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Jump Starting Cellphone Telemedicine
Medical professionals and technologists
are finding ways to shrink::
1. expensive medical machines
2. medical diagnostic equipment
3. lifestyle biometric data collecting sensors
To enable people to acquire diagnosis, treatment, and/or biofeedback anywhere they have a cellular connection. This type of technology can reduce time in doctor's office, lengths of stays in hospitals, and even help people keep themselves mentally and physically fit.
A Second Chance at Sight
The bionic dream is to one day be able to replace human parts with biomedical cellular reconstructed organs or electro-mechanical systems. These systems will restore or enhance physical abilities to pre-damaged conditions.
The eye implant described in this month's column is the product of twenty years of research and development. The collaborators include engineers, scientists, and medical doctors from MIT, Harvard Medical School, Cornell University, and the Boston VA Medical Center.
Bionic Sight
As a Pediatric Ophthalmologist Dr. Alan Chow was frustrated by his inability to prevent a degenerative eye disease from blinding one of his young patients. He is the originator of the vision chip.
Artificial Heart
Approximately five million people in the placecountry-regionUnited States today suffer from Congestive Heart Failure, a disease that can simply be described as a broken heart. During the FDA study eighty percent of the patients in need of heart transplant surgery survived on this artificial heart long enough to have their hearts replaced with a donor heart.
PolyHeme:
The Universal
Blood Substitute
This study will determine if this artificial oxygen carrying blood substitute, which is compatible with all blood types, is ready for widespread use in everyday trauma and surgical settings.
Deactivating
Blood Pathogens
With all the possible dangers, people all over the world still need blood transfusions at a rate of one person every three seconds. A new blood cleansing technology has recently been developed that deactivates pathogens in blood components.
This Fake Tattoo Can Monitor a Person’s Vital Signs
Professor John Rogers and his team at the University of Illinois have developed a prototype temporary tattoo that contains microelectronic circuits on a clear rubber transfer medium. The team’s temporary body art tattoos can monitor a person's vital signs while they are up and about performing their normal daily activities.
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
A Tattoo
Medical Breakthrough
Microelectronic circuits inside the tattoo monitor vital signs of the patient.
Painless Dentistry
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
The plasma brush is the new tool that can remove dental decay and prepare a tooth for a filling without any painful drilling. (See photo.) This technology not only removes the need for the drill, it also eliminates the need for most Novocain injections.
Your dentist might switch from a drill to the plasma brush sometime next year.
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
If you were ever bitten by a mosquito, and who hasn't, you will find the work of these doctors fascinating. Imagine a world without biting Mosquitos!!!!
Biotechnologists, at the laboratory level, have found a way to eliminate mosquito bites. They also have found a way to stop them from being able to carry Malaria. They are now working on preventing mosquitos from carrying other diseases.
Their solutions don't involve the use of insecticides. This column also explains why Mosquitos' bite and why some people are actually Mosquito magnets.
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Controlling Cybernetic Machines with the Human Mind
The first cybernetic people will only have a few mind controlled parts. These parts will replace amputated arms, hands, or legs. People with these kinds of replacements are now common in Sci-Fi movies. This column explores how close we are to almost human androids and mind controlled cybernetic replacement parts for people.
Bioengineering the Mosquito Bite
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
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