Entries Tagged as 'medicine'

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

The Wrong Stuff : Risky Business: James Bagian—NASA astronaut turned patient safety expert—on Being Wrong

A nurse gives the patient in Bed A the medicine for the patient in Bed B. What do you say? “The nurse made a mistake”? That’s true, but then what’s the solution? “Nurse, please be more careful”? Telling people to be careful is not effective. Humans are not reliable that way. Some are better than [...]

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion | Video on TED.com

oday medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what’s useful? At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools — like virtual autopsies — for analyzing this myriad data, and a glimpse at [...]

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Sacred Intentions: Inside the Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Studies

The study, which took place from 2001 to 2005, and was published in 2006 in the journal Psychopharmacology with a follow-up in 2008 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, made news around the globe and was greeted by nearly unanimous praise by both the scientific community and the mainstream press. Flying in the face of both [...]

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Transplanted cornea in use for record 123 years

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081023/lf_nm_life/us_norway_eye Transplanted cornea in use for record 123 years OSLO (Reuters Life!) – Bernt Aune’s transplanted cornea has been in use for a record 123 years — since before the Eiffel Tower was built. “This is the oldest eye in Norway — I don’t know if it’s the oldest in the world,” Aune, an 80-year-old [...]

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Why isn’t medical care a right?

Azalynn asks: As in, making people fear for their lives if they don’t do a particular thing is always bad — unless it’s a corporation wanting you to do that thing. Here’s my take on it. Please take it in the same spirit of your original post. If any of it comes across as an [...]

Friday, May 16th, 2008

The Checklist

The Checklist by Atul Gawande. “…In December, 2006, the Keystone Initiative published its findings in a landmark article in The New England Journal of Medicine. Within the first three months of the project, the infection rate in Michigan’s I.C.U.s decreased by sixty-six per cent. The typical I.C.U.—including the ones at Sinai-Grace Hospital—cut its quarterly infection [...]