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Engineering Errors Out of Health Care   Active In one intriguing new effort, a team led by Peter Pronovost– professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins and renowned patient safety expert – is looking to a collaborative model that has yielded huge improvements in commercial aviation safety, and testing whether the application of a similar method could do the same for hospital patients.
April 30, 2009

New work on nanorobotics design, simulation and control for nanomedicine   Active This work presents a new approach with details on the integrated platform and hardware architecture for nanorobots application in epidemic control, which should enable real time in vivo prognosis of biohazard infection. The recent developments in the field of nanoelectronics, with transducers progressively shrinking down to smaller sizes through nanotechnology and carbon nanotubes, are expected to result in innovative biomedical instrumentation possibilities, with new therapies and efficient diagnosis methodologies.
May 19, 2008

The future of biomedicine: virtual humans   Active “I would predict that this century is going to be dominated by our ability to handle biomedical problems in a computational domain,” said Peter Coveney, director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London.
March 17, 2008

TeleHealth shows the future   Active Advances in information and communications technology are opening up all kinds of new possibilities in medical care - and new business opportunities for companies that supply the healthcare sector. So the TeleHealth International Conference and Exhibition was inaugurated to provide a unique platform for networking and information gathering, aimed at bringing together all the players in this market sector to talk about the latest technical innovations and developments, i.e. end users, decision-makers, product developers and suppliers.
March 07, 2008

Nanomedicine system engineered to enhance therapeutic effects of injectable drugs   Active “This is next generation nanomedicine,” said Ferrari, the senior author. “Now, we’re engineering sophisticated nanostructures to elude the body’s natural defenses, locate tumors and other diseased cells, and release a payload of therapeutics, contrasting agents, or both over a controlled period. It’s the difference between riding a bicycle and a motorcycle.”
March 02, 2008