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Teddy Bear Blood Bag

This creative blood bag concept that would fit perfectly in pediatric departments was designed by Dunne and Raby design studio.

9 January 2009 | design, medicine | 11 Comments

Playful sterile masks

Doctors and their uniforms can sometimes look intimidating to patients, especially children. This is particularly true when doctors are wearing sterile mask. Because of this, Amsterdam and Tokyo-based product, textile, and interior design studio Samira Boon decided to make sterile masks more playful. They say that their mask is no longer masking, but transforming the […]

4 November 2008 | design, humor, medicine | 4 Comments

Vaccine Record on iPhone

Do you keep a vaccine record for your child? Do you know when and which shots has your child received? You would be surprised how many people don’t have a clue about this, from my experience almost 99%. But this can turn up to be a very important piece of information, especially if your child […]

13 October 2008 | iphone, medicine | No Comments

Computerized Screening for Adolescent Behavioral Concerns

In the latest issue of Pediatrics, official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, researchers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio have published a paper titled “Trial of Computerized Screening for Adolescent Behavioral Concerns“. This paper talks about the potential benefits of the Health eTouch systems to help pediatricians identify injury risks, depressive symptoms, […]

5 June 2008 | medicine, science | No Comments

Neonatology vodcast

Couple of months ago my colleague Ileana Lulic, also a medical doctor from Croatia, and myself started to produce a vodcast in collaboration with Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University Hospital Rijeka. Vodcast is essentially a video podcast, online delivery of video on demand content via RSS feeds. Our vodcast was conceived with […]

1 June 2008 | internet, medicine | No Comments