AI and Multispectral Photoacoustic Imaging to Diagnose Thyroid Cancer
This study is significant in that it is the first to acquire photoacoustic images of thyroid nodules and classify malignant nodules using machine learning,” said Chulhong Kim, a researcher involved in the study, in a Pohang press release. “In addition to minimizing unnecessary biopsies in thyroid cancer patients, this technique can also be applied to a variety of other cancers, including breast cancer.”
“The ultrasonic device based on photoacoustic imaging will be helpful in effectively diagnosing thyroid cancer commonly found during health checkups and in reducing the number of biopsies,” ...
Source: Medgadget - July 13, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
How to Get Started Teaching English Abroad if You Have No Experience
Teaching English in another nation is an easy way to travel the globe without having to save thousands of dollars or have years of experience as a teacher. All you need is an online TEFL certificate and the ability to communicate in English. The rest is easy after you've checked those boxes.
When you begin teaching English in a foreign country, you will be able to spend your weekends exploring your new surroundings. If you pick China as your teaching location, for example, you will have the opportunity to travel across East Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.You may be able to save thousands of dollars by te...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Esme Gelder Tags: career featured self education self-improvement success english abroad Source Type: blogs
Cell Cloaking to Reduce Foreign Body Response to Medical Implants
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed a technique to coat implantable materials, such as stents, with extracellular matrix components and cells. The new approach could lead to implantable devices that suffer fewer adverse events, such as fibrosis, inflammation, and clotting, because of the foreign body response.
Implantable devices all suffer the same limitation – the foreign body response. It is difficult to make the body accept a foreign object, and the foreign body response is behind the majority of failures of implants, especially in devices intended for long-term stay within ...
Source: Medgadget - June 29, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Radiology Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
The rs-FC fMRI Law of Attraction (i.e., Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Speed Dating Choice)
Feeling starved for affection after 15 months of pandemic-mandated social distancing? Ready to look for a suitable romantic partner by attending anin-person speed dating event? Just recline inside this noisy tube for 10 minutes, think about anything you like, and our algorithm willPredict [the] Compatibility of a Female-Male Relationship!This new study byKajimura and colleagues garnered a lot of attention on Twitter, where it was publicized by@INM7_ISN (Simon Eickhoff) and@Neuro_Skeptic. The prevailing sentiment was not favorable (check the replies)... Oha... " Resting-State Connectivity Can Predict Compatibility of a...
Source: The Neurocritic - June 29, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Don ’t Confuse Mandates With Changing Behavior
Ryan BourneOne of the key themes ofEconomics In One Virusis that it can be very difficult to disentangle the effects of voluntary behavioral change from public policy. Another way of putting this is that “defining the counterfactual” is hard. In a world in which public policies can crowd out private action, or else merely codify it, you should not judge the wisdom of an action by the outcomes associated with that action being mandated.An interesting example of this in the pandemic relates to mask mandates and mask wearing. Studies on the effectiveness of government mask mandates have so far produced mixed results ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
HOST-EXAM trial
This study is definitely hypothesis generating and calls for a multi national, double blind comparison on a larger scale to get a better conclusion on long term antiplatelet monotherapy after PCI with DES.
AUGUSTUS trial
A somewhat similar disadvantage for aspirin was suggested in the AUGUSTUS trial among patients with atrial fibrillation and recent ACS or PCI [2]. Adding apixaban to P2Y12 inhibitor resulted in lower bleeding compared with vitamin K antagonist and a lower rate of death or rehospitalization. Addition of aspirin resulted in greater bleeding without any difference in efficacy. 92.6% of the patients...
Source: Cardiophile MD - June 15, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Takeaways from the Biden-Moon Summit: Three Observations on China
When U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held their first summit on May 21, North Korea was not the only elephant in the room. In the broader context of the Biden administration ' s foreign policy priorities and the Moon government ' s own geopolitical concerns, China was probably the larger presence. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 7, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Soo Kim Source Type: blogs
The Biden-Moon Meetings: Much Ado About Something?
The May summit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in elicited a wide range of opinion about its value. With diplomacy-first progressives in power simultaneously in both nations for the first time in two decades, even subtle gains may be significant. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 4, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Rafiq Dossani Source Type: blogs
U.S.-ROK Summit: Assessing Moon's Vaccine and Peace Promises
U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held their first in-person summit in Washington in May. But beyond the formalities, how fruitful was this first sit-down, face-to-face, no-mask meeting for Moon? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 3, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Soo Kim Source Type: blogs
American Chipmakers Innovate While Congress Debates Subsidizing Them
Scott LincicomeThe Senate this week has begun considering the “The United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, ” which — among many other things — appropriates $52 billion in subsidies for U.S. semiconductor manufacturing facilities and research and development. The stated justification for the bill, according to the fact sheet that accompanied the legislation, is “to encourage the development of domestic semiconductor manufacturing capabilities and ensure the U.S. stay on the cutting‐edge of the industry with R&D ” and to counter China, which is “aggressively investing over $150 billion in...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 20, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Have Lawmakers Forgotten The Pandemic ’s Lessons Already?
Jeffrey A. SingerSome lawmakers seem to suffer from long ‐term memory loss. This can beworrisome—both for them and for the country. It seems like only yesterday (it was March 2020) when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo complained about the cumbersome Food and Drug Administration approval process for COVID-19 tests,pleading with federal regulators to permit the state ’sWadsworth Laboratory and private labs to perform laboratory developed tests (LDTs) without waiting for a green light from the FDA. At the time the U.S. laggedembarrassingly behind South Korea and other Asian and European countries in testing its p...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 12, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Heart Patch Helps Grow New Vessels Post Myocardial Infarct
Researchers at the Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea have developed a hydrogel patch system that allows for sophisticated sequential release of growth factors that stimulate angiogenesis. The sequential cascade of growth factors mimics the natural process in the body and the researchers hope that the technology could provide regenerative efficacy in ischemic disease, such as myocardial infarction.
Ischemic disease poses a huge chronic burden on patients and healthcare providers. Treatments that can help to restore blood flow to ischemic tissue represent a promising way to help re...
Source: Medgadget - April 14, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Materials Medicine Plastic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
The Japan-U.S. Summit and Cooperation with South Korea
The Biden administration ' s goal of renewed Japan – South Korea – U.S. trilateralism is laudable and promising, but at the same time substantial obstacles remain. The passage of time alone is not going to strengthen ties between South Korea and Japan. The United States may have to play a leading role if it wants to see relations between Seoul and Tokyo improve. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - April 6, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Scott W. Harold Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: Learning From Bitter Political Experience?
Ryan BourneWhy did some countries deal with COVID-19 better than others?Books, academic journal articles, and PhD dissertations will be written on that subject, with analysis having to contend with a vast array of country ‐specific variables that could, conceivably, have affected public health outcomes. But public choice economics offers up one underexplored way to think about the quality of responses: as driven by political incentives.Despite claims by economists such as Mariana Mazzucato that governments are forward ‐looking, there’s a good reason to suspect they will be ill ‐prepared when it c...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 1, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s Asia Dilemma: Allies and North Korea Diplomacy
Eric GomezThe Biden administration is working quickly to make good on its rhetoric about makingAmerica ’s alliance relationships great again. East Asia has been the primary theater for alliance repair work thus far. The new administration moved quickly to reach military cost ‐sharing agreements withSouth Korea andJapan, smoothing over a prominentsource of friction left by the Trump administration.Biden has made it clear that he wants the United States and its allies to move together when solving common problems, but this ideal is starting to run up against an inconvenient truth of divergent priorities in friend...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
