Radiotherapy workforce census summary report 2021
Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine -This census report finds that patients are receiving a just about ‘adequate’ service for their radiotherapy treatment but there is little room for training new staff or implementing the latest treatment technologies to improve care. There is also a struggle to recruit clinical technologists and there is often difficulties in finding maternity and sick cover, l eaving services strained. Overall, there is a vacancy rate in the radiotherapy workforce of eight per cent, with the greatest number of vacancies at entry level.ReportInstitute of Physics and Engineering in Medici...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 17, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Nocturnal hypertension : Something Important is being cooked in the hypertensive world !
Some physics: Why is blood under pressure?
In perfect vascular climatic conditions, the human circulatory system is comparable to a smooth flowing river irrigating 100 trillion cells, traversing many kilometers of the capillary network, to the far away tissue bed. One major difference in the river analogy is, that in human biology, the entire blood has to return back to the heart in about 30 seconds. (The fact that the venous system does this in style with near-zero pressure head is the greatest wonder in circulatory physiology)
The force per unit area, that drives the blood is the blood pressure. It is expressed...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 12, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Hypertension systemic hypertension acc aha esc hypertension guidelines dippers non dippers melatonin for nocturnal hypertension night time bp reverse dipper Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: Massachusetts Vocational ‐Technical Schools
Colleen HroncichSitting in a classroom all day doesn ’t work for many kids. Some of the innovative education models that are exploding recognize this fact.Forest schools,hybrid schools,unschooling, andmicroschoolstypically offer children flexible ways to learn that can help keep them more engaged than they would be in a conventional classroom.Another option for students who are looking for a more hands ‐on approach to education is vocational‐technical school, also known as career and technical education or CTE. This can be particularly important in states like Massachusetts that have no private s...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Desktop Air Curtain Blocks Infectious Aerosols
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed a desktop air curtain system that prevents aerosols, such as airborne COVID-19 particles, from passing through it. The technology improves on some existing air curtain solutions that can create turbulent flow, resulting in the escape and spread of aerosols. The desktop device contains a dedicated suction port which draws air and aerosols into it, helping to reduce air dispersion. The researchers also hope to incorporate a UV sanitation system that will destroy particles in the recycled air. They also envisage that the device could be useful for reception areas and ot...
Source: Medgadget - May 31, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Public Health AIP NagoyaUniv Source Type: blogs
I Want to Believe
BY KIM BELLARD
I know, I should be writing about hot topics like monkeypox or the baby formula shortage, but, c’mon, Congress held hearings last week about UFOs – the first in 50 years! I mean, I followed Project Blue Book in the 1970’s, watched “The X-Files” in the 1990’s, and have seen UFO videos on YouTube. If Congress is starting to take UFO’s seriously, how could I not?
And for those of you who don’t see any possible connection to healthcare (except for those unpleasant alien probes…), let me put it to you this way: by 2050, is it more likely that:
We’ll know what UFOs actually are;...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Congress Kim Bellard The X Files UFOs Source Type: blogs
The Future Of Vision And Eye Care
3D printed digital contact lenses, bionic eye implants, augmented reality: the future of vision and eye care is full of science fiction-sounding innovations. Here is where digital health will take ophthalmology in the future!
More than 80 percent of perception comes through vision
Researchers estimate that 80-85 percent of our perception, learning, cognition, and activities are mediated through vision. Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 percent, touch 1.5 percent and taste 1 percent. Don’t you think that’s possible? Renowned scholars, L.D. Ros...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Augmented Reality Cyborgization 3d printing AI diabetes digital digital health future guide Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine technology vision eye care ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Soft Robotic Sleeve for Lymphedema Treatment
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada created a soft robotic sleeve to treat lymphedema. Lymphedema involves fluid accumulation in tissues because of damage to the lymph system. This wearable sleeve combines a microfluidic controller and soft robotic components that apply compression to the arm to reduce and control fluid accumulation. The small components avoid the need for a stationary pump to inflate the sleeve and allow for tetherless use during regular activities.
Lymphedema often strikes breast cancer patients, who frequently require surgical removal of lymph nodes in the armpit. This can cause fluid...
Source: Medgadget - May 6, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Oncology Rehab lymphedema UWaterloo Source Type: blogs
What leads people to believe they have been abducted by aliens?
