CRISPR and Identity
Dr. Joel Reynolds, a postdoctoral fellow at The Hastings Center recently wrote a very poignant essay in Time magazine arguing that our increasing ability to edit our own genetic code risks eventually eliminating the very genetic code that results in people like his younger brother Jason, who was born with muscle-eye-brain disease, resulting in muscular dystrophy, hydrocephalus, cerebral palsy, severe nearsightedness and intellectual disability. In... // Read More » (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 15, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Mark McQuain Tags: Genetics Health Care bioethics biotechnology enhancement Health Care Practice human dignity Human Identity syndicated Source Type: blogs
PhysioSensing Smart Pressure Pad to Improve Rehab: Interview with Sensing Future ’s Pedro De Jesus Mendes
Sensing Future Technologies, a startup company based in Coimbra, Portugal, has developed a system called PhysioSensing that relies on a dense electronic pressure pad to assess a variety of characteristics about a person’s physical state, including balance, limits of stability, and related parameters. It can also be used, in a combination with gaming software, to help people with neurological and musculoskeletal conditions to rehabilitate. We had a chance to speak with one of the company founders, Pedro De Jesus Mendes, about PhysioSensing and to find out how it works and what it can offer to patients and rehabilitat...
Source: Medgadget - August 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Rehab Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Robotic Training System Improves Walking Gait in Children with Cerebral Palsy
Many children with cerebral palsy exhibit what is known as a “crouch gait,” a walking style that involves an unusually great deal of bending of the hip, knee, or ankle joints. This makes walking difficult and often exhausting, effectively limiting the activities that a child can participate in. At Columbia University a new robotic system has been developed that assists kids with crouch gait in improving their muscle coordination and strength.
The technology works by honing the strength of soleus extensor muscles that run along the lower half of the lower extremities, and which are responsible for keeping the kn...
Source: Medgadget - August 4, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Pediatrics Rehab Source Type: blogs
5 Misconceptions about Cord Blood Banking
When it comes to life-saving medical decisions, most people want to hear just the facts. And it’s no different when it comes to cord blood banking. Unfortunately, when you do a simple Google search on cord blood banking, you get a lot of information that may or may not be factual about the process and possibilities of cord blood banking, influencing your decisions with unreliable data. Here’s 5 Cord Blood Misconceptions debunked!
Myth #1: Treating diseases with cord blood is still in the experimental phase.
Fact: Not anymore. The first cord blood transplant was performed in 1988. Since then, 30,000 cord blood st...
Source: Cord Blood News - August 1, 2017 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: Cord Blood private cord blood bank Source Type: blogs
A Pill to Replace Needles: Interview with Mir Imran, Chairman and CEO of Rani Therapeutics
Operating within InCube Labs, a multi-disciplinary life sciences R&D lab based in Silicon Valley, Rani Therapeutics is developing a novel approach for the oral delivery of large-molecule drugs such as basal insulin, which is currently delivered via injections. By replacing painful injections with a painless, easy-to-take pill, the technology has the potential to drastically improve the lives of millions of patients suffering from diabetes, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and many other chronic conditions.
The idea is that the pill allows biological drugs, such as proteins, that would otherwise b...
Source: Medgadget - July 5, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Medicine Oncology Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Sounding The Alarms On Children ’s Health Coverage
We reported on this trend in a recent Health Affairs article, in which we found that in 2013, nearly one-third of children in low-income working families above the poverty line got their health coverage through Medicaid or CHIP, up 8 percent from just six years earlier.
Today, more than 40 percent of children and adolescents in this country are now covered by Medicaid and CHIP, second only to employer-sponsored insurance. As a result, children are disproportionately vulnerable to health care reforms that cut public programs. In making any changes, caution is needed, as is an awareness of the many factors leading to familie...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: David Rubin Tags: Following the ACA Medicaid and CHIP Public Health Quality ACA repeal and replace AHCA Source Type: blogs
Big Dreams, Great Job at Minnesota Best Buy for Man with Cerebral Palsy
Mongolia native finds Best Buy job with help from ProAct, leads smartphone app session for disability leaders, selected as national conference panelist (Source: Disabled World Blogs)
Source: Disabled World Blogs - June 16, 2017 Category: Disability Tags: Blogs - Writings - Stories Source Type: blogs
The Children of Medicaid
This article was originally published on Complex Child.
