7+1 Emerging Trends in Healthcare
Recently, on The Medical Futurist, we sublimed two vast collections of healthcare trends. The TOP100 Digital Health Companies In 2021 assembled the most important companies in this field and put them onto one giant infographic. From startups through government authorities to prominent innovators, we determined four fields wherein these companies must excel: innovation, technology, business and dedication towards digital health.
Our next compilation was an even bigger undertaking: creating the Hype Cycle Of The Top 50 Emerging Digital Health Trends clearly indicated where a particular technology is at on its life cycle, ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 21, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Health Insurance Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones AI A.I. transportation Source Type: blogs
7+1 Emerging Trends in Healthcare
Recently, on The Medical Futurist, we sublimed two vast collections of healthcare trends. The TOP100 Digital Health Companies In 2021 assembled the most important companies in this field and put them onto one giant infographic. From startups through government authorities to prominent innovators, we determined four fields wherein these companies must excel: innovation, technology, business and dedication towards digital health.
Our next compilation was an even bigger undertaking: creating the Hype Cycle Of The Top 50 Emerging Digital Health Trends clearly indicated where a particular technology is at on its life cycle, ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 21, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Health Insurance Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones AI A.I. transportation Source Type: blogs
7 Emerging Trends in Healthcare
Recently, on The Medical Futurist, we amassed two vast collections of healthcare trends. The TOP100 Digital Health Companies In 2021 assembled the most important companies in this field and put them onto one giant infographic. From startups through government authorities to prominent innovators, we determined four fields wherein these companies must excel: innovation, technology, business and dedication towards digital health.
Our next compilation was an even bigger undertaking: creating the Hype Cycle Of The Top 50 Emerging Digital Health Trends clearly indicated where a particular technology is at on its life cycle, a...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 21, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Health Insurance Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics Telemedicine & Smartphones AI A.I. transportation Source Type: blogs
Wristband to Detect Strokes: Interview with Sandra Saldana, CEO of Alva Health
Alva Health, a medtech startup based in Connecticut, is developing a wristband that can detect the signs of stroke and promptly alert the wearer and/or healthcare staff. The technology is intended for those at high risk of stroke, such as stroke survivors and those diagnosed with transient ischemic attack.
Strokes cause a huge level of patient morbidity every year, with many suffering debilitating symptoms that are life changing. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment are very important, but in many cases the early symptoms of a stroke are subtle and are easily missed. These issues have inspired this startup to develop a ...
Source: Medgadget - October 18, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery alvahealth stroke Source Type: blogs
A man in his 60s woken from sleep by epigastric pain. Would you have been able to correctly diagnose him?
Written by Pendell MeyersA man in his mid 60s with history of CAD and stents experienced sudden onset epigastric abdominal pain radiating up into his chest at home, waking him from sleep. He called EMS who brought him to the ED. He had active chest pain at the time of triage at 0137 at night, with this triage ECG:I sent this ECG, without any text at all, to Dr. Smith, and he replied: " LAD OMI with low certainty. V3 is the one that is convincing. " After his response I sent him the baseline ECG (below), still with no context at all except that this was his prior ECG:Dr. Smith replied: " Now high certainty. By the way,...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 5, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Chest pain in a 30-something: Is it Normal variant STE or OMI? Get the prior ECG, and don't trust Point of Care troponin assays!
In this study, Smith and others show that the initial high sensitivity troponin is often below the 99th percentile in true STEMI (+) OMI (and sometime even below a very low threshold).[1] Wereski, R., Chapman, A. R., Lee, K. K., Smith, S. W., Lowe, D. J., Gray, A.,& Mills, N. L. (2020). High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Concentrations at Presentation in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. JAMA Cardiology, 5(11), 1302 –1304. (Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog)
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 2, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Bracey Source Type: blogs
October 2021: Washing Your Hands: Even More Important Than You Think
No pictures this time. I wish I did have images. At the time, I was focused on getting my patient out of there and thinking that I would probably sound like an idiot talking to the ophthalmologist. Fanning up and down, I could see unattached whiteness floating in the vitreous between the lens and the retinal lining of the globe. I didn't think it was blood, but there was no trauma, the patient wasn't diabetic, and he had no bleeding dyscrasias or anticoagulants on board. Frankly, I wasn't sure what I was seeing.The transfer center picked up on the first ring. "I have this patient who says he can't see out of his ri...
Source: Lions and Tigers and Bears - October 1, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Handheld Photoacoustic Device for Lymph Node Assessment
Researchers at Pohang University of Science & Technology in South Korea have developed a handheld photoacoustic device that can locate sentinel lymph nodes near the armpit. The technology could help clinicians to locate the correct lymph node from which to take a biopsy when checking for breast cancer metastases. At present, this process involves using radioactive probes, and so the current system can help patients and healthcare staff to avoid radiation exposure.
