Wireless sensor watches blood sugar for diabetics

Commentary by Greg Szto: At last, a report on a wireless system that will measure blood glucose continuously and transmit the information wirelessly. Now, if this information is then fed back into an insulin pump, then we have a closed loop biological system…....

Half of young adults have CHD risk factors

From Theheart.org, 22 July 2010 Atlanta, GA – Approximately half of young adults have at least one cardiovascular disease risk factor, such as a family history of disease, smoking, hypertension, or obesity, according to the results of a new study [1]. An...

How Microbes Defend and Define Us

July 12, 2010 From the New York Times, by Carl Zimmer Dr. Alexander Khoruts had run out of options. In 2008, Dr. Khoruts, a gastroenterologist at the University of Minnesota, took on a patient suffering from a vicious gut infection of Clostridium difficile. She was...

Factory Efficiency Comes to the Hospital

From the New York Times, By JULIE WEED, Published: July 9, 2010 TWO years ago, the supply system at Seattle Children’s Hospital was so unreliable that Susanne Matthews, a nurse in the intensive care unit, would stockpile stuff — catheters in the closet, surgical...