Bridging the gap between the technological singularity and mainstream medicine: highlighting a course on technology and the future of medicine.

The "technological singularity" is defined as that putative point in time forecasted to occur in the mid twenty-first century when machines will become smarter than humans, leading humans and machines to merge. It is hypothesized that this event will have a profound influence on medicine and population health. This work describes a new course on Technology and the Future of Medicine developed by a diverse, multi-disciplinary group of faculty members at a Canadian university. The course began as a continuous professional learning course and was later established as a recognized graduate course. We describe the philosophy of the course, the barriers encountered in course development, and some of the idiosyncratic solutions that were developed to overcome these, including the use of YouTube audience retention analytics. We hope that this report might provide a useful template for other institutions attempting to set up similar programs.

When ballooning alone is enough: successful treatment of hypertension secondary to renal artery fibromuscular dysplasia using angioplasty.

A case of hypertension secondary to renal artery fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), successfully treated by balloon angioplasty is presented to highlight that for this specific condition balloon angioplasty remains the treatment of choice.