Nanosponges Soak Up Toxins
I have no scientific basis to substantiate this, but it seems that advances in healthcare during the next 10 years will surpass what has occurred during the past 100 years. Consumer devices such as the Fitbit are the tip of the iceberg that will lead to massive amounts of epidemiologic data being collected by consumers […]
Peggybank at patrickWeb
Click image to enlarge The origin of the word Peggybank is peg as in mpeg or jpeg, the format for compressed movies and pictures. Most of us that have been around for more than a few decades have 8mm films, VHS video tapes, 35mm slides, boxes of photographs, baseball cards, ham radio QSL cards, etc. in our […]
Doctor Shortage or Surplus
One of the issues confronting the health care system in America is the impending addition of tens of millions of uninsured people. Medscape Today has a very interesting three-minute video by Dr. Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine, about whether our nation is on the verge of a healthcare provider shortage, or whether […]
Spyder
Click image to enlarge The Spyder I am writing about here is not related to the other kind of Spiders that crawl on the floor and the World Wide Web. The Spyder I am sharing about here is a three wheeled open-air vehicle that most people would call a motorcycle or a trike. The can-am […]
Tell Them, Tell Them, Told Them
The Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is an annual event that Apple conducts for the thousands of developers who create applications for Apple’s products. When the conference is announced as open for enrollment, the available seats are sold out in about an hour because developers are thirsty to learn about the new application programming interfaces […]