Ultrasound on smart phones, hopefully 'inexpensive, pervasive, and the future'. Ultrasound probes are cheaper and much smaller than regular ultrasound machines, and they can be connected to phones via USB cable.
They've done a great job of putting together existing components, though hopefully someone will come up with a way of doing this that isn't dependent on Microsoft phones. There are probably plenty of USB-capable medical devices that could be connected to smart phones in the same way.
Our natural, anti-HIV retrocyclin genes are turned OFF. Can an antibiotic turn them ON in white blood cells & vaginal tissue? If the antibiotic can even just turn the gene on in vaginal tissue, it might be promising for use in anti-HIV prophylactic gels and creams. (As you know, I believe that enabling women to take control of their own sexual health would greatly reduce HIV transmission rates). Perhaps if we can turn the gene on in WBCs, then we'll be closer to creating a vaccine for HIV.
'A young pediatrician turned entrepreneur' wants to use new technologies to reinvent healthcare. I'm not sure yet how I feel about this.
The always reasonable Nicholas Kristof argues that we need to improve our healthcare system so that we can better deal with epidemics.
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So I know this is only tangentially related, but there's a girl from my high school (the year below me) who is pregnant. She has her ultrasound pictures up on facebook.
I wonder if medical imaging/social networking are going to be the new hot couple. There's already those personal genome social networking sites...is fetusbook next?
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