Empowering Trainees to be Leaders and Change Agents
We described several wellness initiatives that were done at individual campuses. The University of Illinois where I attend, we had a wellness committee that we formed led by students. We were able to partner with local companies to bring in more healthy food options. We were able to set up a counseling center dedicated specifically towards medical trainees.
Joe Geraghty:
And so that’s at the institutional level, but then in our local community, we had several letters from places like the University of Chicago. We had a medical student who wrote about how they were developing kind of like easy to digest infograp...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - April 25, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Annual Call for Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor ATLAS Trainee Perspective leadership medical education scholarship medical students residents scholarly publishing trainee engagement Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 21st April 2022
First, aCochrane review on repeat doses of prenatal corticosteroids for women at risk of preterm birth, for improving neonatal outcomes, And a trial of adding financial incentives tobest practices for smoking cessation among pregnant and newly postpartum women, an RCT carried out in Burlington, Vermont, USA.ASpectator article about an email sent from the NHS National Clinical Director for Maternity and Women ' s Health and the Chief Midwifery Officer, to NHS Trusts about the language used about birth in job adverts, that might suggest a bias to one mode of delivery. A government press release reporting resp...
Source: Browsing - April 21, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
The Fight Against The Ever-Widening Health Gap Between Rich And Poor
According to a series of studies published in the Lancet, the wealthiest American women live approximately 10 years longer than their poorest counterparts, and this gap widens to a shocking 14,5 years for men. With these figures, the USA is the most unequal country in terms of health outcome among the OECD countries. And the outlook is not great either. Researchers warn us that this difference we now see between the top and bottom 1% is only going to grow. Without intervention, the difference in life expectancy between the richest and poorest 20% will expand to 10 years in a generation’s time.
There are differences be...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones health literacy democratised healthcare Source Type: blogs
Device Makes Diffuse Ultrasound Waves for Intracranial Applications
Researchers at the University of California San Diego created an ultrasound transducer that is intended to provide safer ultrasound treatment when working inside the brain. Ultrasound has significant therapeutic potential for various ailments that originate in the brain, including epilepsy, and next-level sonogenetics involves targeting various cell types in the brain to make them responsive to ultrasound. However, current ultrasound devices use focused waves that can bounce around inside the skull, potentially causing injury. This latest technology uses the same mathematics that ensure sound diffusion in concert halls to ...
Source: Medgadget - March 28, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Neurology Neurosurgery Radiology UCSD Source Type: blogs
Flexible Brain-Computer Interface Array for Better Contact
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a brain-computer interface array featuring microneedles affixed to a flexible backing. The design allows the array to better conform to the undulating surface of the brain, permitting better contact and improved signal recording across a wide area. The technology represents an upgrade from the rigid arrays that have ususally been used to date, and the researchers hope that the technology could improve the ability of users to control external devices, from wheelchairs to prosthetic limbs.
Brain-computer interfaces offer enormous potential for patients wit...
Source: Medgadget - March 21, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Neurology Neurosurgery Rehab Source Type: blogs
What Has A.I. In Medicine Ever Done For Us? At Least 50 Things!
Remember Monty Python’s brilliant Life of Brian movie scene where the Judean Jewish insurgent commando, planning the abduction of Pilate’s wife in return for all the horrors they had to endure from the Roman Empire, asks the rhetorical question: what have the Romans ever done for us? With the hype and overmarketing, not to speak about the fears around A.I, we asked the same question. What has A.I. in medicine ever done for us? Well, we found at least 50 things.
I have 50 responses to the pressing question on everyone’s mind who is interested in healthcare but tired of the hype or the doomsday scenarios around A.I....
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine AI cancer diagnostics digital health Healthcare Innovation medical Radiology technology medical imaging treatment administration digital health technology Source Type: blogs
The Ongoing Debate about Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Adult Humans is over.
modified from Franjic et al. (2022). Cross-species comparison shows transcriptomic signatures of neurogenesis in the hippocampus of adult mouse, pig, and monkey— but not human.Does the adult brain generate new neurons throughout the lifespan? The prevailing view in most of the 20th century was that no new neurons are born in the mammalian brain once development ceases. A series of studies inthe 1960s showed otherwise, but these were ignoreduntil the 1990s. A now-historical paper from 2000 recounted thedeath of a dogma: adult neurogenesis is here to stay,even in humans. Thousand of studies in animals (mostly rodents) demo...
