Source: QMed Additive manufacturing, more commonly called 3-D printing, can be used to make everything from surgical guides and medical device prototypes to batteries. Some of the most inspiring applications of the technology, however, can be found in new applications of the technology to treat previously unmet clinical needs. 1. Printing Tissue. The manufacturing process involves creating[…]
Source: KevinMD Practice medicine like the bumblebee. We also know the basics of the beehive containing a single queen bee, hundreds of worker bees, and several hundred to several thousand drones with their only function is to mate with the queen (and after they perform this function they die!), each with their own degree of[…]
Source: KevinMD Despite recent buzz about shifting resident education to community health centers, hospital based education is here to stay. The model of education, though outmoded, is simple. Get residents exposed to as much disease as possible, in the shortest amount of time. The future of American health care is not in acute management of[…]
Source: Kurzweil November 15, 2013 [+]3D-printed model of a neuron (credit: Yale University) Yale neuroscientist Gordon Shepherd has created the first 3D-printed neuron with help from the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID). “Brain microcircuits have a very complicated 3D architecture,” said Shepherd, a professor of neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine and author of The Synaptic[…]
Source: The Atlantic By Jennifer Xu (Matt Rourke/AP) Every Saturday from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., the abandoned Pinckney Community Public Library in the rural town of Pinckney, Michigan flickers to life. Two caravans bearing young professionals in white coats roll up to the parking lot. Once inside, they loop stethoscopes around their necks, shuffle color-coded[…]
Source: NPR Health The evidence just keeps mounting that the microbes in our digestive systems are a factor in the obesity epidemic. A team of European researchers recently reported they’d found that obese people appeared to have less diverse microbes in their guts than did lean people. The research also showed that people with less diverse communities[…]
Source: NPR Health The evidence just keeps mounting that the microbes in our digestive systems are a factor in the obesity epidemic. A team of European researchers recently reported they’d found that obese people appeared to have less diverse microbes in their guts than did lean people. The research also showed that people with less diverse communities[…]
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Source: KevinMD By: KOUSHIK SHAW, MD There’s an elephant in the room, one that’s preventing patients from getting the most out of their visits to the doctor — and the name of that elephant is embarrassment. It’s not unusual to feel uncomfortable about some of the more intimate aspects of your health, but too often this[…]