The Eyes Have It

Along with the flickr photos, I’ve also added an events listing to the right sidebar. So if you have any events, deadlines or other dates that have any relation to the subjects TEHI deals with, send them on in.

I took a handful of snapshots at InfoComm in June and forgot about them until today. The timing was good because I’ve been experimenting with integrating my flickr account into TEHI. My five photos are a tiny part of the collection of 155 InfoComm06 photos posted to flickr that doesn’t quite convey how huge the expo floor really was.

WebMD videocast. “There’s a place I want to drop my bombs, and a place where I don’t want to drop my bombs.”

While browsing the gallery of award winners, you can listen to commentary from the creator of each image describing how it came to be.

The winners of the Awards challenge the public perspective that scientists don’t have an artistic side. Working every day with microscopes and imaging technology, these biologists have been able to capture stunning images through a blend of original and innovative techniques.

Despite the obvious visual appeal of the pictures, their primary purpose is investigation. The images are from research projects with the ultimate goal of helping to improve healthcare through new forms of prevention, treatment and vaccination.

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‘I use my iPod to store medical images’
“Osman Ratib, professor and chief of nuclear medicine… co-created a computer software program called Osirix. It enables medical professionals to view medical images on their iPods, saving them and the hospitals they work for thousands of dollars…”
(tags: Technology iPod imaging)

UVa-HSL: Very Ill! - 19th Century Medical Caricature
“While some caricatures were straightforward in their message, others contained yet another layer of meaning. Medical conditions could symbolize failed interpersonal relationships, national political affairs, and everything in between.”
(tags: art illustration medical)

Nikon Small World - Photomicrography Competition
“Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. For over 30 years, Nikon has rewarded the world’s best photomicrographers…” (Deadline for Entries: April 28, 2006)
(tags: art images microscope photography photomicrography photos science)

BMJ: “Sex symbols ancient and modern: their origins and iconography on the pedigree”
(tags: art design medical medicine reference)

The National Center for Biotechnology Bookshelf
Online versions of over 50 biomedical textbooks.
(tags: medical medicine reference science)

The Body Worlds exhibition may or may not have educational value, artistic merit or a completely sound ethical foundation. As a subject of discussion, however, it definitely does have a way bringing out impassioned points of view (the Thanksgiving dinner table might not have been the best time to have introduced it as a topic of discussion). The College of Physicians of Philadelphia will be joining as well as contributing to the conversation with a town hall discussion. Their Bodies: Ourselves takes place Thursday, December 1, 2005 starting at 6:00 p.m.

Scientists engineer bacteria to create living photographs | Brain Blog
(tags: art science)

MCDONALD’S PACKAGING TO CARRY NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
“McDonald’s Corp. today unveiled a global packaging format listing nutritional information with easy-to-read icons and bar charts that one of the fast-food giant’s biggest critics is calling a ‘useful step forward.’”
(tags: design health medical news typography)

Senate urges using tech for medical records
(tags: medicine news technology)

Design Observer: The Great Non-Amber-Colored Hope
“A student design for a prescription pill bottle takes a metoric rise to mass production and becomes an instant icon in the world of graphic design.”
(tags: design health medicine)

U.S. Awards Contracts to Help Automate Health Records - The New York Times
The federal government awarded $18.6 million in contracts meant to accelerate the use of modern computer technology in health care.
(tags: medicine news technology)

Flash of Anatomy
Documenting, via Flash, the process of drawing a person starting with the skeleton (skips the internal organs). Slightly NSFW for a few moments.
(tags: animation art drawing flash)

Is Your Design Career Stuck?
“I could be wrong, but I think there are quite a few designers going through this same type of thing. What are you going to do (or what have you done) to get past a career that seems “stuck?’”
(tags: career design)

PLoS Medicine: Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature
(tags: brain depression health medicine neuroscience news science)

NYT: A Special Drug Just for You, at the End of a Long Pipeline
What next: “The age of personalized medicine is on the way. Increasingly, experts say, therapies will be tailored for patients based on their genetic makeup or other medical measurements. That will allow people to obtain drugs that would work best…”
(tags: medical science technology)

CNN.com article:

“Osman Ratib, professor and chief of nuclear medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva, has co-created a computer software program called Osirix. It enables medical professionals to view medical images on their iPods, saving them and the hospitals they work for thousands of dollars in expensive equipment.

“Medical imaging these days is much more than just looking at slices through the body — it’s about looking at the body in motion, in function. We’re dealing with images that are more than just 2D, black and white images.

“It’s not rocket science but it’s taking something that’s been designed for the consumer market and using it for something that’s medically driven.”