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Tips on Implementing Text Analytics in Healthcare
Most of us would agree that extracting clinical data from unstructured physician notes would be great. At present, few organizations have deployed such tools, nor have EMR vendors come to the rescue en masse, and the conventional wisdom holds that text analytics would be crazy expensive. I’ve always suspected that digging out and analyzing this data may be worth the trouble, however. That’s why I really dug a recent article from HealthCatalyst’s Eric Just, which seemed to offer some worthwhile ideas on how to use text analytics effectively. Just, who is senior vice president of product development, made a good case f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 7, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Technology Healthcare AI Healthcare Analytics HealthCare IT Hospital EHR Population Health Management Analytics Algorithms Clinical Data Analytics HealthCatalyst Natu Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 5th 2017
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. This content is...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 4, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

An Angiogenesis Hypothesis of Aging
There are many theories of aging, some with a broader scope, focused on the high level or the evolutionary explanation for aging and all of its variations in pace, and others that are more limited, examining just a few aspects of age-related decline and in search of the principle mechanisms that cause that decline. Today's example is one of the more compact theories of aging, restricting itself to considering the creation and maintenance of the network of capillaries that supplies tissues. The oxygen and nutrients carried by blood cannot perfuse far beyond blood vessels, and so every last cubic millimeter of the body must ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 2, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Shockwave ’s Lithoplasty System Now Cleared in EU for Coronary Artery Disease Treatment
Shockwave Medical out of Fremont, California won the European CE Mark to introduce its Coronary Lithoplasty System for helping to place stents into coronary arteries in patients that have substantial calcified plaque. Lithoplasty is Shockwave’s name for its technology (aka lithotripsy) that delivers sonic waves via a specialty catheter directly to the plaque lining blood vessels. The vibration pressures help to create cracks within the plaque, allowing a balloon to compress it more and create a wider lumen. This in turn gives more space for a stent to be positioned, allowing more blood perfusion through the treated r...
Source: Medgadget - May 18, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs

More on PCSK9 Inhibition to Dramatically Reduce Cholesterol Levels, Lowering the Risk of Later Cardiovascular Disease
There is good evidence for at least some methods of achieving dramatic reductions in blood cholesterol in humans to be safe and reduce the risk of age-related cardiovascular issues. To pick one of the underlying mechanisms involved in these benefits, the common age-related condition of atherosclerosis is at root caused by interactions between damaged cholesterol and the cells of blood vessel walls. Cells become irritated by the presence of that cholesterol, and this begins a series of overreactions and unfortunate events that leads to the generation of fatty plaques that narrow blood vessels and weaken blood vessel walls. ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 18, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Youth Vaping Plummets in Wake of Surgeon General's Report
A survey conducted by the Pew Foundation this past weekend found that self-reported rates of youth vaping have dropped sharply following Thursday ' s release of the Surgeon General ' s report on e-cigarette use, which, after a 263-page review of the scientific evidence, warned that vaping is " not harmless " and that e-cigarette aerosol is not " just water vapor. "Foundation president Robert J. Pew said that although the survey results are subject to a margin of error, " the decline is so sharp that even with the maximum amount of error, the drop in vaping is significant. " While Pew acknowledged that the decline cannot " ...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - December 11, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs

LimFlow System: A New Option for Treating Critical Limb Ischemia
If peripheral vascular disease (PAD) is not treated, it can progress toward nearly complete blockage of the arteries that supply the lower extremity with blood and result in critical limb ischemia (CLI). People suffering with the condition experience severe pain, can have gangrene, and have a drastically reduced quality of life. A new device from LimFlow, a company based in Paris, France received the European CE mark to introduce a system that can offer a new option for otherwise untreatable patients. The LimFlow system is used to link the tibial vein and a diseased tibial artery of the leg so that blood can bypass the ar...
Source: Medgadget - November 22, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Radiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs

Rabep2 Variants Reduce the Harm of Stroke through Increased Alternative Vasculature
The research I'll point out today examines one of the mechanisms by which the damage caused by similar strokes can vary from individual to individual. The researchers focus on the degree to which the vascular network of the brain grows to contain alternative routes to the same destination tissues, and identify a gene in mice that accounts for a fair amount of this difference between individuals. A stroke is the outcome of structural failure in a blood vessel in the brain, weakened by the molecular damage of aging, leading to loss of elasticity, and put under stress by the increased blood pressure of hypertension. The resul...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 11, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

