Artificial Blood: Unsolvable Biological Puzzle Or Soon-To-Be Reality?
What
is the common denominator for milk, lamb blood, urine, and beer? You would
never guess, so we let you off the hook: they were all tried as substitutes for
blood during experiments on the quest to find an alternative fluid to replace
the elixir of life: human blood. Despite the tremendous efforts, though,
artificial blood remains an unsolvable biological puzzle with only a few
innovative solutions that give hope that one day it will become a reality.
An entire bloody business in vein?
Blood
has been the symbol of life for millennia – as it is connected so vehemently to
good health and well-being. People notice...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Future of Medicine blood donation history biology history of medicine artificial artificial blood substitute Source Type: blogs
20 Medical Technology Advances: Medicine in the Future – Part II.
Nanorobots swimming in blood vessels, in silico clinical trials instead of experimenting with drugs on animals and people, remote brain surgeries with the help of 5G networks – the second part of our shortlist on some astonishing ideas and innovations that could give us a glimpse into the future of medicine is ready for you to digest. Here, we’re going beyond the first part with medical tricorders, the CRISPR/Cas-9 gene-editing method, and other futuristic medical technologies to watch for.
11) In silico clinical trials against testing drugs on animals
As technologies transform every aspect of healthcare,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 23, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers 3d printing AI bioprinting blockchain clinical trials CRISPR digital digital health drug development genetics Innovat Source Type: blogs
Why we need more transplant physicians
During the 25 years I ’ve been a transplant doctor, I’ve cared for hundreds of patients who received lung transplants. I’m now worried about the growing number of people who will need this lifesaving procedure in the future but who won’t have enough transplant physicians to do it. At any given time in the U.S., a bout 120,000 […]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 - October 21, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/david-weill" rel="tag" > David Weill, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
Improving Medical AI Safety by Addressing Hidden Stratification
Jared Dunnmon
Luke Oakden-Rayner
By LUKE OAKDEN-RAYNER MD, JARED DUNNMON, PhD
Medical AI testing is unsafe, and that isn’t likely to change anytime soon.
No regulator is seriously considering implementing “pharmaceutical style” clinical trials for AI prior to marketing approval, and evidence strongly suggests that pre-clinical testing of medical AI systems is not enough to ensure that they are safe to use. As discussed in a previous post, factors ranging from the laboratory effect to automation bias can contribute to substantial disconnects between pre-clinical performance of AI systems and dow...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Data Health Tech Health Technology AI Jared Dunnmon Luke Oakden-Rayner machine learning Source Type: blogs
Should I participate in a cardiac rehabilitation program?
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR), or “cardiac rehab,” is a multifaceted, medically supervised program proven to improve heart health and outcomes in people with certain types of cardiovascular disease. CR revolves around three major components: an individualized exercise and training program, education on topics related to heart health, and stress reduction.
CR is currently recommended for the following diagnoses: angina (chest pain); heart attack with or without angioplasty or bypass surgery; heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF); and heart surgery including heart valve procedures or heart or heart/lung tran...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Hicham Skali, MD, MSc, FACC Tags: Exercise and Fitness Health Heart Health Source Type: blogs
From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare
Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. These new ‘colleagues’ will definitely make a difference in every field of medicine. Here’s our overview to understand robotics in healthcare better so that everyone can prepare for the appearance of mechanic helpers in medical facilities.
Metallic allies for the benefit of the vulnerable
While there are concerns for machines replacing people in the workforce, we believe there are adv...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 8, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Robotics blood digital health future of hospital Healthcare medical medical robot nanorobot nanotechnology pharmacies social social companion social companion robot Surgery telemedical Source Type: blogs
AI Chest X-Ray Reads Approved by FDA
A couple weeks ago, we got the exciting news that the FDA had approved an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that does reads on images from a portable X-ray in order to screen for collapsed lung. The teams at GE Healthcare and UC San Francisco are behind this technology and research. This is really exciting news […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 3, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Chest X-rays FDA FDA Cleared AI GE Healthcare Healthcare AI Radiology UCSF Source Type: blogs
Breathtaking: The Future Of Respiratory Care And Pulmonology
Smoke-measuring smart shirts, breath sound analyzing
algorithms, and smart inhalers pave the way of pulmonology and respiratory care
into the future. As the number of patients suffering from asthma, COPD, or lung
cancer due to rising air pollution and steady smoker-levels will unfortunately
not decrease any time soon, we looked around what technology can do to help
both patients and caregivers. The results are breathtaking.
