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      Monitoring Congestive Heart Failure Through Speech: Interview with Tamir Tal, CEO of Cordio Medical

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Dan Buckland

Dan Buckland MD PhD is a Emergency Medicine resident at George Washington University Hospital. He covers space and extreme environment medicine as well as app and gadget reviews. For more information see http://danbuckland.me

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Can Differential Diagnosis Be Crowdsourced to Facebook Friends? News

Can Differential Diagnosis Be Crowdsourced to Facebook Friends?

December 12th, 2011 A paper in the Christmas edition of the Danish Medical Journal attempts to ask whether we can trust our Facebook friends with providing a differential diagnosis. One of the authors, Dr. Peter Hallas, modestly asked that we take a look at his paper, so we jumped at the chance and think he should give himself and his co-authors a lot of...
Study Shows Some Medications Degrade Faster in Space Station than on Earth Space Medicine

Study Shows Some Medications Degrade Faster in Space Station than on Earth

November 14th, 2011 The medication locker for a long term space flight may need to be larger than currently thought, a study in the The AAPS Journal concludes. One of the first publications from the Stability of Pharmacotherapeutic and Nutritional Compounds (Stability) project determined that after 28 months of storage on the International Space Station...
Tell NEJM How Social Media Will Change Healthcare; Win Fabulous Prizes News

Tell NEJM How Social Media Will Change Healthcare; Win Fabulous Prizes

November 11th, 2011 Students or residents who are our readers probably have their own ideas about what the future of healthcare holds in terms of the Internet and social networking. If you can put those thoughts into a 500 word essay or short video, the New England Journal of Medicine might give you a prize and pay for a flight to Boston to attend the 200th...
SF-based Healthcare Incubator Rock Health Looking for Applicants News

SF-based Healthcare Incubator Rock Health Looking for Applicants

November 9th, 2011 If you don't feel like going to New York for Blueprint's offer, then you should know that San Francisco-based Rock Health is also looking for applicants for its own competition. We just covered the results from a previous cycle of theirs and it looks like they are doing exciting things. Sean Duffy, founder of Rock Health-funded Omada...
NYC-based Healthcare Incubator Looking for Applicants News

NYC-based Healthcare Incubator Looking for Applicants

November 8th, 2011 Blueprint Health, a NYC based incubator for healthcare service companies, is accepting applications for their debut round of competition. Successful team or company will get 3 months of office space in New York, $20K in funding, and infrastructure support in exchange for a 6% stake in the company. Blueprint will also match successful...
DARPA's Look into Starships Can Inform Our Search for Health Exclusive

DARPA's Look into Starships Can Inform Our Search for Health

October 3rd, 2011 Medgadget editor Dan Buckland spoke at the DARPA 100 Year Star Ship Symposium in Orlando last weekend. Here he relates his thoughts on how blue-sky starship planning is relevant to medical technology today. The first question most people had when they heard about the DARPA 100YSS Study was, “Why is DARPA interested in how to build a...
Gadget Notes from the Field: Neurology News

Gadget Notes from the Field: Neurology

July 11th, 2011 Editor Dan Buckland is currently on the wards as part of his 3rd yr of medical school, and will be posting short gadget-related notes. All HIPAA compliant of course. In my time on the neurology epilepsy inpatient service I've seen one patient (and heard of a few others) with focal seizures who had a clever response to the "Can you...
WP7 Health Care App Contest Ended, Not Much For Healthcare Professionals Net News

WP7 Health Care App Contest Ended, Not Much For Healthcare Professionals

June 27th, 2011 The Windows Phone 7 Healthcare App Contest we mentioned a few months ago ended on June 1st and the results were recently released, giving us an opportunity to re-visit the WP7 app store and see the state of med tech apps there. The contest didn't turn up much for  healthcare professional: the most useful winning app is a measly...
20% of Silicone Breast Implants Removed Within 10 Years News

20% of Silicone Breast Implants Removed Within 10 Years

June 27th, 2011 As a followup to their approval in 2006 of a pair of silicone gel-filled breast implants, the FDA released updated safety data with some interesting findings. Breast implants are not lifetime devices. The longer a woman has silicone gel-filled breast implants, the more likely she is to experience complications. One in 5 patients...
Ultrasound in Space Leads to Improved Ultrasound Down Here News

Ultrasound in Space Leads to Improved Ultrasound Down Here

June 24th, 2011 A press release from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) lays out some recent progress in the development of ultrasound imagery atlases for spaceflight that might have benefits for rural and underserved communities here on Earth. Dr. Scott A. Dulchavsky, the lead investigator for the NSBRI/NASA study, describes why...
When NIH Began, H stood for Hygiene the good old days...

When NIH Began, H stood for Hygiene

June 23rd, 2011 NIH, the source of so much knowledge and red-tape, had to start somewhere. The Scientist magazine recently published an article on where the organization was in its early days. Think of it like preliminary data for the NIH's application to exist. As epidemics swept across the United States in the 19th century, the US government...
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Balance Boards to Stay Active in the Offfice: Interview with Joel Heath, CEO of FluidStance 

Balance Boards to Stay Active in the Offfice: Interview with Joel Heath, CEO of FluidStance 

Exciting Medtech at the Healthcareᐩ Expo Taiwan

Exciting Medtech at the Healthcareᐩ Expo Taiwan

Medgadget Visits Healthcareᐩ Expo Taiwan

Medgadget Visits Healthcareᐩ Expo Taiwan

Diabetes Management Tech for Type II patients: Interview with Jeffrey Brewer, CEO of Bigfoot Biomedical

Diabetes Management Tech for Type II patients: Interview with Jeffrey Brewer, CEO of Bigfoot Biomedical

Monitoring Congestive Heart Failure Through Speech: Interview with Tamir Tal, CEO of Cordio Medical

Monitoring Congestive Heart Failure Through Speech: Interview with Tamir Tal, CEO of Cordio Medical

In-Office Pediatric Ear Tube Procedures: Interview with Preceptis Medical's Greg Mielke

In-Office Pediatric Ear Tube Procedures: Interview with Preceptis Medical's Greg Mielke

Symani Microsurgical Robotic System: Interview with Mark Toland, CEO of Medical Microinstruments

Symani Microsurgical Robotic System: Interview with Mark Toland, CEO of Medical Microinstruments

AI-Enhanced Prostate Cancer Treatment: Interview with Brittany Berry-Pusey, Co-Founder and COO at Avenda Health

AI-Enhanced Prostate Cancer Treatment: Interview with Brittany Berry-Pusey, Co-Founder and COO at Avenda Health

FDA-Approved At-Home Spirometer: Interview with Charvi Shetty, Co-Founder and CEO at Aluna

FDA-Approved At-Home Spirometer: Interview with Charvi Shetty, Co-Founder and CEO at Aluna

Mining Ultrasound Data to Improve Liver Diagnostics: Interview with Beth Rogozinski, CEO at Oncoustics

Mining Ultrasound Data to Improve Liver Diagnostics: Interview with Beth Rogozinski, CEO at Oncoustics

Catheter-Free Urodynamics Testing: Interview with Derek Herrera, CEO at Bright Uro

Catheter-Free Urodynamics Testing: Interview with Derek Herrera, CEO at Bright Uro

AR Headset Helps Surgeons Place Implants: Interview with Louie Vogt of Enovis Surgical

AR Headset Helps Surgeons Place Implants: Interview with Louie Vogt of Enovis Surgical

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