Gene therapy ’ s impact on incurable illnesses
Gene therapy has been used recently to cure previously incurable diseases, including sickle cell anemia. It is a horrible disease that I have seen so many times in the ER that it haunts me at night, especially one patient. He was a sweet man with a loving and patient demeanor who tolerated the agony he
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Gene therapy’s impact on incurable illnesses originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 11, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Conditions Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Exploring gene therapy for chronic pain [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Join L. Joseph Parker, a research physician, as we explore recent breakthroughs in gene editing, including its use in curing deafness and treating sickle cell anemia. Joseph discusses the ethical implications, accessibility challenges, and the potential of gene therapy in revolutionizing
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Exploring gene therapy for chronic pain [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 1, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Pain Management Source Type: blogs
The 2024 Word of the Year: Missense
By MIKE MAGEE
Not surprisingly, my nominee for “word of the year” involves AI, and specifically “the language of human biology.”
As Eliezer Yudkowski, the founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and coiner of the term “friendly AI” stated in Forbes:
“Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence—in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement – wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.”
Perhaps the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Biology Crispr DNA Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
The 6 Most Exciting Medical Technology Breakthroughs Of Recent Years
Amidst the flurry of hyped technologies, it’s not easy to pinpoint which specific technological breakthroughs will have the most impact in the coming years.
Dr. Meskó, The Medical Futurist, reviews multiple reports, studies, and articles daily. Consequently, our days are filled with awe-inspiring developments. However, our aim here is to offer more than just a compilation of “wow, look how fascinating” stories.
To achieve this, we have selected technologies that:
Have undergone significant breakthroughs in recent years, be it in regulatory, technological, or scientific aspects
Are anticipate...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF artificial intelligence digital health future Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists Through CityLab
Credit: CityLab.
“Many of the students we work with don’t have access to a laboratory through their local schools. For them, CityLab is their first exposure to a laboratory environment—these are hugely important moments for these kids,” says Carl Franzblau, Ph.D., the founder of CityLab at Boston University (BU). CityLab was established more than 30 years ago as a science education outreach program for precollege students and teachers through a partnership between the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development at BU.
“Since our first Science Edu...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - January 3, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology STEM Education SEPA Training Source Type: blogs
The State Of CRISPR Clinical Trials And Their Future Potentials
CRISPR, short for “Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats” – and more specifically CRISPR–Cas9 – relates to a gene-editing method that gained popularity in the past decade; and not for trivial reasons. Being the most efficient and accurate method to edit a cell’s genome, CRISPR holds potentials that range from treating conditions such as HIV to finding new drug targets.
While such potentials are real and are being actively investigated, you might be curious about more practical examples of CRISPR applications. By taking the US Clinical Trials registry as an example, we consider lis...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF CRISPR therapy clinical trials gene editing Source Type: blogs
OMI in a pediatric patient? Teenagers do get acute coronary occlusion, so don't automatically dismiss the idea.
Acute coronary syndrome in a pediatric patient?Written by Kirsten Morrissey, MD with edits by Bracey,
Grauer, Meyers, and Smith An older teen was transferred from an outside hospital
with elevated serum troponin and and ECG demonstrating ST elevations. The patient was obese and had a medical history of only recurrent tonsillitis status post tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy but was otherwise healthy and fully vaccinated. He reported 1.5 days of chest pain that started as substernal and crushing in nature awakening him from sleep and occasionally traveling to right side of neck. The pain ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Bracey Source Type: blogs
What does the ECG show in this patient with chest pain, hypotension, dyspnea, and hypoxemia?
