University of Minnesota Researchers Develop a Better 3D-Printed Organ Model
3D-printed organ models have shown a lot of promise in medicine by providing doctors with a tangible representation of an organ being studied. While these models are great at mimicking the size and external appearance of their biological counterparts, otherwise they are typically not very useful.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have now developed 3D-printed organ models that are a bit more functional. Not only do they accurately replicate the appearance of an organ, but they also accurately mimic both the external and internal anatomical structures, mechanical properties, and feel. This was accomplished by devel...
Source: Medgadget - December 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Materials Source Type: blogs
Dec 2, Marian Bailey: Today in the History of Psychology (2nd December 1920)
Marian Breland Bailey was born. A renowned behaviorist, Bailey was one of B.F. Skinner's first graduate students at the University of Minnesota and one of the first applied animal psychologists to utilize operant conditioning.
Among Bailey's best known academic contributions was the classic article 'The Misbehavior of Organisms,' first published in American Psychologist in 1961 which she wrote along with her husband Keller Breland. The article caused a storm among the behaviorist community when the authors stated that: 'After 14 years of continuous conditioning and observation of thousands of animals, it is our reluctant c...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - December 2, 2017 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
EDs in Different Parts of the World but the Same Stories
BY TIM DEPP, MDI spent two weeks in India and another two weeks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Minnesota during my global health elective month. It was a great time to reflect on sustainability in developing world medicine and on my medical education and career goals.Emergency medicine in India is still in its infancy. Some might say it's only just been conceived, still waiting to be born. India is growing incredibly in numerous sectors, and several universities, including George Washington University (GWU), have partnered with established hospitals there to grow the specialty. After completi...
Source: Going Global - December 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Give Us Those Old Time Conflcts of Interest: Stephen Parente, Key Opinion Leader for UnitedHealth and Redeemer of Former CEO William McGuire to Assistant Secretary of HHS
DiscussionSo here is just the latest embellishment in the march of people transiting the revolving door from health care corporations, and related firms, such as lobbying firms, the the executive branch during the Trump administration. Fortunately, good investigative journalists have looked more deeply into this cases, showcasing its more interesting aspects. First, Mr Parente was not simply a corporate executive moving to the executive branch where he would be able to influence the fortunes of his former corporation. Mr Parente was apparently a distinguished academic in a business school. However&nb...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: conflicts of interest Donald Trump impunity key opinion leaders legal settlements revolving doors stealth health policy advocacy UnitedHealth You heard it here first Source Type: blogs
Girl with the DNR Tattoo
Come discuss advance directives with Nneka Sederstrom at the University of Minnesota on November 10. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 1, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
ASBH Lifetime Achievement Award-2017-Steven H. Miles
bioethics.net is proud to present this live release of the talks given by the 2017 ASBH Lifetime Achievement Award honorees. If you are at the ASBH Meeting, you can read along; if you were unable to attend, then you can see their talks here. Please join us in congratulating these luminaries who have contributed significantly to the field of bioethics.
ASBH Lifetime Achievement Award-2017
Bioethics and an Ethics of Solidarity
Steven H Miles, MD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, Center for Bioethics
University of Minnesota
I am deeply honored to receive the ASBH Lifetime Achievement Award.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 20, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Steven Miles Tags: Featured Posts Philosophy & Ethics Social Justice ASBH LIfetime Achievement Award; ASBH vulnerability Source Type: blogs
Trapping Cancer Helps to Study Dormant Cells and How to Kill Them
Cancers often come back following successful treatment, a process at least partially due to the fact that dormant cells, which are particularly resistant to common therapies like chemo, remain in the body. They’re elusive and therefore difficult to study, so progress on targeting such cells has been limited.
Now scientists at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities have developed a way to pick out dormant cancer cells from other cancer cells and to keep them in their quiescent state in order to study them.
The technique consists of placing cancer cells within a silica-poly(ethylene glycol) material that prevents the cell...
