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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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...
Space Medicine

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Net News

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...
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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...
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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...
the good old days...

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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