Neural Network Learns to Diagnose Congenital Catracts
In two newly published studies in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers trained a neural network to diagnose congenital cataracts with the same level of accuracy as individual ophthalmologists. Congenital cataracts is a rare disease that results in clouding of the eye’s lens and is responsible for about 10% of childhood vision loss worldwide. The AI, a novel method for diagnosing this disease, is the product of a multi-hospital effort spearheaded by Dr. Erping Long and Dr. Haotian Lin from Sun Yat-sen University in China.
A convoluted neural network is a computer algorithm that mimics our visual cortex, which allow...
Source: Medgadget - February 1, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Thomas Obisesan Tags: Informatics Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
FDA approves first drug for spinal muscular atrophy
The U.S. Food and Drug Administrationrecently approved Spinraza (nusinersen), the first drug approved to treat children and adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The FDA granted this application fast track designation and priority review. The drug also received orphan drug designation, which provides incentives to assist and encourage the development of drugs for rare diseases.Thanks to Dr. Nick Willard for alerting me to this development. (Source: neuropathology blog)
Source: neuropathology blog - January 23, 2017 Category: Radiology Tags: muscle Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs Web First: US Six-Month Drug Market Exclusivity Extensions Could Yield Nearly $100 Million
This study, which was supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, will also appear in Health Affairs’ February issue. (Source: Health Affairs Blog)
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Health Affairs Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured webfirst Source Type: blogs
7 Things You Should Stop Doing If You Have Anxiety
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Are you someone who’s easily overwhelmed about the most trivial things? Do you feel anxious so much that you lay awake most nights with thoughts that make you stressed? One of the many reasons why anxiety is hard to cure is because most people suffering from it engage in things that make it worse. Listed below are the common issues that usually aggravate anxiety.
1. Keeping Your Anxiety a Secret
It might fe...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Armela Tags: confidence featured happiness motivation self improvement anxiety best mental health blogs pickthebrain reduce anxiety stop anxiety Source Type: blogs
[Exclusive Whitepaper] Digital Health Set to Change Provider and Patient Marketing Efforts
Back in December we shared the first of three exclusive whitepapers with the ePharma community.We've got exciting news! We can now share the second exclusive paper of the three-paper series, While the first explored thefuture of digital health, our second paper focuses on how digital health has impacted and changed marketing efforts feared toward the provider and patient.Digital Health solutions are still mostly driven by marketing departments, whether they be novel devices that alter the way we treat rare diseases or commonplace wearable bands that track our activity. In fact, marketing efforts around digital health have ...
Source: ePharma Summit - January 17, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Digital Health digital marketing health marketing patient marketing Source Type: blogs
Many think the Cures Act will halt progress. They ’re wrong.
Recently, the U.S. Senate passed the 21st Century Cures bill with an overwhelming vote of 95-4 and was approved by President Obama. Yet, the controversy continues. Some people worry that this act is destroying our scientific process and sacrificing patient safety issues. Others proclaim that this is a win for the big pharmaceutical companies, who are already winning by a landslide. And then, there are the voices shouting out with all their might that this is what patients need. In fact, the 21st Century Cures Act is a huge win for patients.
What changes under the 21st Century Cures Act?
$4.8 billion dollars will be alloca...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 11, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/linda-girgis" rel="tag" > Linda Girgis, MD < /a > Tags: Meds Medications Source Type: blogs
Data Storage and Collaboration with Dropbox at the Gladstone Institutes: Interview with CIO Dr. Scott Pegg
Data storage and sharing is pivotal in research to optimize collaboration and efficiency between internal teams and external partners. With the increasing amount of data being generated in research today, local server-based storage solutions no longer meet the needs of diverse, multi-center teams. Medgadget previously reported on how cloud-based file hosting through Dropbox is already being used in rare disease research. Today, the Gladstone Institutes, an award-winning biomedical research organization based in San Francisco, CA, is leveraging Dropbox to breakthrough studies on stem cells and diseases such as Alzheimer...
Source: Medgadget - January 9, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
The Ear Game
If I could, I would spend all day cleaning ears. Seriously, There is almost nothing I do that makes patients happier. Not diagnosing a rare disease, not treating diabetes or heart failure. Of course, those patients are thankful too. But very little lights up a face more than the instantaneous relief and the rush of sound that comes when knocking loose a particularly egregious glob of cerumen.I figure I could set up four or five rooms in tandem. Each with a its own sink, syringe, and various plastic scooping tools. I would spend all day excavating. Sifting through the mud to expo...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - December 28, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
FDA Efforts to Regulate Innovative Technologies and Facilitate Market Access
In conclusion, FDA is keenly monitoring the evolution of medical device technologies. Medical device manufacturers need to leverage regulatory intelligence, such as has been presented here, for expedited market access and avoid costly delays for regulatory compliance. This goal is attainable if medical device manufacturers and regulatory professionals work together, ideally from the earliest phases of device design, to design a viable strategic plan or path to market that is amenable to changing business objectives, budget constraints and regulatory compliance expectations.
This post FDA Efforts to Regulate Innovative Tec...
Source: Medgadget - December 15, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Rachelle D'Souza Tags: Guest Post Source Type: blogs
How medical colleges can improve healthcare in India
There is no doubt that the municipal corporation teaching hospitals such as KEM, Nair and Sion are brilliant medical institutions. I've been trained at them , and the clinical training is excellent because there are so many patients who throng to these hospitals for their treatment. They do an outstanding job, especially when you consider the constraints which they have to operate under. Thus even though their bed capacity may be 2000, they will often have a far larger number of inpatients ( many of whom are nursed on a mattress on the floor ) because they don't turn any patients away. While they are doing a great job, th...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - December 2, 2016 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
WOMEN ’S BRAIN HEALTH SERIES: The Critics Don’t Count
Stories of the devastation faced by patients and families with Alzheimer’s disease abound. Economic costs are consequential and the social and emotional costs, incalculable.
Thankfully, I’ve not been touched by Alzheimer’s but like most people am aware of the suffering it causes. For that reason, I was delighted to be asked by a clinical society to help them solve a problem: not enough specialists are available to diagnose and adequately treat the growing number of patients. Primary care clinicians need to join in. The specialists had a three-step plan to make that a reality:
In the first step, specialists in psychi...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Rare Diseases Are Becoming Too Common. Sound Impossible? Here ’s Why It’s Not
It is hard to make money treating rare diseases. There simply aren’t enough customers to generate many profits. That’s why the U.S. government passed the Orphan Drug Act in 1983, a law which created a series of incentives to encourage … Continue reading →
The post Rare Diseases Are Becoming Too Common. Sound Impossible? Here’s Why It’s Not appeared first on PeterUbel.com. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 16, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Peter Ubel Tags: Health Care healthcare costs Peter Ubel syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How To Think About Health Technology Assessment: A Response To Goldman And Coauthors
From 3,000 miles away—on the other side of the Atlantic and more precisely from England—it is hard not to sense a note of frustration in the Health Affairs Blog post by Dana Goldman, Sam Nussbaum, and Mark Linthicum: “We need health technology assessment. Only we can’t have it. Because we are us. But we need it. But we can’t have it. So what do we do?”
It is also hard not to offer sympathy, not least because every country that has what the three authors dub “full” health technology assessment (also referred to here as “HTA”) finds it endlessly controversial. But at least some of the dilemma that...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Nicholas Timmins Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Featured Health IT Europe health technology assessment National Health Service Source Type: blogs
