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Under Affordable Care Act, out-of-pocket medical spending should drop for many
Out-of-pocket medical expenses will decline for most consumers who become newly insured or change their source of health insurance under the federal Affordable Care Act, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The study found that overall the Affordable Care Act will have a varied impact on health spending by individuals and families, depending primarily on their income and whether they would have been uninsured in 2016 without the program...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Source Type: news
Seapine Software releases 2013 Medical Device Development Report
Medical device manufacturers have made significant changes to their product development processes over the past two years in an effort to improve quality, safety, and time to market according to the recently released 2013 Medical Device Development survey report. Conducted by Seapine Software, the survey polled over 400 medical device development professionals between June and August 2013 and compared the results to a similar survey Seapine conducted in 2011...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
'Etiquette-based' communications among doctors-in-training needed to improve medical outcomes
Johns Hopkins investigators have found that doctors-in-training are unlikely to introduce themselves fully to hospitalized patients or sit down to talk to them eye-to-eye, despite research suggesting that courteous bedside manners improve medical recovery along with patient satisfaction. A report on the research, published online this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, calls for some simple adjustments to intern communications to make the whole experience of a hospital stay better...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news
TopoChip reveals the braille code of cells, could optimize the surfaces of medical implants
Cells in the human body change shape as they crawl, split, or cling to other surfaces, but while the scientific literature is filled with examples of how cell shapes shift in response to things they touch, little is known about the rules that govern these changes. And there has been no high-throughput way to systematically test different topologies against different types of cells to optimize the surface of something like a medical implant. "We don't know the Braille codes of cells," said biologist Jan de Boer of the University of Twente in the Netherlands...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Natural compound can be used for 3-D printing of medical implants
Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can be incorporated into three-dimensional (3-D) printing processes to create medical implants out of non-toxic polymers. The compound is riboflavin, which is better known as vitamin B2. "This opens the door to a much wider range of biocompatible implant materials, which can be used to develop customized implant designs using 3-D printing technology," says Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Bringing medical testing to remote locales using paper-based device
In remote regions of the world where electricity is hard to come by and scientific instruments are even scarcer, conducting medical tests at a doctor's office or medical lab is rarely an option. Scientists are now reporting progress toward an inexpensive point-of-care, paper-based device to fill that void with no electronics required. Their study on the extremely sensitive test, which simply relies on the user keeping track of time, appears in the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry. Scott T...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
St. Jude Medical reports positive clinical outcomes from Portico Heart Valve study
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, has announced positive results for the 23 and 25 mm Portico™ Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valves in the Portico Transfemoral CE Mark Trial (Portico TF CE Trial). Patients enrolled in the study experienced a significant improvement in valve function at 30 days. The preliminary findings indicate exceptional hemodynamic performance (the ability to maximize blood flow) and improvement in the severity of heart failure symptoms as measured by the New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification System...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 31, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Meditation techniques prevent burnout in medical students
Doctors commonly tell patients that stress can be harmful to their health. Yet when it comes to reducing their own stress levels, physicians don't always heed their own advice. Part of the problem, according to researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, is that medical schools don't include meditation and stress-reduction training in their curriculum...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news
U.S. adults spend most; forgo care due to costs, struggle to pay medical bills, and contend with insurance complexity at highest rates, survey shows
A new 11-country survey from The Commonwealth Fund finds that adults in the United States are far more likely than those in 10 other high-income industrialized nations to go without health care because of costs, have difficulty paying medical bills, and encounter time-consuming health insurance paperwork or disputes, including claims that were unexpectedly not paid.More than one-third (37%) of U.S. adults went without recommended care, did not see a doctor when sick, or failed to fill prescriptions because of costs, compared to as few as 4 percent to 6 percent in the U.K.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Source Type: news
Medical imaging, collision-avoidance detectors for cars, and interactive gaming, all using inexpensive 'nano-camera'
A $500 "nano-camera" that can operate at the speed of light has been developed by researchers in the MIT Media Lab.The three-dimensional camera, which was presented last week at Siggraph Asia in Hong Kong, could be used in medical imaging and collision-avoidance detectors for cars, and to improve the accuracy of motion tracking and gesture-recognition devices used in interactive gaming.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
A new method of wirelessly recharging medical device batteries with ultrasound
Human beings don't come with power sockets, but a growing numbers of us have medical implants that run off electricity. To keep our bionic body parts from powering down, a group of Arizona researchers is developing a safe, noninvasive, and efficient means of wireless power transmission through body tissue. The team presents their findings at the 166th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, being held Dec. 2 - 6 in San Francisco, Calif.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Boosting pipeline of medical devices for children
For medical devices, as with many medicines, the market for children is a small fraction of the adult market, and there are far fewer child-sized devices. But, of course, the need exists, even if proper devices may not."It's not simply a matter of scaling down adult equipment for pediatric use," said Matthew Maltese, Ph.D., a bioengineer at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). "Pediatricians have long known that children are not just small adults, and adults are not just big children.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Cook Medical initiates clinical study to evaluate post-treatment removal of the Evolution® Esophageal Fully Covered Stent
Cook Medical has initiated a clinical study in the U.S. to evaluate the removability of a new Evolution® Esophageal Fully Covered Stent. This is the first multicenter U.S. study to evaluate the possibility of removing a self-expanding metal stent after malignant and benign strictures have been treated. The stent design used in the study has been modified to accommodate retrieval. The study will also evaluate the use of the device in esophageal conditions, including strictures, fistulas, perforations or leaks. The study, led by Principal Investigator Dr.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Highly sensitive system detects individual molecules for medical diagnostics
Medical diagnostics is searching for substances capable of documenting early on whether a serious disease is developing or what its course will be. In many cases, the treacherous molecules are present only in trace amounts - which is why extremely sensitive methods of detection are urgently needed. Now, researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), along with scientists from Potsdam and Berlin, have come up with a new method of detection, which has allowed them to notice the presence of only 17 dye molecules.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Novel gel in development for biological and medical applications
A novel method developed by researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jacobs University Bremen enables manufacturing of polymer layers with tailor-made properties and multiple functions: A stable porous gel (SURGEL) for biological and medical applications is obtained from a metal-organic framework (SURMOF) grown up on a substrate. The method is presented in the renowned Journal of the American Chemical Society. Coating of solids with polymers plays a central role in many areas of technological, natural and life sciences. For example, implants for the human body e.g.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
