Medgadget ’s Best Medical Technologies of 2019
Wrapping up this year and looking back on the particularly interesting developments in medical technology, we at Medgadget are impressed and very excited about the future. We’re lucky to cover one of the most innovative fields of research and one that improves and saves lives. Having a constant eye on what’s new in medtech, we present what we believe are the most novel, smart, and medically important technologies we encountered in this passing year. As in years past, a few trends have emerged.
Opiod Overdose Treatment
Opioid addiction, and accompanying overdoses, have become disturbingly common lately. A ...
Source: Medgadget - December 30, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Reporting on the Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting Held at BASAL Life 2019
Earlier this year the Aging Research and Drug Discovery meeting was organized as a part of the broader BASAL LIFE scientific conference. As is traditional for such events, the organizers put together a paper reviewing the proceedings. A few of the early highlights are noted below, but many more presentations are briefly discussed in the open access paper. It is a representative selection of the present distribution of projects and research goals in the scientific community focused on intervention in the aging process.
Aging poses profound health-related challenges that need to be tackled to reduce the social and e...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 29, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
PECASE Honoree Elizabeth Nance Highlights the Importance of Collaboration in Nanotechnology
A network of capillaries supplies brain cells with nutrients. Tight seals in their walls keep blood toxins—and many beneficial drugs—out of the brain. Credit: Dan Ferber, PLOS Biol 2007 Jun; (5)6:E169. CC by 2.5 .
The blood-brain barrier—the ultra-tight seal in the walls of the brain’s capillaries—is an important part of the body’s defense system. It keeps invaders and other toxins from entering the human brain by screening out dangerous molecules. But the intricate workings of this extremely effective barrier also make it challenging to design therapeutics that would help us. And as it turns out, ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 20, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Diseases Precision Medicine Systems Biology Training Source Type: blogs
Contact-Free Baby Monitor Uses White Noise to Monitor Breathing
Echolocation technologies can detect objects by measuring how long it takes sound to bounce off them. This is used to detect submarines underwater, but now to also measure a child’s breathing while delivering soothing, and sleep inducing, white noise.
Next week, researchers from the University of Washington will be at the MobiCom 2019 conference in Mexico to present their BreathJunior respiration monitor. The technology inside the device is loosely based on the Amazon Echo, a smart speaker that can talk and listen at the same time.
BreathJunior emits what seems like random white noise into the room, and at the...
Source: Medgadget - October 16, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
At the End of Life: Agency, Role and Responsibilities of the Physician/Advanced Practitioner
Registration closes on Monday for "At the End of Life: Agency, Role and Responsibilities of the Physician/Advanced Practitioner."
On September 13-14, 2019, at the University of Washington in Seattle, we will discuss the clinical, legal, ethical,... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 8, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
System Corrects for Chromatic Aberration to Improve Imaging of Eye
Our eyes are an imperfect window into the world. Individual and unique aberrations of every eye make it challenging to study how people perceive the world, but also create an impediment to imaging the eye accurately for signs of disease. Since eye imaging equipment has to peer through the imperfect lenses of our eyes, the resulting images end up imperfect as well.
Most existing ophthalmology equipment already features technology to correct for monochromatic aberrations, which don’t depend on color. Chromatic aberrations, though, which change depending on the wavelength of light being used, are still not accounted ...
Source: Medgadget - August 1, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Artificial Protein Switch for Smart Cell Therapies
Researchers from University of California, San Francisco and the University of Washington have developed a new artificial protein switch, dubbed LOCKR. Their work demonstrates that the new switch can be used to control many intracellular processes, including mediating molecular traffic inside a cell, degrading specific proteins, and causing a cell to self-destruct. This exciting development can be used in next generation cell therapies, such as CAR-T cell therapy for cancer.
Medicine often faces a Goldilocks problem: too much of a drug can be lethal while too little has no therapeutic effect. In the case of CAR-T cell t...
Source: Medgadget - July 30, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Siavash Parkhideh Tags: Genetics Materials Medicine Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
NIGMS Grantees Receive Top U.S. Award in Science and Engineering
I’m pleased to congratulate four members of the NIGMS community who are among the recipients of the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers . This award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.
