Ricoh secures expanded FDA clearance for anatomic soft tissue models
Ricoh 3D for Healthcare has received expanded clearance from the U.S. Food an...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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Stratasys joins forces with Ricoh for 3D printing services
Ricoh launches healthcare 3D printing service (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 5, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics awards three collaborative research grants
(ROCHESTER and MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota are pleased to announce three collaborative research grants totaling $5.82 million through the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics (MNP). MNP is funded by the State of Minnesota and provides support for innovative research conducted by collaborative teams from the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic. This year's awards support projects that seek to advance health outcomes in the areas of neuromodulation therapy,… (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - April 28, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: news
What to Know About Damar Hamlin ’ s Heart Event, Commotio Cordis
Nobody watching the Jan. 2, 2023 National Football League game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals will forget the searing sight of Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsing to the turf after an otherwise unremarkable tackle late in the game’s first quarter led to his cardiac arrest. Emergency CPR and the use of a defibrillator saved his life, but the now 25-year-old spent a week in intensive care at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UCMC), where he was rushed straight from the field, as doctors fought to restore him to health and determine the cause of his near-death experience. He was later trans...
Source: TIME: Health - April 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
How Doctors Inadvertently Fat-Shame Kids
When Beth Nathan was 10 years old, her pediatrician grabbed her belly and said, “OK! Time to switch to skim milk!”
Nathan estimates that she weighed “maybe four pounds more” than her friends at school at that point. Until then, she had never thought much about her body. But the doctor’s comment hit its mark. Nathan began thinking about her weight more and went on her first diet in high school. Though she never met the criteria for an eating disorder, she also never shook the expectation that she should be thinner. She continued dieting off and on through college and medical school. And then, N...
Source: TIME: Health - April 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Virginia Sole-Smith Tags: Uncategorized Books Excerpt freelance society-team Source Type: news
What ’ s Driving the Demand for ADHD Drugs Like Adderall
For at least the last six months, Adderall—the stimulant medication commonly used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)—has been in short supply in the U.S. That seems to be in part because demand is growing as more people are diagnosed with ADHD, a condition that can make it difficult to focus, remember details, control impulses, or sit still. About 8% more people in the U.S. filled a stimulant prescription in 2021 versus 2020, according to federal data. Other studies suggest ADHD diagnoses are increasing across age groups.
Why? And is that apparent spike in diagnoses cause for concern?
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Source: TIME: Health - April 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Mental Health Wellbeing Source Type: news
This Startup Is Using Plants to Capture Carbon Emissions
A Minneapolis startup company wants to become a leader in the emerging carbon capture and storage market. → My No. 1 dividend stock for a LIFETIME of income. (From Oxford Club) Carba, co-founded by a University of Minnesota chemical engineering professor and a former student, has developed a…#minneapolis #oxfordclub #carba #andrewjones #minnesota #gridcatalyst #wastemanagement #twincities #pfas #ninaaxelson (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Should You Take an Antiviral to Prevent Long COVID?
The only guaranteed way to prevent Long COVID is to avoid getting infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Recently, however, researchers have found promising signs that certain drugs may reduce the risk of developing Long COVID if they’re taken shortly after infection.
Those studies are preliminary, but they raise an intriguing question: Should everyone who gets COVID-19 take medication in hopes of avoiding Long COVID?
Here’s what experts say.
Which drugs might prevent Long COVID?
Studies have recently highlighted two promising drugs: Paxlovid and metformin.
Paxlovid is an antiviral authorized t...
Source: TIME: Health - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID Questions COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center
In an unusual move, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has quietly begun a new competition for the contract to run the United States’s sole dedicated particle physics laboratory.
Announced in January
, the rebid comes 1 year after Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), which is managed in part by the University of Chicago (UChicago), failed an annual DOE performance review and 9 months after it named a new director. DOE would not comment, but observers say its frustrations include cost increases and delays in
a gargantuan new neutrino experiment.
“I don’t think it’s surprising at...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 22, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Researchers Are Getting Closer to Learning How to Treat and Prevent Long COVID
Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of people around the world suffering from long-term complications of the virus, there is still no proven way to treat or prevent Long COVID—besides not getting infected in the first place.
Recently, however, there’s been reason for cautious optimism. Researchers have found promising (though preliminary) signs that certain drugs may reduce the risk of developing Long COVID, and possibly even ease symptoms among people who are already sick.
The latest hopeful news relates to metformin, an accessible and affordable drug that’s been U.S. Food and Drug Admi...
Source: TIME: Health - March 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
How Climate Change Affects the Spread of Lyme Disease
The warming world can be a hospitable place for blacklegged ticks, which carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. They thrive in temperatures at or above 7.2º C (45º F) and at 82% or greater humidity (the warmer and wetter, the better). As climate change steadily bakes the planet—with shorter, milder winters and longer, hotter summers and springs—the range of places with those conditions is growing.
However, climate change is actually making some parts of the world less hospitable to ticks. Extreme weather leads to droughts (which causes ticks to dry out and die) as well as a lack of snow cover (w...
Source: TIME: Health - March 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized climate change Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
New documents reveal fracture between University of Minnesota and Fairview on eve of Sanford merger
Correspondence obtained by the Star Tribune through a public records request shows significant infighting between leaders of the University of Minnesota and Fairview Health Services in the weeks leading up to the health system's merger announcement with South Dakota-based Sanford Health. In an…#startribune #southdakota #sanfordhealth #fairview #jameshereford #university #hereford #ump #mhealthfairview #minneapolis (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
AI re-creates what people see by reading their brain scans
As neuroscientists struggle to demystify how the human brain converts what our eyes see into mental images, artificial intelligence (AI) has been getting better at mimicking that feat. A
recent study
, scheduled to be presented at an upcoming computer vision conference,
demonstrates that AI can read brain scans and re-create largely realistic versions of images a person has seen. As this technology develops, researchers say, it could have numerous applications, from exploring how various animal species perceive the world to perhaps one day recording human dreams and aiding communication in people with par...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 7, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Leader named to oversee development of proposed St. Cloud medical-school campus
CentraCare has announced a new leader to oversee the development of a proposed medical-school campus in St. Cloud in partnership with the University of Minnesota Medical School. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 28, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Caitlin Anderson Source Type: news
University of Minnesota seeks $950M to buy teaching hospitals out of Fairview/Sanford merger
University of Minnesota Medical Center hospitals currently owned by Fairview Health could once again belong directly to the university as part of a $950 million proposal by the U, prompted by Fairview's planned merger with Sanford Health. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - February 24, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Mark Reilly Source Type: news
Chemical researchers discover catalyst to make renewable paints, coatings and diapers
A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has invented a groundbreaking catalyst technology that converts renewable materials such as trees and corn into acrylic acid and acrylates, the key chemicals used in paints, coatings and … (Source: NSF News)
Source: NSF News - February 22, 2023 Category: Science Authors: NSF Source Type: news