Compiled by Susan Agrawal
I’ve been continually surprised by how many people think Medicaid is just for poor families on welfare. Those of us who parent children with complex medical needs know that Medicaid is so much more than that. After all, 72% of Medicaid enrollees are children, people with disabilities, and the elderly, and these groups account for 84% of spending.
Medicaid provides vital services for children, including home nursing care and therapies, that are not otherwise covered. In this article, we will share just a few of the children with medical co...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How the Wrong Medicaid Reforms Could Devastate Young People with Complex Medical Needs
This post was authored by Sophia Jan MD, MSHP; Ahaviah Glaser, JD; and Rebecca Kim. It was originally published by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute Policy Lab blog.
Current proposals to simultaneously repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and reform the federal Medicaid program would be devastating to children and young adults with disabilities and complex medical needs. Even if the final ACA replacement plan continues to allow young people to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until they turn 26 – which is a benefit largely supported on both sides of the political aisle ̵...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Top Healthcare Companies in Robotics
Robotics has the power to completely reshape the landscape of healthcare both in its structure and its operation. Here, you find my own list about the most relevant companies and start-ups on the healthcare robotics market.
With robotics for the sustainability of healthcare
As I outlined in my open letter to regulators, the long-term sustainability of healthcare systems could be solved by automation powered by digital health technologies, such as artificial intelligence, 3D-printing or robotics. The latter could take over monotonous work from healthcare workers, which would allow them to focus more on patients and to have ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 2, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Medical Robotics GC1 google Health Healthcare Innovation pharma robot companion surgical robot Source Type: blogs
11 New Jobs in the Future of Healthcare and Medicine – Part II.
The question is not whether disruptive technologies will transform the healthcare job market, but rather how and when will it happen. Healthcare navigators, augmented/virtual reality operation planners and nanomedicine engineers in the second part of my article series about future jobs in healthcare.
As I am certain that the huge waves of technological change transform the medical professional palette; based on the current and prospective trends in digital health technologies I envisioned what potential new professions could appear in our lives. Don’t miss the first part of the list!
If you have an idea about another...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 8, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine artificial intelligence augmented reality brain-computer interface cyborg gamification gc4 Health Innovation nanotechnology Personalized medicine psychology robotics virtual reality Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Blog Posts for 2016
List, lists and more lists. Everyone loves a list and ASHA Leader Blog readers are no different. Your favorite blog posts from 2016 include lists about non-tech gift ideas to promote language, myths and truths about choking, and methods for identifying typical second-language errors. In addition to lists, recognizing auditory processing disorder, working with picky eaters, and a new television show featuring a character using AAC all piqued your interest.
As you prepare for a new year, enjoy a look back at these insights, suggestions and tips for treatment that many CSD pros found helpful. Do you know a better approach? T...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 29, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology auditory processing disorder Augmentative Alternative Communication Autism Spectrum Disorder Bilingual assessment Feeding Disorders hearing loss Source Type: blogs
Liftware Level Utensil System Helps People With Disabilities Eat With Confidence
Using conventional spoons and forks can be pretty frustrating for people with poor hand control, such as post stroke patients and those living with cerebral palsy. Utensils designed to better match each person’s unique abilities and limitations have existed for a while, but they can still be difficult to use by many patients. Now a new utensil system is being introduced that uses sensors and computer controlled motors to help folks with arm and hand disabilities have a much easier time.
The Level from Liftware, a company based in Mountain View, California, automatically adjusts the business end of a spoon or fork so ...
Source: Medgadget - December 6, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Rehab Source Type: blogs
Revisiting the relation between speech production and speech perception: Further comments on Skipper et al.
Continuing the "discussion" ofSkipper, Devlin, and Lametti's (SDL) recent and in my opinion badly misguided review of the relation between speech perception and production, let's consider this quote on page 84:Miceli, Gainotti, Caltagirone, and Masullo (1980)found a strong relationship between the ability to produce speech and discriminate syllables in 69 fluent and nonfluent aphasics. Specifically, contrasts between groups with and without a phonemic output disorder showed that patients with a disorder were worse at discriminating phonemes, particularly but not limited to those distinguished ...
Source: Talking Brains - November 27, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
