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Medical Drones Will Thrive in Healthcare: A Safe Road to Health
Time is crucial in healing, no matter whether it’s about a natural disaster, heart attack or an organ transplant. In future medical emergencies, where urgent response will be necessary, drones will mean the fastest answer. They will fly the extra mile in delivering drugs, vaccines, blood or organs. Drones are the future of delivery According to my geek calendar, 2017 will be the year of the drone. These advanced versions of model airplanes or unmanned aerial vehicles are everywhere on the rise. According to the estimates of the Consumer Technology Association, 9.4 million units were projected to be sold in 2016 worl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 12, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Mobile Health disaster relief drone drone delivery drones emergency GC1 Innovation technology Source Type: blogs

The Finest Examples of Brilliant Healthcare Design
It’s unbelievable how positively simple and thoughtful healthcare design can impact patients’ healing process! Here, let me show you the finest examples of brilliantly designed devices and medical environments with great potential to bring positive change into medicine. Napoleon and orthopedic casts Did you know that currently used crutches date back to the era of the civil war? Did you know that Napoleon’s famously controversial victory over the Russians in the Battle of Borodino in 1812 helped a French doctor develop an early version of orthopedic casts? Or that the first modern, “pay” hospital was opened i...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 11, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Healthcare Design 3d printing crutch future future of hospital gc4 plaster cast prosthetic leg Source Type: blogs

Postdoc, Student: Evolutionary Genomics Plant Pathogens
POSITIONS IN EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS OF FUNGAL PLANT PATHOGENS We are seeking talented and motivated postdoc (research associate) and PhD student (research assistant) candidates in the Fungal Genomics and Evolution Lab within the Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit of the Biological Research Center, with experience in molecular biology, microbiology, light microscopy or bioinformatics. The successful candidate(s) will be responsible for studying the evolution of the interaction between pathogenic fungi and host plants in the context of multicellular development using a wide range of high-throughput techniques, including sin...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - January 10, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: postdoc studentships evolutionary genomics grad student Hungarian Academy of Sciences phd plant pathogen Szeged Source Type: blogs

The 10 Best Health Technology Innovations at CES 2017
The biggest tech event of the year, CES brought stunning new health technologies to the stage in 2017 as well. Let me show you the most promising new gadgets, sensors and wearables in medicine! CES & the latest trends in tech innovation For geeks and gadget-lovers the year does not usually start with the 1st January, but a couple of days later, when CES opens in Las Vegas. It is even more exciting this year, since the exhibition celebrates its 50th anniversary – so it is obviously bigger and better than ever before. It’s almost impossible to collect and analyse every novelty appearing at the fair, and I’m...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 7, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers ces digital health future gc3 health technology Innovation Medicine 2.0 Personalized medicine wearables Source Type: blogs

Job: Northern Arizona University – Pathogen and Microbiome Institute
(Even though this already had a closing in Dec, there is still interest in more applications to this position). One tenure track assistant professor faculty position will be filled in the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, with tenure assignment to an academic department relevant to the faculty member’s expertise (e.g., Department of Biological Sciences, School of Informatics and Computer Science and Cyber Systems) beginning August 21, 2017. Job Description Individuals are invited to apply for an assistant professor faculty position in the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern Arizona University. We are seeking i...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - January 5, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: jobs faculty microbes microbiome NAU Pathogen and Microbiome Institute pathogens Source Type: blogs

Vocal Biomarkers: New Opportunities in Prevention
Vocal biomarkers have amazing potential in reforming diagnostics through their accuracy, speed and cost-effectiveness in the areas of mental illnesses as well as physical diseases such as Parkinson’s or coronary artery disease. Your voice betrays you, princess! The line has a long tradition in literature and cinematography. Its earliest presence might be in the Tales of One Thousand and One Nights by storyteller Scheherezade. In one of her stories her voice reveals a princess dressed in male cloths to a dervish; and he uses this exact line to tell her, he knows he is in fact female. It has been commonplace since ancient ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 4, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence diagnostics gc3 Innovation sensors vocal biomarker Source Type: blogs

Three Ways Technology Will Change How We Watch Sports
Technology will not only change amateur and professional sports, but also the way we as spectators experience sport in front of our screens or in the stadiums. Here are a few ideas about the future of sporting events. No matter how cynical the ancient Roman political slogan bread and circus for the masses is, it shows that sporting events – such as chariot racing which might be familiar from the classical movie Ben Hur – has had the ability to mobilize spectators since antiquity. The feeling of cheering together for a team and being part of something bigger than the self has not lost anything from its charm. I...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 28, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Augmentation in Medicine Cyborgization cybathlon exoskeleton future GC1 Innovation Personalized medicine robotics sport sporting events stadium technology Source Type: blogs

What We Learnt in Digital Health in 2016
In order to successfully move into 2017, it is crucial to draw the lessons of the past year in terms of successes, failures, remaining challenges and impenetrable obstacles in the field of digital health. Food for thought! An impulsive year in science and healthcare 2016 was a bold, busy and impulsive year in science and healthcare. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, founder of SpaceX and great visionary raised the stakes in astronautics again for the greatest pleasure of the fans of space flights. He promised no less than to take humanity to Mars as soon as possible (I explored the medical challenges of the project here). In July, ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 20, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine artificial intelligence artificial pancreas big data Boston Dynamics digital health food scanner GC1 google Innovation precision medicine robotics theranos trackers virtual reality wearables Source Type: blogs

