December 1st, 2009 by Berci in Better Health Network, Medical Art
Tags: Music Videos, Online, Science Visualization, Wired Magazine
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Wired Magazine always publishes some interesting videos dedicated to science and, let’s say, fun. Here are the entries and a few sample videos.
Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009
Volume rendering is a technique used to display two-dimensional data in three-dimensional space. ImageVis3D is a new volume-rendering program developed by the NIH/NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing, designed to be simpler, faster and more interactive than standard volume-rendering programs. This video demonstrates some of the key features of ImageVis3D and gives examples of the type of data it can render in three dimensions.
Top 10 Scientific Music Videos
*This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll*
December 1st, 2009 by Bongi in Better Health Network, True Stories
Tags: Claustrophobia, Crowded, Elevator, Hospital, Hot, Physicians, Psychiatry, Surgery, Sweaty, Trapped
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A comment on my previous post by undead doctor, reminded me of another story about a lift in the old academic building in the old hospital.
Every morning all the registrars, medical officers and interns in the surgery department would meet in the boss’ office for a report on the previous night’s activities and to deal with whatever other administration had to be taken care of. After this meeting the day’s work would begin. The surgery department was on the seventh floor of the academic building. The lifts in that building were fairly small, so we did what any normal surgeon-type would have done in our situation…we tried to see exactly how many people we could cram into the lifts on the way back down after the meeting. As it turns out the lifts couldn’t take more than thirteen. I know this from the time we crammed fourteen into one lift and it got stuck between floor three and floor four. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at other things amanzi*
December 1st, 2009 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, News
Tags: Chitosan, Cream, Emergency Medicine, Foam, Hemostat, Nano-Hooks, Remedium Technologies, Technology
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Remedium Technologies won first prize in the Most Promising Security Idea category of the Global Security Challenge 2009 for their shaving cream-like foam that can stop bleeding. The foam incorporates chitosan, a natural low-cost hemostatic substance derived from shellfish. It is designed to be sprayed into wounds where it expands and adheres to tissues in order to slow or stop bleeding. The company is also working on a novel chitosan-based wound dressing which uses “nano-hooks” in order to better adhere to bleeding tissues. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
November 30th, 2009 by Jonathan Foulds, Ph.D. in Better Health Network, Research
Tags: Cessation, Gum, Lozenge, Nicotine Replacement Therapy, NRT, Patch, Quitting, smoking
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Nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs: patch, gum, lozenge, nasal spray and inhaler) are intended to be used to help smokers to quit smoking completely. But an international report was recently published, finding that of the 17% of smokers who had used NRT in the previous year, approximately a third had used it for reasons other than quitting smoking.
The study was based on a survey of 6532 smokers in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and the United States, and found similar patterns in each country. The patch was by far the most commonly used NRT (70%), followed by the gum. Overall, about 8% of NRT users had used NRT just to reduce their smoking, and around 8% had used it to help them cope in situations where they couldn’t smoke. The report stated that, Read more »
This post, What Are People Really Using NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapies) For?, was originally published on
Healthine.com by Jonathan Foulds, Ph.D..
November 30th, 2009 by EvanFalchukJD in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Opinion
Tags: Government-run Healthcare, Healthcare reform, Spain, Universal Sentiment
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I’ve spent the last few days with much of our European team, today in Madrid, Spain.
Here are a few quick observations, as the American reform process continues.
1. Every country’s health care system has developed in the unique circumstances of its history. That is, the health care system of each country is the result of a collection of changes, fixes, restrictions, reforms, market developments and whatever else has happened over the last several decades. The result in each country are systems that work better or worse, but which in most all cases are very confusing to the people that work in them or get care from them. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at See First Blog*
