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Archive for December, 2009

One thing that stays the same in the medical field is the ever present desire to be able to provide the best quality care for patients. Year after year, innovative technological breakthroughs allow the medical community to be able to perform their jobs better and faster. Thing have not change. Here are 7 medical technologies that will change the world in the next decade.

1. There’s a whole new approach to searching for the cures of different medical conditions that millions of people fall victim to every year. Dr. Ho, the head of medical informatics at the Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D, is creating mathematical models of diseases which can be put onto a computer. This will allow for new drug testing to be done on these computer models rather than animals and humans.

2. Another medical technology is what GE Healthcare, the maker of the technology, calls eHealth. The goal of eHealth is to connect doctors to doctors in such a way that all information that is shared between them is understandable and readily accessible. Because healthcare information is currently fragmented into thousands of different frameworks that have their own unique system, it’s almost impossible to quickly and easily share information. With eHealth valuable, and sometimes even life-saving information, can make its way to the proper health care professionals in record time and will be easily understood.

3. Remote healthcare may be just what the older generation and the seriously ill or handicapped citizens have been waiting for. Remote healthcare is the innovation of Intel. It seeks to reduce hospital visits by monitoring a patient’s vital signs right from the comfort of their own homes. This remote monitoring technology could save people, tons of time and money, and give health care providers an upper hand as to how best to treat their patients by studying them in the settings where they live.

4. For cancer patients all over the world, a new technology, referred to as individualized therapy, aims to give healthcare providers the ability to visually map large networks of cancer cells which could allow them to get the right cancer medication to the right cancer patient at the right time. Currently doctors are only able to diagnose cancer by the history of the cancerous tumor, and try to determine which treatment is best. With this new technology, doctors will be able to see a more distinctive attribute of the molecular pathways of these tumors which will allow them to diagnose the type of cancer in less time, and to know which treatments to give.

5. Two Stanford University students have designed the NanoLab. This is a portable medical lab that will allow an individual patient to self-test rather than going to a medical facility for a simple diagnosis. The device will have a number of different sticks that can be used to diagnose different illness. All the patient has to do is add some blood or saliva and let the NanoLab do the rest. This will be a remarkable piece of technology for use in third world countries.

6. The founder of BioNanomatrix, Han Cao, has created a chip that may lower the cost of genome analysis. This chip could provide doctors with the information they need to tailor a patient’s medical needs to their unique genetic profile, and allow them to identify new viruses in record time.

7. Researchers at Kitasato University have developed a medical scanner that increases the resolution of the current existing technology by an astonishing 1000 times! This is a significant development in the world of advanced cancer detection.

Trudi Buck writes about how to apply to radiology tech schools.

There was nothing to do at home, so I decided to go out and visit my brother.  And when I got at his house, he and a couple of his buddies were playing a friendly game of poker.  He was really quite engrossed with his game that he barely looked up and say hello to me.  I asked him if I could use his computer and search the web, when he said okay, I did.  I liked going to his house, it was always noisy, with people to talk to and warm, not like in my apartment where I was staying by myself.  I never did like staying at the apartment by myself, it makes me feel lonely.

I have been playing online casinos for quite some time now, an officemate suggested that I give it try, just to pass the time and if I have nothing better to do.  Being busy with work lately, I haven’t played online casinos for quite some time, so I decided now is the best time to try again.    I decided to play online casino bonuses and look for the best available casino bonuses, of course I wanted fast and reliable payouts, not that I’ve won before but maybe this time I will.  I first checked into casino proudly and looked for an online casino that would work for me, something new.  Casino proudly is a site where various online casinos are available for review, with players such as myself making the reviews. I really find this site very convenient and effective, since having all these online casinos at one site makes comparisons easier.  After a while I decided to play Online Blackjack Goldlist, and I was engrossed with my game that I didn’t notice that my brother and his buddies were already watching my game.  I was startled when one of them spoke, and then they started to ask questions about the mechanics and stuff about online casinos.  After making a few explanations, they gave it a try and they loved it.  So, instead of sitting around the poker table, they were now at the computer playing online casinos. When it was the time to leave, his buddies could not wait to go home and play online casinos at their own homes. However, they still decided to continue their friendly game of poker every Friday night.