New $2,000 Ultrasound Can Increase Imaging Access Around the Globe
The Butterfly iQ, a small, handheld ultrasound scanner that connects to your smartphone, is now being used by physicians to conduct obstetric, lung, and cardiac imaging procedures.There are several aspects that set the Butterfly iQ apart from traditional scanners. Instead of using piezo crystals, the material commonly used to create ultrasonic waves, the device incorporates a single silicon chip that generates ultrasound waves that flow through the body. This technology significantly reduces the price and can be purchased for $2,000.The silicon chip was invented by Jonathan Rothberg, PhD, who has founded multiple medic...
Source: radRounds - February 8, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Arbutus Medical ’s New Low-Cost Surgical DrillCovers: Interview with CEO Lawrence Buchan
Arbutus Medical is a company that aims to improve access to surgical power tools for surgeons around the world. Their flagship product, the DrillCover, is a sterilizable enclosure that allows surgeons to use an off-the-shelf hardware drill for orthopedic surgery. Four years ago, we interviewed Lawrence Buchan, Arbutus’ co-founder. We caught up with him again to see how Arbutus is faring. He told us about two new products, two new markets, and the positive social impact they’ve catalyzed.
The Arbutus DrillCover Hex System, with DEWALT’s DCF610S2, the base power tool for the system.
The company has evolved quickly in f...
Source: Medgadget - January 29, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Exclusive Orthopedic Surgery Public Health Source Type: blogs
Health Technologies To Eradicate Insects Transmitting Deadly Diseases
Drones transporting sterilized male mosquitos, cybernetic dragonflies, genetically modified insects with malaria-resisting traits, supersensitive radars or digital maps: the most innovative methods are deployed in the war on the tiniest but most murderous beasts out there: mosquitos, fleas, ticks carrying infectious diseases. Here’s the latest arsenal of digital technologies to eradicate insects and reduce deadly epidemics.
Unusual suspects: mosquitos, fleas, and ticks
Sharks, bears, tigers, the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog in association with sharp teeth and claws represent the traditional image of deadly animals. Howeve...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 4, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Policy Makers Researchers AI big data CRISRP digital health digital maps disease disease awareness epidemics gene editing Healthcare Innovation insect mosquito prev Source Type: blogs
Manifestations of Fear in Cross-Cultural Interpretations of Sleep Paralysis
Frontispiece from:Blicke in die Traum- und Geisterwelt (A look into the dream and spirit world), byFriedrich Voigt (1854).What are you most afraid of? Not finding a permanent job? Getting a divorce and losing your family? Losing your funding? Not making this month ' s rent? Not having a roof over your head? Natural disasters? Nuclear war? Cancer? Having a loved one die of cancer?FAILURE?There are many types ofspecific phobias (snakes, spiders, heights, enclosed spaces,clowns,mirrors, etc.), but that ' s not what I ' m talking about here.What are youreally afraid of? Death? Pain? A painful death?Devils, demons, ghosts, witc...
Source: The Neurocritic - November 21, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Threshold of A New Era in Diagnostics: Philips Lumify Portable Ultrasound Review
In the future, a midwife could do an ultrasound of a high-risk pregnancy in the comfort of the mother’s home, a doctor with a backpack could examine entire refugee camps, or emergency services could diagnose trauma patients at an accident scene. It’s all possible with portable ultrasound machines. It’s peak technological performance. That’s why The Medical Futurist got thrilled when Philips sent us their Lumify system for testing. Check out our Philips Lumify portable ultrasound review below.
Portable ultrasounds are the future
Looking at the evolution of diagnostic devices, it becomes apparent that they follow a g...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 21, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Portable Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones digital health Health 2.0 Innovation lumify philips review technology ultrasound Source Type: blogs
Threshold of A New Era in Diagnostics: Philips Lumify Portable Ultrasound Review
In the future, a midwife could do an ultrasound of a high-risk pregnancy in the comfort of the mother’s home, a doctor with a backpack could examine entire refugee camps, or emergency services could diagnose trauma patients at an accident scene. It’s all possible with portable ultrasound machines. It’s peak technological performance. That’s why The Medical Futurist got thrilled when Philips sent us their Lumify system for testing. Check out our Philips Lumify portable ultrasound review below.
Portable ultrasounds are the future
Looking at the evolution of diagnostic devices, it becomes apparent that they follow a g...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 21, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Portable Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones digital health Health 2.0 Innovation lumify philips review technology ultrasound Source Type: blogs
Wearable Vital Signs Monitor for Newborns: Interview with Neopenda Co-founders Sona Shah and Teresa Cauvel
Neopenda, a medical device startup based in Chicago, is developing medical solutions for low-resource settings, and has recently unveiled its first product, a wearable vital signs monitor for newborns. The company has reported that almost 3 million babies die within the first month of life. Up to 98% of these deaths occur in developing countries, and in many cases these deaths are preventable.
