Law and Policy of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
The University of Minnesota Law School and the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology welcomes you to join their upcoming symposium on The Law and Policy of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, which will be taking place at the Minnesota Law School on Friday, March 27, 2020.
The symposium will focus on the current state of artificial intelligence (“AI”) in healthcare and its ensuing implications. Topics will include how AI is revolutionizing health care, reshaping what it means to practice medicine, challenging existing regulatory schemes, and informing norms about patient information, data, and p...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 29, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
GammaTiles Help Prevent Recurrence of Malignant Brain Tumors After Surgery
GT Medical Technologies, a company based in Tempe, Arizona, won FDA clearance for its GammaTiles to be used to prevent malignant brain tumors in newly diagnosed patients. The devices, about the size of a postage stamp, contain Cesium-131, a radioactive isotope with a half life of about ten days.
The collagen material within which the radioactive seeds are placed is resorbable by the body and doesn’t require a separate extraction procedure. This surgically targeted radiation therapy procedure was recently made available in a few hospitals for patients with recurrent brain tumors, but the new indication makes the de...
Source: Medgadget - January 28, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Materials Medicine Neurosurgery Oncology Radiation Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Abbott Infinity First Brain Stimulator to Target GPi to Treat Parkinson ’s
Abbott has announced that the FDA has given the company the first ever approval for a device to treat Parkinson’s by delivering deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the internal globus pallidus (GPi), an area associated with motor function. The Infinity DBS system, originally developed by St. Jude Medical that became part of Abbott, already has approval to stimulate the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) for the treatment of Parkinson’s, Essential Tremor, and some other movement disorders.
“The internal segment of the global pallidus, or GPi, is a well-established valuable DBS ...
Source: Medgadget - January 24, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Source Type: blogs
Abbott Infinity First Directional Brain Stimulator to Target GPi to Treat Parkinson ’s
Abbott has announced that the FDA has given the company the first ever approval for a device to treat Parkinson’s by delivering deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the internal globus pallidus (GPi), an area associated with motor function. The Infinity DBS system, originally developed by St. Jude Medical that became part of Abbott, already has approval to stimulate the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) for the treatment of Parkinson’s, Essential Tremor, and some other movement disorders.
“The internal segment of the global pallidus, or GPi, is a well-established valuable DBS ...
Source: Medgadget - January 24, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Source Type: blogs
Outbreak of a novel coronavirus
The outbreak started in Wuhan, China, andaccording to De Volkskrant (in Dutch) has spread to Shenzhen and to Beijing.This new virus is causing SARS like symptoms, but is not thought to be SARS itself. It seems to have no name yet.Here are some information resources about it:UK governmentPublic Health England.EUEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.WHO WHOnews release WHOemergency preparedness responseTheWHO Thailand page has links to information.Nature' sNews roundup on 15th January has a summary, and there was anews item on 8th January.For instances of the virus and latest...
Source: Browsing - January 20, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: coronavirus Wuhan Source Type: blogs
Thanking a lot of people - all the Acknowledgement sections from all my papers
This article was written using the Authorea scientific writing platform.The authors would like to thank the Coronado Pop Warner Islanders for initial collection of the sample and participation in Project MERCCURI, as well as Kris Tracy who assisted in the etymology of the proposed species name.The 16S rRNA sequence analysis was performed under the MiSeq Com- petition MkIIm by New Zealand Genome Limited and with the assistance of Patrick Biggs (NZGL) for MiSeq sequence processing. We thank Alex- ander Forrest for the loan of the Brancker CTD. We are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. W...
Source: The Tree of Life - November 28, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Minnesota is Ready for the End of Life Options Act: Evolving Status of Medical Aid in Dying
Here is a video of my November 22, 2019 ethics grand rounds at the University of Minnesota: "Minnesota is Ready for the End of Life Options Act: Evolving Status of Medical Aid in Dying."
Each year, 44,000 Minnesotans die. Nearly one-fourth die from cancer. Many of these patients want to control the timing and manner of their death. Today, terminally ill patients have several “exit options” in Minnesota. But they generally do not have access to medical aid in dying (MAID).
This may be changing. Across the country, access to MAID has been in a rapid state of flux. Ten years ago, MAID was available in only t...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 23, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
End-of-Life Care Healthcare Ethics Conference at University of Minnesota Medical School
This Saturday, November 2, 2019, the University of Minnesota Medical School in Duluth is hosting an all-day End-of-Life Care Healthcare Ethics Conference. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 29, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Minnesota is Ready for the End of Life Options Act: Evolving Status of Medical Aid in Dying
Join me next month at the University of Minnesota for "Minnesota is Ready for the End of Life Options Act: Evolving Status of Medical Aid in Dying." (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 9, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Part 6 - Why Is Cancer Pain So Special?
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)A Series of Observations on Opioids By a Palliative Doc Who Prescribes A Lot of Opioids But Also Has Questions.This is the 5th post in a series about opioids, with a focus on how my thinking about opioids has changed over the years. See also:Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing, and a Hand-Crafted Graph.Part 2 – We Were Wrong 20 years Ago, Our Current Response to the Opioid Crisis is Wrong, But We Should Still Be Helping Most of our Long-Term Patients Reduce Their Opioid DosesPart 3 – Opioids Have Ceiling Effects, High-Doses are Rarely Therapeutic, and Another Hand-Cr...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - October 6, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: cancer opioids pain rosielle The profession Source Type: blogs
Part 5 - Why Do We Lump the Non-Cancer Pain Syndromes Together?
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)A Series of Observations on Opioids By a Palliative Doc Who Prescribes A Lot of Opioids But Also Has Questions.This is the 5th post in a series about opioids, with a focus on how my thinking about opioids has changed over the years. See also:Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing, and a Hand-Crafted Graph.Part 2 – We Were Wrong 20 years Ago, Our Current Response to the Opioid Crisis is Wrong, But We Should Still Be Helping Most of our Long-Term Patients Reduce Their Opioid DosesPart 3 – Opioids Have Ceiling Effects, High-Doses are Rarely Therapeutic, and Another Hand-Cr...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - October 6, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: opioid pain rosielle The profession Source Type: blogs
