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A snake-inspired robot: On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, Penn., CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi dropped by professor Howie Choset's Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to see his latest creation, the Snakebot.; Tags: News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, snakeBot, carnegie mellon, howie choset, robotics, rescue, surgery, heart, Robots, Emerging Technologies; Videos 2008-05-08
Virtual Plastic surgery Software (exe): The Virtual Plastic Surgery Software (VPSS) is a simple to use, yet powerful photo warping software that will let you modify photos to simulate virtual plastic surgery results on anyone's face and body. As a specific purpose software, we developed a custom and convenient interface more suited for virtual plastic...; Tags: Software, Surgery, Photograph, Kaeria, Virtual Plastic Surgery Software, Tools & Techniques, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion; Software downloads 2008-05-06
How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000: A few months back, I told you about how my neck had gone bad, really bad. At that time, I was in the middle of a six-month dive into pain, alleviated only by gobbling unwholesome quantities of Percoset. Three weeks ago last Friday, I had an amazing surgery that relieved...; Tags: Blog, Doctor, Disc, Health Care, Surgery, Healthcare, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-04-20
Photos: Robotic surgeons: Intuitive Surgical's Da Vinci surgical robots are now widely used for high-precision prostate surgery, and are being adopted for other procedures. by CNET News.com; Tags: Surgery, Photograph, Surgeon, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-02-12
Should electronic sponge-counts in surgery be mandated?: Leave a sponge inside a patient after an operation and it's bad mojo. (Picture from RF Surgical.) Re-doing the surgery can cost $50,000, and it's risky for the patient. One woman who left the hospital with a sponge won a $10 million settlement. So...; Tags: Patient, Surgery, Government, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-16

Morality and health care: Is there a moral duty to provide health care? Doctors think so. Most interpret the Hippocratic Oath as meaning you first provide care. You don't let someone die because they're indigent, or you think their lifestyle caused their illness. It's a caring profession. This...; Tags: Health Care, Surgery, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-14
Becoming cyborg: Beware inequalities ahead: For the past couple of months I have been exploring a different kind of technology, the biological ones. You see, I need a new neck. Most of the big news in medical technology seems these days to revolve around genetic discoveries. Nevertheless, the first kind of...; Tags: Insurance Company, Disc, Fusion, Surgery, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-01-03
i-Snake, a new robotic surgeon: Several newspapers in the UK have published today very short articles about the i-Snake, a new surgical robot which will be developed at the Imperial College London (ICL). For example, The Times of London writes that the ICL team has won a £2.1 million grant (€2.84 million or US$4.2 million)...; Tags: Robot, Imaging, Surgery, Surgeon, i-Snake, Robots, Document Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-12-29
Cancer 2.0: Intent on winning!: This post is not about failed IT projects; it's an inspiring story from someone absolutely determined to win his battle against cancer. Jeffrey Walker, CEO of Atlassian Software and fellow Enterprise Irregular, has written an eloquent, powerful, and highly personal account of his fight against a rare form of this...; Tags: Surgery, Cancer, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2007-08-28
Today's Debate: Robot surgery goes global: Robotic surgery, which was a pretty new deal just a few years ago, is now a global phenomenon.Iran has produced its first robotic surgeon. A New Zealand hospital just bought its first daVinci unit and trotted it out for the press.Brazil hopes its new robot will spur medical tourism. A...; Tags: Robots, Dana Blankenhorn, robot, surgery; Blog posts 2007-08-20
Man endures thumb surgery to better enable iPhone use: Definitely this should be filed under "truth is stranger than fiction."Update: Turns out this is fiction, and yes, we got punk'd. But look at it this way. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for one of the most prestigious newspapers in the world got fooled by Ahmed Chalabi's tales of WMD...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Thumb, Surgery, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-08-18
Man endures thumb surgery to better enable iPhone use: Man endures thumb surgery to better enable iPhone useAll thumbsDon't they bother to talk people out of making rash decisions? People undergo risky plastic surgery or other body modifications for, what seems to me, some trivial and patiently absurd reasons. Some people file down their teeth to look...; Tags: Apple iPhone, surgery; Discussion threads 2007-08-08
In failure to 'get' the Internet, CBS Online digs its own grave: Back in April, I published a post under the headline What's wrong with this CBS News story is also what's wrong with the mainstream media. I left the question open to ZDNet readers to spot what was wrong with the story in question -- a story about a guy...; Tags: Entertainment, General, IT Management, Web technology; Blog posts 2007-05-31
Three wireless fitness devices to help shed pounds and blood pressure: What follows is a tale of my effort to get back in shape and the wireless fitness gear that I purchased to help me get there. continued below.... Video: To see a video of the wireless gear David ended up buying and how it works on his bike...; Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Video, Personal Technology, Mobile, General, Entertainment; Blog posts 2007-05-04
A new 'language' for surgery?: After watching surgeons using robotic systems for a while, computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University have decided to borrow ideas from speech recognition research to build what theyre calling a Language of Surgery. In speech recognition, basic sounds are called phonemes. For surgery tasks, such as suturing, dissecting and joining...; Tags: surgeon, Robotics, Health &, Medicine, Computers &, Internet; Blog posts 2006-12-08
Maths and facial surgery: Some people want to get a better look and they ask a plastic surgeon to remodel their nose. But other ones have more serious problems, such as malformations of the upper or lower jaw or problems with their facial skeleton after an accident. These people need cranio-maxillofacial surgery to help...; Tags: patient, surgery, American Mathematical Society; Blog posts 2006-09-27
Photos: Innovation on display at SRI: SRI is a nonprofit that's been instrumental to the development of everything from robotic surgery to the computer mouse.; Tags: Mice, SRI, computer mouse, nonprofit, surgery, display, mouse, computer; Image galleries 2006-07-20
Photos: Innovation on display at SRI: SRI is a nonprofit that's been instrumental to the development of everything from robotic surgery to the computer mouse.; Tags: Mice, SRI, computer mouse, nonprofit, surgery, display, mouse, computer; Image galleries 2006-04-03
Photos: Innovation on display at SRI: SRI is a nonprofit that's been instrumental to the development of everything from robotic surgery to the computer mouse.; Tags: Mice, SRI, computer mouse, nonprofit, surgery, display, mouse, computer; Image galleries 2006-04-03
10.2 mln cosmetic plastic surgeries in the US in 2005: More than 10.2 mln cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were performed in the United States in 2005, up only 11% from 2004, according to American Society of Plastic Surgeons. More than 5.4 mln reconstructive plastic surgery procedures were performed in 2005. Surgical cosmetic procedures increased 4%, with more than 1.8 mln...; Tags: top-five; Blog posts 2006-03-20