Check out Dr. Taekman and Lockhart in this interview with Dr. Mast for our local television station, WRAL.   http://www.wral.com/computer-simulations-allow-doctors-to-learn-skills-with-less-risk/12284450/    

Garbled text message may hint at stroke? It’s a bit of a stretch, but a neurologist at Henry Ford Hospital has coined the term “dystextia”, a texting version of dysarthria that occurs with some stroke victims.

This MIT Tech Review article presents the scary reality of computer viruses proliferating on medical equipment. Just imagine your next MRI could be part of a Botnet. This will only get worse since manufacturers are notorious for the proprietary nature of their embedded systems.

Well it took long enough to finally achieve bionic vision, a la one of my favorite 70′s toys (complete with bionic arm  ). This comes in the form of $1200 glasses that use LCD tech to auto-adjust the prescription for presbyopia when the user tilts their head down. So now you not only need to [...]

It’s the beginning of a brave new world. An autonomous robot at Duke took a bioposy (using a turkey breast and a grape) using real-time 3D ultrasound scans.

Avaya purchased the Nortel enterprise division and received web.alive as part of the package. Click HERE to see a short demonstration of their technology.  It uses the UnReal 3 engine that has been modified to work over the web in a fully firewalled environment. It also supports 3D sound via a company Nortel bought in [...]