Magnetic Tentacle Robots for Minimally Invasive Procedures
Researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK have developed a magnetic tentacle robot that is intended for use in minimally invasive medical procedures, such as the treatment of tumors in the lungs. The soft tentacles are made from silicone. They are unlikely to cause tissue damage, and contain a series of magnets that can be influenced by external magnetic robots. The researchers hope that the technology will pave the way for minimally invasive procedures for lung cancer patients. In tests so far, the soft tentacles, which are just 2 mm in diameter, could travel 37% further into the lungs than conventional equipment. ...
Source: Medgadget - August 22, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Oncology Surgery universityleeds Source Type: blogs
If You ’ ve Seen One Robot – Wait, What?
BY KIM BELLARD
If You’ve Seen One Robot – Wait, What?
We think we know robots, from the old school Robbie the Robot to the beloved R2-D2/C-3PO to the acrobatic Boston Dynamics robots or the very human-like Westworld ones. But you have to love those scientists: they keep coming up with new versions, ones that shatter our preconceptions. Two, in particular, caught my attention, in part because both expect to have health care applications, and in part because of how they’re described.
Hint: the marketing people are going to have some work to do on the names.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - April 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard robots SlimeBot Source Type: blogs
Bronchial Carcinoid : CT Findings
History: A 31 years male presented with 6 weeks history of breathlessness and intermittent hemoptysis. CT scan was performed and show belowFindings:An intrabrocnchial soft tissue lesion is seen obstructing the left lower lobe bronchus with distal atelectasis. The soft tissue shows eccentric foci of calcification. The lesion shows significant post contrast enhancement in arterial phaseDiagnosis:These imaging findings are typical of a Carcinoid tumorFamous Radiology Blog by Dr Sumer Sethi www.sumersethi.com (Source: Sumer's Radiology Site)
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - February 3, 2022 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 12th 2018
In conclusion, most experimental data on immune changes with aging show a decline in many immune parameters when compared to young healthy subjects. The bulk of these changes is termed immunosenescence. Immunosenescence has been considered for some time as detrimental because it often leads to subclinical accumulation of pro-inflammatory factors and inflammaging. Together, immunosenescence and inflammaging are suggested to stand at the origin of most of the diseases of the elderly, such as infections, cancer, autoimmune disorders, and chronic inflammatory diseases. However, an increasing number of gerontologists have chall...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 11, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Where does Bronchial veins drain ?
One casual question in my class led to this search for an anatomical mystery. When we were discussing why left atrial oxygen saturation never reaches 100 % ? , it was attributed to desaturated bronchial venous blood draining into pulmonary vein.
How does this bronchial vein enter pulmonary venous circulation ? How many bronchial veins are there ? What anatomical plane it runs ?
Surprisingly, even in this hi-tech era of academic excess, literature is sparse for this basic anatomical question. It is reported (In Greys anatomy ? ) Bronchial veins are two in number and both drain to Azygos and Hemiazygos veins (...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 28, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Anatomy of heart Bronchail arterial and venous circulation bronchial arterial and venous circulation bronchial circulation bronchial vein rupture hemoptysis in mitral stenosis bronchial venous drainage clincial antomy research topics researc Source Type: blogs
Minimal Reporting Guidelines for the Treatment of Cancer Patients
Minimal Reporting Guidelines for the Treatment of Cancer Patients As laboratory physicians, our contribution to patient care is knowledge: this is the starting point from which all informed therapeutic intervention proceeds. How that knowledge is obtained and communicated is the art and science of our profession. These minimal diagnostic guidelines are designed to be used as an aid, not a constraint, in that process. The guidelines are presented in a specific format out of necessity, but any format that effectively communicates the necessary information in a given patho...
Source: Oncopathology - September 5, 2011 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
