Medicine
| Here are some more future medical technologies coming our way. Big changes are coming our way in the next few years, helping us live longer and healthier lives. |
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Medical technology is an exciting and fast-developing field that promises remarkable new advancements in the not-so-distant future. Take a tour and see some of the most interesting potentialities of future medical technology.
Real-Time Tumor Scanning
A surgical knife, called the iKnife, already exists and allows surgeons to make incisions with reduced blood loss. The knife can also detect whether a biological sample contains malignant tissue. This will change the way cancer diagnosis is rendered, and can result in faster and safer biopsies.The Next Advancement in Google Glass
Google glasses certainly have caught their share of media attention, but scientists are already working on ways to turn that technology into a contact lens. The lens can be controlled using the brain by accessing brain waves and intuiting what the wearer needs. Someday, surgeons might be able to make more precise incisions with the aid of these kinds of glasses.| Related articles |
The Lawnmower Man Might be Real
If you remember the old horror movie, "The Lawnmower Man," you might be frightened by this next revolution. Ian Pearson posits that one day we might be able to create a digital version of ourselves that can continue living in digital form. We would essentially upload our minds to a computer and continue living in mind, if not in body. Maybe eternal life is possible after all.New Drugs
The potential for 3D printing may take on a whole new level of sophistication with the ability to create drugs on demand. Printing drugs from a printer may completely change the pharmaceutical world as we know it. Instead of pharmacies contains rows of medication, they may just have several drug manufacturing machines that print and make your prescription on the spot. 3D printing has also shown capabilities of reproducing organs for transplanting. With this kind of technology on the horizon, organ donors will become a thing of the past.With the advent of new medical technologies, there will also be large ethical and social implications that need to be hammered out. From surgeries to births, medicine and the doctors are seeing a new world of technology in their field. Maternal care specialist, Dr. Gilbert Webb says even caesarian sections are becoming safer with new advances. Those living 20 to 30 years from now may live in a drastically different world than what we are experiencing today. Look how far the personal computer has come since its introduction in the 80s, and you can get an idea for how drastically technology can change in the span of 30 years.
Information Credit: http://health.usnews.com/doctors/gilbert-webb-373659
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Author Bio - Brooke Chaplan is a freelance writer and an outdoor enthusiast. She lives and works in Los Lunas, NM where she enjoys writing, hiking and running as much as she can!
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