]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/silicon Blog Articles Tagged with 'silicon' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/884965?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Granma International from Havana, Cuba is reporting about a tsunami of medical devices, currently being used by Cuban internationalist health professionals , is on the way to places such as Venezuela and Algeria, to be used (presumably) by their int... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/884965?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:01:26 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/882969?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon It s so nice to be classified (with lawyers) by the New York Times as a Falling Down profession. I love sitting and feeling sorry for myself. Poor me.Caveat emptor when we look to the journalism field to provide cultural direction versus sp... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-wes/882969?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:55:43 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/880905?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Research at Massachusetts General Hospital has led to a microchip that can quickly sort through elusive circulating tumor cells (CTC's) found within the blood of cancer patients.The existence of CTCs has been known since the mid-19th century, but sin... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/880905?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:49:25 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/doctor-weighs-in/879175?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon By Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.DSometimes, When I read something extraordinarily egregious or stupid I catch myself shaking my head in disbelief. I even mutter to myself a few choice expletives. Here are 2 items from the New York Times appearing on 2 consecu... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/doctor-weighs-in/879175?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:39:46 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/time-goes-by/876681?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Today is called, appropriately, Black Friday the biggest shopping day of the year when crazed people wielding little rectangles of plastic get out of bed at 3AM to inaugurate the spending frenzy that is the holiday season. If, like me, cro... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/time-goes-by/876681?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:55:08 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/876082?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA s double helix, and Craig Venter, who helped unravel the human genome, have copies of their own personal genomes. Now Iceland-based deCode Genetics is offering the rest of us the next best thing: a chance to compa... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/876082?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:25:03 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/875676?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA s double helix, and Craig Venter, who helped unravel the human genome, have copies of their own personal genomes. Now Iceland-based deCode Genetics is offering the rest of us the next best thing: a chance to compa... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/wsjcom-health-blog/875676?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:13:41 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/irv-arons-journal/874616?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Again, using briefs supplied by Ophthalmology Times and Ocular Surgery News, here are the highlights from the second day of the Retina 2007 Subspecialty Day presentations.First, here are the reports from the special session held at the end of the day... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/irv-arons-journal/874616?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:17:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/873763?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Researchers have developed a novel origami style ultrasound probe that will give doctors a panoramic view of diseased blood vessels, greatly improving their ability to diagnose medical problems such as stroke. An ultrasound probe about the size of... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/873763?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:46:21 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/871996?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon A collaborative project between high-energy physicists from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and neuroscientists from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA., has resulted in a discovery of a novel type of retinal cell dubbed the upsilon cell. ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/871996?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:34:29 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/patients-doctor/871023?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Google says working to solve health record dilemma: Google started out two years ago on a service called Google Co-op. This taps various expert organizations to categorize high-quality health and other information, to make it easier to search and fi... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/patients-doctor/871023?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:36:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/time-goes-by/870472?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon [IMPORTANT NOTICE: Friday 19 October in the northern hemisphere is the day to post your greetings for Olive Riley's 108th birthday and I hope everyone will join in to help make it a joyous blogosphere bash for Olive. There is more information about t... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/time-goes-by/870472?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:28:05 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cognitive-daily/870095?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon The idea of a human falling in love with a creation made of steel and silicon seems rather far-fetched today -- even the most realistic robots seem more creepy than endearing. But people already do form attachments to their robots. People treat Roo... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cognitive-daily/870095?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:45:39 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/868507?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Research scientists at Michigan State University are developing nano-biosensors that work like molecular transistors that are triggered by the presence of certain pathogens. With embedded forward error-correction function in biosensors, with the res... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/868507?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:51:05 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/866641?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon From what sounds like a merger of Virgin Airways, Virgin Health, and Virgin Galactic, researchers from SRI International and the University of Cincinnati will be flying the C-9 weightless wonder , comparing the performance of a robotic surgical rob... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/866641?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:54:52 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/866008?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon The following research reminded us of Neal Stephenson's book The Diamond Age. It seems that water and diamonds might make a perfect pair for the development of nano-engineered body implants. Or as Nanowerk's Michael Berger reports, polycrystalline d... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/866008?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:16:25 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/865584?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Welcome to the September 17, 2007 edition of carnival of the capitalists.First, a puzzle. Why do we have the brains we have? specifically, why do humans have proportionally bigger and better connected frontal lobes (the b... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/865584?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:49:45 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/864327?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon A medical student finds out what happens to breast implants during gross anatomy lab:The most interesting part of the implant was the reverse side, which had circular spots of scored silicon. These textured spots act as anchoring points for the body'... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/864327?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:08:52 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/863422?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon First, some of my favorite blog carnivals we contributed to this week: Grand Rounds, HR, Education, Law, Carnival of the Green.3 quick announcements on SharpBrains 1) We have been ranked #22 in the World's Top Blogs in Health and Medicine. What is... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/863422?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:43:02 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/863328?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon An enhanced oxygenation device, that purportedly promotes pancreatic beta cell differentiation in vitro, has been designed by scientists at the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami. According to Amy from Diabetes Mine, who alerted u... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/863328?rsstype=tag&tag=silicon Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:40:36 -0400