Written by Pendell Meyers, with some edits by SmithA man in his 40s with many comorbidities presented to the ED with chest pain, hypotension, dyspnea, and hypoxemia.The bedside echo showed a large RV (Does this mean there is a pulmonary embolism as the etiology?)Here is his triage ECG:What do you think? Lots of info here.The rhythm is 2:1 atrial flutter. The flutter waves can conceal or mimic ischemic repolarization findings, but here I don ' t see any obvious findings of OMI or subendocardial ischemia.The QRS is around 100 msec wide (narrow), but with very abnormal morphology including a large R-wave in V1, dee...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 14, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – August 13, 2023 – 75% of executives thing generative AI has reached the point where it will reshape healthcare, 64% of patients would trust AI over a doctor to make a diagnosis, and more,
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News
The Drug Enforcement Administration will hold listening sessions Sept. 12 and 13 to discuss allowing a “special registration” to allow physicians to remotely prescribe certain controlled substances without the ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT American Telemedicine Association Ana Sirbu AssureCare ATA ATA Nexus Azure Bain CitiusTech DEA DrFirst eClinicalWorks eCW Epic Generative AI Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features health Source Type: blogs
5 myths of treating sickle cell disease with automated red blood cell exchange
Not all transfusion therapies are the same. Unlike other transfusion therapies, automated red blood cell exchange (RBCX) efficiently and rapidly removes a patient’s hemoglobin S (HbS)-containing RBCs and replaces them with healthy RBCs. You may be surprised to learn that there are a few misperceptions surrounding automated RBCX. How do you think about automated RBCX
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5 myths of treating sickle cell disease with automated red blood cell exchange originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Carly Newton, RN Tags: Conditions Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Teaching Wound Care at the American College of Physicians Annual Meeting
I recently had the honor of teaching a section entitled “Wound Care for the Internist.” at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP) in San Diego. ACP is the largest medical specialty organization in the United States with members that include internal medicine physicians, subspecialists, and medical students. My session was well attended by caregivers from across the healthcare continuum including hospitalists, doctors in outpatient practices, and long-term care providers.
In my introductory remarks I asked the question, “How many of you have had a lecture on wound care in medical school....
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - April 29, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Pressure Injuries & Wound Care arterial ulcer bedsores burns chronic wounds decubitus ulcer end-of-life care Jeff Levine MD medical education pressure sores pressure ulcers venous ulce Source Type: blogs
Scene Health Secures $17.7 Million Series B Financing Led by ABS Capital Partners
Funding Will Grow Medication Adherence Services for Medicaid and Other Under-Resourced Populations
Scene Health, the leading medication engagement company, has closed an oversubscribed $17.7 million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital.
The investment is the latest validation of Scene Health’s unique video-based platform, which empowers people to take medication properly through person-to-person connections, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ABS Capital Partners Cal Wheaton CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Chronic Conditions Claritas Health Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Healthworx Kapor Capital Medicai Source Type: blogs
Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: An Epilogue
by Chad D. Kollas, MD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie JudySeveral important developments have occurred since the publication of our article, “Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence? ” in Pallimed on September 12, 2022 (1). Most notably, this includes the publication of the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (2), which updated the guidance previously provided by the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (3). In this epilogue, we will describe those important developments and examine ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 29, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas opioids schechtman Source Type: blogs
Danger Alert: AI Is Writing Content, But It ’s Lying – Let Us Show You How
There is a growing number of AI text generators around the web, offering more or less the same.
You give a brief of your planned content and maybe some keywordsSet the parameters, like the language, the tone of the text and the creativity levelHit enterVoila, you get your blog post/article/marketing copy/whatever
Isn’t it amazing? Writing a good text takes effort, so outsourcing it to AI could save us a ton of time in researching and crafting content.
Before you quickly lay off all your writers, let me show through a few examples of why trusting A.I. with content is dangerous as of now. TLDR spoiler: it is l...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI AI text generator synthetic media AI in heaalthcare Source Type: blogs
Danger Alert: A.I. Is Writing Content, But It ’s Lying – Let Us Show You How
There is a growing number of A.I. text generators around the web, offering more or less the same.
You give a brief of your planned content and maybe some keywordsSet the parameters, like the language, the tone of the text and the creativity levelHit enterVoila, you get your blog post/article/marketing copy/whatever
Isn’t it amazing? Writing a good text takes effort, so outsourcing it to A.I. could save us a ton of time in researching and crafting content.
Before you quickly lay off all your writers, let me show through a few examples of why trusting A.I. with content is dangerous as of now. TLDR spoiler: it ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI AI text generator synthetic media AI in heaalthcare Source Type: blogs
