Ecotoxicogenomics: Emerging Technologies for Emerging Contaminants

Contaminants of Emerging Concern

Contaminants of emerging concern, or CECs, can be broadly defined as chemicals that have been recently detected in the environment and that may pose public health or ecological risks. CECs encompass a wide variety of chemicals, including pharmaceuticals and household chemicals. Many CECs differ from conventional environmental contaminants such as pesticides, metals, polychlorinated biphenyls (P...

Emerging technologies for learning

Emerging Technologies for Telemedicine

This paper focuses on new technologies that are practically useful for telemedicine. Three representative systems are introduced: a Digital Video Transport System (DVTS), an H.323 compatible videoconferencing system, and Vidyo. Based on some of our experiences, we highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each technology, and point out technologies that are especially targeted at doctors an...

Emerging technologies.

Hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill patients has been considered part of the standard of care in managing patients with shock and/or acute lung injury, but outcome benefit, particularly in pediatric patients, has been questioned. There is difficulty in validating the reliability of monitoring devices, especially since this validation requires comparison to the pulmonary artery catheter, wh...

Emerging Technologies

I t is difficult to believe how much musculoskeletal medicine has improved over the past 30 years. In the sports medicine world, the arthroscope has been one of the instruments that has revolutionized orthopaedic care of the synovial joints, especially the knee, shoulder, and recently, the hip. These developments are far beyond what orthopaedic entrepreneurs of the 1970s and 1980s could imagine...