Posts Tagged ‘Medicine’
Politics: SO Rigorous. SO Logical.
Test: How is political debate different from science? I will pick up your papers at the end of the class. I don't want you looking at anyone else's answers.
An Artificial Pancreas For Diabetes: Still In The Works
image from Creative Commons Medicine: Type 1 Diabetes. An artificial pancreas really is just over SOME horizon now. An announcement from Cambridge (article in the Lancet) describes the fine work of Dr Roman Hovorka at the University of Cambridge, working with a group of seventeen diabetic kids. A cure for [...]
The Oh So Very Stubborn Anterior Cruciate Ligament
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubber_slippers_in_italy/ / CC BY-ND 2.0 Orthopedic Surgery: Knee. Have you ever heard the term "Anterior Cruciate Ligament?" I sure hope not. It's one part of the most complicated thing in the world - probably the most complicated thing in the whole UNIVERSE - the knee. And when the ACL [...]
Diabetes: Lenses To Measure Blood Sugar?
Medicine: Color changing lenses for diabetes. Back to diabetes. The primary way that diabetics check their blood sugar level (other than passing out, of course) is by analyzing a little blood. They say you get good at it. So this new thingee from Jin Zhang at the University of Ontario should be very welcome, [...]
