More MRI Machines = More Happy Patients
The University of Minnesota ’s Clinics and Surgery center will be installing a new MRI as a response to the increasing wait times and high number of patients seeking imaging services.According toThe Minnesota Daily, the Center has experienced a 10 percent increase in MRI appointments each year. Patients typically wait between two to three weeks for their imaging appointments. To prevent long wait lists, the Center has had to extend their hours and book more procedures on Saturdays and Sundays. Around 20,000 MRI procedures are performed each year across the university ’s health centers. They are purchasing a new MRI eve...
Source: radRounds - June 29, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Is this Eye Tracking Device the Future of Brain Injury Diagnosis?
The common test for brain injury involves waving a finger back and forth in front of the patient ’s face, and seeing how well they can track it. Instead of relying on such antiquated protocols and standard imaging technology to identify brain injuries, two sisters have developed an eye-tracking device that can diagnose brain trauma.In 2013, Uzma Samadani, MD, PhD, neurosurgeon and associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of Minnesota and her sister Rosina Samadani, PhD, entrepreneur and biomedical engineer, started Oculogica, a neurodiagnostic company with a focus on eye-tracking devices. Specifically, their...
Source: radRounds - June 21, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Chest Pain and Inferior ST Elevation.
Conclusion:In hemodynamically stable patients with chest pain, sinus tachycardia aids in the identification of patients unlikely to have type I MI, especially in those with HR> 120 bpm. (Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog)
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 17, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Jun 13, John E. Anderson: Today in the History of Psychology (13th June 1893)
John E. Anderson was born. A pioneer in the field of developmental child psychology, Anderson launched an extensive and influential program of teaching, research and parental education at the University of Minnesota.
In a long and distinguished academic career, Anderson served as president of the American Psychological Association in 1943 and was a member of the White House Conferences on Children; during which time he co-produced 'The Young Child in the Home,' the first comprehensive study of child rearing practices in the United States.
See following link for quality child psychology information and resources.Child Psych...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - June 14, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
BMC Biomedical Engineering: the BMC series expands into engineering!
I am delighted to announce that BMC Biomedical Engineering, a new open access, peer-reviewed journal is now open for submissions and with it the BMC series enters for the first time a new subject area: engineering. This is the first of two newly launched journals in the BMC series. Editor Harriet Manning discusses the launch of BMC Chemical Engineering in her blog post.
2018 has been declared as the “Year of Engineering” by the UK government, an initiative that has seen wide support by hundreds of national and international organisations. We see no better time to expand our offering to this diverse and crucial communit...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - June 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alexandros Houssein Tags: Medicine BMC Biomedical Engineering BMC Series Source Type: blogs
The Not-Quite Annual ASCO Round-Up - 2018 edition
by Drew RosielleTheAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, besides being a feast for the pharmaceutical business news pages (google ' ASCO ' and most of the hits will be about how announcement X affected drug company Y ' s stock), is also one of the premiere platforms for publishing original palliative-oncology research. So every year I try to at least scan the abstracts to see what ' s happening, and I figure I might as well blog about it. It ' s tough to analyze abstracts, so I ' ll mostly just be summarizing ones that I think will be of interest to hospice and palliative care folks. I imagine I ' ve missed...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 6, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: artificial nutrition ASCO cannabanoid code status conference reviews fatigue hpmglobal marijuana mindfulness mucositis neuropathic oncology pain race rosielle scrambler Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Should Be Invisible
What if healthcare worked as an unseeable fairy mother with a swarm of digital helpers? In the background, many digital tools, smart algorithms, health trackers and wearables would work for your well-being discreetly, you could be sure that you are taken care of, but you would only sense that on rare occasions. How would you fancy the invisible healthcare system? The Medical Futurist believes that we should move in that direction.
Healthcare should be what Zorg showed us in The Fifth Element
Do you remember the scene from the brilliant Luc Besson movie, The Fifth Element, where Gary Oldman as one of the leading antagonist...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design AI artificial intelligence chatbot digital health health chatbot health trackers healthcare system Innovation robotics sensors technology VR wearables Source Type: blogs
Printing Functional Electronics Directly Onto Skin
University of Minnesota researchers have figured out a way of printing electronics on top of skin, even onto hands that are unrestrained and slightly moving. We got a peek at the technology in the Fall of last year, when it was first presented at the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Vancouver, Canada. Now, though, the full details are out as a study regarding the new printing method was published in journal Advanced Materials. The technology should have important applications for medicine, including body-worn sensors and drug delivery devices.
The technology works by hav...
Source: Medgadget - April 25, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Materials Source Type: blogs
The public find articles about education more convincing when they contain extraneous neuroscience
By Christian Jarrett
Brain science is mysterious and sexy and people are more inclined to believe claims that contain superfluous neuroscience references or neuro-imagery – an effect referred to as “the seductive allure of neuroscience” or “SANE” (that’s the short story, however the literature on the effect is messy, to say the least, with a mix of successful and failed replications).
One context where we might expect the seductive allure of neuroscience to be particularly problematic is in the emerging field of educational neuroscience, which seeks to use findings about the brain to improve...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Educational Source Type: blogs
Right to Die? The Bioethical and Legal Issues in End of Life Care
I was delighted with the big turnout at the University of Minnesota Law School today for the American Constitution Society event "Right to Die? The Bioethical and Legal Issues in End of Life Care." Thanks to Charles Niemann for organizing thi... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 3, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
What Are We Going to Do with a 10.5-Tesla Magnet?
After 10 long years of research, scientists at the University of Minnesota ’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) have successfully conducted agroundbreaking magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the whole human body at 10.5-Tesla, the strongest magnetic field strength ever to be used. The new magnet creates highly-defined images of the body ’s functions that will help physicians get a clearer and more in-depth look at specific conditions like Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and cancer, and allow them to determine appropriate treatment plans. Around 2008, CMRR received an $8 million grant from the National...
Source: radRounds - March 30, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Despair & Ethical Issues in Obtaining Organs for Transplantation
Jim Childress will present the John S. Najarian Lecture at the University of Minnesota on May 1, 2018: "Despair & Ethical Issues in Obtaining Organs for Transplantation." (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 29, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
