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		<title>Waves available now on the Kindle!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Goethe&#8217;s Faust and described as a cross between Michael Crichton and Umberto Eco, Waves weaves together action, drama, romance, and science in a global setting where the melding of good and evil results in shocking consequences. A technothriller, a psychological drama, a scientific dialogue: there&#8217;s something in Waves for everyone and, yes, there&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogangurel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5460762&amp;post=408&amp;subd=ogangurel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Facebook group for Waves!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new Facebook group for Waves!  Join by clicking here.  Or cut and paste the following link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=45715403303 Lots of interesting photos, videos, and discussion topics. Hope you can join!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogangurel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5460762&amp;post=401&amp;subd=ogangurel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waves &#8211; a 21st century version of Faust</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can find Waves — a 21st century version of Faust in the spirit of Goethe, Mann, Bulgakov and Melville — at the following links: Table of Contents (This downloadable file is hyperlinked to individual chapters, movements &#38; triplets. You can also directly click on the links within the Scribd window. This will make it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogangurel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5460762&amp;post=395&amp;subd=ogangurel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convergent Medical Technology: Part II &#8211; Why is it important?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first article &#8211; “Convergent Medical Technology: Part I &#8211; What is it?” – in this two-part series on convergent medical technologies (CMT), defined what CMT is … and what it isn’t.  This second article presents some reasons why CMT is important and why there will be a crescendo of such applications flowing forth.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogangurel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5460762&amp;post=311&amp;subd=ogangurel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Diplomacy: A Brief Outline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Boston Globe Op-Ed piece &#8211; “The cure for tyranny” (10/24/2005) the former governor of Wisconsin governor Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson described medical diplomacy as being: “the winning of hearts and minds of people … by exporting medical care, expertise, and personnel to help those who need it most.” While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogangurel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5460762&amp;post=291&amp;subd=ogangurel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Technologies for Nano-Engineered Medicine &#8211; Part I On The A to Z of Nanotechnology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Ogan Gurel interviews Dr. Dean Ho (Assistant Professor of Biomedical &#38; Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University) discusses &#8221; Emerging Technologies for Nano-Engineered Medicine &#8221; In this first excerpt, Dr. Ho discusses some of the interesting challenges an opportunities involved in the intrinsically interdisciplinary work required for nanotechnology. via Emerging Technologies for Nano-Engineered Medicine &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogangurel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5460762&amp;post=369&amp;subd=ogangurel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biotech Med Tech Business Models: Investors, Patients Deserve Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On several occasions, I have commented on the importance of developing new business and financing models for the rapidly evolving areas of medical technology and biotech. These have included: So Far, Venture Capital Relatively Unsuccessful in Biopharma (November 14, 2006) A Time to Make Friends: More Partnerships in Biotech, Med Tech? (July 12, 2006) Tech [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogangurel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5460762&amp;post=353&amp;subd=ogangurel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Subtle But Powerful, Publication Bias Goes Beyond Financial Incentives</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you are aware of the phenomenon of “publication bias” in the scientific literature. This most commonly refers to the fact that “negative” results find their way into publication much less commonly than “positive” results. Human Nature and Bias Given human nature, rarely does one want to publicly show their own hypothesis being disproved. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogangurel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5460762&amp;post=351&amp;subd=ogangurel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lance Armstrong and the Future of Cancer Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lance Armstrong is a unique phenomenon. He’s a talented athlete, a cancer survivor and a political activist. He is in a league by himself. Or is he?  As many people know, survivors of cancer are much more common today. A recent National Center for Health Statistics report released by the American Cancer Society showed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogangurel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5460762&amp;post=349&amp;subd=ogangurel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s More Important in Medicine: Diagnostics, Therapeutics or Prognosis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is more important: diagnostics, therapeutics or prognosis? While all are important, we will in this column see how past history has addressed this question and also how recent events (such as the GE acquisition of Abbott Diagnostics) shed light on this fundamental issue. It is all too easy to take modern medicine for granted, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogangurel.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5460762&amp;post=347&amp;subd=ogangurel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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