Top Companies in Genomics
From portable genome sequencers until genetic tests revealing distant relations with Thomas Jefferson, genomics represents a fascinatingly innovative area of healthcare. As the price of genome sequencing has been in free fall for years, the start-up scene is bursting from transformative power. Let’s look at some of the most amazing ventures in genomics!
The amazing journey of genome sequencing
Genome sequencing has been on an amazing scientific as well as economic journey for the last three decades. The Human Genome Project began in 1990 with the aim of mapping the whole structure of the human genome and sequencing it. ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 30, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Genomics Personalized Medicine AI artificial intelligence bioinformatics cancer DNA dna testing DTC gc3 genetic disorders genetics genome sequencing personal genomics precision medicine Source Type: blogs
Towards Manufactured Blood
One of the near future goals in the tissue engineering field is the low-cost mass-manufacture of blood, removing the need for donations and blood banks. Development leading towards mass produced blood has proven a slower process than hoped, however. Here researchers report on a step forward in the generation of the necessary infrastructure technologies:
Researchers have generated the first immortalised cell lines which allow more efficient manufacture of red blood cells. The team were able to manufacture red blood cells in a more efficient scale than was previously possible. The results, could, if successfully tes...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 28, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Disruptive Digital Technologies Will Change Blood Donation
Disruptive digital technologies could help in many ways in optimizing the process of blood donation. It could aid the recruitment of new blood donors, keep the returning donors motivated on the long run, or simplify and shorten the process of blood donation through robots or medical drones. Tissue engineers are even experimenting with artificial blood, so we might bypass blood donation in the future altogether.
Bloody business
If you cut your finger during chopping cabbage, you bleed. If you trip over a hole and fall, you bleed. This deep red fluid flowing in our veins occupies a central place in our organism – and thus ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 12, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Future of Medicine Healthcare Design blood blood donation digital health GC1 Innovation medical drones social media tissue engineering Source Type: blogs
Value Frameworks For Rare Diseases: Should They Be Different?
The US health care system is increasingly focusing on value as a basis for reimbursement of pharmacotherapies and devices, and as a result the use of “value frameworks” for measuring and comparing treatment value has grown in recent years. However, the therapies assessed by most frameworks frequently apply to modest-to-large disease populations, rather than the smaller populations affected by rare diseases, where the factors driving value may differ.
Rare diseases are different from diseases affecting larger populations in several fundamental ways. In the United States, a rare disease is defined as one that affects few...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Anupam Jena and Darius Lakdawalla Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Quality Orphan Drug Act Precision Medicine rare disease treatment treatment value value frameworks Source Type: blogs
Do Asians Have Harder Heads? On Sports Concussions and the Need For a Fairer, Medical Research Funding Policy
By CHUNG, ZINK, BARR
At a January event on “The Future of Baseball” organized by the Sports and Society Program at NYU’s School of Professional Studies, Yankees executive Jean Afterman spoke to the superiority of baseball over football by noting that “at least our athletes don’t have to worry about their heads after they’re done.” It was an innocuous statement but one that points to a growing assumption that sports concussion is both (a) prevalent and (b) a debilitating disease to be feared.
But is it true that sports concussions are the public health scourge of our time? Media coverage would make it see...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Sickle cell and thalassaemia: checks and audits to improve quality and reduce risks
Public Health England -Each NHS screening programme has a defined pathway(s). The pathways show how the individual undergoing screening moves form one stage of the pathway to the next. Checks are needed at each stage to ensure the individual moves seamlessly and safely through the pathway unless they chose not to. If these checks are not in place there is risk that an individual does not complete the pathway or the pathway is delayed unnecessarily.GuidancePublic Health England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 14, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 173
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Welcome to the 173rd edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 5 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Justin Morg...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 23, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Justin Morgenstern Tags: Emergency Medicine Pediatrics R&R in the FASTLANE Urology EBM literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
2017 update to the immunization schedule for kids
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Every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) update the recommendations for immunizing children from birth to 18 years. This past week, the latest changes were published.
