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Spleen on a chip

May 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

This Spleen-On-A-Chip Will Clean Your Blood Like A Machine
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

Using nanobeads that strip out anything bad in your blood, this machine could be a solution to deadly blood infections, especially in places far from a hospital. Which is why the military is very interested.

Sepsis is a whole-body inflammato…

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Building One Function of an Artificial Spleen (fightaging.org)
What is the Function of the Spleen (wanttoknowit.com)
The Future of Medicine: The Spleen-On-A-Chip (storiesbywilliams.com)
Artificial Spleen Offers Hope for Faster Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (technologyreview.com)

Chronic pain and happiness

March 24, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

How Chronic Pain Has Made Me Happier
Rob Heaton, lifehacker.com

Seven years ago I did so much cycling that my legs blew up. My body completely gave out and my brain decided that from now on everything was going to hurt all the time so that I would stop running myself into the ground. Since then I’ve had every…

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7 Benefits of Smiling and Laughing that You Didn’t Know about (lifehack.org)

This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart

January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

Test results become far easier to process, since they’re visual.

Blood tests are one of those things that always seem to slow down doctor appointments. You’re in the room. The nurse takes blood. The doctor sees you—speculates a lot—and agre…

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Blood-test device ‘goes under skin’ (bbc.co.uk)
Tiny, personal blood testing laboratory gets under your skin (gizmag.com)
Hope new blood test can end chemotherapy sooner (abc.net.au)
Scientists have developed a tiny, portable personal blood testing laboratory that sends data through mobile phone (phys.org)
Your Phone’s Ringing – Because You’re Minutes from a Heart Attack (livescience.com)

Delayed Atrophy & Fibrosis from Cancer Radiation Therapy

November 12, 2006 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics

24. radiation-and-cancer (Photo credit: TipsTimes)

Delayed Atrophy & Fibrosis from Cancer Radiation Therapy – Neurology – MedHelp.

Radiation Therapy (cancercenter.com)
Spinal Cancer Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT) (cancercenter.com)
10 Things I Tell People Who Just Learned Their Dog Has Cancer (dogster.com)
Liver Cancer Radiation Therapy & Treatment (cancercenter.com)
Radiation Therapy for Beginners part 1 (kingvalley.wordpress.com)
Delaying radiation therapy after hysterectomy ups risk of uterine cancer recurrence (eurekalert.org)

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