By guest blogger Emma L. Barratt
Alien abduction stories are, at least in the West, relatively common. From as far back as the early 60s, there have been reports of people being stolen away by aliens — typically at night — often for various physics-defying experiments, before being returned home in one piece.
And while stories like these might strike some as delusions that would typically arise from certain mental health issues, studies have found that abductees are no more likely than anyone else to have conditions affecting their perception of reality.
Thanks to psychological research over the past few deca...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Memory Source Type: blogs
Wearable Sensor Uses Kirigami to Improve Skin Contact
Researchers at Osaka Prefecture University in Japan developed a wearable and wireless electrocardiogram monitor that employs kirigami, an ancient art of folding and cutting paper, to ensure better skin contact, stretchability, and breathability. The kirigami design lets the researchers minimize the size of their sensor and the technology allows for long-term vitals measurements with wireless data transmission to a smartphone app. Consisting of a film made of polyethylene terephthalate that the researchers printed with silver electrodes, the sensor includes ingenious cuts that allow it to better conform to the ever-undulati...
Source: Medgadget - April 4, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Materials Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Deep thoughts
To creatures that evolved on the African savanna, contemporary physicists ' understanding of the world is preposterous. Physicists believe a whole lot of stuff that is pointless and ridiculous. I can ' t say that I understand it very well myself but after a lifetime of subscribing to Scientific American, and reading a few books along the way, I think I have a reasonable intuitive understanding of most of it, and how they got to their conclusions, enough to convince me that they ' re understanding is progressive." Progressive " is the most credit I can give because they will be the first to tell you that there is a whole lo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 2, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wanted: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Branch Chief
We’re seeking a highly qualified branch chief for our Division of Biophysics, Biomedical Technology, and Computational Biosciences (BBCB). Applicants should have interest and experience in the scientific areas managed by the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) Branch. Position responsibilities include: scientific and administrative planning, management, and evaluation; optimization of Branch procedures; and overseeing grant portfolio activities of the Branch program directors. The branch chief will also manage a research grant portfolio and will work closely with the Biophysics and Biomedical Technology B...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 11, 2022 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Job Announcements Source Type: blogs
How to approach 1st year in Radiology Residency- Dr Sumer Sethi
Radiology is a discipline which provides multi-faceted exposure to its pupils. Several post graduates all around the world opt for radiology for this. But it is often confusing for freshers in their initial stage of radiology residency. Students do not have a properly caved path to follow in order to excel in this field. And that is simply because there is not much preparation required to prepare for learning radiology. You must let this specialization take over you rather than trying to get ahead of it. For a 1styear residency student the primary thing one must grasp is the actual concept and function of radiology. M...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - March 11, 2022 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Introducing ‘ The Digital Health Course ’ !
We are so happy and proud to finally share with you the biggest project The Medical Futurist has ever worked on: The Digital Health Course.
We designed this course to provide a complete overview of digital health, guiding users through the technological aspects, and equipping them to be able to predict and forecast what’s coming next.
From the basics and its definition to why it’s a cultural transformation that is happening now; how it is a paradigm shift of care; how you can spot trends in it and forecast the near future.
The whole Medical Futurist team and I have put our hearts, brains and souls ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma digital health course Future of healthcare Source Type: blogs
poem
PhotonsWhere do the photons come fromWhen a match is lit?I ’d always assumed The light is just trapped,Patiently waiting to be released.But physicists assert thatPhotons actually arise de novo,Scratched into existenceEvery time an electron fallsBack from a higher energy levelThe steeper the fallThe brighter the flash of lightWhich means they ’re just an accounting trickA rote tallying up of numbers To make two sides of an equation match A sunrise reduced to the ineluctability of mathShooting stars as trailing digits after the decimalThe light of our bright shining world Nothing but a squ...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - March 8, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Getting a couple of (difficult) things straight
To return to physics, let me first state again that my expertise is that of a life-long reader of Scientific American and a reader of a few books written for otherwise well educated lay people. That said, I do understand quite a lot about the substantive and philosophical implications of contemporary physical and cosmological theory.The quantum theory does not admit the possibility of miracles. Events at unimaginably small scales -- measured in picometers, that is 10^-12 meters, i.e. 1/1,000,000,000,000 meter -- are probabilistic rather than deterministic. That is, we can only say that the probability of a neutron in a rad...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
