Multi-Modality Imaging Probe to Diagnose Cancer Inside Body, Help Avoid Biopsies
These days, identifying cancerous tissue within the body requires a biopsy and a review of the extracted sample in a pathology lab. A team of German scientists have been working toward a way of spotting tumors using an endoscopic approach that doesn’t involve actually having to take samples. They’ve developed a multi-modality laser-based imaging probe that is capable of differentiating tissue types without requiring the use of a staining dye.
The probe is 8 mm in diameter and relies on extremely fast near-infrared lasers that can create “nonlinear optical effects” within targeted tissue. Three imagi...
Source: Medgadget - May 2, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics GI Pathology Surgery Source Type: blogs
Intuitive Cleared in EU for Its New, More Budget Friendly da Vinci X Robotic Surgical System
Intuitive Surgical, makers of the famous da Vinci line of robotic-assisted surgical platforms, just announced receiving European regulatory approval to introduce its new da Vinci X surgical system. The system is designed for customers that can’t afford the hefty price tag of more expensive da Vinci robots while offering many of the same capabilities as those products. The console that the surgeon uses to manipulate the robot stays the same, as well as the display cart which nearby clinicians use to monitor the procedure.
Similar to the da Vinci Si system, the da Vinci X has its robotic arms mounted on a side cart, w...
Source: Medgadget - April 28, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Ob/Gyn Surgery Thoracic Surgery Urology Source Type: blogs
3D Printing in Medicine And Healthcare: Amazing Equipment And Biomaterials We Can Print Out Today
3D printing has demonstrated huge potential for the future of medicine in the previous years, and its development is unstoppable. Just look at the impressive list of 3D printed healthcare materials and medical equipment below!
How does 3D printing work?
3D printing is part of the innovative process called additive manufacturing, which means the production of three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. The printer uses a kind of layering process, by which one layer is added after the other until you have a fully formed object. It allows designers and engineers to create complex parts for cars, machines or airplan...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 11, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: TMF Tags: 3D Printing in Medicine Future of Medicine 3d printed biomaterial bioprinting GC1 Health Healthcare Innovation medical technology tissue engineering Video Source Type: blogs
The Ultimate List of What We Can 3D Print in Medicine And Healthcare!
3D printing has demonstrated huge potential for the future of medicine in the previous years, and its development is unstoppable. Just look at the impressive list of 3D printed healthcare materials and medical equipment below!
How does 3D printing work?
3D printing is part of the innovative process called additive manufacturing, which means the production of three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. The printer uses a kind of layering process, by which one layer is added after the other until you have a fully formed object. It allows designers and engineers to create complex parts for cars, machines or airplan...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 11, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: TMF Tags: 3D Printing in Medicine Future of Medicine 3d printed biomaterial bioprinting GC1 Health Healthcare Innovation medical technology tissue engineering Video Source Type: blogs
New Imaging Technique Provides Quick Tumor Diagnosis During Brain Surgeries
If a tumor is suspected during brain surgery, it takes 30-40 minutes from the time of removing the sample from the patient’s brain to the time of diagnosis. The sample is taken through a rigorous process of tissue sectioning, staining, mounting, and interpretation by pathologists. Researchers from University of Michigan have now developed an imaging technique that could significantly reduce the time taken for such diagnoses. The method, called Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) microscopy, was developed in 2008, but due to the hazardous nature of lasers, they could not be used in a clinical setting. In a paper publish...
Source: Medgadget - February 8, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Rukmani Sridharan Tags: Pathology Source Type: blogs
3D Printing Better Ultrasounds
A new ultrasound device developed by a research team from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore utilizes a superior 3D printed resin lens to produce sharper and higher fidelity ultrasound images.
Conventional ultrasound devices create ultrasound waves by heating up a glass lens with sound waves, which creates high frequency vibrations from the resulting expansion of the lens. These high frequency vibration in turn produce ultrasound waves. Conventional glass lenses are restricted to cylindrical or conical conformations, which limits the specificity and resolution of ultrasound devices.
The team, lead by Associate P...
Source: Medgadget - February 8, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Thomas Obisesan Tags: News Source Type: blogs
11 Things Star Wars Could Learn From Medical Technology Today
No one can doubt I’m an enthusiastic Star Wars fan. I have a LEGO-Millennium Falcon and the Death Star at home. However, as The Medical Futurist I cannot help but see what medical technologies the episodes featured.
The digital health innovations we have today are so amazing that they could even improve the futuristic Star Wars universe with lightsabers and ubiquitous space travel. I binge-watched all 7 episodes to find the 11 most interesting technologies we already possess, but Star Wars not. Here they are.
1) Why is there no instant wound healing?
The most obvious discovery was that laser guns are common weapons...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 19, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: TMF Tags: Medical Science Fiction future Health Healthcare scifi star wars technology Source Type: blogs
Reform dentistry but don ’ t blindly copy the medical model
It’s always struck me as odd that the dental and medical systems are so separate. Oral health and overall health are closely interlinked, and the mouth is just as much a part of the body as anything else. A commentary in Health Affairs (The Dental-Medical Divide) by Elizabeth A. Mertz, a dental professor at UCSF does a good job of laying out the current state and what to expect going forward. While I learned from the article and agree with many of the conclusions, I do think it’s important that dentistry continue to deviate in some ways from the path followed by the medical profession.
Dentists started as barber/surgeo...
Source: Health Business Blog - January 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Policy and politics innovation LANAP Source Type: blogs
Better Tool to Help Assess LASIK Patients
By: Malvina Eydelman, MD LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) eye surgery is an alternative for patients who need glasses or contacts to see well. Some 600,000 to 800,000 patients undergo LASIK in the U.S. each year, and a very high … Continue reading → (Source: FDA Voice)
Source: FDA Voice - December 14, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
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Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery? - December 5, 2016 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: gift cards gift ideas Source Type: blogs
Nanotechnology in Healthcare: Getting Smaller and Smarter
We are living at the dawn of the nanomedicine age. I believe that nanoparticles and nanodevices will soon operate as precise drug delivery systems, cancer treatment tools or tiny surgeons. Let me introduce you the brave, new world of nanotechnology in healthcare.
Nanorobots having nanobreakfast with your red and white blood cells
When I was a kid, one of my favorite TV series was a French animation, Il était un fois… la vie (1986). I found it fascinating how the creators imagined the human body as a construction where tiny cars floated through the human veins, grab-cranes worked on teeth and bacteria as tiny monsters tr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 3, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Nanotechnology in Medicine cancer treatment drug delivery system future GC1 Healthcare Innovation nanodevices nanoparticles robotics wearables Source Type: blogs
The ABCs of Millionaire Motivation
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A - Alignment of Actions to Achieve Record-Breaking Miracles - Your daily action is what you do every single day. Do your daily actions move you closer to the achievement of your goals and dreams or pull you further away from them? Every single action that you take somehow impacts your ability to achieve success. If your daily action, or lack of action, does not align with t...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Di Lemme Tags: communication featured happiness meditation money and finance motivation philosophy productivity tips self improvement success Suggested Reading time management abc of success best motivation blogs business entrepreneur how Source Type: blogs
