Anyone who has ever broken an arm or a leg knows full well how bulky and unwieldy conventional casts are. A group of engineers wanted to improve the experience and make casts more than just rigid structures to hold bones in place. The BoomCast is 3D...
Your chest X-rays, and those of your child's valiantly broken arm, will soon be getting the proper recognition they deserve. X-ray Art is a new project raising money on Kickstarter that will allow people to turn their X-rays into beautiful...
Providing proper care for patients with debilitating conditions often means putting yourself in their shoes to understand the challenges they face. Some diseases are more difficult than others to relate to, since many symptoms are uniquely...
Nikon Small World has announced winners of this year's contest of microscopy images. The top prize goes to Rogelio Moreno of Panama for capturing the open mouth interior and corona of a rotifer. It is an amazing image, but the rest of the winners...
Patient education and engagement will clearly be of greater importance to the health care system under the Affordable Care Act. Short digital animations help fill this niche and one of the leading companies in the field is Blausen, which we last...
Jeff Hazelton is the President and Chief Technology Officer of BioLucid, a company at the intersection of digital health and the digital arts. His story starts as a pre-med gone bad, followed by an artistically inspired sailing journey around the...
Not so long ago when some of us were still in medical school, we had to learn dynamic things through books with static pictures and explanatory text. Xvivo, a company we've covered numerous times before, has been working with Harvard University's...
Many of us have done transfusions as part of our clinical work, and we've donated blood ourselves, but what happens between donation and transfusion is more complicated than some may think. Here's a fascinating video from City of Hope National...
Every person's heartbeat is unique, and can even be used as a biometric tool for identifying individuals. Greg Fox, a drummer with hi-tech ideas in music, transformed the rhythm of the heart into a beautiful musical instrument, and used this...
We love music videos that utilize the capabilities of today's medical technologies to create beautiful imagery. A new video for Damon Albarn's track called "Everyday Robots" makes use of cranial scans and digital facial reconstruction methods to...
Doctors regularly find themselves in uncomfortable situations from revealing dire diagnoses to suggesting digital rectal decompressions for fecal impactions. Each day brings a new challenge, and each patient deserves a gentle approach. The photo...