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In the age of 3D televisions, HD videos on your handheld, and high resolution cameras – the qualities of “clarity” and “vividness” generally come at a premium. If you could choose one single memory from your past to remember as vividly as the moment it happened – which would it be? Researchers at MIT have [...]

Have you ever sat around and thought – I wonder how hot that Barista at Starbucks gets behind that counter all day? Alas, it would be entirely impolite to walk up to the counter with a thermometer. What to do?Enter the iPhone – yes there’s now an app for that. The Medisana ThermoDock puts a [...]

Dr. Dennis Filips worked three tours in Afghanistan as a trauma surgeon before retiring from the Canadian Navy in 2008. After retirement he was tasked to teach army medics working in field operations. Those medics see the worst of the worst, in the most trying of conditions. The single largest cause of preventable death is [...]

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Scientists may just have proven what we all might have guessed: sexual frustration drives men to drink – and perhaps drink excessively. In the journal: Science  an experiment performed on fruit flies shows that maled fruit files who mated successfully had more of “neuropeptide F”, a brain chemical. The flies who were not as successful [...]

Todd Ponsky is currently Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and a Pediatric Surgeon at Akron Children’s Hospital.  He was previously Director of The Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery Center at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Ponsky attended Medical School at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio from 1995-1999, Residency [...]

Dr. Martin Eichelberger is a pediatric surgeon and former chief of Emergency Trauma & Burn Services at Children’s National Medical Center. He is also affiliated with the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) National Resource Center, the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) for children, Safe Kids Worldwide. Dr. Eichelberger is an internationally renowned [...]

Dr. Flake is an attending surgeon in the Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery and holds the Ruth M. and Tristram C. Colket, Jr. Endowed Chair in Pediatric Surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He serves as director of CHOP’s Center for Fetal Research and is a professor of Surgery and Obstetrics [...]

Marc A. Levitt, MD, is director of the Colorectal Center, joined the staff of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center on June 1, 2005. Dr. Levitt was recruited from Schneider Children’s Hospital of the North Shore – Long Island Jewish Health System in New Hyde Park, New York. Dr. Levitt received his undergraduate degree from the University of [...]

J. Wayne Meredith, MD, FACS is the Richard T. Myers professor of surgery, director of the division of surgical sciences, chairman of the department of general surgery and chief of surgery for the Wake Forest University (WFU) Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Arts in physics from Emory University [...]