Technology from the US could mean that someone could change their eyecolour permanently using a special type of laser. Dr Gregg Homer, who has a PhD in biology and is ‘an inventor rather than a medical doctor’ in his own words, is founder of the California-based company Stroma Medical that has patented the controversial technique. […]
Predictive health monitoring is widely used in engineering applications to detect damage to infrastructure as early as possible. Forecasting failure rather than merely detecting failure once it occurs helps to reduce the downtime of systems, and, ideally, performing predictive maintenance to avoid downtime completely. With this approach already widely used in many fields from commercial […]
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Bio-identical Hormone Therapy (BHT) was conceived three decades ago by US physician Dr Jonathan Wright as a natural alternative to HRT for peri-menopausal women. The combination of oestrogens, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA (a natural steroid which increases speed and stamina) was soon found to give a secondary benefit – youthful wellbeing and vigour. Bio-identical hormone […]
MATTU, the UK’s first International Centre of Telemedicine based at Surrey University and the Royal Surrey County Hospital, has telementoring facilities that links to hospitals and research centres all over the world. A advanced operating theatre allows key-hole specialist surgeons to coach people from as far afield as China, the East Coast of America and […]
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Doctors spend a lot of time on their smartphones and tablets, not just to talk to colleagues, but to look up drug reference data bases, and check e-mails. But should these essential communication tools carry a health warning? It is a question that has remained unanswered for over a decade as scientists dispute findings and argue about […]
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There is no doubt the medical world is constantly changing, and the use of technology is both increasing, and helping a beleaguered national health service. But it is important to remember that the heart of the NHS is care of patients, and the new innovations are not necessarily a benefit for everyone. Telemedicine is an […]
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The digital revolution has had a huge impact on society as a whole, helping to connect people and build relationships, facilitate business transactions and cut costs. Not surprisingly, the benefits of high-tech communications technology are now being felt in the healthcare arena too. Telehealth – which involves the remote exchange of data between a patient […]
When Phillipe Bozzini first designed and used his Lichtleiter in 1803 to peer into the human body, the medical world unwittingly became reliant on observing the endoscopic view of the human body in only two dimensions and this was 35 years before the mechanism of depth perception was even understood. In 1838 Charles Wheatstone was […]
[youtube id=”O0RRgC8acDY” width=”750″ height=”422″ position=”left”] The Hoverstretcher. One of the less brilliant ideas dreamed up by medical scientists in 1961. Developed in collaboration with the Royal Army Medical Corps this death trap failed to make it into everyday use. […]
The other day I managed to fall off my bike. It was quite a spectacular fall where I flew straight over the handlebars and landed rather ungracefully onto my shoulder and back. While worried strangers were attempting to untangle me from my mess, my head was running through where potential pain was coming from. Luckily […]