Mar

DITM Blog Upgrade Coming! New Logo is Here

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Blogs, Musings

Thanks to the loyal readers coming. I really appreciate you! I appologize for the wave of database page errors many of you have seen and the site starting to crash. We have had somedatabase issues with wordpress and sql and have called in the big guns to get all databases in line. They know what […]

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Mar

Top 6 Most Dangerous Medication Abbreviations Now Banned in Hospitals

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in FDA, Medicine-general & other, education, pharmaceuticals

Medication errors in the hospital are a major cause of preventable suffering and death. I wanted to share with you the top 6 handwriting errors of doctors in the hospital that have been banned in to prevent these errors.
First some background: You may recall the landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) study that found medication […]

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Mar

Fertility Treatment is the Likely Cause of the Identical Triplets

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Technology, Women's Health, genetics, infertility

Many are reporting today that a woman on Long Island gave birth to rare identical triplets. She actually gave birth at one of my main hospitals and I know her Ob. The story goes on to say she had IVF but only one embryo was replaced. I was not her treating fertility doctor. However, this […]

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Mar

Google Finished With Cataloging the Internet Moving on to Your DNA

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Future, Medicine-general & other, Musings, PGD, Technology, education, genetics

It was just reported today that: “A Harvard University scientist backed by Google Inc. and OrbiMed Advisors LLC plans to unlock the secrets of common diseases by decoding the DNA of 100,000 people in the world’s biggest gene sequencing project.”
What nothing better to spend $1Billion on? Why are they doing this you ask….
Harvard’s George Church […]

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Mar

New Visual Search Engine Debut-Works with a cell phone photo! Medical Uses Next?

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Device Company, Endoscopic Surgery, Future, Medical Devices, Medicine-general & other, Musings, Technology, Visualization, camera, surgery, video

I have been following the consumer device CeBIT show in Germany. Pocket-lint UK reports:
At the CeBIT show in Germany, Vodafone is demonstrating a trial service called “Otello”, which is a search engine that uses images, rather than words. Rather than use a word as a search term, Otello users can send images via MMS from […]

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Mar

The Bigger Story Behind the 3 Parent Embryo- Human Embryo Genetic Experimentation

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in FDA, Future, Musings, Technology, Women's Health, genetics, infertility, stem cells

Countless sources are reporting on the “three parent embryo” created as a potential treatment for infertility. What has not been reported is that ther is an almost 10 year history of unreagulated human experimentation in this arena which led to a rare federal ban on specific fertility treatments. Is this hope, hype or dangerous human […]

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