Body Vision Releases LungVision for Early-Stage Lung Cancer Diagnostics
Body Vision Medical out of Ramat Ha Sharon, Israel is releasing its LungVision platform for planning, navigating to, and targeting small pulmonary nodules within the peripheral regions of the lungs. The product integrates into bronchoscopy suites and provides a step-by-step process that the company claims doesn’t require a large learning curve.
Using augmented reality tools, the LungVision platform overlays the location of pathways and nodules on the fluoroscope image, that would otherwise be invisible during bronchoscopy. The software constantly compensates for the breathing of the patient, with its visual overlay c...
Source: Medgadget - October 9, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Radiology Thoracic Surgery Source Type: blogs
On the Importance of Mental Health Check-Ups for Palliative Care Clinicians
by Polly ChesterAs silly as this may sound to people who have never experienced a mental health issue, when one is used to a dystopian inner world, feeling happy for a consistent period of time can be a bit of a worry. For those of us who ’ve had mental health concerns in the past and a baseline mental state that just allows us to lurch through life in a state of veritable chaos, calm and pleasant periods of time are a source of anxiety because we wonder if the next mental health calamity is just around the corner. One might consid er psychological temperature-taking should be done just like going to your general practit...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - October 3, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: chester grief mental health The profession Source Type: blogs
A 60 year old patient with large T-wave inversions
Written by Andrus Alian and Pendell Meyers, with edits by Steve SmithA female in her 60s with history of stage IV lung cancer presented to the ED with 3/10 chest pain and dyspnea waxing and waning for the last 24 hours. She had no personal or family history of coronary artery disease, drug use, HTN, or dyslipidemia. She did have a history of smoking. She recently had a 2 hour flight. She denied diaphoresis, nausea, or back pain. Vital signs were stable and she was afebrile.Here is her initial ECG (during persistent 3/10 active chest pain):Large T-wave inversions. What is their distribution? What is distinctive about them? ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 1, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Precipio Announces ICEme Kit for Lung Cancer Mutation Detection
Earlier this year, Medgadget heard from Precipio CEO Illan Danieli on how his company uses advanced diagnostics and personalized medicine to reduce the prevalence of cancer misdiagnosis. Over 1 million patients globally and about 200,000 patients in the U.S. are annually diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This week, the company announced the launch ICEme, a new kit leveraging the company’s proprietary, ultra-sensitive ICE-COLD PCR (ICP) liquid biopsy technology.
With the new kit, physicians can identify patients eligible for TKI (Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor) therapies through analysis of tumor DNA f...
Source: Medgadget - September 21, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Diagnostics Oncology Pathology Thoracic Surgery Source Type: blogs
An intelligent knife can tell ovarian cancer and healthy tissue apart
Could it make surgery smarter? Related items fromOnMedica Cancer patients using complementary meds die sooner NICE updates lung cancer guidance Sentinel node biopsy first to check spread of oral cancer Surgeons forced to lie about their hours Cancer strategies failed to improve one-year survival (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - September 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
Winnebago Unveils All-Electric CT Lung Screening Truck
Winnebago, the famous maker of motorhomes, campers, and other recreational vehicles, has partnered with Samsung‘s health division and Motiv Power Systems, a California-based manufacturer of electric motors for cars and trucks, to create a fully electric mobile lung screening unit. Inside the quiet and environmentally friendly truck is a Samsung Neurologica BodyTom 32-slice CT scanner, itself battery powered and originally developed to be movable between different hospital wards.
Because the truck has enough battery storage to power its systems while parked and screening patient lungs, it doesn’t idle as a ga...
Source: Medgadget - September 11, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Public Health Radiology Source Type: blogs
Deton is Developing “Aerosol Biopsy” to Detect Lung Diseases
Biopsies and bronchoscopies are the gold standard for diagnosing lung diseases, including pneumonia and cancer. However, these procedures are difficult to provide, requiring general anesthesia and an operating room. Deton hopes to simplify the process.
