For some time we’ve been getting a little trackback and comment spam on FISpace. Suddenly this week it turned into a flood, and some of it links to naughty sites. So I’ve reconfigured FISpace so all comments and trackbacks are held for my approval before they are posted. If you make a comment, it won’t appear immediately. I’ll check for ...

From USA Today: Medicines can’t work effectively if patients don’t follow their dosing schedule — a problem researchers hope to overcome by delivering drugs using an implanted microchip linked to a wireless control outside the body. Researchers for MicroCHIPS Inc. say they’ve successfully controlled drug doses for up to six months in dogs that received implants in an experiment. Inside ...

There’s a new name for creating a permanent channel of TV-like broacasting that runs entirely on the internet: slivercasting.

I’ve been talking about ways of coping with health care costs. Here’s another twist: telemedicine. …a growing number of people monitoring their vital signs through "telemedicine," which allows health care providers to perform checkups by video. The technology can be as basic as the kiosks Wilson uses, which transmit blood pressure and weight readings to a remote facility monitored by ...