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via medGadget - Artificial Heart Inspired by a Cockroach and built like an Onion & The Telegraph -  An Indian artificial heart.

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Finally, there could be an artificial heart with a Made-in-India tag. Nearly 40 years after the West invented a crude, pneumatic-powered device that could pump blood quite like a normal heart, Indian biomedical [...]

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via Gruntdoc & EETimes.com - Handheld ultrasound gets FDA approval.

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Startup Signostics got approval Tuesday (May 19) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ship what it claims is the world’s smallest ultrasound device. The company describes its pocket-sized, half-pound Signos that sells for about $4,000 as a visual stethoscope and hopes it will [...]

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via medGadget: Mobile Clinical Imaging On a Smart Phone. (h/t sandsurf & fnyc)

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Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis adapted a small ultrasound prove to interface with a Microsoft Windows mobile smartphone. Although the screen may be too small to diagnose anything properly, it is thought the concept will be used to scan a [...]

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The few people who follow my blog know that I have linked to a few radiology search engines in my right sidebar. One of the first radiology search engines that I added was Yottalook.
Here is my introductory blog post when they launched the beta.
I was pleasantly surprised today to find a Google Alert that took [...]

This is for the few people who stumble in here this week.
The reason my blog looks it’s usual unremarkable self (and loads as slow as ever*) is because I got an unexpected Christmas present from a dear friend. I screwed up. Rather, a horribly iffy internet connection screwed up a fairly routine WordPress upgrade from [...]

My friend Dr. Val Jones, the President and CEO of Better Health, LLC presents the facts on Dual Source CT in her latest blog post….
Better Health » New CT Scanner Can Take An Image Of The Entire Body In Under 5 Seconds.

I really like new technology, especially when it offers a very obvious advantage for [...]

This post is my contribution to the series of posts that a bunch of us agreed to post following a conversation on twitter (relevant tweets here, here & here).
The theme: core Mac/iPhone applications for doctors / healthcare professionals.
DrCris’s post is here.
symtym’s is here.
Walter’s is here.
Theresa’s is here.
I was a bit apprehensive about posting after Tim’s [...]

Here I am pushing the limits of my technical abilities, modest as they are, exploring yet another frontier.
l apologize in advance for typos and formatting errors, which l hope will be minimal.
I am writing this post on my mobile phone, while on my way out of town. l am thankful for handwriting recognition with stylus [...]