FDA-Approved At-Home Spirometer: Interview with Charvi Shetty, Co-Founder and CEO at Aluna
The COVID-19 pandemic has put lung health firmly in our minds. For those with chronic lung diseases, such as asthma and COPD, an important way to keep track of lung health is to use a spirometer to measure how well air can move in and out of the lungs during forced breathing. However, patients would typically attend with a lung specialist to perform this test. This is inconvenient and precludes regular monitoring to keep a close eye on lung health and spot any upcoming disease exacerbation.
This is the motivation behind this latest technology, an at-home digital spirometer, created by a medical startup called Aluna. The...
Source: Medgadget - October 17, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Pediatrics Rehab Thoracic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Screening App to Diagnose Parkinson ’s, COVID-19 from Voice
Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed an app that is intended to provide early diagnosis for Parkinson’s disease and severe COVID-19. The artificial intelligence-powered technology works by analyzing voice recordings, having previously been trained to recognize the vocal hallmarks of these diseases by listening to recordings of patients. The app takes just ten seconds to assess a voice sample and provide a recommendation that someone should seek further treatment. The technology could be useful in large community-wide screening programs given its convenience and speed.
What can our voi...
Source: Medgadget - October 17, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Neurology Public Health RMIT Source Type: blogs
What is DM Cardiology? Cardiology Basics
DM Cardiology (Doctor of Medicine – Cardiology) is a three year full-time course conducted at various medical colleges and institutes of national importance in India. Cardiology is the branch of medicine dealing with cardiovascular disorders.
Selection to the various medical colleges is by the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test – Super Specialty (NEET-SS), while that to institutes of national importance is by Institute of National Importance Combined Entrance Test (INI CET).
NEET-SS is conducted by the National Board Of Examinations In Medical Sciences, New Delhi. INI CET is conducted by All India Institute of Med...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 16, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Chest pain in children – Cardiology Basics
Chest pain in children – Cardiology Basics
Even though chest pain in children is a common symptom, unlike in adults it is seldom due to heart disease. Most often the cause of chest pain in children is not a major life threatening disease. Still chest pain can cause restriction of activities, absence from school and cause of anxiety to children and their parents.
A good history and physical examination can give a lot of information to exclude any potentially serious condition causing chest pain, though it is rare. Costochondritis is a common cause of chest pain in adolescent and preadolescent girls. It can b...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 13, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
The college football fans that beat COVID and the experts that couldn ’t
BY ANISH KOKA
The COVID pandemic was supposed to herald the end of the idea that a smaller government is a better government. The experts who desperately seek to be in charge of a sprawling bureaucratic state told us that it was only a powerful central authority that could do what was needed to safeguard individual liberties at a time when a highly contagious respiratory virus was spreading across the globe.
New Zealand may have imposed draconian policies that did not even allow its own citizens to return, but scenes of cheering unmasked New Zealanders stood in sharp contrast to empty seats in American stadiums when ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy College Football New Zealand Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound lung comets or B lines in pulmonary edema – Cardiology Basics
Ultrasound lung comets or B lines in pulmonary edema – Cardiology Basics
Usually air in the lungs does not permit transmission of ultrasound and that is the reason for poor echo window in those with chronic obstructive airways disease. But when the lung is waterlogged in pulmonary edema, certain broad lines extending from the transducer location to the end of the imaging field appear on lung ultrasound. These have been called as B lines or ultrasound lung comets. They move with the lung movement in respiration. B lines are easy to detect with any ultrasound device including pocket devices and conventional echocardiog...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 11, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
What is pulmonary edema? Cardiology Basics
Pulmonary edema is collection of fluid within the lung alveoli.
The most important cause of pulmonary edema is heart failure, specifically, left ventricular failure. Pulmonary edema can also occur when there is fluid overload in the body as in renal failure.
Other causes of pulmonary edema are mitral stenosis, pulmonary venous obstruction and increased permeability of the pulmonary capillaries. Increased permeability of the pulmonary capillaries occurs in noncardiogenic pulmonary edema – e.g. adult respiratory distress syndrome or ARDS.
