Down-under medtech firm Admedus looks to future in bio-scaffolds
Australian med-tech company Admedus (ASX:AHZ) is looking to become the “gold standard” in cardiac bio-scaffolds and expand their product into other realms to promote rebuilding of tissue over artificial replacements.
Admedus COO Julian Chick spoke to MassDevice.com yesterday about the company’s flagship product CardioCel, how its using bio-scaffolds to grow in the cardiac repair market and where it’s looking to take the bio-scaffolds next.
Admedus’ CardioCel bio-scaffolds are regenerative tissue patches designed for cardiac and vascular repairs and reconstructions and promote autologous grow...
Source: Mass Device - September 11, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Cardiovascular Implants Regenerative Medicine Admedus Ltd. Source Type: news
Baby girl born with her stomach and intestines inside her CHEST survives - despite doctors advising her parents to consider an abortion
Holly Flynn, 25, from Manley, Cheshire, was told her baby had just a 50 per cent chance of survival. She was born with congenital diaphragmatic hernia - her organs had risen to her chest. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Index of Suspicion in the Nursery * Case 1: Unusual Cardiac Findings in a Neonate With Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
(Source: NeoReviews recent issues)
Source: NeoReviews recent issues - April 1, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Bauer, A. S., Hokanson, J. S., Limjoco, J. J. Tags: Pediatric Drug Labeling Update Articles Source Type: news
How Do You Diagnose Hypermobility?
Discussion
Hypermobility can be seen in several different clinical entities. These include generalized joint hypermobility, joint hypermobility syndrome, Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Osteogenesis Imperfecta. For adults, a Beighton score of at least 4 or 5 is used as a definition of hypermobility. For children a score of 5 or 6 is used as a definition. (see scoring system below).
Generalized joint hypermobility is hypermobility with few or no symptoms. If they occur, knee symptoms are the most common.
Joint hypermobility syndrome has hypermobility along with other symptoms such as pain, reduced muscle stren...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - February 23, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Mesothelioma Survivor Credits Cannabis Oil Treatment to His Recovery
Twelve months ago, doctors told Ruth Ashcraft it was time to look seriously into a palliative care or hospice facility for her husband, Andy, whose health had taken another turn for the worse.
He already had surpassed the typical survival time for a pleural mesothelioma patient, and his experimental, clinical trial drug had stopped working. He was struggling to breath and deteriorating steadily. They had just drained more than three gallons of fluid from around his lungs and inside his abdomen.
It was time, doctors said.
Ruth listened, but she didn't listen very well. She had other plans — cannabis oil.
The oil is extrac...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - November 14, 2014 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tim Povtak Tags: Treatment & Doctors Source Type: news
What Types of Abdominal Wall Defects Are There?
Discussion
Abdominal wall defects are common in pediatric and adult patients. Pediatric patients not surprisingly have more congenital defects and adults have more that are spontaneously acquired and some are due to surgeries. Adults often have more complications of their defects also. Defects are usually classified by location.
Learning Point
Types of abdominal wall defects include:
Congenital or Spontaneous
Epigastric
Rectus muscles fail to approximate at the linea alba between the umbilicus and xyphoid process. Usually presents as painless bulge
Occurs to 5% of children
Incarceration is uncommon in children but much...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - September 22, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
What Causes Testicular Pain?
Discussion
Most inguinal hernias are indirect (i.e. the hernia passes through the internal inguinal ring and down the inguinal canal); only 2% of all hernias in children are direct hernias (i.e. the hernia directly protrudes through the floor of the inguinal canal). Indirect inguinal hernias occur in about 1-5% of infants. They occur on the right side (60%), left side (30%) and bilaterally (10%) and they are more common in premature infants of both sexes. The male : female ratio of inguinal hernias is 4-8 : 1.
The chief complaint of testicular or scrotal pain always raises concerns. The acute scrotum generally has pain, ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - September 1, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Helping Liberia
The West African nation of Liberia is currently dealing with deadliest outbreak of the Ebloa virus that the world has ever seen. With hundreds dead and thousands more impacted, Liberia and its neighboring countries are at the center of a serious health crisis that is proving extremely difficult to control.
The images coming out of the area are troubling for everyone to see, but especially so for Michelle Niescierenko, MD. As director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Global Health Program and the Academic Collaborative to Support Medical Education in Liberia, Niescierenko has spent years working with Liberian hea...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - August 12, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tripp Underwood Tags: All posts Global Health Program Liberia Source Type: news
What Causes Abdominal Distention?
Discussion
Constipation generally is defined as infrequent or painful defecation. It often is due to passing large hard stool infrequently which causes painful defecation and then withholding behaviors. As stool withholding continues, the rectum dilates and gradually accommodates with the normal defecation urge disappearing. Chronic rectal distension results in both loss of rectal sensitivity, and loss of urge to defecate, which can lead to encopresis. Abdominal distention because of stool retention occurs frequently. Treatment includes colonic evacuation, establishing regular bowel habits, eating a balanced diet with diet...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - July 21, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Weekend Emergency Surgeries Deadlier for Children - 7/2/14
Children who undergo simple emergency surgeries, such as hernia repairs or appendix removals, on weekends are more likely to suffer complications and even die than children getting the same kind of treatment during the week, according to results of a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study. (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - July 2, 2014 Category: Research Source Type: news
UCLA physicians use Google Glass to teach surgery abroad
Imagine watching a procedure performed live through the eyes of the surgeon. That’s exactly what surgical leaders in the United States were able to do while overseeing surgeons training in Paraguay and Brazil with the help of UCLA doctors and Google Glass.
UCLA surgeon Dr. David Chen and surgical resident Dr. Justin Wagner have made it their mission to teach hernia surgery around the world and are harnessing the latest technologies to help.
“Hernia repair is the most common operation performed worldwide,” said Chen, assistant clinical professor of general surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “F...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 11, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Grandmother looks pregnant because two huge hernias - the size of a baby's head and a melon - are pushing through her stomach
Margaret Johns, 66, from Swansea, has twice been given a date for the operation but on both occasions the surgery has then been cancelled. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 6, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Craziness Of It All – Liz ’ s Story
In July 2013, I was down in London for a friend’s big birthday and had a wonderful weekend staying with relatives. We arrived home happy and tired on the Sunday night. At 3am I was awoken by a pain in my stomach. At first I thought maybe it was food poisoning, or a stomach bug but the pain increased and I ended up crying out for help. I got back to the bedroom and asked my husband to call an ambulance thinking that so much pain may be a burst appendix, or that my umbilical hernia had got blocked, or something.
I was 49 and had been through 6 years and 10 tries of IVF. We had eventually ended up being successful at having...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - March 15, 2014 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health endometriosis hysterectomy stories total hysterectomy Source Type: news
The Craziness Of It All – Liz ’ s Story
In July 2013, I was down in London for a friend’s big birthday and had a wonderful weekend staying with relatives. We arrived home happy and tired on the Sunday night. At 3am I was awoken by a pain in my stomach. At first I thought maybe it was food poisoning, or a stomach bug but the pain increased and I ended up crying out for help. I got back to the bedroom and asked my husband to call an ambulance thinking that so much pain may be a burst appendix, or that my umbilical hernia had got blocked, or something.
I was 49 and had been through 6 years and 10 tries of IVF. We had eventually ended up being successful at having...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - March 15, 2014 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health endometriosis hysterectomy stories total hysterectomy Source Type: news