Source: The Neurocritic - February 28, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Pithiatism Redux
BY MARTIN SAMUELS
Those of us in medicine have all seen the famous painting of the Tuesday afternoon lessons at the Salpȇtrière in Paris in the 19th century. In Pierre Aristide André Brouillet’s painting, one can clearly see the great professor, Jean-Martin Charcot, holding forth while the patient, Blanche Whitman, is being supported by a tall young man, Joseph Jules Francois Felix Babinski, the Chef de Clinique (the chief resident) and allegedly the favorite to succeed Charcot. He never did as he was failed repeatedly on the exam necessary to become a faculty member at the university by a jealous, xenophobic, anti...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Andre Brouillet Martin Samuels Mental Health Patient Care Pithiatism Source Type: blogs
The Top Digital Health Solutions In Epilepsy Management And What We Still Miss
Epilepsy is the 4th most common neurological problem, following migraine, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease in the frequency of occurrence in the United States. Young children and older adults experience epileptic seizures the most often, but all in all, according to statistics, when the incidence of epilepsy is looked at over a lifetime, 1 in 26 people will develop this disease at some time in their life.
If we look a bit further, the picture is even darker. According to recent statistics published by the WHO, approximately 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological diseases...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers epilepsy seizure alert Source Type: blogs
Wearable EEG monitoring start-up Epitel raises $12.5M to market seizure detection system
Epitel raises $12.5M for wearable seizure detection system (MobiHealth News):
Epitel, maker of a wearable electroencephalogram (EEG) system for seizure detection, announced Wednesday it had scored $12.5 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by Catalyst Health Ventures (CHV) and Genoa Ventures, with participation from Dexcom, OSF Ventures, Wavemaker 360, MedMountain Ventures and Salt Lake City Angels … The company’s first product, the REMI system, consists of a wearable, wireless EEG sensor that’s applied below the hairline, and software for providers to review data and monitor for seizures. The sensor can co...
Source: SharpBrains - February 22, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation digital brain health digital health Epitel FDA FDA 510(k) clearance REMI seizure detection wearable EEG wearable electroencephalogram Source Type: blogs
6 Effective And Simple Ways To Consume CBD For Better Health
Conclusion:You might feel overwhelmed at first by the range of methods to consume CBD if you're new to CBD products. You should try a few different options to see which one fits your needs best. People respond differently to different methods, so it is best to experiment with other ways to see which appeals to you most. If you find the right CBD consumption method for you, you can look forward to enjoying its benefits.
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca R Tags: featured health and fitness cbd stress Source Type: blogs
Your Own Personal DBS
The second calendar year of COVIDsurges to a close, and hospital personnel continue their frenetic pace of caring for the infected (most of whom are defiantly unvaccinated). For the rest of us, Vaccine Scientists are the2021 Heroes of the Year... surely they will outsmart the latest variant of the sneaky virus. Their astonishing achievements built on less glamorous (and less recognized) work conducted over the course of 20 years. As told byTime magazine:In 2005, [Dr. Katalin] Kariko and [Dr. Drew] Weissman reported their findings in what they thought would be a landmark paper in the journalImmunity, then waited for the acc...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 31, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Thought-to-Text Brain-Computer Interface: Interview with Florian Solzbacher, Chairman of Blackrock Neurotech
Blackrock Neurotech, a medical technology company based in Salt Lake City, created a suite of brain-computer interface systems with the goal of empowering patients to have increased independence and quality of life. This latest technology aims to restore written communication in patients who have difficulties in this regard, such as those affected by paralysis.
The company’s new system, which Blackrock aims to make available in late 2022, allows patients to type text by merely imagining themselves writing or typing the words. The system uses machine learning to decode neural signals that occur while someone is ima...
Source: Medgadget - December 28, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery Rehab Source Type: blogs
On brain folding and fitting 86 billion neurons inside our 1400 cc crania
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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Understand your connectome, understand yourself
Understanding Brain Health via Cosmological Health, and vice versa
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Source: SharpBrains - December 27, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Biomechanics brain disorders brain folding BRAIN Initiative brain-development Cerebral Cortex computer modeling human-brain Mechanical engineering neuroimaging Neurons neuroscience white-matter Source Type: blogs
Insights From Our New E-book, The Medical Futurist ’s Hype Cycle Of The TOP 50 Digital Health Trends
As a researcher, I have always lived for the moments when I had to see a whole process and analyze the small details at once. Looking into the roots and origins of trends and also seeing the possible outcomes are rewarding in a way that I need to work with data (my passion), my analytical skills and my intuitions.
Besides, I’ve always loved challenging myself in order to be better – that is, for example, why I find my participation in undertakings like the Good Judgement Project (GJP) important.
So when we at The Medical Futurist decided to create a trend analysis of digital health trajectories, we ignited ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: TMF Covid-19 Lifestyle medicine 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Insurance Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design M Source Type: blogs
