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DOD Helping to Get Skin Harvesting Kit to Market

Filed under: Military Medicine , Plastic Surgery

As the Obama administration continues to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is working on medical technology that can help soldiers recover and rehabilitate faster than ever before. Shrapnel wounds and burns caused by explosions often require grafting...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on May 27, 2009 11:32 AM



Ins and Outs

Filed under:

Will health IT be Obama version of the Iraq War... [Dana Blankenhorn @ ZDNet Healthcare] The pros and cons of nanofoods... [CORDIS News] How to Lure Clinical Trials Back to the U.S. ... [WSJ] India protects traditional medicines from piracy......permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on February 20, 2009 12:00 AM



New Bone Cement to Prevent Dangerous Battle Injury Infections

Filed under: Military Medicine , Orthopedic Surgery

Osteomyelitis (OM) is a dangerous bacterial bone infection that often occurs in patients with open fractures. So it is not surprising that injured American soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq have been getting OM, with an end result sometimes being...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on January 29, 2009 12:53 PM



New Treatment Tested for Post Combat Tinnitus

Filed under: ENT , Military Medicine , Neurology

Last March we wrote about an innovative audio device that promises to treat tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, that people often contract after experiencing very loud sounds like explosions or techno concerts. Now the U.S. Army is sponsoring a...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 16, 2008 12:00 AM



Museum Exhibit Features Historic Iraq Military Hospital

Filed under: in the news...

The National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC has rebuilt a part of Air Force's Baghdad emergency hospital, a place that treated most of the severe injuries in the area. For the exhibit, titled "Trauma Bay II, Balad,...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 12, 2008 01:12 AM



Testosterone..."The Perfect Weapon of Mass Destruction"

Filed under: in the news...

Testosterone is getting a bit of a bad rap in the news lately. Our recent post about testosterone's effects on stock market traders may help to explain trading behavior, while another article at Wired magazine discusses how testosterone may be...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on November 26, 2008 06:07 AM



The Fastest Way To a Man's Heart is Through FAST1 Intraosseous Infusion System

Filed under: Anesthesiology , Critical Care , Emergency Medicine , Medicine , Military Medicine

They say the fastest way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but as Pyng Medical Corporation likes to point out, not if the man is in cardiac arrest! Pyng is a Richmond, B.C. based life-sciences company whose mission...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on September 29, 2008 02:12 AM



Pentagon Wants to Develop Device to Gauge Brain Trauma in the Field

Filed under: Military Medicine

The Department of Defense is investing heavily into building a mobile hand held device that can identify signs of brain damage in a person following a roadside bomb or any other injury causing trauma to the head. From the Wall...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on April 17, 2008 11:00 AM



Using Mirrors to Treat Phantom Limb Pain

Filed under: Military Medicine , Pain , Psychiatry

Returning Iraq veteran amputees using an odd neural pathway to trick the brain to treat phantom limb pain... Dr. Jack Tsao, a Navy neurologist with the Uniform Services University, was looking for ways to help soldiers like Paupore. He remembered...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 25, 2008 01:00 AM



Bluetooth: The Next Advancement for Prosthetics

Filed under: Prosthetics

Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill has some of the hottest legs in town when he wears his cutting edge, bluetooth enabled bionic prosthetics. Now, he's starting to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs outfitted with Bluetooth technology...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on January 28, 2008 05:59 AM



Making The Medical Future

Filed under: in the news...

Design News magazine is featuring an article on the development of advanced limb replacements and other motorized medical systems that are currently in advanced stages of development at US universities and national labs. A veteran of the Iraq war...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 11, 2007 10:55 AM



Ins and Outs

Filed under:

Feds Probe Medtronic Payments to Docs ... [WSJ] Docs Don't Always Turn in Bad Colleagues ... [AP] FDA Launches E-mail Alert Subscription Service through Public Web site ... [FDA] The ghost of research past ... [Nature] Thumbs-Down for Avastin...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 6, 2007 05:51 AM



Segways as Medgadgets

Filed under: in the news...