Source: Medgadget - October 16, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Genetics Oncology Source Type: blogs
Principles and Practice of Bioethics and End-of-Life Care for Patients with Dementia (Roseville, MN)
Check out this free CEU seminar with Vic Sandler. I have had the pleasure of serving on the University of Minnesota Hospital Ethics Committee that Vic co-chairs. I have also had the pleasure of co-chairing Minnesota POLST with Vic at the Mi... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 13, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
3D Printing of Biomaterials Directly Onto Moving Body
At the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Vancouver, Canada this week, researchers from the University of Minnesota are presenting a system that 3D prints objects directly onto a moving human body. It’s intended to put down layers of biomaterials that have been developed in the recent years, but which have been limited due to having to be made on a printer and then somehow transferred to the skin. As seen in the video below, the U of Minnesota system continuously tracks the hand while it’s under the printer, and adjusts the position of the nozzle to guarantee the...
Source: Medgadget - September 29, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Sharing Motor control of handwriting in the developing brain: A review via BrowZine
Motor control of handwriting in the developing brain: A reviewPalmis, Sarah; Danna, Jeremy; Velay, Jean-Luc; Longcamp, MariekeCognitive Neuropsychology: Articles in pressUniversity of Minnesota Users:http://login.ezproxy.lib.umn.edu/login?url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02643294.2017.1367654Non-University of Minnesota Users: (Full text may not be available)http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02643294.2017.1367654Accessed with BrowZine, supported by University of Minnesota. (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - September 13, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Playing Along with the Realities of Dementia World
It was not unlike any other day, but this particular afternoon Dad was adamant. He was waiting for his medical degree to come from the University of Minnesota and wondered why it was taking so long to arrive. I did what I usually did, and waited a few days to see if this episode of delusional thinking would pass. It did not. So, I created a facsimile of a medical degree on my computer with my dad's name on it. I scribbled some "signatures" on the bottom, put it in a mailing envelope and brought it to him in the nursing home the following day. He was delighted. I added it to the other awards and degrees hanging ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 11, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Sharing Cerebellar Contributions to Language in Typical and Atypical Development: A Review via BrowZine
Cerebellar Contributions to Language in Typical and Atypical Development: A ReviewVias, Carolina; Dick, Anthony StevenDevelopmental Neuropsychology: Articles in pressUniversity of Minnesota Users:http://login.ezproxy.lib.umn.edu/login?url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/87565641.2017.1334783Non-University of Minnesota Users: (Full text may not be available)http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/87565641.2017.1334783Accessed with BrowZine, supported by University of Minnesota. (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - September 9, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Evaluating WAIS –IV structure through a different psychometric lens: structural causal model discovery as an alternative to confirmatory factor analysis via BrowZine
Evaluating WAIS –IV structure through a different psychometric lens: structural causal model discovery as an alternative to confirmatory factor analysisvan Dijk, Marjolein J. A. M.; Claassen, Tom; Suwartono, Christiany; van der Veld, William M.; van der Heijden, Paul T.; Hendriks, Marc P. H.The Clinical Neuropsychologist: Vol. 31 Issue 6-7 – 2017: 1141 - 115410.1080/13854046.2017.1352029University of Minnesota Users:http://login.ezproxy.lib.umn.edu/login?url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13854046.2017.1352029Non-University of Minnesota Users: (Full text may not be available)http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - September 7, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
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The use of neuropsychological tests to assess intelligenceGansler, David A.; Varvaris, Mark; Schretlen, David J.The Clinical Neuropsychologist: Vol. 31 Issue 6-7 – 2017: 1073 - 108610.1080/13854046.2017.1322149University of Minnesota Users:http://login.ezproxy.lib.umn.edu/login?url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13854046.2017.1322149Non-University of Minnesota Users: (Full text may not be available)http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13854046.2017.1322149Accessed with BrowZine, supported by University of Minnesota. (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
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