Attacks of
breathlessness are too common
The diseases which pulmonologists and respiratory care
specialists attempt to fight are among the most common conditions in the modern
world – and the n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers AI asthma cancer cancer treatment care COPD diagnostics inhaler lung lung cancer management medical specialty pulmonology respiratory respiratory care Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 23rd 2019
Discussion of Developmental Effects on Aging
Microtubule Function and Longevity in Nematodes
Quantifying the Correlation Between Poverty and Faster Pace of Aging
Matthew O'Connor Presenting on Underdog Pharmaceuticals at Undoing Aging 2019
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/09/matthew-oconnor-presenting-on-underdog-pharmaceuticals-at-undoing-aging-2019/
Here Matthew O'Connor of the SENS Research Foundation talks about the research that led to founding of Underdog Pharmaceuticals, a biotech startup incubated by the foundation to commercialize a means of targeting 7-ketocholesterol in atheroscle...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 22, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
No More Clitting Around: Let ’s Talk about Clitoris Transplants
Quality of life transplantations (e.g. hand, face, etc.), in contrast to life-saving transplantations (e.g. heart, lungs, etc.), have become increasingly popular and have gained more acceptance in the medical and lay communities. In the last two decades transplants for sexual and reproductive organs—specifically allogenic transplantations of the uterus, ovary, and penis—have emerged as yet another type of quality of life transplants. The purpose of uterus transplantations is to allow cisgender women with absolute uterine factor infertility to experience pregnancy. Although the first uterus transplantation took ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 17, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care assisted reproduction feminist ethics reproductive medicine Sex and Sexuality surgical ethics syndicated transplantation Women's Reproductive Rights Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 16th 2019
In this study, researchers studied 438,952 participants in the UK Biobank, who had a total of 24,980 major coronary events - defined as the first occurrence of non-fatal heart attack, ischaemic stroke, or death due to coronary heart disease. They used an approach called Mendelian randomisation, which uses naturally occurring genetic differences to randomly divide the participants into groups, mimicking the effects of running a clinical trial.
People with genes associated with lower blood pressure, lower LDL cholesterol, and a combination of both were put into different groups, and compared against those without thes...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 15, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Embedded 3D Printing Used to Assemble Tiny Organoids into Larger Vascularized Tissue Masses
For as long as I have been watching progress in tissue engineering, the primary and most important barrier to building organs to order has been the inability to construct vascular networks. A network of capillaries must exist for blood, and thus nutrients and oxygen necessary to cell survival, to reach more than a few millimeters into a tissue. In live tissues, hundreds of minuscule capillaries pass through every square millimeter, considered in cross-section. Replicating this level of capillary density in engineered tissue has yet to be accomplished, with even the more advanced technology demonstrations falling well short...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 13, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
GE Healthcare ’s Artificial Intelligence FDA Cleared to Help Spot Collapsed Lung
Admitted patients often have to wait a number of hours for a radiologist to review their chest X-ray, even though it may be marked as urgent or STAT. That’s because way too many are marked as such in most clinics. Pneumothorax, or collapsed lung, can go unnoticed in the meantime, leading to a dangerous amount of time to wait while inside the hospital.
GE Healthcare’s Critical Care Suite automatically processes chest scans right on the X-ray machine and flags those where it detects potential signs of pneumothorax. The attending radiologist immediately gets a copy of the scan via the hospital’s PACS syst...
Source: Medgadget - September 12, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 9th 2019
We examined human lung tissue from COPD patients and normal control subjects, and found a substantial increase in p16-expressing alveolar cells in COPD patients. Using a transgenic mouse deficient for p16, we demonstrated that lungs of mice lacking p16 were structurally and functionally resistant to CS-induced emphysema due to activation of IGF1/Akt regenerative and protective signaling.
Fat Tissue Surrounds Skeletal Muscle to Accelerate Atrophy in Aging and Obesity
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/09/fat-tissue-surrounds-skeletal-muscle-to-accelerate-atrophy-in-aging-and-obesity/
Researchers he...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 8, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Precision mice as infection models
Mice are important animal models for studying human pathogens, but they have limitations: not all human viruses replicate in mice and often these animals do not reproduce aspects of disease and immune responses. Mice implanted with human bone marrow, liver, and thymus (BLT mice) develop human immune systems, but most pathogens infect other cell types. […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 30, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information BLT mouse human cytomegalovirus humanized mouse immunosuppressed mouse lung implant lung only transplant mouse mouse model viral viruses Source Type: blogs
