Tufts hits transplant record as competition intensifies
Tufts Medical Center is a smaller hospital than its neighbors, but its focus on heart transplant surgeries has helped it stay competitive. It just broke the New England record for transplants. Here's what that means. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - January 10, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Cassie McGrath Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic study says AI can detect heart disease in pregnant women
The Mayo Clinic in Florida is saying a digital stethoscope enabled by Artificial Intelligence can detect pregnancy-related heart disease. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - January 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sir Roy Calne obituary
Pioneering British surgeon who carried out the world ’s first liver, heart and lung transplantIn the 1960s Roy Calne, professor of surgery at Cambridge University, was gripped by the emerging new science of transplantation to help those with kidney and liver failure.Calne, who has died aged 93, became Britain ’s premier transplant surgeon and researcher, achieving a number of firsts, including the first liver transplant in Europe in 1968, the world’s first liver, heart and lung transplant in 1986 (with John Wallwork) and the world’s first successful “organ cluster” transplant (stomach, intestin e, pancreas, liv...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Penny Warren Tags: Medical research Science Organ donation Doctors Health University of Cambridge Boston London NHS Source Type: news
Newborn Recipient of Partial Heart Transplant Doing Well Newborn Recipient of Partial Heart Transplant Doing Well
The world ' s first transplantation of aortic and pulmonary valves into a neonate delivered a good outcome, and the valves showed continued adaptive growth and function.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - January 5, 2024 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology Source Type: news
AI-Driven Study Redefines Right Heart Health Assessment With Novel Predictive Model
In a milestone study, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the assessment of the heart's right ventricle, which sends blood to the lungs. Conducted by a team using AI-enabled electrocardiogram... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - January 4, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: SVY Source Type: news
Artificial heart company Bivacor names Jim Dillon new CEO
Jim Dillon has been named CEO of Bivacor, which is developing a product called the Total Artificial Heart. Click through to the story to learn more about the company's latest accomplishments. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - January 3, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olivia Pulsinelli Source Type: news
The UCLA Research Park: Immunology and immunotherapy
With the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy at UCLA as an anchor tenant at theUCLA Research Park on the site of the former Westside Pavilion shopping mall, UCLA is poised to enter a new era of biomedical breakthroughs.A first-of-its kind effort in California, the nonprofit public-private partnership will leverage UCLA ’s existing strengths in clinical and biomedical scientific research across a range of disciplines. Top-flight scientists from UCLA and around the world will pursue new tools, treatments and vaccines to address a variety of pressing health challenges, including cancer, infectious diseases...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - January 3, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Kidney transplant and heart patients have slots cancelled amid junior doctors' strike - with some forced to wait 15 MONTHS before they are seen for life-changing treatment
Angela Waters-Kite, from Hull, revealed that her appointment for Monday has been cancelled, which would have revealed whether she could donate a kidney to her husband. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Healthy omega-3 fats may slow deadly pulmonary fibrosis
Could healthy fats found in nuts and fish slow the progression of potentially deadly lung scarring known as pulmonary fibrosis and delay the need for lung transplants?
UVA pulmonary researchers looked at the association between blood-plasma levels of omega-3 fatty acids - the heart-healthy fats found in foods such as salmon and flaxseeds - and the progression of pulmonary fibrosis, as well as how long patients could go without needing a transplant. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - January 3, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Donated Heart Valves Still Growing a Year After World's 1st Partial Heart Transplant
(MedPage Today) -- The newborn that received the world's first partial heart transplant in 2022 continued to do well a year later, according to a case report from the transplant team.
Born with type A2 persistent truncus arteriosus and irreparable... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - January 2, 2024 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
13 Ways the World Got Better in 2023
As in most years, much of the media focus in 2023 was on the myriad crises people all over the world faced, from horrific wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to devastating natural disasters (many climate-change-related) in Turkey, Southeast Africa, Hawaii, Canada, and more. At the end of this long year, though, it’s worth taking a step back and considering some of the ways things improved. Here are some examples, gathered together by TIME’s climate and health journalists:
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COVID-19 death numbers plummeted…
Since the pandemic began, COVID-19 has b...
Source: TIME: Health - December 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: TIME Staff Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything feature healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
2023 reflections: Stepping boldly into the future
With the holidays around the corner, it ’s that time again — an opportunity to take stock of year filled with awe-inspiring achievements and more than a few surprises, and to celebrate the accomplishments of our entire Bruin community.“New” was certainly the watchword for 2023, which saw the opening of new vistas and venues for the arts, the introduction of new majors and academic programs, the establishment of a new campus facility formedical technology and training, the welcoming of new deans inmedicine,engineering andlaw, and the launch of the newUCLA Strategic Plan: 2023 –28, which charts a course for the uni...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 23, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
The 10 biggest science stories of 2023 – chosen by scientists
From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific dramaWhile western billionaires were busy sending rockets to space only for them to crash and burn, scientists in India were quietly doing something no one had accomplished before. Their Chandrayaan-3 moon lander was the first mission to reach the lunar south pole – an unexplored region where reservoirs of frozen water are believed to exist. I remember my heart soaring when images of the control room in India spread around social media, showing senior female...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 23, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Guardian Staff Tags: Science Climate crisis Medical research Space Biodiversity Mathematics Biology Environment Conservation Artificial intelligence (AI) Computing Technology Source Type: news
AI Health Coaches Are Coming Soon to a Device Near You
Ten years ago, the idea of tracking your footsteps or your heartbeat was weird. Those dedicated to the pursuit of quantified self knowledge proselytized in TED Talks, while journalists attended conferences and reported on the strange new trend. Today, over 40% of households in the U.S. own a wearable device, according to statistics service Statista. It is not uncommon to hear retirees comparing or boasting about their step count for the day. The quantified self is ascendant.
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Now, as artificial intelligence’s relentless advance continues, researchers and technolog...
Source: TIME: Health - December 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Will Henshall Tags: Uncategorized Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
AI imaging bias reduces diagnostic accuracy
Systematically biased artificial intelligence (AI) imaging models lower diagnostic accuracy by over 11 percentage points, according to research published December 19 in JAMA. A team led by Sarah Jabbour from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor also found that biased AI model predictions with explanations lowered accuracy by about nine percentage points. However, accuracy improved by over four percentage points when clinicians reviewed a patient clinical vignette with standard AI model predictions and model explanations compared with baseline measures. “Given the unprecedented pace of AI development, it is essential...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 19, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news