Any sensible person who reads the wsj knows the publication is a double-edged sword at best. You mostly read it for the financial news and hope they are not lying through their teeth… Read More
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A blog on medical devices, biotechnology, bioengineering, healthcare, etc. Join me on discussions about devices, regulations, the FDA, policies, law, and what not! Chaaraka is take on Charaka, an ancient Indian Physician of lore...
Every year, April 07 is World Health Day. The goal is to remind ourselves that human health is absolute to our species, and each year, one disease attains a specific focus. The area of focus… Read More
It might seem a bit crazy at first scan, to have a World Mosquito Day. That, in and of itself, is not surprising, given that most people are coached to alternatively hate or fear mosquitoes… Read More
April 24, annually is observed as World Day for Laboratory Animals. I am writing this post commemorating this. Laboratory animals do not get the respect they deserve in the service of b… Read More
Health. I wonder why that would be an important topic just about now? Well, I don't know if it is too soon for us to be laughing about this, but the coronavirus pandemic continues, and will… Read More
I know it has been a while since I posted on this blog, but World Autism Day is too important to pass up, so here I am. World Autism Day should serve as a reminder to all of us of a few… Read More
This is a quick update to the post I wrote from this morning, regarding the resignation of Angell, California's Public Health Director late on Sunday. On that I mentioned, and I will quote h… Read More
California, my state of never-ending hubris, and chutzpah, is in the midst of a crisis. As with everything else, it is being handled rather poorly. Gavin Newsom, our governor is in a big fig… Read More
India's Uncontrolled And Corrupt Medical Supply Chain Comes To Bite Back Just In Time For A Pandemic
There is a strong yearning among many Indians, myself included, for our nation to reach the upper echelons, to considered as having arrived, and to be recognized as a developed nation. Sadly… Read More
The International Self-Care Day is commemorated on July 24th, annually. Why?Well, if you are thinking about self-(health)care, you want to be engaged 24x7. Or, here in the "new" world, 7x24… Read More
The World Health Organization has been promoting World Health Day, annually on April 7. In years past, one might have struggled to pick from various health conditions and issues, or cohorts… Read More
If you, like me are not a participant of the great toilet paper panic of 2020 (seriously, if you get sick, WHAT are you going to do with TP?), you are wondering what it is that we ought to d… Read More
In the US, capitalizing on the spirit of Valentine's Day, February is commemorated as Heart Health Month. So, get moving, get reading and get changing! Photo Credit, etc. : https://www.pexel… Read More
Note: I am from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, a very progressive city in a very progressive state. And so, I may not be as objective in writing this, even though, Diversity, LGBT and Women's right… Read More
It is official, Microsoft is exiting the Health Records business altogether, shuttering HealthVault completely and sending consumers elsewhere. In lieu of admitting defeat, they are issuing… Read More
I am speaking at the Boston BIOMEDevice Conference and the ESC. As a speaker, I have ONE complimentary pass to give away.Since most everyone I know in the Boston area, will probably be at th… Read More
The good folks at JDRF woke me up on a lazy Sunday morning with an email about April 7th being World Health Day. As I lay in bed listening to some Carnatic Music renditions (a form of South… Read More
NOTE: By now, if you haven't heard of the secret database the FDA has been keeping to help companies hide adverse events, I'd say you are not keeping up! I will supply a couple of links for… Read More
Just this morning (it is still the 2nd of April as I compose the email) I found out that the UN declared April 2nd and the month of April, Autism awareness day and month. This is obviously o… Read More
A Note: I have found the people at Sterigenics to be very forthcoming in my previous interactions with them. They are "singled" out here, only because they made the news for all the wrong re… Read More
Disclaimer: I work in Surgical Robotics currently, and Kaiser Permanente, featured in the story below is my current insurance provider.The Story: CNN just picked up a rather sad and disturbi… Read More
The other day, I wrote about my cholesterol issue and the research surrounding it. I got some interesting feedback, so I thought, I'd write another post along that vein based on a personal e… Read More
It has been nearly a year since I last posted here. I have had an eventful year, including employment changes, more conferences and illnesses sundry. I have been itching to get back on this… Read More
Last July, I wrote a post about an interesting investment by 3i in Cirtec Medical (link below), that I predicted would shake up competition among medical device contract manufacturers. Of co… Read More
