Advanced Wireless Neonatal Body Monitors to Improve Outcomes
Babies that end up in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) are monitored via a complex collection of sensors, each of which has a wire connected to a patient monitor. While necessary, all this technology makes it difficult for parents to bond with their children and for clinicians to access their patients.
Northwestern University engineers have developed flexible, wireless sensor patches that are able to collect the same vital signs as wired devices while offering an entire set of additional capabilities that existing commercial devices lack.
The new sensors are able to trac...
Source: Medgadget - March 11, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
A Better Trade Arrangement with Kenya?
Simon LesterThe trade specialty publication Inside US Tradereports that the Trump administration is looking to convert the current tariff preferences offered to imports from Kenya into a bilateral trade deal:The U.S and Kenya have agreed to begin negotiations toward a free trade agreement, the Trump administration and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on Thursday.…[U.S. Trade Representative Robert] Lighthizer has said the U.S. was seeking a “model” trade agreement with an African country that will become a template for other deals and, eventually, replace the African Growth and Opportunity Act,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester Source Type: blogs
Top Artificial Intelligence Companies in Healthcare to Keep an Eye On
The field of medical AI is buzzing. More and more companies set the purpose to disrupt healthcare with the help of artificial intelligence. Given how fast these companies come and go, it can prove to be hard to stay up-to-date with the most promising ones. Here, I collected the biggest names currently on the market ranging from start-ups to tech giants to keep an eye on in the future.
To further help you keep up with what A.I. brings to medicine, The Medical Futurist team made an easy-to-digest e-book about just that. I highly encourage you to read it and would love to hear about your thoughts!
Artificial Intelligence has ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Design AI digital health genetics Innovation Personalized medicine pharma GC1 big data drug development healthcare companies medical imaging Source Type: blogs
Human Freedom Waning in Many Countries
This article originally appeared on theFraser Forum on January 2, 2020. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Tanja Por čnik Source Type: blogs
Disrupting Healthcare Payment with Mobile Platform M-TIBA | Maarten Ras, CarePay
BY JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
What’s the future of healthcare payment? Could it be mobile?? CarePay is a health tech startup that is revolutionizing the way people in Africa send, save and spend funds for medical treatments via their mobile app M-TIBA. Maarten Ras, Regional Commercial Director shares how M-TIBA digitizes healthcare insurance schemes for the Kenyan government, allowing patients access to their healthcare benefits — and a way to pay for medical services — from their phone. A dream-scenario for health systems around the world that are looking for versatility, transparency and accountabil...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Grishma Reddy Tags: Health Tech Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Bayer G4A Bayer G4A Signing Day Carepay Healthcare Payment Kenya M-TIBA Maarten Ras Mobile health Source Type: blogs
What to Be Thankful For
David BoazEndless war. A $23 trillion national debt. Intrusive regulation. Criminal injustice. Presidents who don't think the Constitution limits their powers. 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 imm igrants still flock here.If we ask how life in the United States is different from life in most of the history of the world — and still different from much of the worl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 26, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Climate Change is not an ‘ Equal Opportunity ’ Crisis
Sam Aptekar
Phuoc Le
By PHUOC LE, MD and SAM APTEKAR
In the last fifteen years, we have witnessed dozens of natural disasters affecting our most vulnerable patients, from post-hurricane victims in Haiti to drought and famine refugees in Malawi. The vast majority of these patients suffered from acute on chronic disasters, culminating in life-threatening medical illnesses. Yet, during the course of providing clinical care and comfort, we rarely, if ever, pointed to climate change as the root cause of their conditions. The evidence for climate change is not new, but the movement for climate justice is now emerging on...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Climate Change equal opportunity Phuoc Le Sam Aptekar Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 558
This week ' s case presents a bit of a conundrum. The patient is a 50 year old woman with recent travel to Kenya. She presents with acute onset of fever and chills and was tested by a rapid malaria antigen test (P. falciparumand Pan-malaria antigens) and was negative. A follow-up Giemsa-stained thin blood smear from the same blood collection shows the following:Identification based on the blood smear? How might this correlate with the rapid antigen test? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - August 28, 2019 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 558
