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  • Ultrasound cuff to stop internal bleeding on battlefield

    As we all know much of the technology developed by DARPA makes its way into healthcare outside the military as well.  It is not ready for prime time yet and they expect a mock up to be used in 18 months, but would this not be a valuable tool anywhere, in the ER to stop internal bleeding after an...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 10-24-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, DARPA, Siemens, bleeding
  • Congress Cut DARPA Budget by $130 Million – Why?

    This does not make sense, why don’t we find other ways to spend the funds, like perhaps some additional limbs for soldiers that come home from war, bionic arms and hands which DARPA has funded and helped create?  What’s up with this?  DARPA is also involved in biotech research as well. ...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 09-27-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, DARPA, Biotech, Congress, Budgets
  • The Autonomous Car…Car Bots Will Save Lives

    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, Urban Challenge occurs every year and last year at the time of the event, I was still doing some training for Intel and was able to show the race live on my Tablet PC (which was great to carry  around without having an “open pizza box” notebook...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 07-13-2008
    Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, TabletPC, DARPA, Intel Core 2 Duo, Tablet-PC, Devices, Safety, Autonomous Car, Seniors, Bots
  • DARPA Wants 'Fracture Putty' To Fix Broken Bones

      Darpa is reaching out for proposals in the healthcare area…putty to provide assistance to soldiers in the battlefield.  The putty needs to bond with the bone and degrade in the body over time.  It needs to be able to adapt to biochemical signals as does real bone.  Responses are...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 06-07-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, DARPA, Biotech, Health Care Billing, Bones
  • FBI Finds Counterfeit Chips Leave U.S. Military Vulnerable

    From the story posted here, DARPA, the wonderful government agency that has created so many new medical innovations, is on the job....and where did the products come from...you guessed it...China...so my question would relate to wonder if any of these chips made it in to any health care systems ? Once...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 05-12-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, DARPA, Counterfeit, Chips
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