The changes are usually small, and this year is no exception. But they are important — and they are a sign of how these organizations, and all the scientists who study immunization, take immunization effectiveness and safety very seriously. There is ongoing research to be sure that vaccines do everything we want them to do. As that research is done, discoveri...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Infectious diseases Parenting Prevention Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Chronic Pain and the Opioid Epidemic: Wicked Issues Have No Simple Solutions
Written By Myra ChristopherMy mom was a steel magnolia (i.e., southern and perfectly charming), but she had a steel rod up her back. After her first surgery for stomach cancer at age 53, she refused pain medication because she said that she “could take it.” She was young and strong and committed to “beating cancer.” After nearly two years of chemotherapy, radiation and two more surgeries, the cancer won. Eventually, I watched her beg nurses to give her “a shot” minutes before another was scheduled and be told they were sorry but she would have to wait. I could tell by the expressions on ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 23, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care chronic pain Opioid addiction Opioid Epidemic Opioid prescriptions syndicated Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 24-year-old woman with sickle cell anemia
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 24-year-old woman undergoes routine evaluation. She is pregnant at 12 weeks’ gestation. Medical history is notable for homozygous sickle cell anemia (Hb SS). She has had multiple uncomplicated painful crises treated at home with hydration, nonopioid analgesia, and incentive spirometry. She requires hospital management for these episodes approximately twice per year. She has declined the use of hydroxyurea. Her only other medication is folic acid.
On physical examination, vital signs are normal. Mild scle...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 21, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Hematology Source Type: blogs
An opioid epidemic is what happens when pain is treated only with pills - The Washington Post
Too many opioids. Not enough opioids. Behold the opioid paradox.The United States is in the midst of a massive opioid epidemic, as The Washington Post and other news organizations have documented extensively. In 2015, more than 33,000 people died from overdoses of opioids, meaning prescription painkillers, heroin, fentanyl or any combination. That easily keeps pace here with fatal motor vehicle accidents and gun-related deaths.Certain states have been particularly affected. The Charleston Gazette just reported that opioid wholesalers shipped 780 million oxycodone and hydrocodone pills into West Virginia over a six-year per...
Source: Psychology of Pain - December 25, 2016 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
Ten Years of Induced Pluripotency
It has been a decade since researchers first discovered the recipe for reprogramming ordinary somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, capable of generating all other cell types in the same way as embryonic stem cells. This was a transformative advance, as the ease of the method allowed near any research group to work with pluripotent cells. Making use of induced pluripotency in research and medicine is still very much a work in progress, however: great strides are being made in the production of cells and tissues for drug testing and other tissue engineering for research use, but the goals of generating patient-...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 29, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
That Upcoming Month
This month is September. You know that first month of fall where you can feel the first crispness in the air (especially here in New England), back to school, and all that. It is also:Childhood Cancer Awareness MonthNational Pediculosis Prevention Month/Head Lice Prevention MonthNational Recovery MonthNational Sickle Cell MonthNational Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness MonthOvarian Cancer Awareness MonthPain Awareness MonthProstate Cancer Awareness Month18 National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day22 Falls Prevention Awareness Day28 National Women ' s Health& Fitness DayThe full list contains many more awareness topics. ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - September 5, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: brace yourself pinkification pinktober Source Type: blogs
PAINS Update
Myra ChristopherRaising Pain AwarenessPenney Cowan has lived with chronic pain for most of her life and is the Founder of the American Chronic Pain Association. Her advocacy work is peppered with the creation of innovative projects and programs. Perhaps, one of the most powerful of her ideas was establishing September as Pain Awareness Month in 2001. This September will mark the fifteenth anniversary of Pain Awareness Month. That it has endured over time is remarkable given all the other causes that vie for public attention. However, in my opinion, it has never reached its potential. It was my privilege to be o...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 1, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care American Chronic Pain Association National Pain Strategy Report Pain Awareness Month syndicated Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 148
Welcome to the 148th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 6 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Justin Morgenstern and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more about the R&R project or check o...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 24, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Justin Morgenstern Tags: Education Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease Neurosurgery R&R in the FASTLANE EBM literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
