A Hospital With Health Attitude
Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS) is holding their monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 5, at the Danbury Hospital Creasy Auditorium. I am privileged to be the speaker for the 23rd year. The event is open to the public. The program this year will be a bit different. I will be presenting my new book, Health Attitude: […]
Human Heart On a Chip
The University of California at Berkeley has created a “heart-on-a-chip”. Researchers started with human pluripotent embryonic stem cells. This type of stem cell can morph into almost any kind of tissue cells in the body. In this case, cardiac cells were produced and placed in a one-inch silicone housing. The cells began to beat on their own at […]
Technological Revolution
Charles H. Duell, commissioner of the United States patent office in 1899, was quoted as saying “everything that can be invented has been invented.” All os us, and especially patent attorneys, know the quote is far from the truth. One example is the periodic table of chemical elements. When I was born in 1945, the […]
Man with 3-D Printed Pelvis Walks Again
A British gentleman in his 60s was suffering from chondrosarcoma of the pelvis, a rare form of cancer that could not be treated with radiation or drugs. The only option was to replace the diseased half of his pelvis. Such surgery would have been unheard of in the recent past, but with the advent of […]
