The Top 5 Medical Innovations To Look Out For In 2022
As they say, new year, new beginnings; and this also applies to the field of digital health! With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, the crisis has led to the adoption of certain trends in response to the challenges it raised. In general, this tends to bring the point of care to wherever the patient is. As more investment and research focus are diverted towards those relevant fields, this will help generate more innovations from those areas.
Even if they might not become the point of focus in 2022, these “predictions” usually follow through with time. For instance, for 2020 we forecasted a new line of Googl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Health Insurance Healthcare Design Telemedicine & Smartphones google microbiome genome sequencing A.I. vocal biomarkers at-home tests deepmin Source Type: blogs
Enhancement of old colour photographs using Generative Adversarial Networks
It’s almost Christmas, I haven’t posted anything in a while and I see that WordPress has an Image Compare feature, so let’s have some colourful fun.
When I’m not at the computer writing R code, I can often be found at the computer processing photographs. Or at the computer browsing Twitter, which is how I came across Stuart Humphryes, a digital artist who enhances autochromes. Autochromes are early colour photographs, generated using a process patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903. You can find and download many examples of them online. Stuart uses a variety of software tools to clean, enhanc...
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - December 23, 2021 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: nsaunders Tags: multimedia enhancement gan image photography processing python Source Type: blogs
Light-Activated PCR Assay
Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany have developed a light-activated form of the enzymes that power the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. The assay has gained recent fame among the general public because of its use as a COVID-19 diagnostic tool. The technique could lead to alternatives to current heat-activated enzymes, which are difficult to design and create, and are not suitable for enzymes that are easily damaged by high temperatures. The method may help to expand the scope of what is possible with PCR.
PCR has been around for quite a while, but recently we have come to rely heavi...
Source: Medgadget - December 22, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics PCR Source Type: blogs
My 22 Oldest Jokes and Why they Still Matter in 2022
By IAN MORRISON
I have been studying American healthcare for more than 40 years and I have assembled a large number of one-liners over the years. As we enter 2022, I thought I’d share my 22 oldest jokes and why they still matter.
Coming to America
I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. In Glasgow, healthcare is a right, carrying a machine gun is a privilege. America got it the wrong way round.
Gun violence continues to ravage the United States. We have more guns than people. Kids get gunned down in school playgrounds and classrooms routinely. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy American healthcare healthcare quality Source Type: blogs
Therapeutic Fusion Protein Inhibits SARS-CoV-2
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich in Germany have developed a new protein therapeutic against SARS-CoV-2. Unlike previously developed antibody therapies and vaccines, the virus is very unlikely to be able to circumvent this latest technology through mutation, as it is based on the viral target site in the body, the ACE2 receptor. The technology consists of the ACE2 protein, which the researchers have fused with a fragment of a human antibody to ensure that it remains stable for longer in the body. Once administered, viral particles will bind to the fusion protein within the body, preventing them from bindin...
Source: Medgadget - December 21, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
121 Positive Energy Quotes to Give You a Big Burst of Motivation Right Now
If you're looking for a boost of energy and to up your motivation right now then you're in the right place.
In this post I've collected 120 of the most powerful positive energy quotes.
Timeless wisdom and tips that will help you to shift your perspective and to find optimism and a path forward if you're going through a tough time (or if you're just having an unmotivated or crappy day so far).
And if you want even more positive quotes from positive people check out this post on knowing your true worth and value in life and this one about keeping your head up during difficult times.
120 Uplifting and Positive Energy Quotes ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - December 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Freedom in Decline for 83% of the World ’s Population: New Human Freedom Index
Ian V ásquezThe vast majority of the world ’s population (83%) has seen a decline in freedom since 2008. That includes decreases in freedom in the ten most populous countries of the world—China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, and Mexico.So finds theHuman Freedom Index 2021(HFI) co ‐published today by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute in Canada. The index uses 82 distinct indicators of economic, personal, and civil freedoms to rate 165 jurisdictions from 2008 to 2019, the most recent year for which internationally comparable data is available.The decline ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Soft X-Ray Tomography for Quick 3D Imaging of Cell Organelles
Researchers at Heidelberg University in Germany used an imaging technique called soft X-ray tomography to obtain highly detailed 3D images of the interior of cells, including changes that occur when the cell is infected with SARS-CoV-2. The approach can provide a high-resolution 3D image in minutes, which is much faster than other microscopy techniques that achieve a similar level of detail.