Sudden breathlessness is the most important symptom of pulmonary edema as the lungs ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 8, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Really, really hard times
I ' m reading Epidemics and Society by Frank M. Snowden. (Plagues and People ' s, which I discussed here a long while back, was taken. That book, by William McNeill, was first published in 1076. It essentially sets out on the same endeavor, to tell the story of the impact of epidemics on history. Snowden, quite churlishly in my view, does not acknowledge it.)There ' s been a lot of hardship in various times and places in our age. World War II was the worst thing to happen in the past 100+ years, but many other much more localized disasters were really awful, for much smaller numbers of people. But the Black Death -- which ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 8, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 8th October, 2022.
This report aligns with the reality that healthcare organizations are facing in terms of the effects to patient safety, " said Anahi Santiago, chief information security officer at Delaware-based ChristianaCare.She and other healthcare cybersecurity leaders spoke withHealthcare IT News about the connection between cyber hygiene and patient safety and how to prepare for healthcare cyber attacks. -----https://ehrintelligence.com/news/meaningful-use-ehrs-may-be-key-to-improved-quality-of-care‘Meaningful Use’ EHRs May Be Key to Improved Quality of CareHospitals that meet the “Meaningful Use” EHR requirements were ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
October 2022: Baby Breathing Treatments—Are We Doing Them Wrong?
Children under 2 years of age who are wheezing may or may not have bronchiolitis syndrome. They could be experiencing the first wheezing episode of a young, aspiring asthma patient. Nevertheless, both conditions deserve treatment trials with a bronchodilator, yet there is significant concern in the literature that infants under 2 years old are less responsive to bronchodilator medications than older patients.This concern primarily stems from a perception of decreased responsiveness to medication in bronchiolitis patients. Truthfully, the vast majority of first-time wheezing episodes in children are associated with viral in...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - October 6, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
What are cardiac monitors? Cardiology Basics
Cardiac monitors are devices with displays to show ECG, heart rate and other parameters on a continuous basis, usually used in the intensive care unit, emergency department, ambulances or operation theatre. Earlier cardiac monitors had just ECG and heart rate displays.
Current multi parameter monitors have invasive and non-invasive blood pressure, respiration, pulse oximetry, pacemaker sensing and various other monitoring possibilities. It can give out alarms if heart rate or any other parameter is beyond the set limits. Alarms should be taken considering the current physiological state of the person. Someone with continu...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 5, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 3rd 2022
In conclusion, based on the analysis of proteomics and transcriptome, we identified four SRMs that may affect aging and speculated their possible mechanisms, which provides a new target for preventing aging, especially skin aging.
A Popular Science Article on the State of Epigenetic Clocks
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/09/a-popular-science-article-on-the-state-of-epigenetic-clocks/
This popular science article is a good view of the present state of development and use of epigenetic clocks, covering the issues as well as the promise. Epigenetic age can be measured, with many different clocks...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 2, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
TWiV 931: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses increased acute respiratory illnesses among children and adolescents, estimates of monkeypox incubation period, generation time, and reproduction number, rapid increase in suspected SARS-CoV-2 reinfections, interim infection prevention and control recommendations for healthcare personnel during COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 secondary attack rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated household contacts during replacement of delta with omicron variant, breakthrough infection by SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants elicited immune response comparable to mRNA booster vaccination, inter...
Source: virology blog - October 1, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern Source Type: blogs
Cellular Senescence Contributes to Lung Aging
Senescent cells accumulate in tissues throughout the body with age, the lung included, as noted here. This accumulation is thought to be largely the result of the progressive failure of the immune system to destroy newly created senescent cells in a timely fashion. These cells secrete a mix of signals that disrupts tissue structure and function, provoking chronic inflammation. Senolytic therapies capable of selectively destroying senescent cells have shown considerable promise in animal studies, reversing many aspects of aging and age-related disease. Senescent cells actively maintain a degraded state of tissue, and gettin...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 28, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 26 September, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----I have to say the first article calls into question just how the Feds have been procuring IT and what implications there are for Federal Digital Health – a worry!Otherwise a few other good ones as well!-----https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/government-tech-policy/audit-office-releases-scathing-report-on-dta-s-ignoring-of-p...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
