Catheter Stimulates Lymphatic Drainage for Heart Failure Treatment: Interview with Eamon Brady, CEO of WhiteSwell
WhiteSwell, a medtech company based in Galway, Ireland, has developed a catheter system to treat acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF).
ADHF is often treated using diuretics to remove excess fluid, but this doesn’t work for every patient and can have side-effects.
This latest technology consists of a catheter with an impeller pump that is designed to stimulate lymphatic drainage, and thereby aid with decongestion without the need for diuretics. The catheter creates an area of low pressure where the largest lymph vessel, the thoracic duct, connects with the venous system near the heart.
WhiteSwell claims that...
Source: Medgadget - January 19, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Exclusive Radiology Thoracic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Saving lives, improving mothers ’ care: lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2016-18
This report examines the care received by women who die during or up to a year after pregnancy and covers all pregnancy-associated deaths involving UK women between 2016 and 2018. The results indicate that whilst maternal death is still rare in the UK, there are some important actions identified to prevent women from dying in the future.ReportMBRRACE-UK - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 15, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Patient safety Source Type: blogs
Memorandum of understanding: Common Travel Area healthcare arrangements between the UK/Northern Ireland and Ireland
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) - The Common Travel Area (CTA) is a long-standing arrangement between the UK, the Crown Dependencies and Ireland. Under the CTA, British and Irish citizens enjoy additional rights in each country. This includes the right to access public health services on the same basis as local citizens when resident in each country. In recognition of the residency based health systems of the UK and Ireland, this memorandum sets out reciprocal healthcare arrangements that will apply to residents of the UK and Ireland.Guidance (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 4, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Brexit Source Type: blogs
Has Bitcoin Succeeded?
Lawrence H. WhiteThe answer depends on what you mean. Succeeded at what?With the US dollar price of Bitcoin reaching an all-time high above $23,000 this month, and its market cap reaching an all-time high above $400 billion, there has been much celebration among Bitcoin holders about their success at investing. The run-up has accompanied the announcements by large institutionalinvestors Grayscale, MicroStrategy, and MassMutual that they are acquiring hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin for their investment portfolios. There isn ' t much doubt that the Bitcoin project has succeeded remarkably at creating a new type o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 28, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
Should playing football require informed consent?
I ’m of Irish heritage and we love to tell stories. This story feels like it needs to be shouted from the rooftops. I grew up in Texas, where football is king. Here’s my story so parents can make a more fully “informed consent” when deciding if their children should play football. My dad playe d offensive […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs
Selectively Saving Christmas?
Written by Ben Davies and Gabriel De Marco The UK governments in Westminster and the devolved nations (Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) have made a recent about-turn regarding Christmas. Where there were previously plans to relax Covid-related restrictions for five days, they will now be relaxed for only Christmas itself, and not at all in […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 21, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Gabriel De Marco Tags: Ethics Health Care Current Affairs Gabriel De Marco's posts syndicated Source Type: blogs
Procurement and Commissioning during COVID-19: Reflections and (Early) Lessons
Albert Sanchez-Graells (University of Bristol), Procurement and Commissioning during COVID-19: Reflections and (Early) Lessons, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly: This piece reflects on some common themes that are starting to emerge in the early analysis of the healthcare procurement and commissioning... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 16, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Why Are We Better At Remembering Vocal Melodies Than Instrumental Tunes?
By Matthew Warren
When it comes to memory for music, humans show an interesting quirk: we’re better at remembering melodies that are sung by voice, compared to those played on an instrument. Even a melody sung without any lyrics — just a series of la la las, for instance — becomes lodged in our memory in a way that a tune played on the piano, say, does not.
Now a new study published in Cognition has looked into why our memory is so much better for sung melodies. Researchers have suggested that listening to a voice singing a melody leads us to perform “subvocalisations” — internal speech that involves...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Memory Music Source Type: blogs
101 Wednesday Quotes to Help You Power Through the Rest of the Week
It’s Wednesday.
And you may need some motivation to keep moving and to push and power through the last few days of this work week.
So in this post I've put together 101 of the best and most powerful quotes on Wednesdays, on recharging your motivation and on keeping taking action to reach your goals for the week and step by step move closer to your biggest dreams too.
I hope you’ll find something helpful and uplifting here.
And if you need more motivation and inspiration then I recommend checking out this post filled with confidence quotes and this one with many, many quotes on change.
Wednesday Quotes to Inspire and M...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - December 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 30th 2020
We examined specific aspects of metabolism in male PolG+/mut mice at 6 and 12 months of age under three dietary conditions: normal chow (NC) feeding, high-fat feeding (HFD), and 24-hr starvation. We performed mitochondrial proteomics and assessed dynamics and quality control signaling in muscle and liver to determine whether mitochondria respond to mtDNA point mutations by altering morphology and turnover. In the current study, we observed that the accumulation of mtDNA point mutations failed to disrupt metabolic homeostasis and insulin action in male mice, but with aging, metabolic health was likely preserved by counterme...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 29, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
GrimAge Outperforms Other Epigenetic Clocks
There are now a variety of epigenetic clocks, weighted combinations of the methylation status of various CpG sites on the genome in various different tissues. The epigenetic marks of DNA methylation change constantly in response to circumstances and cell activities, but some of these changes are characteristic of the aged tissue environment, and thus correlate well with the burden of damage and dysfunction that causes manifestations of aging. A person more greatly damaged will tend to exhibit an epigenetic age higher than chronological age, a phenomenon referred to as age acceleration.
Epigenetic clocks are derived ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 27, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Court Rules Parents May Not Refuse Pain Treatment for Injured Boy
Ms Justice Mary Irvine of the Irish High Court has ruled that a hospital is entitled to withhold invasive interventions and administer a palliative care regime to a profoundly brain-injured boy should his condition substantially deteriorate.John’s pare... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 24, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Long COVID: 8 Ways Digital Health Can Address The Symptoms
Yes, the COVID-19 pandemic is long. Since the WHO characterised the virus’ spread as a pandemic in March, cases have been climbing; countries are facing a second wave and are entering lockdown 2.0; and many aspects of our current lifestyle will continue through 2021. But this isn’t what we mean by “long COVID.” This newly-minted term refers to patients experiencing long-term sequelae of a COVID infection.
It’s not an exact medical term as it is a patient-made one apparently first used by Elisa Perego in a tweet to describe her own experience. Additionally, two patients can have different #longcovid experiences...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 17, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones AI diabetes lumosity wearables sleep tracking Fitbit mental heal Source Type: blogs
Our Top 8 Digital Health Solutions Addressing Long COVID
Yes, the COVID-19 pandemic is long. Since the WHO characterised the virus’ spread as a pandemic in March, cases have been climbing; countries are facing a second wave and are entering lockdown 2.0; and many aspects of our current lifestyle will continue through 2021. But this isn’t what we mean by “long COVID.” This newly-minted term refers to patients experiencing long-term sequelae of a COVID infection.
It’s not an exact medical term as it is a patient-made one apparently first used by Elisa Perego in a tweet to describe her own experience. Additionally, two patients can have different #longcovid experiences...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 17, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones AI diabetes lumosity wearables sleep tracking Fitbit mental heal Source Type: blogs