Imaging technology is constantly improving, and our corresponding understanding of the inner workings of our cells is increasing. From identifying what happens when SARS-CoV-2 enters a cell to developing new treatments for cancer, b...
Source: Medgadget - December 14, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Pathology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Want To Boost Your Wellbeing In 2022? Here ’s What The Research Says
By Emma Young
It’s natural to start a new year with plans to make this one better than the last. But if you are thinking about how to boost your wellbeing, it’s worth knowing that some “good” ways of living have dark sides, too…
Happiness
People who are happy — who enjoy “hedonistic wellbeing” — experience plenty of positive emotions and are generally pretty satisfied with life. If this sounds like something worth aiming for, then a word of caution: there’s plenty of evidence that striving to be happier can backfire. The authors of an influential review article publishe...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 9, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Feature Positive psychology Source Type: blogs
Green Light for Cannabis Legalisation in Germany Is Not a Clear-Cut Decision
The new“traffic light” coalition in Germany recently agreed to regulate the sale of cannabis to adults for recreational purposes in licensed shops. International experience has shown that great care is needed in how cannabis policy is shaped. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 6, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Stijn Hoorens Source Type: blogs
What to Be Thankful For
David BoazEndless war. A $28 trillion national debt. Intrusive regulation. Criminal injustice. Presidents who don ’t think the Constitution limits their powers. The rise of illiberalism on both left and right. It’s easy to point to troubling aspects of modern America, and I spend a lot of time doing that. But when a journalist asked me what freedoms we take for granted in America, I found it a good opportunity to step back and consider how America is different from much of world history — and why immigrants still flock here. If we ask how life in the United States is different from life in mo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 24, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Can Democracy Survive In The Absence of Health Care Security?
By MIKE MAGEE
In my course this fall at the President’s College at the University of Hartford, we began by exploring the word “right” at the intersection of health care services and the U.S. Constitution. But where we have ended up is at the crossroads of American history, considering conflicting federal and state law, and exploring Social Epidemiology, a branch of epidemiology that concentrates on the impact of the various social determinants of health on American citizens.
What makes the course timely and relevant is that we are uncovering a linkage between health and the construction or destruction of ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy health care security Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Germany ’s Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries
Sara Gerke (Pennsylvania State University), Ariel Dora Stern (Harvard Business School), Timo Minssen(University of Copenhagen), Germany ’s Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries, 3 npg Digit. Med. 94 (2020): Reimbursement is a key challenge... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 15, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 15th 2021
This article will review the relationship between diabetes mellitus and AD as it relates to tau pathology. More understanding of the link between diabetes mellitus and AD could change the approach researchers and clinicians take toward both diseases, potentially leading to new treatments and preventative strategies in the future.
Signaling from White Fat Tissue Contributes to Age-Related Hair Follicle Dysfunction
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/11/signaling-from-white-fat-tissue-contributes-to-age-related-hair-follicle-dysfunction/
Changes in fat tissue behavior in the skin take place with age,...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 14, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
More Data to Suggest that Moderate Alcohol Consumption Confers No Benefits
The objective was to analyze former alcohol or drug use disorders, risky drinking, tobacco smoking, and fair to poor health among persons who reported abstinence from alcohol drinking in the last 12 months before baseline in relation to total, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality 20 years later. A sample of residents aged 18 to 64 years had been drawn at random among the general population in northern Germany and a standardized interview conducted in the years 1996 to 1997. The baseline assessment included 4,093 persons (70.2% of those who had been eligible). Vital status and death certificate data were retrieved in the ye...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 11, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