3D Printed Shoe Insoles to Save Diabetic Feet
At the Fraunhofer Institutes for Mechanics of Materials and for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology in Germany, researchers have been working on developing a process of making personalized shoe insoles for diabetic patients. People with advanced diabetes can suffer from neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease, turning the tissue of the soles fragile and easily damaged. To prevent pressure wounds, custom made insoles are produced that have different areas of softness and hardness that provide support while avoiding injury to specific spots on the foot. Nowadays the insoles are usually manually crafted for each p...
Source: Medgadget - November 3, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Source Type: blogs

Ticagrelor No Better Than Clopidogrel In Peripheral Artery Disease
AstraZeneca announces top-line results from EUCLID trial ahead of the AHA. Ticagrelor is no better than clopidogrel in patients who have peripheral artery disease, a large new study will show. On Tuesday morning AstraZeneca announced the top line results of the EUCLID (Examining Use of Ticagrelor in PAD) trial. The full results will be presented...Click here to continue reading... (Source: CardioBrief)
Source: CardioBrief - October 4, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: MI/ACS People, Places & Events clopidogrel EUCLID peripheral artery disease ticagrelor Source Type: blogs

Medtronic ’s New TrailBlazer Angled Support Catheter for PAD Cleared by FDA
Medtronic landed FDA clearance for its TrailBlazer angled support catheter that’s indicated for use within the peripheral vasculature for treating peripheral artery disease (PAD). It can be used to help in delivering guidewires and for channeling solutions and diagnostic agents. The shaft is made of braided steel and there’s three radiopaque markers to help see its location under fluoroscopy. It comes in three sizes (.014″, .018″ and .035″) and either of the smaller ones can fit inside the .035″ sized catheter to improve its reach and pushability. The catheter is also available with eit...
Source: Medgadget - September 30, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Radiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs

Shockwave Lithoplasty for Peripheral Vascular Disease FDA Cleared
A unique system that uses a balloon and sound waves to break up plaque in patients with peripheral artery disease has just been cleared by the FDA. The Lithoplasty system from Shockwave, a firm out of Fremont, California, is basically a traditional angioplasty balloon catheter with added capability that resembles lithotripsy that’s used to break up kidney stones. The transducers along the length of the balloon section are tuned to generate sound at frequencies that resonate hardened calcium. Being all shook up, the calcium deposits are motivated to crack and to allow the balloon to push them closer to the vessel ...
Source: Medgadget - September 19, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Radiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 4th 2016
In conclusion, therefore, I can say with confidence that the future of aging research is extremely bright, both scientifically and medically. The pace of progress must now be sharply accelerated, via the injection of the funds that should for many years have been allocated at far higher a level than has actually occurred. LATEST HEADLINES FROM FIGHT AGING! AN INTERVIEW WITH LAURA DEMING OF THE LONGEVITY FUND https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/06/an-interview-with-laura-deming-of-the-longevity-fund/ Laura Deming has worked with the SENS Research Foundation and others on the molecular biology ...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 3, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Producing More Blood Vessels in Heart Tissue as a Way to Increase Resistance to the Damage of a Heart Attack
This is a fairly interesting take on reducing the impact of heart attacks. It isn't the best approach to the situation, which is to find methods of prevention, but rather a matter of engineering the heart to be more resilient to temporary loss of oxygenated blood flow by spurring the growth of additional blood vessels, over and above those that normally exist. The reason heart muscle dies in a heart attack is that it becomes starved of oxygen - a heart attack is caused by blockage of an artery supplying the heart. If heart muscle had an alternative blood supply, more muscle would remain intact, and heart function ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 30, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

The Last Straw: Anti-Tobacco Groups are Actively Promoting Smoking
Readers of the Rest of the Story may have noticed that I have not posted for a few days. This is not for lack of material. Lots is happening that deserves comment, and in the days to follow I will catch readers up on some important developments, including two more lawsuits filed against the FDA in an attempt to overturn its electronic cigarette deeming regulations.I have not been able to write because I have been too distraught. I have come to the realization that the anti-smoking movement - which I have been a part of for the past 31 years, is essentially dead. And even worse, the anti-smoking movement is now actively pro...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - June 5, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs