New Pfizer Website on Medication Safety

Pfizer has released a new website focusing on medication safety.

www.Pfizer.com/medicinesafety

This site addresses some important issues regarding drug safety and is designed to be a resource for both healthcare professionals and consumers (or patients if you prefer). For details on specific drugs, the site points you to the FDA or to the PDR website. Of course, they also include a link to their own products.

It's great to see a large pharma investing in drug safety and public health issues. Patients are often so easily misinformed about these types of things.

Skyfire Browser Beta 0.8

Skyfire has to be one of the best mobile browsers for Windows Mobile. It's currently available as beta version 0.8, but it's now open to the public. Once the final version is released, it may be the best mobile browser out there.

I've played around with Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Both browsers are excellent but they also have some limitations. Opera Mobile was crashing on my XV6800 and I was frequently getting "low memory" messages. Maybe Opera will fix these bugs in their final release.

Skyfire is great because it's fast and allows you to view Flash. You can customize the zoom very easily and if you need a mouse pointer, it's there.

Thermoelectric Generators for Healthcare

We see solar power being used every day. There are even electric cars running on solar power. Solar powered chargers can even be used to charge laptop batteries.

So if we can harness light as energy, how about heat? That's exactly what thermoelectric generators are doing. Can you imagine what we could do if we could effectively generate power from heat? Heat is often wasted energy. Think about your computer. The CPU and hard drive get hot. What if we could use that energy (especially for mobile devices)?

Thermoelectric generators may have substantial application for medical devices. Think about all the different types of sensors, monitors, etc. that are used in hospitals. Some patients can hardly move because of all the wires connecting different sensors to boxes and devices. If these sensors could be thermoelectric (or get coupled with solar power), they could be wireless! Wouldn't that be great! This is an exciting area of research and I've been reading about some companies heavily invested in this research. More to come...