E-stethoscope for Telehealth
Telehealth is really catching on. Some consumers are changing their family physician to one who offers telehealth. The driver is the big C, convenience. Driving to sit in a waiting room (usually with no WiFi) is such a waste of time for many. Grandparents who chat with distant grandchildren with Skype or FaceTime now realize they could see […]
Augmented Reality for Anatomy
In April 1996, I posted a story here about the Visible Human Project. A prisoner in Texas spent his life as a drug abuser, alcoholic, robber and killer. In 1993 the state of Texas injected him with lethal chemicals and took his life away. Through a federally funded project built from a prisoner who had willed […]
Time Released Drugs
Like millions of Americans, I have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in my fingers. An excellent rheumatologist has prescribed various treatments with mixed results. RA tends to be most troublesome in the mornings. The medication that has eliminated morning pain and swelling is called Rayos. Rayos is mostly prednisone, a commonly used synthetic corticosteroid drug. What is unique […]
Gene-editing May Become Sputnik 2.0
In August I wrote about a team of Chinese scientists having received ethical approval in July to perform a clinical trial of gene-editing. The goal was to test whether gene-editing may be a potential cure for cancer. The trial began in a hospital in Chengdu, China in October. The gene-editing used CRISPR-Cas9, not exactly a household name. CRISPR […]
Predictions
Happy New Year to all. I believe 2017 will be a year full of great progress on many fronts. Here are some of the things I predict will happen: Artificial intelligence will become omnipresent, somewhat like java did 20 years ago. It will be part of all cloud services and devices. Virtual and augmented reality […]