WeirdMedical™

If you were a kid what would you like to know?

How about this?  A few third graders tested their hypotheses as to which bandages stay on the longest…Read on…

Are you listening J&J Band-Aid or Curad or Nexcare?

These are your graduating scientists and biomedical engineers of the 2030′s and beyond!

The good news was it was not cancer…the bad news was they had to operate anyway.

What was that greenish blue mass? Read on…

Japanese patient’s ‘tumour’ turns out to be 25-year-old towel

If you can get past the Walgreens commercial, this video of Dr. Loon and Nurse Nice is worth your time…Big Apple Circus…

Dr. Loon and Nurse Nice save the week!

We’re back!

But back to do what?

While listening to a Steve Martin interview this morning on NPR where he was talking about how he gets his best material, the question hit me > “What do we now have too much of – Greed? Corruption? Empty bank accounts? Systematic consolidation of wealth and fleecing of the global working public?”

Don’t know nothing about birthin’ babies OR those thangs.

Nope the answer is “serious.” We have too much serious in our industry. In the past “WeirdMedical” has become “SeriousMedical”…and that’s no fun.

Of course you might say it’s important to be serious so people take you seriously…but that’s no fun either.

In the past we erred on the serious, amazing, strange and even ookey side of weird, steering away from gruesome, gory, evil medical oddities. We’ll probably continue to do so…and that’s our choice…but it’s time to throw in silly, funny, goofy and even ridiculous medical.

But come on, it’s time to laugh…or at least smirk a little…stay tuned.

Now motorcycle enthusiasts have a better chance for survival…

Therapeutics hypothermia just took a huge leap from the hospital bed onto the streets. Checkout the new ThermaHelm(R) brain bucket that neatly coddles your brain like a new born babe. The manufacturer’s video says it all –>

Cryo Brain Bucket

Now EMS teams can expect more live motorcyclists due to this new cooling therapy.

Excellent intel, ThermaHelm!

Now can you make one for bicyclists?

Amazing, an actual website produced by the federal government that exposes those federally funded agencies’ programs that are at the extremes of the spectrum…either strong performers or huge disappointments.

The agency that ranks these programs is the U.S. OMB (Office of Management and Budget).

Net findings by the OMB? –> “20% of Federal programs are Not Performing.” see ExpectMore.gov

Our solution –> let’s shut down these programs immediately and create accountable programs that effectively fund education, infrastructure development, healthcare efficiency programs and comparative effectiveness research.

A few of our favorite poor performers:

1) Health Information Technology Research (AHRQ) -> Read more…

2) Office on Women’s Health -> Read more…

3) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology -> Read more…

…and these are just three out of 30 major poor performing programs managed by the Dept of Health & Human Service.

No wonder our U.S. healthcare system is bloated and ineffective. Where is the accountability?

We’re sad to see your missions end…



America will miss your amazing adventures

…not spontaneous combustion as previously thought.

Seriously…Researchers at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Northwestern University’s medical school have found that women experiencing hot flashes during the earlier years of menopause tend to have a lower risk of heart attack and death than their older counterparts who experience hot flashes and night sweats near the end of menopause.

The possible mechanism? The “blood vessels dilating in response to the normal hormone fluctuations of menopause” allows more fluid blood flow and, therefore, more efficient heat transfer from more dilated capillaries located at the surface of the skin. This apparently is healthy cardiovascular reaction for a younger woman, but for an older woman in her 60′s can signal blood vessel abnormalities that could affect the heart.

Thus NO spontaneous combustion!

Read more…

Did you ever imagine as a kid, losing the ability to walk and getting a pair of robotic pants that your clumsily staggered around the house in?

Or…did you ever pretend you lost your eyesight and got a pair of ooky biomechanical “popping” eyes to peer at your friends?

Well, here they are 12 recent advances in robotics that even most kids did not imagine…

Advances In Medical Robotics

So goes the $6M Bionic Man…read on…

NASA…no need to say more.