Digital Health Makes You A Superhero!
Superman, Spiderman, the Flash, the Avengers, Green Arrow, Catwoman. Idolized superheroes are able to fly, jump from one roof to another beating up the bad guys. Although they all have their unique characteristics and superpowers, one thing is common. They all use their abilities to the fullest. Digital health offers you the same. You can become a real superhero if you proactively harness the power of technology for your health.
Technology has the potential to transform how we think about our health
The current medical system in most countries works as a reactive setting. The patient goes to the doctor with existing sympt...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 8, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers artificial intelligence comics digital digital health Healthcare Innovation marvel marvel universe superhero superpower technology Source Type: blogs
StimRouter Receives Health Canada Approval: Interview with Mark Geiger of Bioness
Bioness, a Valencia, California medical device/rehabilitation company, recently received approval from Health Canada for its StimRouter device, an implantable peripheral nerve stimulator designed to reduce chronic pain. We spoke with Mark Geiger, the Global Director of Marketing for Implantables at Bioness to learn more.
Ben Ouyang, Medgadget: Tell me about Bioness and the StimRouter.
Mark Geiger, Bioness: Bioness is a 14 year old medical device company based out of Valencia, California. The founder, Alfred Mann, bought a product called the BION, an implantable to help people with paralysis, and a company called NES...
Source: Medgadget - February 5, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Anesthesiology Exclusive Neurosurgery Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Supporting mental health for all
This report finds that the prevalence of mental ill-health is significantly higher in LGBT+ communities and in disabled people, deaf people and in offenders. It argues that these health inequalities are compounded by services that do not understand and meet the specific needs of these groups. ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 30, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease (Book Index)
In January, 2018, Academic Press published my bookPrecision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease. This book has an excellent " look inside " at itsGoogle book site, which includes the Table of Contents. In addition, I thought it might be helpful to see the topics listed in the Book ' s index. Note that page numbers followed by f indicate figures, t indicate tables, and ge indicate glossary terms.AAbandonware, 270, 310geAb initio, 34, 48ge, 108geABL (abelson leukemia) gene, 28, 58ge, 95 –97Absidia corymbifera, 218Acanthameoba, 213Acanthosis nigricans, 144geAchondroplasia, 74, 143ge, 354geAcne, 54ge, 198, 220geAcq...
Source: Specified Life - January 23, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: index jules berman jules j berman precision medicine Source Type: blogs
For One Of The First To Speak Out About What Corporate Medicine Does To Good Doctors, The Journey Ends With A Single Step . . . Off The Beaten Path Where She Was So Mercilessly Beaten
In January 2013 . . . after eight years of " citizen journalism " in the " progressive " Greensboro N.C. ether . . . after all of the political flame-wars and even getting cyber-stalked . . . I stopped blogging. Regular posting stopped. The Twitter feed was also deactivated. As of January 2018, all of Dr. J ' s Housecalls has been archived for reference purposes.In 2013, I reworked the blog ' s sidebar over and over again - trying to figure out how much I wanted to say about the decision to stop. All I wound up doing was was telling the story onemore time. This post is that sidebar - it ' s as good as way a...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - January 12, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Reply to Erich Jarvis by William Matchin
More from William Matchin -- Reply to Erich Jarvis:At the most recent SfN, Erich Jarvis gave the opening presidential address on the functional neuroanatomy of language, which I commented on and critiqued in my recent blog post for Talking Brains (http://www.talkingbrains.org/2017/11/abstractness-innateness-and-modality.html). Erich has briefly responded to my writing on Twitter and suggested a debate. Few things could give me more pleasure than a productive debate on central issues concerning the nature of human language. The following is a response to his comments in the context of a more in-depth exploration of the issu...
