel’s presentation at IDF last night is no Classmate, or super-powered Speak&Spell either: It’s a Panasonic Toughbook-alike tablet. More specifically it’s a “Mobile Clinical Assistant” device, aimed at doctors and nurses who are under an increasing burden of digital data and imagery nowadays, though there’s…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Aug 20

Hands-On With the iHealth Blood Pressure Dock

Study: Daily Aspirin Can Reduce Your Chances of Dying From Cancer Up to 60%

Doctors Save Girl’s Hand By Grafting It To Her Leg For 3 Months

SPIDER Spreads Out Your Insides, Helps Surgeons Save Lives

Doctors Will Use Dell Streak Tablets When Treating Patients

Doctors Blog About the Weirdest Stuff They’ve Removed From Patients

How The Recipient Of The First Full Face Transplant Looks

Paging Dr. iPad

It’s Happened: The First Full Face Transplant

Casttoo X-Ray Cast Wraps Replace Pity with Awe

Wash Your Hands With Plasma Gas

Nanodiscs Shake Brain Cancer Into Remission

A Glimpse Into What’s Hopefully the Future of Healthcare

SimMan 3G Patient Simulator Is One Creepy Way to Learn Medicine

New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD!

What’s Up, Doc? (Twenty of the Best Physicians in Science Fiction)

Scottish Scientists Fight Cancer Cells With a Lightsaber

Panasonic’s Toughbook H1: Ultimate Doctors and Nurses Gizmo

The Real Mad Scientist Is Always Better Than The Movie

Mystery Intel Tablet is Panasonic Toughbook for Medical Types

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