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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?

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…

Hypothesis:  If ones’ stomach lining can absorb alcohol leading to the symptoms of intoxication, then the dermal layers of ones’ feet should do the same — ol’ Danish myth.

Method: Place feet in washtub of alcohol for 3 hours.

Tools:

• Washtub

Tune for Foot Tapping

• Feet (preferably two)
• 80 Proof vodka…lots!
• Watch..second hand not necessary
• Patience
• Towel

Results: …read more at…“Washtub Play” or “Scientists dip feet, debunk Danish alcohol myth”

Happy Holidays from your WeirdMedical team at MedIntelliBase!

This is tough to believe given the AHA/ACC guidelines and thousands of healthcare services ranking the leading nutritionally balanced weight loss programs…

Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds

But Professor Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University is proof positive. There’s a dichotomy here – you can loose weight and be healthy but not eat healthy.

The net-net is if you eat too many calories – no matter how healthy their sources – and do not exercise enough to burn the excess – you get chubby!

Who of us in the medical industry would have the guts to give a neurosurgeon permission to have our infant’s brain glued?

According to the authors – “It was just a few months before the parents noticed Joley’s head was growing rapidly and was unusually larger than [her twin's] Jared’s . Her mother could see the tiny veins in Joley’s head bulging out from her scalp.”

…But crazy glue worked!

Image of glue in Ella-Grace Honeymans brain

Got to love N-butyl-cyanoacrylate…read more at HealthMad.com…

We know that exercise is good for us and why, right?

Wrong. None of us do. No one knows the granular biochemistry. But here’s a S.W.A.G. (click to first term)…

Translucent Woman Running Illustration by Bryan Cristie

A new study suggests it offers both acute and long term benefits:

“These findings suggest that exercise has both “acute and cumulative” effects on your body’s ability to use and burn fat,” says Gregory Lewis, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an author of the study. After only 10 minutes of exercise, even the least fit showed evidence that their bodies were burning fat; the more fit, the more metabolic evidence of fat burning.”

Read on McDuff!

Number ten in the Top 10 new tech advances of 2010 goes to an ancient material…

Implanted under the skin, an array of light-emitting diodes could signal the concentration in the blood of biomarkers such as insulin. Over time, the array will dissolve away, eliminating the need for surgery to remove the implant. Flexible silicon electronics (inset) are held in place with a silk film. Incorporating antibodies or enzymes into the film will allow devices to detect biomarkers. Credit: Bryan Christie Design. Source: MIT's Technology Review

According to MIT’s Technology Review, such “dissolvable devices make better medical implants.”

And what is that mysterious yet familiar bioabsorbable material for advanced implantable electronics­?

Silk!  It can be engineered to transmit images via light waves along its fibers, deliver drugs, measure vital signs or test blood, and can be resorbed over hours or as long as two years depending upon how long it is needed. And all from the belly of a worm? Amazing. For more amazing apps…read on.

Got silk?

You-Tube video of Jonathan’s Cochlear Implant Activation 8 mo., Rt Ear cont\\’d – April 14, 2008

Beautiful Baby Boy

“Experts have discovered that an extract from the white flower commonly known as Baby’s Breath can boost the efficiency of anti-cancer drugs by a staggering million times,” stated on the British MailOnline website by its Healthcare Section editors.

Apparently this staggeringly significant discovery was made by scientists working for the charity, Leukaemia Busters, based in Southampton, Hampshire. The scientists extracted the molecular substance called saponins from the Gypsophila Paniculata plant. Saponins appears to break down the membrane of cancer cells leaving them vulnerable to antibody-based drugs, known as immunotoxins. Immunotoxins can then more easily attack and kill the cancerous cells.

Baby's Breath Flower Million Star

Leukaemia Busters name and its logo were both devised by Simon Flavell the son of the researchers, Dr David Flavell and his wife Dr Bee Flavell. Drs. Flavell run the charity that was set up in memory Simon who died from the disease aged 10. Simon was a great fan of Ghost Busters.

To learn more about this dedicated research team and their findings read on…

Research methods in medical innovation continue to innovate…

Dozens of prescription drugs coming off patent in the next few years are encouraging researchers throughout the pharmaceutical and biotech industries to think “outside the traditional box.”

According to Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development Director Kenneth I Kaitin, “This is spurring companies across the industry to experiment with a growing range of new tools and approaches to weed out unpromising drug candidates earlier, speed development, and reduce development costs.”

Tufts CSDD has found that researchers are trying many new methodologies for developing news drugs that are expected to be faster and more efficient such those noted below.

Even though the Tufts CSDD article is a come-on for an upcoming series of conferences, it cites a critical issue. 15 years is too long from compound discovery through development and commercialization to sustain continued profitable innovation in an economy that is in a slow grinding recovery.

Consider shaving off months or even a year or more with these techniques:

• Drug development simulator software
• Blurring the lines between phases, especially Phases I & II
• Conducting FIM studies earlier similar in timing for those medical device development trials
• Partnering with other companies with knowledge in the same indication
• Conducting exploratory IND studies
• read on…

We’re in the 21st century, the age of mobile connectivity and cloud computing, we can do better than a 15 year development cycle.