Bacteria Coerced to 3D Print Nanocellulose Implants
In a quest to make more realistic, safer, and personalizable tissue replacement implants, bacterial cellulose nanofibers are being looked on as a viable material. They are naturally biocompatible, biodegradable, withstand heat well, and have physical properties similar to many of our tissues, when composed into larger objects.
Bacterial cellulose nanofibers are produced by aerobic bacteria when it has sufficient supply of oxygen. This is known to happen at the edge between a culture medium and surrounding air, but to really take advantage of this process, researchers at Aalto University in Finland have developed a way for...
Source: Medgadget - March 27, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Materials Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
Top 12 Companies Bringing Blockchain To Healthcare
Security, trust, traceability, and control – these are the promises of the blockchain, the technology with the most potential in healthcare at the moment. As these are highly attractive traits for storing sensitive health data or for the operation of supply chains, many companies aim to leverage its powers for healthcare. We collected the most promising enterprises here.
The buzzword of the year award goes to blockchain
It would be a big surprise if the buzzword of the year award would not go to blockchain in 2018. Although the technology is indeed a game-changer, the craze and hype around it remind some experts of the d...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 27, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Security & Privacy AI artificial intelligence big data blockchain future genetics genomics Health health data health IT health market Innovation Personalized medicine Source Type: blogs
Investigating the “STEM gender-equality paradox” – in fairer societies, fewer women enter science
The percentage of women with STEM degrees is lower in more gender-equal countries, as measured by the WEF Gender Gap Index. Image from Stoet & Geary, 2018.
By Alex Fradera
The representation of women in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and maths) is increasing, albeit more slowly than many observers would like. But a focus on this issue has begun throwing up head-scratching anomalies, such as Finland, which has one of the larger gender gaps in STEM occupations, despite being one of the more gender equal societies, and boasting a higher science literacy rate in its girls than boys. Now a study in Psycholo...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Educational Gender Occupational Source Type: blogs
Um, You Missed Some Evidence: A “Thought Experiment” Fails Private Schooling
Toparaphrase John Lennon, imagine there are no public schools, or private ones, too. That is what writer Julie Halpert ostensibly does in anewAtlantic article in which she purports to conduct a “thought experiment,” first imagining a world of all private schools, then one of all public. But rather than coming off as a true, objective experiment, the piece reads more like a dystopian novel depicting the horrors of an imagined all-private system, while comparatively glancing past the man y real, actually experienced stains and injustices of public schooling.It ’s not auspicious that the article, before the “experimen...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 7, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
Nokia May Exit Digital Health Business
The digital health market has become phenomenally competitive over the last few years, with giants like Google and Apple duking it out with smaller, fast-moving startups over the choicest opportunities in the sector.
Even with a behemoth like Google, you expect to see some stumbles, and the Internet giant has taken a few. But seldom have we seen a billion-dollar company walk away from the digital health market, which arguably stands to grow far more. Still, according to a recent news report, that’s just what Nokia may be doing.
A story published in The Verge reports that the Finnish telecom giant has launched a strategic...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 2, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Apple Connected Health Digital Health EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Google Health Care Healthcare Healthcare Devices HealthCare IT Healthcare Leadership Medical Devices Mobile Health Accelerators Source Type: blogs
New and Improved Planmed Verity CBCT Scanner Unveiled
Planmed, based in Helsinki, Finland, is releasing an upgraded new version of its popular Planmed Verity CBCT (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) extremity scanner. The system is intended for ortho, as well as head and neck imaging, and even advanced dental applications. It is CE marked in Europe and is now available wherever the mark applies.
While the new device looks much like its previous version, the major changes are on the inside, such as a new and improved detector, a new operating system, and a number of new features and applications. For instance, there’s now a greater ability to capture maxillofacial and ENT im...
Source: Medgadget - February 9, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Dentistry Medicine Orthopedic Surgery Radiology Source Type: blogs
QR Codes on Drugs to Thwart Counterfeits, Improve Compliance
Drugs are sometimes faked and sold in place of the real stuff, seriously hurting patients and causing them financial harm. Moreover, patients often take the wrong drugs or take them at the wrong time. What if each pill could be tagged by the manufacturer and confirmed by the patient of its authenticity and that it’s the exact medicine that should be ingested?
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and Åbo Akademi University in Finland have demonstrated in a proof-of-concept experiment that they can print a QR code onto a digestible material. A drug can replace the material and each doze of the dru...
Source: Medgadget - February 6, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Public Health Source Type: blogs
Has “ high risk ” become a new disease?
As I was working on the post I published yesterday, I ran into a very interesting 2015 editorial by a Finnish professor on the issue of HIGH RISK and decided it was worth a post of its own, before I go on and finnish, I mean, finish! the bone microenvironment post.
