Nick Genes the creator of Grand Rounds has taken the helm for this weeks Grand rounds - the best of the medical blogosphere.  This edition over at blogborygmi is the highlights of the best posts of the year. Officially edition 3.14 it is a great wide range of posts and styles.  Levity, medical news, poetics […]

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The FDA approved a device set for fetal surgery from Karl Storz Endoscopy America (KSEA) under its little known humanitarian device exemption (HDE) program.  Interestingly many of the devices approved under this program are artificial hearts or heart assist devices.  It’s worth checking out the link above to see what sort of things fall into […]

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I previously wrote about the government cutting the soldier of the future LandWarrior program.  The point of my post was the myriad next-generation medical developments destined to come from the program that would be lost in the military cutbacks.  The post was picked up widely including slashdot and grandrounds.  Many commenters were angry at the […]

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graph of exponential rise of human progress over time- and the future?
The inventor, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that in 15 to 30 years, nanobots will roam our blood streams fixing diseased or aging organs, computers will back up our human memories, and conference calls will be replaced by meetings in virtual resorts.   Information […]

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This week’s grand rounds has a Charlie Brown Christmas Theme and is hosted at Nurse Ratched’s Place .  I am happy to see that she chose a diverse group of faactual and literary posts (they way I think grand rounds should be). Many of my favorite bloggers are there Kim from Emergiblog, Doctor Hébert’s Medical […]

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More proud announcements!  I just found out that we have been nominated for Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog in the 2006 Medical Weblog Awards hosted by Medgadget.com.  The award nominees are definitely worth checking out - they represent the best of the medical blogosphere and have some amazing sites I had not seen before.
Thanks to everyone […]

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The results are in!  I am proud to report docinthemachine was selected as a finalist for the best medical blog of 2006 in the weblog awards.  There were 4500 total nominations in all categories.  The voting ended Friday night and the organizers report over 500,000 total votes!  From their online report so far we finished 4th.  […]

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The concept of “thought control”- using a brain neural interface to control a robot (or other device) takes another step forward with this research from U Washington.
Rajesh Rao, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and his students have demonstrated that an individual can “order” a robot to move to specific locations and pick up […]

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“Never underestimate the power of people willing to take on a challenge.”
- Ron Kurjanowicz, Grand Challenge Program Manager,
Urban Challenge Participants Conference, Reston, VA, May 20, 2006

DARPA has granted prize money of $3.5 million for its milestone urban robotics race next November.
The urban road race is an unbelievable challenge. 
First a bit of History of the Challenge:
The […]

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A paper in today’s New England Journal of Medicine concludes that sloppy docs suck.  In this very simple study of colonoscopy they showed that the docs who took longer to examine the colon with a telescope (ie were more careful and thourough) found more disease.  When I was in residency there was a doc in […]

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