Source: Talking Brains - January 10, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Blue Ribbon Patients: A Tool to Protect from Unnecessary Transitions
by Rick Strang (@rickstrang)Bed pressures in busy hospitals often means that less acute patients are moved to different wards in order to make space for patients admitted from the emergency department. We are often faced with some difficult decisions in our current NHS. End of Life (EoL) patients seem particularly at risk of being moved, which can be very distressing for families, friends, the patient and the care teams. It is also quite common for these moves to occur into the night or at weekends. These periods are covered by site managers, bed managers, and on-call clinicians rather than the usual ward teams and therefo...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 7, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: actively dying death/dying England hospital strang transition Source Type: blogs
More on sepsis
A great comment from Dr. Cory Franklin:
As an ICU physician and one of the people who drafted the initial “Sepsis guidelines” in 1991-1992, I want to point out they were not drafted with the intent of clinical use, rather as study criteria for the evaluation of sepsis drugs, in that case Xigris (unsuccessful).
i was one of the people who said that they should not be used as clinical criteria, since the whole concept of sepsis is ill-defined and difficult to validate. This fell on deaf ears and within a short period of time I saw ER diagnoses of R/o SIRS. IT soon became a routine clinical diagnosis, even though it was n...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - December 20, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Pre-op cardiac risk assessment : No worries . . . Dr.Hippocrates is on call !
Pre-op cardiac evaluation prior to non cardiac surgery is an important area for cardiology consultation . Unlike other clinical consults this one primarily involves in the delicate and tricky job of predicting future events !
Peri-operative cardiac evaluation is done for what ?
1.To evaluate and assess established CAD or other heart disease and get a proper pre-operative work up , drug adjustment and risk reduction for a possible peri-operative event.
2.To screen for any significant CAD or other heart diseases which is hiding and asymptomatic.
3.To treat those conditions that are detected prior to surgery .(O...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - December 12, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: perioperative risk assessment: Non cardiac surgery Preoperative evaluation acc aha guidelines peri operative pre operative risk fitness cardiac fitness prior to surgery peri operative cardiac risk assesment preop cardiac evaluation Source Type: blogs
Two Texas-Based SLPs Teach 12-Year-Old Recipient of Cochlear Implants to Talk
Jeffrey Mota
Jeffrey Mota—who was adopted from China three years ago and has severe hearing loss—is 12 years old and learning to communicate verbally for the first time. Last year, the boy received cochlear implants and began processing sounds once they were activated early this year. He works with two speech-language pathologists as he learns how to talk.
A local ABS affiliate in Austin, Texas, interviewed the SLPs and Jeffrey’s father.
Expanded Cochlear Implant Candidacy
Amidst renewed debate about teaching signed versus spoken language to children who are deaf, professionals call for emphasizing all forms o...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 6, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology bilingual service delivery hearing loss private practice Schools Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
BCBL - PhD positions - Programme INPhINIT "LaCaixa"
With the aim of continuing to support the best scientific talent and fostering innovative, high quality research in Spain, ”la Caixa” Foundation is launching a new call for applications for the INPhINIT Fellowships Programme. The application deadline is February 1st, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (Central European Time - CET). In this second call it will grant 57 3-year fellowships to talented researchers of any nationality to carry out a doctorate at top Spanish research centres accredited with the Severo Ochoa or María de Maeztu distinction and at Carlos III Health Research Institutes, in the ...
Source: Talking Brains - December 5, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Abstractness, innateness, and modality-independence of language: reflections on SNL & SfN 2017
Guest post by former student, William Matchin: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It ’s been almost 10 years since the Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference (SNL) began, and it is always one of my favorite events of the year, where I catch up with old friends and see and discuss much of the research that interests me in a compact form. This year’s meeting was no ex ception. The opening night talk about dolphin communication by Diana Reiss was fun and interesting, and the reception at the Baltimore aquarium was spectacular and well organized. I was impressed with the high quality of many...
Source: Talking Brains - November 20, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Audiologists and SLPs Share Inspirations and Practical Tools at Convention
If you couldn’t make it to Los Angeles last week for the 2017 ASHA Convention—or even if you just didn’t get to all of the sessions you flagged—Leader editors did go. And we gathered more than 200 article and blog ideas to share with you over coming months. If you don’t want to wait that long, take a peek at some of the intriguing ideas we captured from your colleagues in our #ASHA17 daily blog posts.
We kicked off the convening of over 14,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, hearing and speech scientists, and communications sciences and disorders students on Thursday by asking attendees wh...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Advocacy Audiology Events Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Health Care Practice Management private practice Professional Development Schools Source Type: blogs
