Brad Templeton: There’s a lot of excitement about the potential of autonomous drones, be they nimble quadcopters or longer-range fixed wing or hybrid aircraft.→
Medical tech company [Becton Dickinson is launching a line of 30 generic, pre-filled syringes](Becton Dickinson): Pre-filled syringes in commonly-used dosages can help prevent medication→
Popular Science: An Irish company is using four American diamondback rattlesnakes in a new clinical trial that will test snake venom as a treatment→
Gigaom: A pair of Indiana University researchers has found that a pair of predictive modeling techniques can make significantly better decisions about patients’ treatments→
If you live in Detroit, and you need to go to the doctor, you now have a new option: a computer screen in Rite→
Gizmag: Billed as a telehealth system, the HealthSpot Station is a telepresence kiosk designed to take pressure off a beleaguered health care system by→
The new way to kill bedbugs: take a pill and go to bed and let them bite you. A few days later, they die.→
Reuters: Here is a diagnosis of what’s wrong with health care in America, straight from the horse’s mouth: There’s too much. In a new→
Business Week: An anxious woman in her mid-40s showed up last winter at Atlas MD, a family doctor’s office in Wichita. She had lost→
Reason: Three years ago, Dr. Keith Smith, co-founder and managing partner of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, took an initiative that would only be→
Fast Company: “This is a $2.4 trillion industry run on handwritten notes,” says 33-year-old Dr. Jay Parkinson. “We’re using 3,000-year-old tools to deliver health→
InstyMeds is bringing vending machine convenience to the world of medicine. The Star Tribune has more: It looks like an oversized cash machine. But→
AlterNet: There is good news and bad news about attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — that is, if you’re a drug company. The bad news→
GMA News Online: The Pyroclave is a medical wasteprocessor that uses pyrolysis —the process of decomposing organic material using extreme heat in the absence→
WSJ: When James Loden, an ophthalmologist, recently peered into a patient’s eyes, he was evaluating her for laser surgery to correct her vision. But→
It’s not Fiverr, but there’s a Indiana doctor who still charges $5 per visit. Stepping into the office of Dr. Russell Dohner feels like→
Proteus Digital Health, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its ingestible sensor for marketing as a medical→
Fast Company: Ben Bowman’s Minneapolis office, in a renovated brick warehouse, is steps from the Mississippi River. But his mind is on a different→
Kaiser Health News: The man’s face was pasty, his eyes closed as he lay back in bed waiting for a wave of nausea to→
More than half of Americans take a daily supplement- so it makes sense the business of preventive medicine has expanded to cover all members→