THE CANARY SYSTEM INVENTORS RECEIVE THE “INVENTORS OF THE YEAR” AWARD FROM the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
The Canary System is the most accurate caries detection I have ever used. MJQuantum Dental Technologies is pleased to announce that the inventors behind the energy conversation technology powering The Canary System™ were recognized by the University of Toronto as “Inventors of the Year”. On May 15, 2013, Drs. Stephen Abrams and Andreas Mandelis (Professor in the Departments of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering) were recognized for their invention, The Canary System, which is changing the way dentists detect,...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - May 25, 2013 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Biomedical Engineer 3.8 GPA overall 3.94 BCPM
by donald (Posted Thu May 23, 2013 1:16 am)Looking at your stats I would recommend you to do few online courses, perhaps it could be useful for you. to know more try http://www.healthedsolutions.com/courses (Source: Med Student Guide)
Source: Med Student Guide - May 23, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Why is Imperial College permitting Westminster public school to sell an internship?
This is very odd indeed. Westminster, one of the most expensive public schools in the UK, is holding a fund-raising auction. In this auction, you can buy an internship at Imperial College’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering, on the promise that this will look great on your CV. auction.westminster.org.uk/lots/one-week-internship-at-the-institute-of-biomedical-engineering-imperial-college-london-for-a-level-students “On offer is a one week internship [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - May 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science just a blog Source Type: blogs
Biomedical Engineer 3.8 GPA overall 3.94 BCPM
by dzinger14 (Posted Mon May 06, 2013 7:59 pm)Not Bad I must say! Pretty amazing comparing up to all of the EP cardiologists leading up to my Career. My collegue athttp://heartrhythmsfla1.com/ was in a pretty comparable predicament. (Source: Med Student Guide)
Source: Med Student Guide - May 6, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Trying to sort out all the STEM and STEM related departments, graduate programs , at #UCDavis
Well, I was in a meeting yesterday for the UC Davis ADVANCE program. This program is an NSF funded project to improve presence of women and underrepresented minorities on the faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). So I decided to see - how many departments at UC Davis might participate in such an initiative. And, well, wow. I knew there were a lot of STEM or STEM-related departments at UC Davis but I did not know there were this many.
Here is a list I compiled of UC Davis STEM or STEM-related Departments. I included medical departments here since many people in such...
Source: The Tree of Life - April 27, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
MIT professor studying the mechanics of metastasis
Professor Roger Kamm at MIT was my advisor when I was a mechanical engineering student at MIT.
Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering, and his doctoral student Ioannis Zervantonakis are studying the mechanics of metastasis. They are using a 3-D microfluidic device developed in his lab, including a recent study on the effect of flow on tumor-cell migration.
Read more here. (Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim)
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - April 25, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: MIT biomedical engineering research bioengineering cancer mechanical engineering Source Type: blogs
Memory Implants for Alzheimer's Patients?
A maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories.
By +Bob DeMarco
+Alzheimer's Reading Room
Every year the MIT Technology Review picks the 10 technologies they think most likely to change the world.
Imagine if Alzheimer's patients could have a chip implanted in their brain that would allow them to form long term memories. In other words, remember the present, and recall it.
Theodore Berger, a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is envisioning a day in the not too distant future when a pati...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 23, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Valuing Private Certification
There are currently several private entities that seek to certify medical apps, connectivity solutions, EHR record exchange, and other products, services and people in our sphere of interest. Given the ongoing proliferation of private certifications, there is a growing need to evaluate them, judge their relative costs and benefits, and determine which – if any – are worth adopting as either the one certified or as the consumer of certified products or services.
These private activities are usually distinct from governmental requirements (e.g. FDA or FTC compliance, or state licensing), although in the case of EHR M...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - April 9, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: William Hyman Tags: Standards & Regulatory Source Type: blogs
How Big a Loophole is “Wellness”?
The medical app and regulatory pot is being stirred as products continue to appear, including those with questionable FDA credentials, or lack of credentials.
As discussed in our earlier posts on apps regulation (here and here), an app is a medical device if its meets the congressionally mandated and FDA enforced definition of a medical device as something whose intended use “is for the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or is intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man”. As stated in the FDA’s Draft Guidanc...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - March 18, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: William Hyman Tags: Business Planning Standards & Regulatory Source Type: blogs
Can computers replace physicians?
A reader sent me this question: "Yesterday, after my MCAT class, two biomedical engineering students and I talked about this article and the future of medicine: we debated whether such robots could reduce the need for doctors by 80%"
When I read such predictions I chuckle at the naivety of those who make such pronouncements. The computer advocates do not really understand medical care and diagnosis.
What do we do that computers/robots will have great difficulty replacing? The most important thing that we do involves understanding our patients and what they are really saying. We understand how to...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - February 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 4th 2013
Discussion
- Latest Headlines from Fight Aging!
- A Podcast Interview With Aubrey de Grey
- Wrapping Nanoparticles in Cell Membranes
- Vegetarianism Associated With Lower Risk of Heart Disease
- A Commentary on Radical Life Extension
- The View of Mortality as Not Easily Explainable By Common Genetic Variants
- Foundational Work For Nervous System Repair
- Magnetic Levitation in Tissue Engineering
- Advocating Intermittent Fasting
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Source: Fight Aging! - February 3, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Magnetic Levitation in Tissue Engineering
Researchers here demonstrate a way to use magnetic levitation to make small pieces of tissue grow more naturally, though one suspects it won't scale to much larger tissue sections. The focus here, as for much of tissue engineering at this time, is to produce tissues as close to the real thing as possible, suitable for testing and research, applications where the small amount is not an issue:
The research is part of an international trend in biomedical engineering to create laboratory techniques for growing tissues that are virtually identical to those found in people's bodies. In the new study, researchers combined four t...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Are J&J shooting themselves in the hip?
This study seems like suicide to me,” he said in a 2005 e-mail. Flett testified that he likened such a study to suicide because “it will prove that one is better than the other and they are both our products and that means one will be worse.”
He said DePuy stopped selling the ASR in late 2009.
“We didn’t see the sales of the product continuing the way we wanted, so we took it off the market,” Flett said.
Kransky’s lawyers claim the implanted metal cups didn’t stimulate ingrowth of surrounding bone, making them unstable in the hip. They also claim the shallow design of the ASR cups, in which a metal ball ...
Source: PharmaGossip - January 29, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Biomedical Engineer 3.8 GPA overall 3.94 BCPM
by dredwinf (Posted Tue Jan 15, 2013 5:57 am)I also thinks that your stats looks to be reasonably optimum for the medicine engineering courses in several schools.For changing into a medicine engineer the most effective means may be a formal coaching in mechanical and physical science engineering with centered medicine coaching. however since you've got already completed the engineering degree you'll select a academic degree in medicine. (Source: Med Student Guide)
Source: Med Student Guide - January 15, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Non trad second time question
by miketutor (Posted Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:25 pm)Hi All!My name is Mike and I always wanted to get into med school. My background is Electrical and Biomedical Engineering and I am currently working as an electrical engineer. A year and a half ago I have applied for both med school and law school. Unluckily, med school did not accept me but I got accepted to part-time law school instead. I am on my second year of law school now but I am also trying to get into med school as it was always my biggest interest. If med school continues to not accept me I may end up working as a patent lawyer for medical devices.I am very good in ...
Source: Med Student Guide - January 6, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
