The Revenge of Expectations: Trump's Rhetoric and Kim's Missile Bases
The high hopes and inflated expectations of U.S. diplomacy with North Korea set by Donald Trump after his summit with Kim Jong Un are quickly coming unraveled.Trump confidentlydeclared an end to the nuclear threat from North Korea on the heels of the Singapore summit, and has since repeatedly declared that the United States ismaking progress in its efforts to denuclearize North Korea.However, many arms control and nuclear experts have warned that the actual substance of theagreement between the United States and North Korea leaves much to be desired. North Korean promises to denuclearize are vague at best and there is no r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 12, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
The IPCC Confirms Life As We Know It Will Soon Cease to Exist
By DAVID INTROCASO PhD
THCB readers may recall last year in early June when the Trump administration announced it would withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate accord, and earlier this January when the World Economic Forum met to discuss its global risk report. The report included the chapter, “Our Planet on the Brink,” which I discussed (here and here) with respect to the health care industry’s indifference to global warming. (See also my related 3 Quarks Daily essay.) Now comes the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate and Change’s (IPCC’s ) latest report. Once again, overwhelming sc...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Politics Uncategorized Climate Change David Introcaso Global Warming IPCC Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 517
Answer: rotiferWow, great comments on this case! The Old One mentioned that this is a bdelloid rotifer. He comments " In this year of the women, it should be noted that bdelloid rotifers are all female. Able to be successful for millennia while maintaining genetic diversity by taking DNA from other creatures. " Fascinating! According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, " Rotifer, also called wheel animalcule, any of the approximately 2,000 species of microscopic, aquatic invertebrates that constitute the phylum Rotifera. Rotifers are so named because the circular arrangement of moving cilia (tiny hairlike structure...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - November 5, 2018 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Is Burnout Worse for Radiologists in Canada than it is for Radiologists in the U.S.?
New research recently published in theJournal of the American College of Radiologyshows us that it might be more emotionally challenging to be radiologist in Canada than in the U.S.Physician shortages can be a major source of burnout for doctors of all specialities. Many countries grapple with physician shortages. The United States, Canada, Poland, South Korea, and Mexico have some of the lowest doctor to patient ratios, with the average being 2.32 among those nations.TheNew England Journal of Medicine predictsthat by 2025, the U.S. will be in need of between 61,700 and 94,700 doctors.In Canada, there are not enough ra...
Source: radRounds - October 19, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
ACR Gold Medal Winners Announced
The American College of Radiology will award three radiologists with Gold Medalsfor their contributions to the specialty at the organization ’s May 2019 conference.The medal-winning physicians Bibb Allen, Jr, MD, Manuel L. Brown, MD, and David C. Kushner, MD have all been practicing radiologists for decades and each have held prominent leadership positions.Dr. Allen is the chief medical officer of the ACR ’s Data Science Institute and former chair of the college’s board of chancellors. The Birmingham, Alabama-based radiologist has been practicing for 35 years. He entered medicine as a surgery resident but changed t...
Source: radRounds - October 12, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
The Top Sleep Apps To Start Your Bedtime Tracking Journey
Instead of angels, dragons or unicorns, trackers may guard your dreams in the 21st century – which at least gives you a chance to gain more insight into your sleep data and actually improve your bedtime. If you want to become the master of sleep tracking, start with an app. Here, we collected the top sleep apps to choose from!
With data for a better bedtime
Research shows that humans spend one-third of their lives with sleeping or at least attempting to do so. If you have trouble with the snooze, there have been many traditional and non-traditional, legal and illegal methods to help: sleeping pills, booze, marijuana, inh...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Medical Professionals Patients android app apps fitness future iphone Personalized medicine sleep sleep app sleep sensor sleep tracker smartphone technology wearables Source Type: blogs
New Smaller Flexible Robotic Surgical System from South Korea
At KAIST, a major South Korean science and technology university, researchers have developed a flexible robotic surgical system that is designed to work on difficult to reach places. The K-FLEX endoscopic surgical robot has arms that are only 3.7 mm in diameter, allowing them to work through standard 4.2 mm internal channels of an endoscope. Since each robotic arm doesn’t need its own incision, as is usual with current robotic surgical systems, using the K-FLEX is a lot less invasive and should lead to fewer complications for patients. Moreover, it can be delivered through natural orifices, such as the mouth and anus...
Source: Medgadget - September 5, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: GI Ob/Gyn Surgery Thoracic Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Digital Tattoos Make Healthcare More Invisible
What if markings on your skin could unlock your phone or get you access to entrance doors? And what if they could also measure your blood pressure or hydration level constantly in the background only alerting you in case of values out of the normal range? Digital tattoos could act as minilabs rendering our skin an interactive display and making healthcare more invisible at the same time. Here’s our summary of the latest trends and research efforts to make it happen.