So today, I will tell you a story. In a galaxy not so far away, I visited a medical device company, where nepotism, hubris and a "we are always right" are fostered and promoted. The result i… Read More
I would be surprised if you were either in the medical devices/diagnostics or the general greed, stupidity and avarice industry and had never heard of Theranos. I mean you'd be in some stran… Read More
Traditional/Alternate non-allopathy medicine certainly has a place in the healthcare industry. However, the problem is that a lot of these are entirely devoid of any basis in scientific evid… Read More
If you have been following the blog, you have heard I was presenting at the San Jose BIOMEDevice Conference this week. In connection with this, I have a new site, http://medpund.it/, focused… Read More
This is going to be a brief post. I am honored to have been accepted to present on how AI is influencing Medical Device Design and Manufacturing, this December, at the San Jose, BioMEDevice… Read More
As I was thinking of getting to summarize, what I thought were some of the cool things I myself learned while being a panelist at MD&M Minneapolis, Amanda Pedersen over at MD&DI wrot… Read More
I know I have not been blogging as frequently as I would like. It has been a busy few weeks filled with Maker Faires, conferences, competition judging and participation in competitions and p… Read More
As some of you know and have seen me post here, earlier this year, I branched out my research and blogging on Women's Health onto a separate site, a domain of my own, http://gyn.ioI am very… Read More
MDDI, a versatile source for healthcare industry news has some good news for AI/ML fans. This morning they provided news on two different companies that got funding for Machine Learning (ML)… Read More
People think little of Stainless Steel on a day to day basis. I mean, it is a wonderful, class of alloy and surrounds all walks of our life. It is strong, durable and easily rolled, formed a… Read More
AAAS - American Association for Advancement of ScienceHelp me help with a STEM/Human Experiment!AAAS recently communicated to me that as a member, I have the opportunity to gift an undergrad… Read More
NOTE: It has been a busy few weeks and it is going to be a busy few months ahead. So, my blogging frequency is going to be erratic at best. It is a shame, because I wanted to write on the Pr… Read More
Word is out that the FDA is trying to curtail the number of side-effects stated in Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertisements, in an apparent effort to try and get consumers to u… Read More
With most medical device innovation happening in the West, it is easy to simply ignore some marvelous innovations coming from elsewhere. The Jaipur Foot/Leg, conceived in India and used for… Read More
Rarely do people get to declare everyone in the world to commemorate a day as "World X Day", but according to Wikipedia: World Mosquito Day, observed annually on 20 August, is a commemoratio… Read More
By now, I hope you have heard about Design Thinking, a term, though surprisingly old, has now become popular among Designers, and those who would like to apply this way of thinking about pro… Read More
This past Friday, I had dinner with my graduate school roommate. We'd met after nearly 11 years and still, we were able to pick up where we left off. While I have been in Engineering since… Read More
Previously, I have received feedback with suggestions to write more about investments in the medical device field. I didn't want to mirror the usual press releases that suggest X invested Y… Read More
MedCity News pointed me to a very interesting retrospective study on Gastric Lap Bands, and a Danish reporting system that led to findings on a hernia mesh in an article today. This got me t… Read More
I know a lot of people dislike being advertised to, but I lap it up, depending on what it is. This morning, LinkedIn had a suggested post, on skin adhesives for wearable devices by a very kn… Read More
I am presenting on continual innovation at the ASQ Innovation Conference this Fall. I have been gathering some interesting reading materials on innovation. Clayton Christensen has written ex… Read More
Interesting NumbersIn a Senate Hearing today, FDA Director said that there are over 200 orphan designation applications pending with the agency. He then promised a turnaround on ALL (yup, yo… Read More
Surgery can be really personal. I once nearly lost my left arm to a benign cyst, because the first Orthopedic specialist didn't alert us to the dangers of repeat fractures, and another speci… Read More
There is a disease slowly spreading across many industries. It is not AI (and no, this is not a Luddite post, I am a huge fan of AI). It is NOT-AI, or Fake-AI or Pretend-AI - we don't have a… Read More
I am going to write about one of my favorite topics, where I will, take somewhat of an antithetical position, and that is going to piss some of you off. If it does, it was meant to. If you a… Read More
I find it quite interesting that, just yesterday, I had complained about how the FDA and other regulatory agencies are behind the curve on cyber-security, and today, at least with regard to… Read More
