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12 Innovations That Will Change Health Care and Medicine in the 2020s
Pocket-size ultrasound devices that cost 50 times less than the machines in hospitals (and connect to your phone). Virtual reality that speeds healing in rehab. Artificial intelligence that’s better than medical experts at spotting lung tumors. These are just some of the innovations now transforming medicine at a remarkable pace. No one can predict the future, but it can at least be glimpsed in the dozen inventions and concepts below. Like the people behind them, they stand at the vanguard of health care. Neither exhaustive nor exclusive, the list is, rather, representative of the recasting of public health and medic...
Source: TIME: Health - October 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: TIME Staff Tags: Uncategorized HealthSummit19 technology Source Type: news

Late Breaking Abstract - Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty for the Treatment of Non Operable Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension - Initial experience of a Belgian Center
Conclusion: In our cohort, we demonstrated that BPA improves most of the haemodynamics variables, including stroke volume index and pulmonary arterial compliance, without severe adverse events. Further studies for the long term efficacy of BPA are required.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 19, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Godinas, L., Lawrence, B., Werner, B., Catharina, B., Mathias, L., Marion, D., Geert, M. Tags: Pulmonary hypertension Source Type: research