This year Time Magazine's Best Inventions 2006 has selected an invention which I felt is very relevant to the holiday season. TruTouch technology has come up with a really bright idea (pardon the pun) of using near infrared spectroscopy to detect alcohol level transcutaneously. This non-invasive method reportedly will detect alcohol level in 60 seconds flat.
Google Patent Search was launched yesterday (Dec 14, 2006). This is hot. The search interface is classic Google simplicity although there is also an Advanced Patent Search page. It is incredible that Google has converted the entire image database of U.S. patents (7 million) into a format that is easy to search. When they say easy to search they not only mean easy to search for the patent, you can also search for text within the patent image. Google has done some incredible OCR magic!
National Center for Health Care Statistics
One purpose of this blog is to share information source for those who are in the biotech and medtech industries. There is no doubt that the United States is the greatest consumer of health care resources. Each year the Health, United States series presents national trends in health statistics. This report is just out. The report includes an executive summary, highlights, a chartbook, trend tables, extensive appendixes, and an index. If you want to solve health care problems, address unmet needs and assess emerging health care issues, here is the place to look.
So what are the leading causes of death in the United States, how much is spent on health care and who is paying .......