The lymph system provides a handy highway through the body for metastasizing cancers. Breast cancers and melanoma often hitch a ride through the lymphatic...
Source: Medgadget - September 23, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Oncology Surgery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 16th September 2021
Some recent things you may want to know about. There may be other items on Twitter - I retweet using #whatsnewinmidwiferyFirst aCochrane systematic review looking at the routine use of ultrasound for foetal assessment before 24 weeks gestation.And an RCT looking at theusefulness of ultrasound to measure the lower uterine segment in women who have had a caesarean before, to determine who is at risk of uterine rupture, In the news,Shrewsbury and Telford hospital admits liability for the death of a baby born stillborn after the concerns of the mother were not heeded, And a discussion ofsupport for postnat...
Source: Browsing - September 16, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 13th 2021
In this study, mature DCs (mDCs), generated from the GM-CSF and IL-4 induced bone marrow cells, were intravenously injected into wild-type mice. Three days later, assays showed that the mDCs were indeed able to return to the thymus. Homing DCs have been mainly reported to deplete thymocytes and induce tolerance. However, medullary TECs (mTECs) play a crucial role in inducing immune tolerance. Thus, we evaluated whether the mDCs homing into the thymus led to TECs depletion. We cocultured mDCs with mTEC1 cells and found that the mDCs induced the apoptosis and inhibited the proliferation of mTEC1 cells. These effects were onl...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 12, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Study of Nattokinase Supplementation Shows No Effect on Progression of Atherosclerosis
You might recall a Chinese study from a few years back claiming a sizable effect on atherosclerotic plaque for supplementation with nattokinase. The result was a 36% reversal in plaque size, which is several times larger than can be reliably achieved with approaches such as statins and their successors, drugs that lower blood cholesterol. The dose was 6000FU/day for 6 months. My attention was recently drawn to the publication of results for a US study using dose of 2000FU/day for several years. In that study, there was no effect on the progression of atherosclerosis, and certainly no marked reversal.
Medicine in gen...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 8, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 6th 2021
In conclusion, patients over 90 years of age had an overall low prevalence of fractures and relative preservation of bone health, suggesting a preserved bone molecular profile in these individuals. Epigenetic factors and activity levels might also have favorably affected bone health. The low percentage of osteoporosis and fractures likely reduced the morbidity and mortality in this population, potentially contributing to their overall longevity.
Building a Therapy for Aging Based on SIRT6 Upregulation
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/08/building-a-therapy-for-aging-based-on-sirt6-upregulation/
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Source: Fight Aging! - September 5, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How did all those calcium entered my father ’ s coronary artery doctor ?
“It was severe double vessel disease & turned out to be a complex angioplasty in LAD ”
Why doctor? what happened?
It was a hard lesion, there was plenty of calcium deposits. It was not clearly visible in the angiogram. I had to do IVUS. Curiously, the calcium was clustered in all the three planes of the vessel ( intima the media and adventitia) and they projected into the lumen blocking the path.
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Thank you, doctor, how did you manage to remove it,?
It was a real struggle. I had to break the calcium shell before deploying the stent. (What we refer to as...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - September 3, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Cardiology -unresolved questions calcium supplementation coronary calcification intimal medial adventitial calcium ivl wolverine angiosculpt opn balloon orbitel atherectomy osteoporosis plaque calcium rotoablator serum calcium vs coron Source Type: blogs
Engineering Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells to Activate Only When Ultrasound Energy is Applied
Providing a patient's T cells with a receptor to match the surface characteristics of the patient's cancer cells is proving to work quite well for some types of cancer. Unfortunately the match is never perfectly specific for cancerous cells, and chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T cells) can do a lot of damage to healthy tissue in many of the desired scenarios for treatment. Researchers here report on one of a number of presently explored approaches to limit the activation of CAR-T cells to only the cancerous tissue of interest, thereby making the therapy more viable.
New work addresses a longstanding problem...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 31, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Some ECG simply require pattern recognition, followed by a bit of investigation
Brooks Walsh @BrooksWalsh helped with this post One of my partners showed me this series of ECGs, without any info:I said: " It ' s a normal variant. Young black male, right? "He said, " Yes, but look at this one recorded 2 hours later. It is different " :There is T-wave inversion in V4 that was not there before.I said: " Yes, small changes can happen even with normal variants. " And there might be a slight difference in lead placement. On the 2nd ECG, V4 is farther to the right -- notice there is more S-wave than on the first and the R/S ratio is smaller. There was also a 3rd ECG at 3.5 h...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 30, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
