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Introducing the New VMware Management Solution Portfolio
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Pushback begins against robotic surgery
A requirement for proof of efficacy, in every operation, before deploying robotic surgeons could delay their introduction. I'm certain such questions are being asked in Europe.
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'How I tweeted my way out of spinal surgery'
Technology consultant and blogger, Sarah Cortes, used Twitter to escape a hospital she claims tried to intimidate her into unneeded spinal surgery.
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SmartPlanet: New innovations in Deep Brain Stimulation surgery
Is there new hope for Parkinson's patients? Imaging scientist, Alastair Martin, and neurosurgeon, Dr. Paul Larson, have teamed up to develop a way to perform Deep Brain Stimulation surgery that's...
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Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosed
Apple, its board and Steve Jobs should have disclosed the liver transplant that Jobs received earlier this year because "it's a material fact," Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett said on...
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Mussel "glue" and inkjet printers may make for faster healing from surgeries
The adhesive protein mussels create allow them to stick tenaciously to virtually any type of material, including rocks, glass, metals, and wood. Now, researchers at North Carolina State University...
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Another way to avoid mistakes in surgery
Brian Stewart developed a way to bar code surgical gauze before packaging, and can offer tracking of those gauzes for about $15 per surgery.
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MRI scans are too routine
A single scan can cost $750-1,000 and if it turns up something wrong surgery is often ordered routinely. Diagnosing based on pain, and considering surgery only after a period of rest, can save...
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CBS video: 3D in the operating room
To a surgeon, precision is everything. As CBS News medical correspondent Jon LaPook explains, new fiber optic technology is providing a three-dimensional, lifelike image to aid in operations that...
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End of the hero-doctor era
Thanks in part to DeBakey's headline-raising prowess critical care medicine is now a big-money industry, driven far more by institutions and teams rather than individuals. There can be no one like...
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Check out the bionic neck
I've told you about my disc replacement surgery, but I've never shown you. Here's an X-ray from my most recent follow-up appointment with the doctor who did the surgery. As a trial patient, I have...
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Supercomputer performs prostate surgery
A supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) recently piloted a laser to perform prostate surgery on a dog. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human...
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A snake-inspired robot
On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, Penn., CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi dropped by professor Howie Choset's Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to see his latest creation, the Snakebot.
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How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000
A few months back, I told you about how my neck had gone bad, really bad. At that time, I was in the middle of a six-month dive into pain, alleviated only by gobbling unwholesome quantities of...
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Photos: Robotic surgeons
Intuitive Surgical's Da Vinci surgical robots are now widely used for high-precision prostate surgery, and are being adopted for other procedures.
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Should electronic sponge-counts in surgery be mandated?
One of the big growth markets in surgical equipment is tagging sponges to make sure they're retrieved.
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Morality and health care
Is there a moral duty to provide health care?
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Becoming cyborg: Beware inequalities ahead
For the past couple of months I have been exploring a different kind of technology, the biological ones. You see, I need a new neck. Most of the big news in medical technology seems these days...
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i-Snake, a new robotic surgeon
Several newspapers in the UK have published today very short articles about the i-Snake, a new surgical robot which will be developed at the Imperial College London (ICL). For example, The Times...
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Number 3 most-read post of 2007: thumbs up for iPhone
Fool me once, shame on me. That would have to be the most honest account of what happened with our third-most read post of the year: Man endures thumb surgery to better enable iPhone use. At...
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Cancer 2.0: Intent on winning!
This post is not about failed IT projects; it's an inspiring story from someone absolutely determined to win his battle against cancer. Jeffrey Walker, CEO of Atlassian Software and fellow...
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