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Innovative Smartphone App Tests Your Urine For Medical Issues
A 29-year-old entrepreneur from India has developed a smartphone app that can analyze your urine for the presence of up to 10 markers covering 25 different medical conditions. uChek is the brainchild of Myshkin Ingawale, who showed off his new invention at the TED (Technology, Education and Design) 2013 conference in Los Angeles this week. App Analyzes Color of Urine-Dipped Chemical Strips The app uses the smartphone's camera to take photos of chemical strips that you dip in a sample of your urine...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Surgical Residents Disapprove Of 2011 ACGME Duty Hour Regulations, Survey Finds
JAMA Surgery Study Highlights In a study by Brian C. Drolet, M.D., of the Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, and colleagues, the majority of surgical residents who were surveyed reported that they disapprove of the 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Common Program Requirements (65.9 percent). A total of 1,013 residents in general surgery and surgical specialties at 123 ACGME-accredited teaching hospitals in the United States and U.S...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news
A Model Program For Surgical Residents
Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, have developed a novel graduate medical education initiative that enables surgical residents to hone their skills in quality improvement (QI). Surgical trainees who completed the year-long educational program found the QI training to be beneficial, and more importantly, believe it put them in a position to lead QI initiatives in the future. The report appears in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news
Primary Care Shortage Will Grow Unless US Reforms Graduate Medical Education System
Despite a critical shortage of primary care in the United States less than 25 percent of newly minted doctors go into this field and only a tiny fraction, 4.8 percent, set up shop in rural areas, according to a study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news
Analyzing The Quality Of Primary Care Training Programs At Various Schools
The U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings inspire discussion and marketing, but do they actually reflect quality differences between schools when it comes to medical education in primary care? Researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine are believed to be the first to take on that question by analyzing the primary care rankings from 2009 through 2012, reconstructing scores and proposing alternative measurements. Their findings are published online now, ahead of the August 13 print issue of the journal Academic Medicine...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news
Doctor and Patient: Should Medical School Last Just 3 Years?
For several years, medical educators have been engaged in an increasingly heated, and occasionally cantankerous, debate about streamlining medical education and training.
Source: NYT Health - October 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Tags: Doctors Medical Schools Featured Doctor and Patient Source Type: news
Kaiser Permanente ’ s New Medical School Will Waive Tuition for Its First 5 Classes
By eliminating the financial burden of a medical education, the school hopes that more students will chose family medicine and other vital but lower-paid specialties.
Source: NYT Health - February 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ABBY GOODNOUGH Tags: Kaiser Permanente Medical Schools Tuition Pasadena (Calif) New York University School of Medicine Source Type: news
Protect Medical Devices From Cyber Attacks, FDA Urges
The FDA is urging medical device makers and health care facilities to make sure there are proper safeguards in place to protect their medical devices from cyber threats. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) said on Thursday that its warning is directed specifically at biomedical engineers, health care IT and procurements staff, medical device user facilities, hospitals and medical device manufacturers. A cyber attack may be caused when *malware is introduced into medical equipment, as well as unauthorized people gaining access to configuration settings in hospital networks and equipment...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Top five medical innovations of the past, present and future
Since medical science's first dawn, it has charged unwaveringly into the future. Today, we glance at some of the greatest medical innovations, as chosen by medical pioneers.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Innovation Source Type: news
Medical School Gift Restriction Policies Linked To Subsequent Prescribing Behaviour
Prescribing rates reduced among students exposed to active restriction policies Doctors who graduate from medical schools with an active policy on restricting gifts from the pharmaceutical industry are less likely to prescribe new drugs over existing alternatives, suggests a study published on bmj.com today. Medical school policies that restrict gifts to physicians from the pharmaceutical and device industries are becoming increasingly common, but the effect of such policies on physician prescribing behaviour after graduation into clinical practice is unknown...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news
Potential Medical Applications For Swarming Robots
Swarms of robots acting together to carry out jobs could provide new opportunities for humans to harness the power of machines. Researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics, jointly established by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, have been working to program a group of 40 robots, and say the ability to control robot swarms could prove hugely beneficial in a range of contexts, from military to medical...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
European Physicians Treat Patients With Cook Medical's New Advance® Micro™ 14 Ultra Low-Profile PTA Balloon Catheter
Introduction of a dedicated over-the-wire micro balloon offers expanded treatment options for performing BTK procedures For the first time, European patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease (PAD) have been treated with a new ultra low-profile micro-balloon catheter from Cook Medical that allows physicians to treat arterial lesions in the leg below the knee (BTK). Cook Medical's Advance Micro 14 PTA balloon catheter was introduced to European physicians at the 2013 Leipzig Interventional Course (LINC) in Leipzig, Germany...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
'Microrockets' And 'Micromotors' - Overcoming A Major Barrier To Medical And Other Uses
An advance in micromotor technology akin to the invention of cars that fuel themselves from the pavement or air, rather than gasoline or batteries, is opening the door to broad new medical and industrial uses for these tiny devices, scientists said. Their update on development of the motors - so small that thousands would fit inside this "o" - was part of the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, being held here this week. Joseph Wang, D.Sc...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Putting Tests to the Test: Many Medical Procedures Prove Unnecessary and Risky
The routine use of 130 different medical screenings, tests and treatments are often unnecessary and should be scaled back, according to 25 medical specialty organizations. The medical societies jointly released lists of tests and therapies patients should question in their campaign, Choosing Wisely . The initiative of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation is aimed at reducing unnecessary interventions that waste money and can actually do more harm than good. [More]
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - March 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Medical Technology,Ethics,Health,Society & Policy Source Type: news
New Rules On Financial Relationships Might Slow Medical Innovation
Startup companies founded by physician entrepreneurs are an important source of patents used in developing innovative new medical devices, suggests a study in the May issue of Medical Care. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