A charity group called Segs4Vets is giving away dozens of Segways for injured soldiers that are undergoing therapy and have trouble walking. Many can stand, but walking is more difficult, and for them a Segway is proving to be a...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 5, 2007 01:26 AM



Water-Harvesting Technology from Aqua Sciences

Filed under: Public Health

Aqua Sciences, Inc., a Florida company, has developed proprietary technology to literally extract water from air. A product of Darpa-sponsored research, the company's mobile water extraction labs are being deployed in Iraq and other places with scarce water availability. According...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on September 28, 2007 02:27 PM



Virtual Reality for PTSD

Filed under: Military Medicine , Psychiatry

The US military is using virtual reality to treat soldiers that suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. The idea is to virtually recreate battlefield situations and let soldiers think about, and deal with, their memories, rather than suppressing them. So-called...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on August 28, 2007 08:55 AM



Ins and Outs

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Doctor Accused of Killing Patient to Harvest Organs ...[Fox News] Surgeons Finish Operation Using Just Cellphone-Screen Lighting ...[Gizmodo] Without U.S. Rules, Biotech Food Lacks Investors[New York Times] Definiens Reveals an Integrated Data Management Approach For Image Analysis in Life Sciences...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on July 31, 2007 10:52 AM



PowerFoot One: Active Ankle-foot Prosthesis from MIT Unveiled

Filed under: Orthopedic Surgery , Prosthetics , Rehab

Yesterday at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, R.I., a group of researchers and engineers from MIT and Brown University unveiled a novel robotic ankle that not only provides a prosthesis to stand or walk on, but also...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on July 24, 2007 12:15 AM



Prosthetic Paw

Filed under:

The Telegraph is reporting that a Belgian Shepperd from Surrey, UK was fitted with an in-bone prosthetic paw designed to have the skin grow into the metal of the device. The operation was carried out by Noel Fitzpatrick, a...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on July 18, 2007 12:39 PM



Is War Good for Medicine?

Filed under: Society

This seemingly inappropriate question is posed in the latest Stanford Medicine. The entire summer issue of the magazine, that runs under the byline 'War wounds: Bullets, bandages and breakthroughs', looks at scientific, technological and societal advances that happened during wartime....permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on June 22, 2007 10:52 AM



Arm Your Local Medical Militia with Double Action Dragon Drug Guns

Filed under: Anesthesiology , Critical Care , Emergency Medicine , Military Medicine

We are not talking about a gun designed to discharge Special K (ketamine) darts into an orangutan running from the zoo's rhinoceroses. This prototype invention by Miami anesthesiologist Dr. John Lafferty is designed to unload medications into living patients, in...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on June 14, 2007 12:12 AM



'Virtual Iraq' to Study, Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Filed under: Military Medicine , Psychiatry

Clinical psychologist Dr. Loretta Malta hopes that her virtual reality program will help traumatized soldiers with "verbalizing the traumatic experience, instead of suppressing it." Weill Cornell Medical College researchers are using a virtual reality simulation called "Virtual Iraq" to better...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on May 17, 2007 08:47 AM



Bionic Implants Available Today: Docinthemachine Guest Post

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Thanks to the editors of Medgadget for inviting me to visit and contribute as a guest blogger. As an introduction, I am an Ob Gyn Fertility Specialist with a special interest in the development of surgical tools and procedures...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 29, 2007 10:20 AM



Scientists Test Cool Vests For Soldiers

Filed under: Military Medicine

Modern military gear provides soldiers with an unprecedented level of protection and abilities, but at the cost of increased weight and heat retention. However, with exoskeletons and the new thermal vest being tested at the University of Portsmouth, neither...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 19, 2007 04:47 AM



Squirrels Teach Super Soldiers New Trick

Filed under: Military Medicine

Eyes like a hawk. Strength of a lion. Speed of a cheetah. Sleep like a squirrel?!? Throughout the ages, warriors have drawn inspiration from nature's fiercest animals, but DARPA wants to see what hibernating squirrels can teach us about saving...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 15, 2007 12:53 AM



Cyborg Arm: DARPA Recruits Dean Kaman

Filed under:

This weekend the internet was buzzing about a contraband video of Dean Kamen's latest venture into the world of artificial limbs. If you've already seen the video, you share our frustration at watching the distant, blurred images of this amazing...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 14, 2007 06:47 AM



Rapid-Sequencing the Superbug

Filed under: Genetics

A recent investigative report by Steve Silberman from Wired about the highly resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, encountered by clinicians treating wounded in Iraq, has put the nasty bacterium on the public's radar screen. Yale University is reporting on the progress that...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 2, 2007 12:07 AM



Halo Inspired Morphine Containers

Filed under: Military Medicine

Inventor Troy Hurtubise has taken a page from the infamous video game HALO to create a functional armor suit for military use. Why are we talking about it? Because it has emergency compartments for morphine. Sweet. Troy Hurtubise, the...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on January 15, 2007 06:35 AM



Boston Scientific and Guidant: Quagmire?

