Tennis medic

The Canadian Medic-Alert Foundation.

A little girl, Linda Collins, cut her finger while playing. Taken to hospital to have it sutured she was routinely tested for tetanus antitoxin sensitivity. Within minutes she was in violent anaphylactic shock. It was touch and go for several days. The year was 1956, the place l'urlock, California. Linda's father, Dr. Marion Collins, decided then that a distinctive ident must be devised to prev...

’ ANYONE FOR TENNIS ? 199 Anyone for tennis ?

What ' S so Special about Medic

Health care has increasing!y come to be understood as a commodity. The ethical implications of such an understanding are significant. The author argues that health care is not a commodity becanse health care (1) is non-proprietary, (2) serves the needs of persons who, as patients, are uniquely vulneräble, (3) essenfially involves a special human relationship which ought not be bought or sold, (...

Medical image categorization with MedIC and MedGIFT

Images play an important role in medical diagnostics and treatment planning. Whereas medical text retrieval, analysis, and reuse have been practiced for many years, much less is known on the storage and reuse of images in a context other than a single patient, although several medical teaching files with images exist. The aim of automatic image indexing/retrieval is to provide efficient and fas...

MEDIC: Medical embedded device for individualized care

OBJECTIVE Presented work highlights the development and initial validation of a medical embedded device for individualized care (MEDIC), which is based on a novel software architecture, enabling sensor management and disease prediction capabilities, and commercially available microelectronic components, sensors and conventional personal digital assistant (PDA) (or a cell phone). METHODS AND M...