Sunday, January 31, 2010

External artificial pancreas??

Blood testing, mosquito style

A skin patch could one day provide a less-invasive alternative for diabetics who need to take regular samples of their own blood to keep glucose levels in check. The common method of drawing blood from fingertips and using glucose testing strips and metres can be painful, inconvenient and time-consuming.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Growing body parts



Anthony Atala asks, "Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?" His lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is doing just that

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The LVPEI Pyramid of Eye care

http://www.lvpei.org/aboutus/images/transformations.pdf

Towards A World Without Blind Infants - Narayana Nethralaya



Our team is working on a low cost handheld scanner "NetraScan" which can be used to screen ROP at remote resource-poor locations.