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Submission + - World's Highest Resolution HDTV Surgery Cam (docinthemachine.com)

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Steven F Palter, MD

on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @09:00PM

Steven F Palter, MD writes: "Review of the development and testing of the highest resolution surgical system ever created — which was used to capture footage showcased in the upcoming National Geographic HD special "Inside The Living Body". This is the first true HD (1080p) 1080 x 1920 progressive chip based system and this will be the first surgical procedure broadcast in HD. The surgery recording required the use of HD XDCAM for recording. This is also the first 16x9 surgical system. Use of this resolution of HD resulted in smotther images, higher color fidelity and increased resolution of fine details and disease. Details and photos at http://docinthemachine.com/2007/07/31/hdsurgery/"

Submission + - World's Highest Resolution HDTV Surgial Camera (docinthemachine.com)

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docinthemachine

on Friday August 03, 2007 @11:58AM

docinthemachine writes: "The world's highest resolution HDTV surgical video camera system has been developed and used for laparoscopic surgery. This system is unique in having a native chip resolution of 1920 x 1080p and the first ever (for surgery) 16:9 aspect ratio. The enhanced resolution allows the surgeron to see finer details and pathology. Surgical skills are aided by the resolution and wider field of view as well. The enhanced shadows and tonal range also provides enhanced visual clues for depth perception while working in a 2D environment. This system will be featured in the world's first ever broadcast of surgery in high definition in an upcoming national Geographic HD special. Details of the system are at http://docinthemachine.com/2007/07/31/hdsurgery/ with details of a new medical HD XDCAm blu-ray disk based recording system used to capture the footage at http://docinthemachine.com/2007/08/02/recordhd/"

Submission + - New Research: Embryo Adoption & Stem Cells

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docinthemachine

on Friday April 20, 2007 @12:25PM

docinthemachine writes: "http://docinthemachine.com/2007/04/19/embryoadopti on/ When does human life begin and what is a human? Fertility specialists wrestle with this question every day as embryos are created, frozen, thawed, implanted, and discarded. Occasionally an embryo is even "adopted". Today I received the draft results of a US government Health and Human Services Research Project that I participated in on the potential for embryo adoption in the US. In 2002, the U.S. Congress authorized the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a public awareness campaign to educate Americans about the existence of frozen embryos available for adoption. How many are there, where are they stored, will patients give them for stem cell reseach nad how it relates to the partial birth abortion ban"

Submission + - Babies Without Men: Sperm From A Woman's Marrow

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docinthemachine

on Friday April 13, 2007 @12:47AM

docinthemachine writes: "Full details at http://docinthemachine.com/2007/04/13/allfemalebab y-2/ Scientists report today on the ability to create sperm from bone marrow cells. Initially performed in men, the technique could potentially be performed in women and lead to a sperm cell made from a woman's body. You got it right- that cell could then fertilize an egg leading to the first female-female conception in human history. The researchers said they had already produced early sperm cells from bone-marrow tissue taken from men. They believe the findings show that it may be possible to restore fertility to men who cannot naturally produce their own sperm. But the results also raise the prospect of being able to take bone-marrow tissue from women and coaxing the stem cells within the female tissue to develop into sperm cells, said Professor Karim Nayernia of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The Genetic Disaster That Could Result: Faulty Imprinting. There is a huge genetic time-bomb here. The genetic phenomenon called imprinting. This describes the situation where a particular gene is marked or imprinted with a tag that says if it came from the mother or father- and more importantly only one of the other is active."

Google Perks Are Great, But They All Mean Business 289

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 23, 2007 @12:13PM from the mental-note-must-buy-self-more-gorp dept.

megazoid81 writes "While there have been complaints of late, Google was recently named the best place to work according to the widely read annual Forbes survey, in its first appearance on the list. The plethora of perks at Google does make you wonder though what kind of hours the company expects its employees to keep. In the context of Google's perks, a Knowledge@Wharton article explains that there are two kinds of workers: segmentors and integrators. Segmentors want to maintain a strict separation between work and home while integrators don't mind mixing the two. The piece posits that segmentors might actually mind too many perks at their workplace and find their commitment eroding. Does Google have a disproportionate number of integrators in its workforce? What kind of worker are you — segmentor or integrator?"

Feed Sleep Drug Wakes Coma Victim (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @05:12PM

Ambien, the popular sleep medication known for its odd side effects, helps a 48-year-old woman out of a near vegetative state. In Bodyhack.

Submission + - New Drugs Enhance Performance, Eliminate Sleep

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docinthemachine

on Friday March 09, 2007 @06:24PM

docinthemachine writes: "New drugs in the eugeroic family are completing trials that offer improved memory, mood enhancement, improved alertness and cognitive powers without any of the nasty side effects and mass murder of speed and crank. They are a class of novel stimulants that produce long-lasting mental arousal. They are unique in producing hypervigilence and alertness without peripheral effects or addidition of usual stimulants. Strangely, they have minimal effect on sleep structure, and do not cause rebound hypersomnolence (crashing). Related are Ampakines that also cause memory enhancement (just a bit of abuse potential there). One of these — a drug code-named CX717 enabled sleep deprived rhesus monkeys to outperform rested normal monkeys on memory tasks. you can read details of the drugs and studies at http://docinthemachine.com/2007/03/09/eugeroic/"

Submission + - Fall Back, Spring Forward, and DIE!!!

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docinthemachine

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @12:31AM

docinthemachine writes: "It's Y2K all over again thanks to the new daylight savings time schedule. A pair of advisories from the FDA warns patients that the new daylight savings time calendar could kill you! The FDA warns "If you have any medical equipment that uses, creates or records time information about your diagnosis or treatment and the manufacturer has not updated it, the equipment may not work properly when the new Daylight Savings Time (DST) starts and ends this year and in future years." Lucky for us the healthcare provider advisory lists the days your equipment is most likely to fail and kill you and how to troubleshoot. Heck, Microsoft is charging for their fix why should your pacemaker work? full details at http://docinthemachine.com/2007/03/07/dstdeath/"

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