Dan Barry, MD, PhD, roboticist and former astronaut, offers a first-person account of space flight from training to lift-off and beyond. Videotaped at FutureMed, in May, 2011, at…
Dan Barry, MD, PhD, roboticist and former astronaut, describes the technology of 3D printing and its implications for personalized therapy in the field of orthopaedics. Videotaped at FutureMed,…
Philip Low, PhD, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Neurovigil, discusses iBrain, the first personal brain monitor. The device makes outpatient clinical trials in neurology possible, and may one…
Lucien Engelen, Director, Radboud REshape & Innovation Center, talks about how social media like Facebook will reshape the interactions between patients and healthcare providers. Videotaped at FutureMed, in…
Lucien Engelen, Director, Radboud REshape & Innovation Center, describes strategies, including the use of consumer electronics, to involve patients in the team that provides their health care. Videotaped…
Shawna Pandya, CMO & Co-founder, CiviGuard discusses the lure of Singularity University and the role of entrepreneurship in medicine. Her team created a company to manage the challenges…
Geetha Rao, PhD, CEO of MyMedFax, Inc., talks about helping physicians manage the large volume of patient health data generated by existing and emerging technologies. Videotaped at FutureMed,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ten-year survival rates are high when patients with unfavorable localized prostate cancer are treated with external beam radiotherapy boosted with conformal high-dose-rate brachytherapy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hospital outcomes in patients with an acute coronary syndrome are no different whether they were previously taking an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or not,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with systemic vasculitis associated with rheumatoid arthritis respond well to rituximab therapy, French investigators report in Arthritis Care & Research online November…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drug eluting stents (DES) apparently deliver drug to downstream coronary vessels and reduce the rate new lesion formation therein, a Cleveland Clinic team…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among stable patients with persistent total occlusion of the infarct-related artery after myocardial infarction, those who undergo late percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) fare…