The Pasadena-based company takes advantage of the lung’s natural reaction to bacteria or particles — coughing it out. Rather than invasively sampling lung tissue within the lungs, Deton’s patented technology samples the particles ejected from the lungs. The expelled cough sample is then read by a point-of-care analyzer or sent to a lab.
“When a person coughs, it’s ...
Source: Medgadget - September 7, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Oncology Pathology Thoracic Surgery Source Type: blogs
New Study Suggest Rampant Healthcare Fraud Regarding Shared Decision Making & Patient Decision Aids
When Medicare agreed to cover Screening for Lung Cancer with Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT), it required that the clinician and patent first have a "shared decision making, including the use of one or more decision aids."
But in a new study, rese... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 3, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 27th 2018
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - August 26, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Additional Evidence to Demonstrate that Telomerase Gene Therapy Does Not Increase Cancer Risk in Mice
In recent years, researchers working on forms of telomerase gene therapy have produced evidence to show that increased levels and activity of telomerase does not raise cancer risk in mice. The open access paper and publicity materials noted below report the latest example. Extra telomerase increases the sort of activities that are beneficial in the context of improved regenerative capacity, but might be thought to raise the risk of cancer when they take place in the damaged environment of old tissue. This means more stem cell activity, more cellular replication, and so forth.
Somatic cells are limited in the degree ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 21, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Successfully Screening for Lung Cancer Based on Predictive Analytics
I have blogged a number of times about predictive analytics (see, for example: Identifying Patients for Remote Monitoring with Predictive Analytics;Eric Schmidt Discusses the Potential Value of Predictive Analytics in the ER). Much of the hype about this technology and set of products is largely theoretical at this time but great potential looms in the future. I therefore was very interested in a recent article that provided a very pragmatic perspective on the topic (see:Big data and predictive analytics pull in smokers for lung screening). Below is an excerpt from it:Virginia-basedChesapeake Regional Healthcare soug...
Source: Lab Soft News - August 14, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Innovations Hospital Executive Management Hospital Financial Medical Consumerism Medical Research Preventive Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Make Asbestos Great Again? - Trump Once Claimed " Movement Against by Asbestos was Led by the Mob, " Now is EPA Wants to Relax Asbestos Regulation
Introduction: An Old Public Health MenaceThis is somewhat personal. In the early 1980s, as a general internal medicine fellow, I gave a series of talks about important medical problems that generalist physicians often missed. One was asbestos related disease. Although asbestos had been heavily regulated since 1973, there were stilll large numbers of people exposed to it alive in the 1980s. One of my primitive slides, seemingly a picture of type writing, stated that around then, 2 to 4 million people who had histories of significant asbestos exposure were likely alive. Asbestos is known t...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 10, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: asbestos cancer conflicts of interest Donald Trump public health Source Type: blogs
duh Sawx
I lived in Boston for 20 years, and was inevitably infected with Red Sox fandom. As most people know, the Red Sox were a perennially strong team during the early years of the American League, but in 1918, after winning the World Serious, owner Harry Frazee sold the services of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in order to get money to invest in the musical No, No, Nanette (featuring the well-known standard Tea for Two), as a result of which the team was cursed for the remainder of the 20th Century.When I got to Boston the curse was still in effect, but in 2004, shortly after John Henry purchased the team and installed Theo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 8, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
RIP Andrea Rich
I am saddened to report that my dear friend Andrea Millen Rich died this morning at her home in Philadelphia at the age of 79 after a 19-year battle with lung cancer. She was, among many other things, the proprietor of Laissez Faire Books and the wife for 41 years of Howard Rich, the Cato Institute’s longest-serving Board member.For more than 40 years Andrea was at the center of the libertarian movement, a mentor, counselor, friend, supporter, facilitator, networker, and gracious hostess to hundreds of freedom lovers – young, old, well-known, obscure, successful, down-on-their-luck, didn’t matter. She was the firs...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 1, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
