Mark Sunderland
Medical Engineering Columnist: Electrical engineer and president, Biomedical Industry Group.
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New technology speeds up DNA analysis
March 20, 2012
Unlike a grocery store barcode, DNA is more complicated and costly to scan. However, when the SARS virus was threatening Canada in 2003, it took laboratory researchers only a few days to fully map its sequencing.
Saving face with 3D technologies
January 01, 2012
There was once a time when the shape of internal body parts could only be imagined through the sense of external touch – and this was limited by what was close to the surface of the body.
The cutting edge of medical technology
October 19, 2011
Since the dawn of surgery, the instrument for incising flesh has been the scalpel – basically a euphemism for a knife. Not much has changed in scalpel design, although I recall that a surgeon from Holland came to Ottawa in the 1990s with a scalpel for the left hand.
The forensics of healthcare technology
June 22, 2011
There was once a time when a medical practitioner, carrying little more than a stethoscope, an otoscope and a thermometer, could make a rudimentary assessment as to whether or not the patient was a picture of health or decay.
A new coat for dressing those familiar wounds
May 14, 2010
The treatment of wounds can be traced to the dawn of civilization. Burns, lacerations and punctures have all left their mark on the body ever since humankind was first exposed to the fire, the knife and the fork.
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