Filed under: Business of Medicine

It was almost a year ago but we remember it so clearly: waking up to learn that Guidant and Boston Scientific had consumated their record-breaking merger, leaving Johnson & Johnson in the cold (they later sued). With their stock price...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on January 11, 2007 06:33 AM



Iraq War Medicine

Filed under: Military Medicine

This month's feature article at the National Geographic magazine is a report by Neil Shea and James Nachtwey from the frontlines of medicine practice, on the battlefields of Iraq. From the article: But then, war medicine is not civilian medicine....permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 29, 2006 08:53 AM



Terminator 2025 Battlefield Surgery Built Now

Filed under: Military Medicine

Dr. Palter from docinthemachine.com has a couple of interesting posts about the amazing medical advances that we owe to overwhelming military funding. Unfortunately, a particularly promising project known as the Trauma Pod is in danger of losing its funding. Doc...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 11, 2006 12:05 AM



DIY Prosthetics

Filed under: in the news...

Quinn Norton over at Wired News has written an interesting article about the growing movement of open-source prosthetics. The community was started by Jonathan Kuniholm, an upper extremety amputee from Iraq, who was a biomedical engineering student at Duke prior...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on September 22, 2006 12:00 AM



Better Body Armor and Field Medicine Create Market for Prosthetics

Filed under: Military Medicine

Necessity is the mother of invention. With the nature of the combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and advances in battlefield medicine, many soldiers survive limb-destroying events that would have previously been fatal. As such Tribune Media's Nancy Shute examines the...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on September 14, 2006 11:07 PM



Can I Get that Diagnosis in Arabic, Please?

Filed under: Military Medicine

MIT's Technology Review brings us a bit of technology called IraqComm, developed by SRI International. IraqComm is a translation device based on a Windows computer (mind the BSOD) that uses intelligent statistical methods to translate spoken words from English...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on August 23, 2006 08:27 AM



Virtual Reality:"There's Body Parts Everywhere"

Filed under: in the news...

Did we get your attention? The Office of Naval Research has given $4 million to the Virtual Reality Medical Center in San Diego. The funding is for a project to improve upon virtual reality methods for treating post-traumatic stress...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on July 26, 2006 12:27 PM



Combat Tourniquet One of Army's Top 10 Inventions for '05

Filed under: Military Medicine

A new design for a tourniquet for use in combat has brought the devices back into favor with Army surgeons. The Combat Application Tourniquet was tested along with eight other tourniquets in 2004 at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on June 22, 2006 12:56 PM



The Battle Against Bleeding

Filed under: Emergency Medicine

Defensetech.org has an interesting little feature on new devices and technology to deal with bleeding limb injuries, some of which we have reported on in the past, including the bandage made from ground up shrimp shells (delish!). Here's a...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on June 9, 2006 10:14 AM



Limb Regeneration: Not Just for X-Men Anymore

Filed under: in the news...

Looks like the University of Utah is bogarting all of DARPA's funding lately. Earlier this week they received $10.3 million to build a bionic arm and now we learn they got $3.7 million to study limb regeneration. Kind of hedging...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on May 26, 2006 01:57 AM



Death in Iraqi Family

Filed under:

We at Medgadget try not to venture into politics and foreign affairs, but this one was genuinely felt and was hard to bypass. The brothers at Iraq the Model report on a death in the family: their brother-in-law, "a brilliant...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on April 21, 2006 09:21 AM



Digital Medical Recording Available in Afghanistan for First Time

Filed under: Military Medicine

Interesting news is reported by the Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) project. The US Army has announced that the newly developed informatics system is now available for the first time in Afghanistan theater: The 14th Combat Support Hospital...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on April 19, 2006 08:24 AM



ambIT Infusion Pump for Pain Control

Filed under: Anesthesiology

Two and a half years ago, Sgt. Brian Wilhelm and his infantry unit were ambushed in Iraq. He was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in the left leg. After he was evacuated to a field hospital, he received a new...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on April 4, 2006 11:24 AM



Broken Hearts, through the ages

Filed under: the good old days...

