Medical Technology

@pmarca 8 years ago

Excellent story about transformative medical research underway at Harvard's engineering department in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/print-thyself

@pmarca 8 years ago

RT @JasonHitchcock: @pmarca 1. Bring nurse medical supplies at optimal convenience. 2. ??? 3. Humanity is enslaved. Brilliant plan. https://twitter.com/planetmoney/status/603664197638037504

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @fmbutt: Drones, delivering life-saving medical supplies http://www.popsci.com/drones-carry-blood-critically-injured-patients

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @wagner_tim: agreed w/ @pmarca: insurance should be decoupled from companies - carrying about your job matters, medical care shouldn't be a ball&chain

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @SuB8u: Wearables solving medical problems, for cheap. Traditional -$3,000 Wearable-$249 sub. service http://www.wired.com/2015/02/sleep-tracking-wearables/ http://t.co/DaN9oTXhp1

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @prchovanec: 12. If you lived a 1970-quality life - same techs, same medical, same everything - I submit it would cost much less in 2015 than in 1970.

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @prchovanec: 10. Or how about this as another measure of quality of life? Medical solutions today almost unimaginable in 1970s. http://t.co/0HZdkVAq6x

@pmarca 9 years ago

GO RON!! "Ron Conway donating $40M for the new outpatient medical building at the UCSF Medical Center." http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ron-Conway-donates-40-million-to-new-UCSF-6007136.php

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @jhagel: Fertile ground for further investigation - research into "male idiot theory" published in the British Medical Journal http://bit.ly/177ETns

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @cadwego: Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/19/half-of-dr-ozs-medical-advice-is-baseless-or-wrong-study-says/

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @SandyHendry: British Medical Journal asks whether low-fat products/diets are food industry's attempt at mass murder. http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/349/bmj.g7654.full.pdf

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @PandoDaily: Congress ends federal ban on medical marijuana, blazing a trail for weed startups http://pndo.ly/1vX0F1o

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @mhallsworth: New study shows the power of text messages to improve medical adherence http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141205142424.htm?utm_source=feedburner #behaviourchange

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @WSJ: 1 in 3 Americans said they or a family member delayed medical care because of costs. http://on.wsj.com/1zoKKNp

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @DLeonhardt: What seems to be behind the sharp slowdown in health costs? A changing medical system. @sangerkatz: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/upshot/good-news-inside-the-health-spending-numbers.html

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @munilass: @pmarca It's funny. I've been reading a lot of Gerald Edelman lately. These fantastic, sophisticated books on his medical research.

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @sgourley: injury to death rates in the US Military is at ~9:1. Before medical advances it was 3:1. Without this tech body count would be 3x higher

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @qhardy: Pot is legal in Oregon. It costs 1/2 as much to drive there from SF as to get a medical card. Meaning, pot will soon be legal in CA.

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @csoghoian: I am shocked that after appointing a cyber czar with no tech experience, the White House appointed an Ebola czar with no medical experience.

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @RHNilsson: Medical students experience procedures from surgeon’s perspective with Oculus Rift @nisummers http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2014/08/14/oculus-rift-allows-medical-students-watch-procedure-surgeons-perspective/ http://t.co/8WC5CO37F6