What’s next in health reported on a new system to prevent tooth disease.  Not much could be duller than dental disease right?  Wrong!  This has huge implications for drug delivery system development.  I can see using systems like this to embed drugs in the abdominal or pelvic cavities. There are sprayable polymers already– create one to release […]

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Natural orifice surgery (also called Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery NOTES) was minimally discussed in the formal meeting but massively discussed in the halls and by the movers and shakers.  It is radically different and enabling of new procedures.  Combine this with the potential for disasterous outcomes and complications, a […]

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Several reports of Claudia Mitchell first woman with bionic arm from the same people who brought you the other bio arms– Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and DARPA.
 
 

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While at my meeting with the army MD I also watched videos of the two monkeys with computers plugged into their brains. They just think of eating and command a robot arm to feed them.  Talk about couch potato. 

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We wrote on the biolimbs earlier.  Even more amazing is the development of the Matrix-like computer neural plug into the brain.  Cyberkinetics is commercializing the Braingate system.  I saw videos of a quadraplegic controlling a computer with thoughts alone– via a port that plugs directly into his brain.  Hey, Neo […]

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 MSNBC today reports bionic limb in Jesse Sullivan.  Sorry folks its not the only!  We spoke last week with US Army MD who described two Soldiers in Iraq with replacement biolimb legs and we viewed video of previous bionic arms they have been developing.  US Army Human-Assisted Neural Devices (HAND) Program has been developing direct thought controlled computers and […]

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Also at the CMRI is the concept of the autonomous Mars Rover.  This takes the medical robot to the next level.  I’ll be lecturing at the international AAGL meeting in November on this concept in a special session on new technology in medicine (”FutureVision”)— take the autonomous miniaturized robot lander and launch it inside the […]

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Carnegie Mellon Robotic Institute has been developing the Heartlander robot.  Similar to a lunar lander this device would slef navigate on the surface of the heart to remotely perform procedures.  There are huge neglected opportunities for transmigration of NASA technology from remote planitary probes to self-propelled surgical innerspace devices.  Think Mars Rover meets Fantastic Voyage.

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Just back from the annual meeting of the SLS.  The SLS is the only multidisciplinary society dedicated to minimally invasive surgery (MIS).  They are really trying to position themselves as the high-tech surgical society and it shows.  I will follow up with in depth reviews of what was new and noteworthy there.  Major highligts to […]

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September 11, 2006…  The launch of docinthemachine.  What a dark and somber day today was on the 5th anniversary of 9-11.  I am reminded of how fast the flood of information comes at us today and how the pace of change has sped up.  Information is everywhere and is more readily accessible than ever before. […]

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