Respect for Science
I vaguely remember discussing some of this before, but anyway . . . Throughout most of the 19th Century, despite the dramatic advances of science in many areas, nobody gained any useful understanding of human health and disease, and effective therapies were largely lacking. In fact, physicians -- medical school graduates -- advocated bloodletting and violent purging with mercury based emetics and laxatives. For obvious reasons, most people preferred other healing methods, which didn ' t work either but at least didn ' t kill you. Hospitals were just places where poor people went to die. So what happened to ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Disease at Point of Care: Interview with Shawn Marcel, CEO of Torus Biosystems
Torus Biosystems, a medtech startup that spun out of Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has developed the Synestia system, a point of care diagnostic tool for infectious disease. The system aims to provide rapid, point-of-care identification of pathogens, and incorporates microarray and qPCR technology.
The company reports that the system allows a clinician to run multiple tests on one device to detect all the pathogens associated with a specific disease. The run-time is rapid, with the device providing results in as little as 30 minutes, and for each sample over 1000 targets can ...
Source: Medgadget - June 24, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Public Health torusbiosystems Source Type: blogs
Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Disease at Point of Care: Interview with Shawn Marcell, CEO of Torus Biosystems
Torus Biosystems, a medtech startup that spun out of Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has developed the Synestia system, a point of care diagnostic tool for infectious disease. The system aims to provide rapid, point-of-care identification of pathogens, and incorporates microarray and qPCR technology.
The company reports that the system allows a clinician to run multiple tests on one device to detect all the pathogens associated with a specific disease. The run-time is rapid, with the device providing results in as little as 30 minutes, and for each sample over 1000 targ...
Source: Medgadget - June 24, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Public Health torusbiosystems Source Type: blogs
AI-Powered App Interprets HIV Test Results
This study is a really strong partnership with AHRI that demonstrates the power of using deep learning to successfully classify ‘real-world’ field-acquired rapid test images, and reduce the number of errors that may happen when reading test results by eye,” said Rachel McKendry, a researcher involved in the study, in a UCL announcement. “This research shows the positive impact the mobile health tools can have in low- and middle-income countries, and paves the way for a larger study in the future.”
Study in Nature Medicine: Deep learning of HIV field-based rapid tests
Via: UCL (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - June 22, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Informatics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
A health librarian watching television: tuberculosis
I watched some of an interview with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who wrote Hancock ' s Half Hour, a 1960s comedy radio and television show which my Dad was a fan of, and Steptoe and Son, a 1970s television show which he definitely was not!Both writers had been in a sanatorium, with TB, at the age of 18 or so, so I am guessing in the 1940s or 1950s - that was how they had met.There were no antibiotics, so no treatment except bed rest. The sanatorium where they were had a radio station, and its own newsletter. The patients undertook work for outside organisations.I ' ve looked in PubMed to see what lit...
Source: Browsing - May 3, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: tuberculosis Source Type: blogs
Takayasu arteritis
Takayasu arteritis is an inflammatory disorder affecting aorta and its major branches. It is also known as aortoarteritis and pulseless disease [1]. Arteritis leads to thickening of vessel wall, fibrosis, stenosis and thrombus formation. Severe inflammation may weaken the arterial media and lead to aneurysm formation [2].
Takayasu was an ophthalmologist, who noted characteristic fundal arteriovenous anastomoses in a young female in 1905 and published it in Acta of the Opthalmic Society of Japan in 1908 (12:554–5). Onishi and Kagosha described similar cases associated with absent radial pulses in the same year [1]. ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Health Care Needs Better Marketing, Too
John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article.Inspiration comes in all sizes and shapes. Neil deGrasse Tyson, a world-renowned astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, continues to inspire us with words like, “The good thing about science is that it ' s true whether or not you believe in it. ” Amidst all the confusion and debate in the popular press about health science, this form of uncommon sense needs more media attention. It’s a truism that may have prompted Dr. T...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - March 30, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 29th 2021
Discussion of Systemic Inflammation and its Contribution to Dementia
Fisetin Reduces D-Galactose Induced Cognitive Loss in Mice
Reprogramming Cancer Cells into Normal Somatic Cells
Considering Longevity Medicine and the Education of Physicians
Researchers Generate Thyroid Organoids Capable of Restoring Function in Mice
In Search of Transcriptional Signatures of Aging
A Pace of Aging Biomarker Correlates with Manifestations of Aging
Targeting Tissues with Extracellular Vesicles
Calorie Restriction Slows Aging of the Gut Microbiome in Mice
Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in the Aging Heart
Evidence...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
What the Exponential Rise in Mortality with Age Tells Us About the Nature of Aging
When charting rising mortality against increasing chronological age, the result is a smooth exponential curve - the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality. We might well ask how the exceptionally complicated process of degenerative aging, consisting of many distinct mechanisms butting heads and breaking things in a stochastic manner, can produce this outcome. This is one of the questions posed by epidemiologists in today's open access paper. It is a good example that shows how a scientist can hypothesize about the operation of mechanisms given only data on the outcomes of those mechanisms.