History and literature are full of accounts of people who died of shock and sorrow. In 1914, conservationist John Muir lost a passionate struggle to save the Hetchy Hetchy glaciated valley from development. He died three days later, some say,...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on February 10, 2006 11:55 AM



Cool Tech for the Modern Day Warrior

Filed under: Military Medicine

Armor plating on Humvees would seem to have no drawbacks, but in fact, overheating becomes an issue for the soldiers riding inside. In the Iraqi sun, Humvee interior temperatures can apparently rise to 130 degrees. In response, the US...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on December 22, 2005 06:09 AM



New Upper Extremity Prosthetics Don't Cut It

Filed under: Rehab

Sgt. James "Eddie" Wright is the only Iraq double-arm amputee to return to military service. Is he doing this with the help of new high-tech fully neuro-interfaced prosthetic arms? Nope: metal hooks. USA Today is running an article enumerating...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on October 6, 2005 12:16 AM



Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) System

Filed under: Informatics , Military Medicine

According to a press release that we have privately received, at the upcoming 8th Annual Force Health Protection Conference 2005 in Louisville, Kentucky, the Armed Forces will demonstrate the Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) system. The demostration will...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on August 9, 2005 12:19 AM



Sandia Completes Depleted Uranium Study

Filed under: Society

And the results will be surprising to some that have a political stake in this: In terms of American armed force veterans being exposed to DU, the study, conducted by the Sandia National Laboratories' scientist Al Marshall, as reported in...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on July 25, 2005 12:06 AM



The Special Operations Forces Tactical Tourniquet

Filed under: Emergency Medicine , Military Medicine

DefendAmerica reports on the new one-hand operation tourniquet: The Special Operations Forces Tactical Tourniquet is the Army's newest medical device designed to help save lives and is being issued to all soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Designed for...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on July 18, 2005 10:13 AM



VRx for PTSD

Filed under: Military Medicine , Psychiatry

We've seen virtual reality therapy (VRx) being used for treatment of public speaking phobia. The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting a novel to use of VRx for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder: Once a week, Pfc. Joshua Frey, a Marine...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on June 22, 2005 08:58 AM



"Unauthorized" Medicine On The Battlefield

Filed under: Military Medicine

From the Stars and Stripes: The 22-year-old from Alhambra, Calif., had survived the massive roadside blast that mangled his lower legs and destroyed the tank he was riding in, but the residual effects of the blast quickly overtook him. The...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on June 15, 2005 07:38 AM



Pointsec Encryption for PDAs

Filed under: Informatics , Military Medicine

Pointsec, an Illinois company, reports that the US Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) unit will use the firm's endpoint security solution on medical teams' PDAs. The company has developed FIPS-certified encryption software for PDAs. From the press...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 31, 2005 05:16 AM



Medi Pack by Karl Storz

Filed under: Anesthesiology , ENT , Emergency Medicine

In a press release by Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc., we read that the company "... has donated an innovative video-based airway intubation system to the U.S. Army's 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. The hospital will use the DCI...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 23, 2005 01:35 AM



Medevacs On The Move

Filed under: Emergency Medicine

"Flying medgadgets" Casualties can be seen inside a medical evacuation helicopter at the scene after two car bombs targeted U.S. troops near the main avenue leading to the international airport in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Tuesday, March...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on March 21, 2005 12:08 AM



DOD accomodating recently wounded vets

Filed under: etc.

This may not necessarily involve medical devices, but Medgadget certainly appreciates the use of both software tools and hardware gadgetry described in this article from the Federal Computing Week website about the Defense Department's Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP). Basically, tools...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on February 21, 2005 12:05 AM



On Cutting-Edge Trauma Surgery

Filed under: Emergency Medicine , Surgery

An interesting article coming out of the American College of Surgeons 90th Annual Clinical Congress, has been published on Medscape. The article, titled "Cutting-Edge Trauma Surgery -- What's Proven, What's Not?", discusses some of the latest trends in trauma surgery,...permanent URL

Posted in Medgadget on February 14, 2005 10:37 PM