Desperate Patients Look to Lab-Grown Organs
Last week Yvonne and I watched a two-hour NBC News special report by Meredith Vieira, A Leap of Faith, that blew us away and had us both to tears. It was about an Italian scientist and…
How Wearable Technology Could Save Our Health
Wearable Technology – Helping Your Doctor Help You You might have heard the aggressive term “glasshole,” which unaffectionately refers to people who wear their Google Glass wearable computing device everywhere and all day long. The Google…
Powering tiny medical circuits in the body
In my interview last year with Dr. Metin Akay, he described the daunting problem of powering tiny computer chips deep inside the body. Neurologists, he said, can already control the misfiring of rogue neurons that cause epilepsy by…