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Star Trek’s ‘Tricorder’ Device Coming Soon?


Star Trek’s Dr. “Bones” McCoy made no bones about the state of 20th Century medicine — invasive, primitive, “Dark Ages,” were a few of his pejorative terms for modern medicine. In the 23rd century, Bones and other starship crew members … Continue reading

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Wireless Health Care


Just read a very interesting article on “ambient health monitoring”. Joseph M. Smith wrote in IEEE Spectrum an article on Wireless Health Care. Here a few passages from the article: “Imagine a world in which your medicine cabinet notices that … Continue reading

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