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Wired has compiled a short list of the best scientific music videos on the Internet. Our favorite is The Model of a Psychopharmacologist from the Neuroscience Education Institute. The rest of the selection from Wired : Top 10 Scientific Music Videos (hat tip: ScienceRoll )

Drug eluting stents can have potential side effects when the chemical gets deposited downstream and causes blood clots to form. To help predict potential problems, MIT scientists developed a model to study how drugs from stents behave around arterial bifurcations. From the article abstract ...

This week, Philips is showing off some of its latest radiology products in Chicago at RSNA 2009. One aspect that the company is trying to address is long term value of expensive items and the Achieva XR MRI does that by offering up front investment for future upgradeability. Initially sold as ...

A team of researchers from France and Spain managed to grow complete human skin epidermis from skin-derived stem cells on laboratory mice. The finding could lead to the rapid production of one's own skin patches for people with burns and other severe skin problems. From the article abstract ...

Medical Mobile Monitoring out of Boca Raton, FL has released a new platform for assisting seniors get emergency help from just about anywhere in the country. The system revolves around a GPS enabled device that can send the location of the person anytime the help button is pressed. The firm ...

At RSNA 2009 in Chicago this week, researchers from University of Virginia are presenting findings of a study testing physician ability to read CT scans using an iPhone. Utilizing the open source OsiriX Mobile application, radiologists evaluated images of suspected appendicitis with impressive ...

The FDA has given Masimo clearance for its new technology for continuous monitoring of the respiration rate in post operative patients. Masimo's Rainbow SET Acoustic Monitoring device is worn on the neck where it listens to the upper airway for sounds of breathing. Masimo Rainbow SET ...

It looks like Nashville, Tennessee will be getting a new 2 million square foot (186,000 square meter) medical trade center built in the city's downtown. The $250 million space is being spearheaded by Market Center Management Company, a firm managing a number of convention centers around the ...

Siemens has formed a partnership with video graphics company NVIDIA to create a 3D visualization system for expecting parents to get up and close with their fetus. The system uses a PC to process images from a Siemens ACUSON S2000 and NVIDIA's 3D Vision glasses to produce stereo visuals of ...

Thanks to a letter from a reader, we learned of a shoe disinfecting device that's been on the market for about a year. The SteriShoe, developed by Shoe Care Innovations , a Redwood City, California company, uses UVC light (280 nm-100 nm) to kill off microbes. The device, which is inserted ...

At RSNA 2009 in Chicago this week, Siemens is unveiling its first PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) software package. The syngo.plaza provides easy access to 2D, 3D, and 4D visuals from CT, MRI, and ultrasound sources. Some published features from the press release:  ...

Wound patients typically get lots of care at home, either from visiting nurses or from home care providers. Now technology is coming to even this forgotten medical market. And not surprisingly, it is mobile phone technology with backing from a big gun: AT&T. What we know is that the Wound ...

There's a new hope for treatment of patients with completely blocked coronaries. BridgePoint Medical out of Plymouth, MN has announced winning the European CE Mark of approval for its Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Crossing System that consists of the Stingray® and CrossBoss™ ...

An interdisciplinary team of European scientists has been studying the potential value of low-temperature atmospheric plasma for applications in medicine. One particular example is a device developed at Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany that can sterilize ...

ProUroCare Medical out of Eden Prairie, MN has filed an application with the FDA to receive approval for the firm's prostate analysis tool. The ProUroScan device uses what's known as "elasticity imaging technology" to measure the stiffness of the prostate by applying pressure to the organ and ...

We received more than a dozen entries in this year's medical sci-fi writing contest . The stories were anonymized with the names stripped off before being passed on to our judges for review. The judges have this week to read and opine on which submissions deserve to win this year's contest. We ...

Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine recently met a representative of Integrity Applications , an Ashkelon, Israel firm that has developed the GlucoTrack non-invasive blood glucose monitor. The device, which we profiled about four years ago when it was still in prototype stage, uses ultrasound, ...

Ziosoft out of Redwood City, CA has released a freely downloadable software package for visualizing DICOM 3.0-compatible images from CT, MR, PET, ultrasound, and X-ray devices. The zioTerm application provides both 2D and 3D rendering and is meant to be used by the academic and research ...

At the RSNA Annual Meeting in Chicago this week, Barco will be showing off two new medical monitors that it has just announced. The Coronis Fusion 10MP is a 30 inch display that can also work as two independent side-by-side 5 megapixel panels. The Nio 5MP sports a 2096 x 2800 resolution and ...

ZOLL Medical Corporation has released a new iPhone application designed to help in assisting people perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Of course because it has no FDA approval ( see our recent post on the regulatory environment for mobile medical apps ), it is being marketed as a ...