A lack of resources in many developing countries can result in understaffing and insufficient healthcare equipment. This can mean that it is difficult or impossible for healthcare staff to adequately monitor ill newborns to assess if...
Source: Medgadget - June 25, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Medicine Pediatrics Public Health Source Type: blogs
Africa Is A Hotspot For Digital Health
Digital health in Africa is booming, and that’s the greatest news since the invention of broadband internet connection. The flourishing of disruptive solutions might go down to the fact that instead of relying on traditional infrastructure and a conventional healthcare system, populations in Africa need cheap, easily accessible and genuinely problem-solving technologies. Why, when and how have they got there? Read on!
Disrupted infrastructure should be …
Africa has the world’s worst health record. The birth-continent of the homo sapiens bears one-quarter of the global disease burden, yet it spends only 1 percent of t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 5, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy 3d printing Africa digital digital health digital technology Innovation mhealth mobile mobile health smartphone Source Type: blogs
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 11, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five African Trypanosomiasis amblygeusia Cabot's rings Darwin award dengue fever Jean Francois Kerandel Kerandel's sign Kerandel's symptom male idiot theory MIT sleeping sickness Tourniquet test Source Type: blogs
The Digital Future of Pathology
Pathology is the motor that drives healthcare to understand diseases. While it does the job via the same methods as it did for the last 150 years, it’s time to change. Digital technologies could push the field into becoming more efficient and more scalable. They could transform the job of pathologists into a more creative and data-driven profession while allowing patients to receive diagnoses faster and more accurately. Let’s see how the digital future of pathology looks!
The foundation of medicine, pathology, has not changed for over 150 years
Although the whole edifice of medicine rests on the pathologist’s diagno...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence biotechnology deep learning digital digital health medical imaging pathology precision medicine Radiology Source Type: blogs
Students Design Specialty Bag for Treating Children Born with Gastroschisis
Gastroschisis is a birth defect in which some of the baby’s intestines end up outside the body, protruding through a ventral opening near the navel. In developed countries this is a treatable condition that typically requires a series of surgeries and a special bag that holds the intestines in a sterile environment while they slowly descend into the abdomen. In poorly resourced nations, the equipment, including the bag, are often cost prohibitive.
Students at Rice University have developed their own bag, made of stitched silicone, that is considerably cheaper to make than commercially available devices. It uses a 3D ...
Source: Medgadget - April 26, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: GI Pediatrics Surgery Source Type: blogs
New cross-cultural analysis suggests that g or “general intelligence” is a human universal
By Alex Fradera
Intelligence is a concept that some people have a hard time buying. It’s too multifaceted, too context-dependent, too Western. The US psychologist Edwin Boring encapsulated this scepticism when he said “measurable intelligence is simply what the tests of intelligence test.” Yet the scientific credentials of the concept are undimmed, partly because intelligence is strongly associated with so many important outcomes in life. Now Utah Valley University researchers Russell Warne and Cassidy Burningham have released evidence that further strengthens the case for intelligence being a valid and useful conce...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Intelligence Source Type: blogs
The Luxury to Choose
By TRAVIS BIAS, MD
The 80 year-old woman lay on her mat, her legs powerless, looking up at the small group that had come to visit her. There were no more treatment options left. The oral liquid morphine we had brought in the small plastic bottle had blunted her pain. But, she would be dead in the coming days. The cervical cancer that was slowly taking her life is a notoriously horrible disease if left undetected and untreated and that is exactly what had happened in this case.
We had traveled hours by van along dirt roads to this village with a team of health workers from Hospice Africa Uganda, the country’s authority o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Gardasil Hospice Africa Uganda vaccines Source Type: blogs
A human rhinovirus in chimpanzees
An outbreak of respiratory disease in Ugandan chimpanzees provides insight into how virus infection can shape the genome and lead to differences in the cell receptor gene that regulate susceptibility to infection. Severe respiratory disease was noted in the Kanyawara community of chimpanzees in western Uganda from February to August of 2013. During this outbreak, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 2, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information cadherin-related family member 3 CDHR3 chimpanzee genome respiratory infection rhinovirus c single nucleotide polymorphism viral viruses Source Type: blogs
Trypanosomiasis – Imported / Exported
Gideon follows cross-border Infectious Disease events in tabular form – including movement of infected animals, and outbreaks related to imported items. [1] The following list chronicles cases of African trypanosomiasis which were imported into South Africa, or were exported from Zambia. Further details and references are available from the author.
Acquired in Zambia.
1986 – An American tourist acquired trypanosomiasis in Zambia.
2000 – A British tourist acquired trypanosomiasis (nonfatal) in Zambia.
2001 – A British national acquired trypanosomiasis in Zambia.
2008 – A British tourist acq...
Source: GIDEON blog - January 12, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Source Type: blogs