For context, the authors of the...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 22, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Tuberculosis, Human Rights, and Law Reform: Addressing the Lack of Progress in the Global Tuberculosis Response
Matthew Kavanagh (Georgetown University), Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown University), John Stephens (Georgetown University), Tuberculosis, Human Rights, and Law Reform: Addressing the Lack of Progress in the Global Tuberculosis Response; 17 PLoS Med. 10 (2020): In 2018, the United Nations General... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 21, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Understanding Leprosy on World Leprosy Day
Leprosy is a chronic and progressive disease that primarily affects the skin and peripheral nervous system. Leprosy has been with us for thousands of years. There is evidence of the disease as far back as 4000 BC, in ancient Egypt.[1] In 1873, Norwegian physician Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen discovered that leprosy was caused by a bacterium. [2] Today, we call this bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, and we often refer to leprosy as Hansen’s Disease, in honor of Dr. Hansen. While leprosy caused significant morbidity and mortality in the past, cases today are rare and are curable with proper treatment.
How Is Leprosy Transmitte...
Source: GIDEON blog - January 28, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Uri Blackman Tags: News Leprosy Source Type: blogs
Where To Track COVID-19 Vaccinations
In 2020 – or the year that drew so many parallels to the dystopian sci-fi show Black Mirror that its creators decided to write a comedy instead – we were all in a race. A race to curb the novel coronavirus’ spread and “flatten the curve”; with dismal results.
In 2021, we are yet in another race. A race to vaccinate the world. It was the news (or more likely, the miracle) we were eagerly waiting for: to have a functional vaccine against COVID-19 as soon as possible. And in less than a year since the WHO declared the state of pandemic, we have more than one such vaccine. Records were broken in vacc...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 12, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Biotechnology Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Healthcare Design tracking vaccination 2020 WHO vaccine Oxford 2021 pfizer BioNTech resources Sputnik-V Moderna Astra Source Type: blogs
What infectious diseases are due to be eradicated next?
Although Medical Science aims to eradicate Infectious Diseases in order to protect life and reduce the healthcare burden, it has only been able to achieve that goal against two diseases to date. While this remains a difficult task, there is a genuine possibility that additional diseases will be eliminated in the near future! Let’s explore the diseases that have been consigned to history…and those that are set to join them soon.
Smallpox: declared eradicated in 1980
Following a concentrated global effort spanning more than 20 years, Smallpox became the first infectious disease to be eradicated by mankind. S...
Source: GIDEON blog - December 23, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
8 Digital Health Technologies Transforming The Future Of Nurses
Being a nurse is a highly demanding but genuinely fulfilling job with the chance to touch many people’s lives. This hasn’t been highlighted better than during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the whole world is stricken by fear and uncertainty, with many under lockdown 2.0, nurses are actively in the front line assisting patients and physicians. As the nursing profession requires the core of what makes us human – paying attention, being empathetic and caring -, it will never be replaced by technology.
However, technological innovations can relieve nurses of the burden of many monotonous and repetitive tasks; especially ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 15, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Future of Medicine Robotics 3d printing AI artificial intelligence digital health Health 2.0 nurse Personalized medicine technology digital technology nurses Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: Evolution of Schizophrenia Treatments
Schizophrenia has been around since the dawn of time but actually treating it has only been around the past 100 years. In this episode host and schizophrenic Rachel Star Withers takes you through the dark and disturbing evolution of schizophrenia treatments. From systematic euthanasia to hydrotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy to the infamous lobotomy.
Were these doctors “mad scientists” torturing the mentally ill or were they the only ones trying to help a population of people seen as a burden?
About our Guest
Miriam Posner is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Information. She holds a Ph.D. in Film ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Brain and Behavior General History of Psychology Inside Schizophrenia Mental Health and Wellness Psychiatry Psychotherapy Brain Disorders ECT Electric shock Electroconvulsive Therapy Frontal Lobotomies History Of Mental Illness H Source Type: blogs
