Don ’t Just Digitize: Embrace Digitalization
In June, the Techtour Healthtech Summit returned to Lausanne with an overarching theme of the convergence of medtech and digital health, and the search for a successful digital business model.Although there were two tracks – medtech and digital health – there were digital health companies in the medtech stream and lab companies in the digital health stream that felt very much like medtech.One way to tease apart this convergence and to ask how future business models may evolve is to look at whether companies simplydigitizeanalog processes or fullydigitalize.The digitization of an analog process aims to deliver efficienc...
Source: EyeForPharma - November 1, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Douglas Haggstrom Source Type: news
Should patients with cardiogenic shock receive culprit lesion only PCI or multivessel PCI?
(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) Results from the prospective, randomized, multicenter CULPRIT-SHOCK trial found that an initial strategy of culprit lesion only percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces the composite of 30-day mortality and/or severe renal failure in patients with multivessel disease and cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 31, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Adverse reaction with suvorexant for insomnia: acute worsening of depression with emergence of suicidal thoughts - Petrous J, Furmaga K.
A 59-year-old woman on daily peritoneal dialysis for end-stage renal failure received care at an outpatient psychiatric clinic for her diagnoses that include major depressive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder and insomnia disorder. Although there was ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 30, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Nigeria: Simon Needs N10 Million to Treat Kidney Disease
[This Day] 46 year old Simon Ibeh from Delta State is currently battling renal failure in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 12, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
AlloSource touts completion of bioengineered blood vessels for Humacyte trial
Tissue-provider AlloSource said this week it completed production of investigational bioengineered blood vessels designed for Humacyte‘s Phase III clinical trial exploring the use of the vessels to improve vascular access for hemodialysis patients with end-stage renal failure.
The trail aims to compare the efficacy of the bioengineered human-tissue vessels to current synthetic vessels made from expanded polytetrafluoroethylene, Centennial, Colo.-based Allosource said.
“AlloSource’s partnership with Humacyte supports our focus on regenerative medicine. Our organizations share a deep commitment to developin...
Source: Mass Device - September 14, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Research & Development Vascular allosource Humacyte Source Type: news
Medtronic readies pivotal trial in renal denervation
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said today that it’s ready for a run at FDA approval for renal denervation in treating high blood pressure, more than three years after the failure of a high-profile clinical trial.
Back in January 2014, Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic shocked medtech when it announced that the highly anticipated Symplicity HTN-3 trial, examining ablation of the around the renal arteries in treating hypertension, failed to meet its efficacy endpoint. The company suspended enrollment in its other Symplicity trials around the world and later took a $200 million write-down on its renal denervation assets. News of th...
Source: Mass Device - August 28, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Wall Street Beat Medtronic Renal Source Type: news
HKBU clinical observation finds efficacy rate of over 70 percent in Chinese medicine treatment of chronic renal failure
(Hong Kong Baptist University) The School of Chinese Medicine of Hong Kong Baptist University recently conducted a clinical observation on Chinese medicine treatment of chronic renal failure. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 24, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Cardiac ICU patient composition is changing over time
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A new University of Michigan study finds slightly more than half of heart patients are admitted to the CICU for noncardiac conditions, such as sepsis or renal failure, rather than for a heart condition. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - August 16, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
To Empower Women Is to Empower Nations: Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
August 01, 2017As a health worker in a conflict zone, I learned what it means to be in the right place at the right time.Being in the right place at the right time —I never had a full understanding of that concept until I started my medical career.Before coming to the United States to get a master ’s degree in public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I was a physician at Al-Zahrawi Surgical Hospital in the south of Iraq, one of only two main hospitals in the city of Amarah, inhabited by aboutone million people.Such conditions make complications more frequent.We were 20 new doctors, and only f...
Source: IntraHealth International - August 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Source Type: news
Older mothers have higher rates of severe complications in childbirth
(PLOS) The risk of potentially life-threatening morbidity around childbirth, such as renal failure, obstetric shock, and amniotic fluid embolism, increases in older mothers, according to a study published by Sarka Lisonkova from the University of British Columbia, Canada and colleagues in PLOS Medicine. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 30, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
No-touch ’ heart bypass surgery reduces strokes
Four surgical methods of coronary artery bypass grafting with increasing degrees of aortic manipulation. Percentages pictured represent the relative decrease in risk of perioperative stroke using anOPCABG compared to the other techniques. [Image from the researchers]]A recent study from the University of Sydney and Sydney Heart and Lung Surgeons has shown that a new “no-touch” beating heart bypass surgery technique has reduced post-operative stroke by 78%.
The procedure, known as an OPCABG, also reduced post-operative mortality by 50% compared to traditional coronary artery bypass grafting. It reduced renal failure by ...
Source: Mass Device - May 17, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Danielle Kirsh Tags: Cardiovascular CABG MedTech Sydney Heart and Lung Surgeons University of Sydney Source Type: news
HRS 2017: Two-year registry data on Boston Scientific ’ s S-ICD
Data from a long-term post-approval registry study of the S-ICD subcutaneous pacemaker made by Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) showed high successful implantation rates and “acceptable” short-term complication rates, researchers said today at the annual Heart Rhythm Society conference in Chicago.
The study looked at data from 1,637 S-ICD patients who met the criteria for implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation, passed at least 1 electrocardiogram screening vector and had a life expectancy of more than 1 year. The mean follow-up time was 2 years and the study plans to follow patients out to 5 years.
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Source: Mass Device - May 11, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Boston Scientific Cardiac Rhythm Management hrs2017 Source Type: news
Acute renal failure caused by Amanita oberwinklerana poisoning - Fu X, Fu B, He Z, Gong M, Li Z, Chen Z.
Mushrooms of the sections Lepidella and Amidella in the genus Amanita can cause acute renal injury. The paper reports the first two known cases of acute renal failure after ingestion of A. oberwinklerana in China. The cases' clinical symptoms were characte... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 4, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Poisoning Source Type: news
Gender Differences ID'd for Complications After Joint Replacement
(MedPage Today) -- Among them: renal failure for men, UTIs for women (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - March 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Elucidated connection between renal failure and'bad' mitochondria described
Scientists describe an elucidated connection between renal failure and ' bad ' mitochondria in a new report. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 15, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
