by Alfred Poor | November 18, 2015 | General News, Medical
Minimally invasive surgical procedures have made it possible for doctors to access and repair parts of the body that were unreachable under older conditions. Still, the tools for these operations continue to evolve and improve to solve additional problems. For...
by Alfred Poor | November 17, 2015 | General News, Medical
One of the many miracles of modern dentistry is the use of dental implants to replace teeth lost to injury or disease. These permanent replacements get colonized by the body’s own cells, incorporating them into the patients’ jaws. The problem is that...
by Alfred Poor | November 16, 2015 | General News, Medical
Patients who have lost kidney function to injury or disease must rely on dialysis machines to cleanse their blood of excess fluid, salts, and toxins. This typically requires that they sit, hooked up to a machine in a clinical setting, for 12 to 15 hours every...
by Alfred Poor | November 13, 2015 | General News, Medical
When I hear “nanotechnology,” I tend to think of microscopic components that have been designed and fabricated by people for some purpose or another. Scientists at the University of South Australia have taken a different approach to engineering their...
by Alfred Poor | November 12, 2015 | Fitness, General News, Health
Everything is getting smart these days, even the traditional bathroom scale. New models measure more than just weight, and instead of a spinning dial of digits, the results are wirelessly beamed to your smartphone or tablet. One of these space age scales, the...