Our bodies are the next frontier for technology
In the course of the development of medical devices, a general trend has emerged: tools are getting more min...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 4, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Business Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Medical Professionals Patients digital digital health digital tattoo digital tattoos future Innovation Personalized medicine technology wearables Source Type: blogs
Digital Tattoos Make Healthcare More Invisible
What if markings on your skin could unlock your phone or get you access to entrance doors? And what if they could also measure your blood pressure or hydration level constantly in the background only alerting you in case of values out of the normal range? Digital tattoos could act as minilabs rendering our skin an interactive display and making healthcare more invisible at the same time. Here’s our summary of the latest trends and research efforts to make it happen.
Our bodies are the next frontier for technology
In the course of the development of medical devices, a general trend has emerged: tools are getting more min...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 4, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Business Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Medical Professionals Patients digital digital health digital tattoo digital tattoos future Innovation Personalized medicine technology wearables Source Type: blogs
The Jones Act Makes Little Sense in a Globalized World
Late last month that rarest of commodities, a new U.S.-built commercial transport ship, completed its maiden voyage by entering the harbor of San Juan, Puerto Rico to deliver its cargo. CalledEl Coqu í, the vessel is among the world ’s first hybrid roll-on/roll-off container vessels—a “ConRo” in industry parlance—that is powered by liquefied natural gas. Supporters of the Jones Act, a protectionist law which mandates that ships transporting goods between U.S. ports be U.S.-owned, crewed, flagged, and built, have pointed to El Coqu í as a symbol of the measure’s success. The President of the Shipbuilder’...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 20, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Flexible and Conductive Mesh for Implantable and Wearable Bioelectronics
Researchers at the Institute of Basic Science in South Korea have developed a highly stretchable bioelectronic mesh patch which can monitor electrophysiological signals, such as heart muscle electrical activity, and can apply electrical and thermal stimulation for therapeutic purposes. The mesh can be implanted, such as around the heart, or can be worn on the skin.
Research into new materials for wearables and implantable medical devices is proceeding rapidly. This latest study demonstrates a new material developed by Korean scientists, which can record electrical signals from tissue or skin it contacts, and deliver stimul...
Source: Medgadget - August 14, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Nanomedicine Neurology Source Type: blogs
The Top Bioprinting Companies
In the next 5-7 years, the bioprinting market is estimated to expand by 15.7 percent, and it is anticipated to grow over $4.70 billion by 2025, according to the latest study of BIS Research. While the growth statistics indicate a turbulent landscape, it is worth familiarizing with the main players. Here, we collected the best bioprinting companies currently on the market.
The future of bioprinting: tissues not organs
The idea of lab-grown organs might mean the end of testing drugs on animals or humans, the solution for organ shortages and an ending of the desperate state of organ donations worldwide. If the creators of the...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 14, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: 3D Printing in Medicine Biotechnology Business Future of Medicine 3d printed bioprinting company Healthcare Innovation market regenerative skin Source Type: blogs
The Top Bioprinting Companies
In the next 5-7 years, the bioprinting market is estimated to expand by 15.7 percent, and it is anticipated to grow over $4.70 billion by 2025, according to the latest study of BIS Research. While the growth statistics indicate a turbulent landscape, it is worth familiarizing with the main players. Here, we collected the best bioprinting companies currently on the market.
The future of bioprinting: tissues not organs
The idea of lab-grown organs might mean the end of testing drugs on animals or humans, the solution for organ shortages and an ending of the desperate state of organ donations worldwide. If the creators of the...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 14, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: 3D Printing in Medicine Biotechnology Business Future of Medicine 3d printed bioprinting company Healthcare Innovation market regenerative skin Source Type: blogs
Weighing Trump's Trade Apologists
In the wake of the recent “trade agreement” between President Trump and EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker, we have seen a surfeit of commentary heaping praise on the U.S. president for his strategic trade policy vision and tactical brilliance. Much of that praise has come from people who share the president’s flat-earth view that trade is a zero-sum game played by national governments where the objective is to promote exports, block imports, and secure a trade surplus. Trump throwing U.S. weight around to assert the rule of power over the rule of law is music to this crowd’s ears.But then there are the ap...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 6, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
Could A.I. Solve The Human Resources Crisis In Healthcare?
About 17.4 million – that’s the number of healthcare workers who are missing from the healthcare system globally. The human resources crisis in the medical sector is a burning issue, but with the aging and burn-out of physicians on the one hand, and the continuous rise in chronic diseases, on the other hand, it will even get worse year by year. Could artificial intelligence give a helping hand to doctors and ease the burden on healthcare systems? The Medical Futurist Institute published a paper that says it’s possible, but first, we need to tackle a range of ethical and legal questions.
A global health workforce ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 2, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research AI crisis digital health strategy future Healthcare HR human resources medical technology workforce Source Type: blogs
