EMA Panel Backs Episalvan for Partial-Thickness WoundsEMA Panel Backs Episalvan for Partial-Thickness Wounds
Made from birch bark extract, Episalvan can reduce the healing time of wounds in which the upper layers of the skin have been damaged, for example by a burn or during surgical skin grafting. International Approvals (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - November 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Dermatology News Alert Source Type: news
Artist bioengineers replica of Van Gogh's ear
Tissue engineering has given us some important medical and scientific advances: Layers of skin grown in the lab can be grafted onto wounds to help burn victims heal. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - November 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Howard Green, Who Found a Way to Grow Skin and Saved Lives, Dies at 90
From a failed experiment, Dr. Green discovered how to regenerate skin that could be grafted onto burn victims, and inspired future stem cell research. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: SAM ROBERTS Tags: Skin Burns Harvard Medical School Deaths (Obituaries) Green, Howard (1925-2015) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Source Type: news
High Tech Medicine Can Be Bad for Your Health
You reach a certain age and all your friends are getting sick, going to lots of doctors, having lots of tests, and taking lots of medicine. No surprise there. The surprise is how many of your friends tell you that their doctors have made glaring errors and that the tests and treatments have caused them more harm than good. And surprising also that often it is the best doctors at the most high tech places who seem to make the most egregious errors. The problem is that too many doctors have gotten into the habit of treating lab tests, not patients. And doctors have become super-specialized, each one focusing only on one s...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 28, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Medtech approvals: FDA releases August 2015 PMAs
The FDA today released its list of the pre-market approvals it granted for medical devices in August 2015:
Summary of PMA Originals & Supplements Approved
Originals: 2
Supplements: 70
Summary of PMA Originals Under Review
Total Under Review: 57
Total Active: 28
Total On Hold: 29
Summary of PMA Supplements Under Review
Total Under Review: 569
Total Active: 422
Total On Hold: 147
Summary of All PMA Submissions
Originals: 5
Supplements: 90
Summary of PMA Supplement PMA Approval/Denial Decision Times
Number of Approvals: 70
Number of Denials: 0
Average Days Fr Receipt to Decision (Total Time): 229.0
FDA Time: 130...
Source: Mass Device - October 23, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Pre-Market Approval (PMA) Regulatory/Compliance Source Type: news
The Man Who Grew Eyes
The train line from mainland Kobe is a marvel of urban transportation. Opened in 1981, Japan’s first driverless, fully automated train pulls out of Sannomiya station, guided smoothly along elevated tracks that stand precariously over the bustling city streets below, across the bay to the Port Island. The island, and much of the city, was razed to the ground in the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 – which killed more than 5,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 of Kobe’s buildings – and built anew in subsequent years. As the train proceeds, the landscape fills with skyscrapers. The Rokkō mounta...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 11, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Man Who Grew Eyes
The train line from mainland Kobe is a marvel of urban transportation. Opened in 1981, Japan’s first driverless, fully automated train pulls out of Sannomiya station, guided smoothly along elevated tracks that stand precariously over the bustling city streets below, across the bay to the Port Island. The island, and much of the city, was razed to the ground in the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 – which killed more than 5,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 of Kobe’s buildings – and built anew in subsequent years. As the train proceeds, the landscape fills with skyscrapers. The Rokkō mounta...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bree Towner has drastic surgery to re-build her face using skin from her scalp
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Bree Towner, 28, from Illinois, was diagnosed with a skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma. She lost the tip of her nose and now has to shave the new grafted one. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Organogenesis touts CE data on artificial skin grafts
Organogenesis yesterday it is releasing results from a comparative effectiveness analysis of its Apligraf and Dermagraf artificial skin grafts showing superior performance compared to its competitors, and released data from a previous study of its graft being used to treat diabetic foot ulcers.
The results will be reported at the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care’s fall meeting this weekend in Las Vegas, Nev.
The grafts were analyzed against MiMedx‘s (NSDQ:MDXG) Epifix, Integra LifeSciences (NSDQ:IART) newly acquired PriMatrix, developed by TEI Biosciences, and Soluble Systems‘ Theraskin, the company said.
&...
Source: Mass Device - September 25, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Regenerative Medicine Research & Development Organogenesis Inc. Source Type: news
Need, Greed, and GMOs: Genuflection in All the Wrong Directions
Images of scientists inserting eye-of-newt genes into escarole, or wool-of-bat genes into watercress stalk the nightmares of pure food proponents, and up to a point-- rightly so. Even if the intentions of those tinkering with foods are good- such as putting antifreeze genes from amphibians into oranges so they are not destroyed by an early frost- the law of unintended consequences pertains. There is ample reason, in principle, to be wary of Frankenfoods.
There may be reason in epidemiology as well. We are substantially uncertain about why rates of gluten intolerance and celiac disease are rising; genetic modification of f...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What Is Telogen Effluvium?
Discussion
Hair is an epidermal appendage. It has a regular cycle of phases where hair grows (anagen), rests (telogen) and has a transition phase (catagen) in between.
Normal hair loss is ~50-100 hairs lost/day on the scalp. Normal hair grows about 2.5 mm/week.
The history should include details about general health, health stressors especially in last 4-6 months including fevers, surgeries, new medication and life events are important.
Review of systems for possible anemia, diabetes, and hypothyroidism and other autoimmune diseases should be obtained including fatigue, constipation, weight changes, night sweats, eye, mus...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - September 21, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
To Save This Man's Hand, They Sewed It Into His Belly (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
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Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 2, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Texas surgeons implant grandfather's badly burned hand into his abdomen
Frank Reyes, right, was facing the prospect of losing his hand until Texas surgeon Anthony Echo, left, decided to attempt an unusual skin graft technique normally used on the battlefield. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Virgin Gets Bionic Penis After Childhood Tragedy
Life has been hard for Mohammed Abad. The 43-year-old virgin from Edinburgh, Scotland, "lost all of my genitals" when he was hit by a car and dragged 600 feet at just 6 years old, The Sun reports. Thirty-seven years later, he got a new lease on life -- and sex -- after surgeons at University College London gave him an 8-inch bionic penis. Using a button in his scrotum, Abad can now inflate his new manhood with fluids from an implant in his belly. "When you want a bit of action you press the 'on' button, and when you are finished you press another button. It takes seconds," he told The Sun. It took doctors three years ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Virgin Gets Bionic Penis After Childhood Tragedy
Life has been hard for Mohammed Abad.
The 43-year-old virgin from Edinburgh, Scotland, "lost all of my genitals" when he was hit by a car and dragged 600 feet at just 6 years old, The Sun reports.
Thirty-seven years later, he got a new lease on life -- and sex -- after surgeons at University College London gave him an 8-inch bionic penis. Using a button in his scrotum, Abad can now inflate his new manhood with fluids from an implant in his belly.
"When you want a bit of action you press the 'on' button, and when you are finished you press another button. It takes seconds," he told The Sun.
It took doctors three years ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