Answer toParasite Case of the Week 558:Plasmodium falciparummalaria,>10% parasitemia. NEGATIVE rapid antigen.Sowhy is the rapid antigen test negative???As noted by our readers, there are many possible reasons for apositive blood smear and negative rapid malaria antigen test (RDT). Here are our options, along with the reasons why each is or isn ' t a likely explanation in this case:This is babesiosis, and not malaria. This is a very important consideration given the morphologic similarities betweenBabesiaspp. andPlasmodium falciparum.However, the moprhologic features in this case are highly consistent withP. falcipa...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - August 25, 2019 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Why 1619 Matters in 2019
The New York Times Magazine recently released its “1619 Project,” an initiative marking the 400th anniversary of the first African slaves arriving in North America. The project is ambitious, aiming to “reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding.” A collection of pundits have framed this project as an attempt to “delegimitize” the United States. Such commentary provides an opportunity to consider the state of American race relations and the role of slavery in American history. Whether or not the foundation of the United States was legitimate is an interesting political, moral, a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 19, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
Living an Intentional Life: This is Water
by Bob Arnold (@rabob)I am not sure what led me to go from thinking about data and evidence in the literature to waxing philosophical recently. It may be that I saw Rufus Wainwright in concert and heard him sing “Hallelujah” with his sister, Lucy Roache Wainwright (Google it). It may be that one of our cardiology fellows died suddenly of unknown reasons and everyone at my hospital is a little fragile. Or that I was just on service and trying to balance the existential realities of sadness and dying with teaching learners and dealing with institutional budget cuts. But when I sat down today and tried to think of what ar...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - July 22, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: arnold david foster wallace The profession Source Type: blogs
The personal and the political
When we engage in political discourse in the United States, we confront a fundamental problem.I will outsource much of this discussion to Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, which as you may know is a conservative think tank. First:[H]owever awkward it may be for the traditional press and nonpartisan analysts to acknowledge, one of the two major parties, the Republican Party, has become an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and s...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 30, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Can Digital Health Go Off-Grid And Still Save Lives?
What would you do without your smartphone or laptop for a week? Some cannot even imagine putting them down for a second, not thinking much of the vulnerability of our entire digital existence. What if a hurricane destroys the electric grid? What if power supplies will get cut off by unstoppable rain? What about a future dystopic scenario with our traditional energy sources depleted due to overconsumption? And what if we just look at less fortunate parts of the world where stable electricity service is a rare treasure? We collected some examples of how medicine could become more independent from the traditional electricity ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Africa asia Caribbean development digital digital health Healthcare smartphone solar sustainability technology Source Type: blogs
Meet Debara Tucci, Incoming Director of NIDCD
The recently appointed director of NIDCD brings an extensive research background in hearing loss, ear disease, and cochlear implantation—and an enthusiasm for addressing barriers to hearing health care.
Interview by Jillian Kornak
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently named Debara L. Tucci the next director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), replacing acting director Judith Cooper. Tucci will leave her position as professor of surgery in the Division of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, where she has served on the...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jillian Kornak Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Aging and Hearing Loss audiologist hearing health care public health Source Type: blogs
Freedumb of Speech, revisited
Hear, hear, professor Campos. This concerns, proximally, Harvard ' s decision not to continue to have a certain law professor serve as " dean " of a residence hall. Harvard happens to use the term " dean " for this position but that is not the usual meaning of the word, which in most cases (including ours) refers to a person who has responsibility for a school or an educational program. This is really what would normally be called a house parent position -- a faculty member or couple who live in the residence hall and look after the quality of residential life. There appear to have been numerous reasons for this decision -...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 14, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
