Tech universe: Best of 2011
To your good health
SKIN SHOOT: It usually takes weeks to grow skin for burn victims. A new technology takes stem cells from their own healthy skin, and in the space of an hour or two is able to spray the treated cells on the burned areas, using a 'skin gun'. New skin grows in just a few days. That's one of the better reasons to be 'shot'. Gizmodo> has details, and there's video here .
PURE WATER: The Purist sports bottle incorporates a 20 nanometre silicon dioxide layer inside the polymer. This glass-like layer protects the inside of the bottle from odours, staining, and mould build-up. The bottle's still flexible though, just like a plastic one. And none of that horrible plastic taste. More here .
DOCTOR TALK: The Phrazer is a novel handheld device that allows medical practitioners to deliver care even to patients who don't speak their language. Vital signs are monitored through the handgrips, while interactive on-screen videos help patients enter information about their medical problems.
After the 'consultation' the device produces a standard medical record. The battery powered Phrazer weighs only 680 grams, has wifi, Bluetooth, 3G and other connection possibilities and can hold more than 100 languages. Medical tricorder v0.1a? Details here and video here .
DRAW THE LINE ON DISEASE: Many children and pregnant women in developing countries die from fairly easily diagnosed conditions such as preeclampsia. One problem is that the standard tests, although relatively inexpensive are still too costly in such places. Student at Johns Hopkins University in the USA have created a 'pen' that reduces the cost of testing from 50 cents to one third of a cent per time. Draw a line on paper with the pen then add a drop of urine. If a particular condition exists the urine reacts with chemicals in the ink and the line changes colour. Saving lives can sometimes be really simple. Popular Science has more.
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Hailey South, 21, of Best Friends Animal Hospital, and Meshach have become friends after the stray cat was brought in for treatment for severe burns. Cat lovers and advocates for more stringent policies regarding felines agree: Cats who are allowed to
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Draw a line on paper with the pen then add a drop of urine. If a particular condition exists the urine reacts with chemicals in the ink and the line changes colour. Saving lives can sometimes be really simple. Popular Science has more.
Testing by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station revealed this product to be more effective than nine other commercial deer repellents in the marketplace (including coyote urine), and gave it a 93 per cent protection index, second only to a
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For the practicing urologist it is often difficult to inform the patient on muscle invasive bladder cancer and the often need for radical surgery and some kind of urinary diversion to follow; however, it is even more elaborate to do so in case of a nonmuscle invasive tumor where the evidence calls for radical treatment. In Chap. 15, Waalkes, Merseburger, and Kuczyk present pathologies where a radical treatment is strongly advised.
In Chapters 16-18 focus various aspects of cystectomy. In Chap. 16, radical surgery of the bladder is discussed by Dr. Gschwend. The improvement in surgical techniques had led this formerly challenging procedure into a more standardized one. Chapter 17 includes urinary diversion by Drs. Richard and Stefan Hautmann. The ileal neobladder has become one of the worldwide chosen procedures for continent orthotopic urinary diversion. Chapter 18, laparoscopic cystectomy by Dr. John, is the latest evolvement in bladder surgery and covers innovative techniques as well as the well-established surgical routines in radical treatment of invasive bladder cancer. In 2010, only 5% of all urologists are performing neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer, hence the 5% survival benefit in
5 years and possible down staging of the tumor. Dr. Sherif guides us along the current literature and discusses the pros and cons of the neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Diagnosis and treatment of upper tract tumors is challenging and Chap. 20 by Dr. Remzi discusses the basics as well as recent advances in this field. In Chap. 21, De Santis and Bachner focus on the development and optimal use of new regimens for systemic agents as well as standard treatment options for the treatment of metastatic urinary carcinoma in the areas of targeted drugs. Options for “unfit” patients and elderly as well as in second-line setting are discussed. In Chap. 22 non-TCC tumors: Diagnosis and treatment is discussed by Dr. Abol-Enein. He focuses mainly on the squamous cell and adenocarcinoma of the bladder.