Here’s the link: goo.gl/CWAexK
Prof. Järvinen argues that “high risk” has become a disease today. That is, relatively healthy people can start seeing themselves as no longer relatively healthy. AND, he adds, “almost every treatment has inherent risks.”
Who can determine the threshold for “high risk”? Doctors? And what if patients di...
Source: Margaret's Corner - January 30, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll high risk Prof. Järvinen Source Type: blogs
Does Donald Trump Have Heart Disease?
By SAURABH JHA
According to the WHO definition of health, which is “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity,” several million Americans became unhealthy on Tuesday November 8th, 2016 as Florida folded to Trump. As Hillary’s prospects became bleaker many more millions, particularly those on Twitter, lost their health. The WHO sets a high bar for health. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a person on social media to be in “complete mental and social well-being.”
Whilst WHO has set a high bar for health, moder...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Greatest and Weirdest Digital Health Innovations at CES 2018
With more than a hundred exhibitors, countless new ideas and exciting innovations digital health truly conquered Las Vegas and CES 2018. Just as last year, we decided to show you the most and least impressive healthcare-related gadgets, sensors, trackers, and more importantly, the discernible trends.
2018 – The year when digital health arrived at CES
Would you like to play ping-pong with a robot? Do you want to try an air taxi? If you responded to both questions with “hell yes!” (how else, really), then your place is in the venues hosting CES. Innovators and tech fanatics flock to Las Vegas every January to k...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 11, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine AI ces CES 2018 digital digital health Health 2.0 Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine robotics technology trackers wearables Source Type: blogs
FDA Approves Planmed ’s Budget Friendly, but Attractive Clarity 2D Mammography System
Planmed, a Finnish company specializing in breast cancer radiography systems, won FDA approval for its Clarity 2D digital mammography device. The Clarity 2D is a budget mammography system that has a lot of the features that exist in more expensive systems.
Planmed touts its TriFilter technology that produces high quality images at a low radiation dose. The company’s MaxView technology uses swappable radiolucent sheets that put pressure around the breast to optimize the imaging results.
Interestingly, the Clarity 2D is designed to work within mobile clinics and high humidity environments, allowing for it to be used to...
Source: Medgadget - January 9, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Ob/Gyn Radiology Surgery Source Type: blogs
Plasmonic Biosensor to Detect Exosomes with Naked Eye
Exosomes are vesicles that are released by the body’s cells that end up in our blood, urine, and other bodily fluids. The importance and roles they play within our bodies still has to be elucidated, but there’s already a lot of signs that exosomes are biomarkers of disease and indicators of various cellular processes. Studying exosomes has been difficult because these particles are very rare and spotting them among a myriad of other things within bodily fluids is harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have now developed a plasmonic sensor that allows for detection of exos...
Source: Medgadget - December 18, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Genetics Materials Pathology Source Type: blogs
A Few PIRLS of Wisdom on New Reading Results
The latest international academic assessment results are out —this time focused on 4th grade reading —and the news isn’t great for the United States. But how bad is it? I offer a few thoughts—maybe not that wise, but I needed a super-clever title—that might be worth contemplating.The exam is theProgress in International Reading Literacy Study—PIRLS—which was administered to roughly representative samples of children in their fourth year of formal schooling in 58 education systems. The systems are mainly national, but also some sub-national levels such as Hong Kong and the Flemish-speaking areas of Belgium. PI...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
Knowing, applying, and reasoning about arithmetic: Roles of domain-general and numerical skills in multiple domains of arithmetic learning.
----Knowing, applying, and reasoning about arithmetic: Roles of domain-general and numerical skills in multiple domains of arithmetic learning. //Developmental Psychology - Vol 46, Iss 4 The longitudinal relations of domain-general and numerical skills at ages 6 –7 years to 3 cognitive domains of arithmetic learning, namely knowing (written computation), applying (arithmetic word problems), and reasoning (arithmetic reasoning) at age 11, were examined for a representative sample of 378 Finnish children. The results showed that domain-general skills, inclu ding spatial visualization, language, rapid automatized naming, ...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - November 28, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Popit Sense Accurately Monitors Blister Pack Drug Usage
Smart pill bottle caps have existed for a while now, tracking every time the bottle is accessed. But, most of the world relies on blister packs and a new product will soon be coming out that can track those as well. The Popit Sense device is a small plastic dongle that bites into and tightly attaches to just about any blister pack, and then senses every time a pill has been popped out.
We spoke with Timo Heikkilä and Teemu Piirainen, the co-founders of Popit Ltd., a Finnish company, about the technology within their device and how it will help patients, providers, and researchers.
The company’s proprietary technol...
Source: Medgadget - November 13, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Geriatrics Medicine Pediatrics Public Health Source Type: blogs
