Unbounded Medicine

The British journal The Lancet chose as Paper of the Year an investigation published in January 2006 by Guillermo Ruiz-Palacios y Santos about rotavirus vaccine.
This study, included 63,225 breastfeeded infants and was first published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
With their conclusions, the Mexican government will change the National Vaccination Scheme, and now will […]

An aquatic wheelchair that helps people in rehabilitation process (i.e. amputations) was created by students of the National Polytechnical Institute, Berenice Nieto Ávila and Miguel Ángel Herrera Ruiz.
This amphibious technology allows physiotherapists to do their job in a better environment and with less risk. It offers comfort, security and efficiency for the patients.
The structure of […]

They are patients in a hospital, but they don’t suffer, because they are robotized models that allow students to learn without having the consequences of a real medical emergency.

It’s been a year since the beginning of the Certification and Training Center of Medical Aptitudes in the Medicine Faculty of the UNAM, 179 robots have served […]

An articulated prosthesis that reproduces the seven basic movements of the human arm, using the electrical impulses of the human body, was developed by a student of the National Polytechnic Institute (Instituto Politécnico Nacional).
Simón Guerrero Castillo, who in in December finished his Engineering in Communications and Electronics career, will obtain its title with this device, […]

In a near future we will be able to get an EKG on a laptop.

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Medical students practice parturition treatment with a baby-delivery robot at an obstetrician class of Kyung Hee university medical center in Seoul December 27, 2006.
The medical center imported the robot to give more chances of practical delivery treatment for students as South Korea’s birth rates are constantly falling, a professor of the class said.
(By Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)