Michael
Boyce, Ph.D. , is an assistant professor of biochemistry at Duke University.
As an expert glycoscientist, he is bringing state-of-the-art
chemical-biological approaches to studies of cell signa...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - July 25, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Director’s Messages News NIGMS Grantee News Source Type: blogs
Multi-Player Video Game Links Participants ’ Brainwaves
At the University of Washington, researchers have developed a game that effectively links three brains to work together on one problem. Called BrainNet, the game resembles Tetris in that different shapes have to be rotated and placed so that a line on the bottom of the screen is completed. Two people see the entire screen, while the third only the shape that has to be moved around. Everyone wears electroencephalography (EEG) caps, while the third player, the one that can actually make final decisions on what to do in the game, also has a magnetic neurostimulator coil attached to the back of the head.
During play, th...
Source: Medgadget - July 22, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Neurology Rehab Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Custom 3D Printed Robotic Surgical Instruments for Every Patient
Today’s arthroscopic instruments that are used to perform minimally invasive procedures on hips, knees, and other parts of the body, are rigid devices. They also tend to be one-size-fits-all solutions that surgeons have to use on patients with varied anatomies.
Now, a team at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision are working on being able to make custom robotic instruments that align with a given patient’s anatomy. The idea is that a knee, for example, would be imaged using an MRI machine and the resulting scan used to define where the robot can and cannot go. Targets are set and a path is defined for the...
Source: Medgadget - July 12, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Orthopedic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Advancing Trainee Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS): A New Initiative From Academic Medicine
Academic
Medicine recently launched the Advancing Trainee Leaders and Scholars
(ATLAS) initiative, which I
will oversee as the journal’s inaugural Assistant Editor for Trainee
Engagement. So, you might be wondering, who am I and why ATLAS? I hope this
blog post will help answer those questions!
Who am I?
I’m a 3rd-year internal medicine resident at NYU Langone Health in
New York City, and am planning to pursue a career as an academic hospitalist. As
mentioned above, I
will serve as the inaugural Assistant Editor for Trainee Engagement, overseeing
the ATLAS initiative. My term will last until summer 2020, when we ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 9, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: ATLAS Featured learners Source Type: blogs
Patients Say Access To Visit Notes Is Important In Maintaining Their Health
Back in 2010, a group of primary care doctors from three different healthcare organizations across the U.S. came together to try something different. The three institutions – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Geisinger and University of Washington Medicine – conducted a one-year pilot of a new concept, dubbed OpenNotes, in which providers would share their clinical […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 2, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Geisinger OpenNotes Patient Health Data Patient Health Management Patient Portals University of Washington Medicine Visit Notes Source Type: blogs
Feeling Intimidated? You Can Overcome It
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” – Jane Austen
When you walk into a room where you know you’ll interact with, or be amongst, others whom you find to be intimidating, it’s not always easy to quash your fears and adopt the most appropriate behavior. After all, feeling intimidated is uncomfortable. It is, however, rooted in fear. Whether the intimidation is internal and has to do with your own thought processes, or external, having to do with the actions/behavior of others, you can learn to overco...
Source: World of Psychology - June 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Motivation and Inspiration Self-Esteem Self-Help Intimidation self-worth Source Type: blogs
AI System Can Identify Cardiac Arrest by Listening to Breathing
Researchers at the University of Washington have used machine learning to teach an AI system to identify when someone is having a cardiac arrest. The system learned to identify agonal breathing, which occurs when someone gasps for breath during cardiac arrest, with a high degree of accuracy. The technology can be embedded into a variety of listening devices, such as smart speakers or smartphones, to alert authorities and loved ones to someone having a heart attack while they sleep.
Approximately half a million Americans die from cardiac arrest annually. Cardiac arrests often happen while someone is at home in bed. This...
Source: Medgadget - June 20, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Emergency Medicine Informatics Net News cardiac arrest heart attacks Source Type: blogs
