The Dec. 9, 2010 issue of Economist magazine includes insert Technology Quarterly. The following two articles are medically related.
(1) retinal implant:
Seeing into the future; Medical technology: The first commercial retinal implant is about to go on sale. It may be crude, but so were the first cochlear implants, 26 years ago. Economist, Dec.
http://www.economist.com/node/17647663?story_id=17647663&CFID=151862771&CFTOKEN=96853718
My comment:
(a) Second Sight
http://www.2-sight.com
(read the section Device)
The Team (web) page shows "Robert Greenberg, MD, PhD, President and CEO."
(b) Sylmar, California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylmar,_California
(a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles)
(c) Argus (n; Latin from Greek Argos):
"1: a hundred-eyed monster of Greek mythology
2: a watchful guardian"
www.m-w.com
(i) In some other places, he is described as a giant. This is how he looks like.
Argos Panoptes
http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/GiganteArgosPanoptes.html
(ii) Argus has an epithet "Panoptes", "all-seeing" in Greek.
(d) Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorfields_Eye_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust
(the oldest and largest eye hospital in the world and is internationally renowned for its comprehensive clinical and research activities; founded on the Moorfields in 1805; moved to its present site in 1899 [in the London Borough of Islington])
(e) University of Tübingen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_T%C3%BCbingen
(a public university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; one of Germany's oldest universities; established 1477)
(f)
(i) "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." Genesis 1: 3-4 (King James).
http://www.bartleby.com/108/01/1.html#1
(ii) Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind. John 9.
http://www.bartleby.com/108/43/9.html
(2) biopsy needle
Better safe than sorry; Medicine: A new type of needle provides a better way to collect samples from tumours, without the risk of spreading the cancer
http://www.economist.com/node/17647593?story_id=17647593&CFID=151862771&CFTOKEN=96853718
Note: NeoDynamics AB; Medical Equipment for Cancer Management (located in Sweden)