The Most Exciting Medical Technologies of 2017
It is almost a tradition for me to publish predictions for the coming year. I do not mean to disappoint you this year either, so here you find some thoughts about the top medical technologies of 2017. 2016 was a rich year for medical technology. Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality. Smart algorithms analysing wearable data. Amazing technologies arrived in our lives and on the market almost every day. And it will not stop in the coming year. The role of a futurist is certainly not making bold predictions about the future. No such big bet has taken humanity forward. Instead, our job is constantly analysing the trends shaping t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 15, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing AI artificial intelligence diabetes GC1 genetics Healthcare Innovation nutrigenomics Personalized medicine robotics wearables Source Type: blogs

Preventing Stroke with a Device Thinner than a Business Card: WIWE review
Stroke is a global health problem that can only be fought with prevention. An innovative company developed a tiny gadget called WIWE exactly for these reasons. It is able to measure ECG, blood oxygen level and pulse, while assessing health risks associated with stroke. Here, let me show you my detailed WIWE review. Name the Problem: Stroke According to the World Heart Federation, 15 million people suffer a stroke worldwide every year. Nearly six million die and another five million are left permanently disabled. The harsh facts also show that stroke is the second leading cause of disability (after dementia) worldwide. In t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 13, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers ecg gc3 heart Personalized medicine prevention wearable wearables WIWE Source Type: blogs

13 Scary Medical Technologies We Have to Get Used to
Disruptive technologies are taking huge leaps towards revolutionizing whole areas, also in medicine and healthcare, while we are way behind in understanding how they function and what effect they have on us. I believe we have to get used to these technologies which might turn out to be very scary at first, or even at second sight. I cannot wait to stop wasting my time driving cars and focus on my work while my automated vehicle takes me wherever I need to go. But I’m sure I’m going to be nervous in the first few dozens of trips and I will keep my eyes on the road. Disruptive technologies take time to get comfor...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 9, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence augmented reality exoskeletons food scanner GC1 genomics Healthcare Innovation robotics technology virtual reality Source Type: blogs

Job: Endowed Professorship in Medical Mycology – Univ Georgia
The Microbiology Department at the University of Georgia invites applications for a Professorship in Medical Mycology at the rank of associate or full professor. On behalf of the search committee, I request your assistance in identifying outstanding candidates seeking to grow their research program. The Microbiology Department is home to an interactive and collaborative faculty with interests in many aspects of microbiology, including fungal biology and infectious disease (http://mib.uga.edu/). UGA is also home to a large, interdisciplinary fungal biology research group (http://fungi.uga.edu/). Additional resources and opp...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - December 8, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: jobs endowed chair georgia medical mycology Source Type: blogs

Postdoc: P. destructans and White Nose Syndrome – Univ Wisconsin-Madison
Postdoc Microbiologist/Molecular Biologist: Wisconsin Agency University of Wisconsin, Department of Pathobiological Sciences Location Madison, Wisconsin Job Category Post Doctoral Appointments Salary $47,476.00 (annual salary) Last Date to Apply 12/31/2016 Description POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION studying the mechanisms of resistance to white-nose syndrome (WNS), an emerging disease of bats caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans. Two years of funding is available through the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Pathobiological Sciences and the USGS National Wildlife Health Center located in Mad...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - December 7, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: postdoc madison P. destructans Pseudogymnoascus white-nose syndrome WNS Source Type: blogs

My Gift Ideas for Christmas: The Best Wearables for Your Loved Ones
Do you struggle with finding the best presents for your friends and family? Let me help you by recommending the best healthcare trackers, sensors and wearables for Christmas! OMG, Christmas is Coming! Are you the type who runs around in the shopping mall in total despair on 23rd December not knowing what to buy for friends and relatives as a present for Christmas? Or do you already purchase every gift with the appropriate greeting card way before the holidays and you are super-nervous if you still haven’t found anything until the beginning of December? Do you happen to struggle with coming up cool gift ideas but you...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 7, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers christmas digital gc3 Innovation Personalized medicine technology wearable wearables Source Type: blogs

Job: Environmental Microbiology – UC Riverside
UC Riverside faculty position in Environmental Microbiology part of Hiring Cluster BREATHE: Environ./Medical Microbiology, Environ./Medical History, Pulmonary Physiology, Pulmonary/Mucosal Immunol Job #JPF00639 School of Medicine – Biomedical Sciences Environmental Microbiology – experience working in natural systems, and in soil and/or air microbial ecology. A range of expertise between bacterial, archaeal, and fungal organisms, is preferred, including aeromicrobiology, and organisms with airborne spores (e.g., Coccidioides, Aspergilli, Pseudomonas, Clostridium, etc.). In addition, the environmental microbiolo...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - December 6, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: jobs aspergillus BREATHE coccidioides microbiology UCRiverside Source Type: blogs