How Three Physician Scientists Are Taking Strides to Improve Our Health
Brain injuries, cancer, infections, and wound healing are some of the complex and pressing
health concerns we face today. Understanding the basic science behind these diseases and biological processes is the key to developing new treatments and improving patient outcomes. Physician scientists—medical doctors who also conduct laboratory research—are essential to turning knowledge gained in the lab into innovative treatments, surgical advances, and new diagnostic tools.
In this blog, we highlight the work and impact of three trauma surgeon scientists funded by NIGMS at different stages in their careers: Dr. Nicole Gibran...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - January 9, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Ashley Swanson Tags: Being a Scientist Physical Trauma and Sepsis scientist profiles Training Wound Healing Source Type: blogs
Post-doctoral position: Sensory-motor interactions in typical speech production and stuttering
TheLaboratory for Speech Physiology and Motor Control(PI Ludo Max, Ph.D.) at the University of Washington (Seattle) announces an open post-doctoral position in the area ofsensorimotor interactions in the control of speech movements by typical children and adults as well as individuals who stutter. The lab is located in the University of Washington's Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and has additional affiliations with the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Department of Bioengineering. Seehttp://faculty.washington.edu/ludomax/lab/for more information.The successful candidate will use electroencephalogr...
Source: Talking Brains - December 18, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
At the End of Life: The Physician ’ s Role, Responsibility, and Agency
Join me in Seattle for "At the End of Life: The Physician's Role, Responsibility, and Agency." This national two-day conference is Sept. 13 and 14, 2019, at the University of Washington in Seattle. We will explore the complex issues—professional, moral, and legal—facing physicians caring for dying patients.
Physicians have the privilege and duty to care for patients at the end of life. Sometimes a physician’s actions factor into a patient’s death; such as discontinuing life-support (including ventilators, cardiac devices, and dialysis), clinically supporting patients who voluntarily stop ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 12, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Psychology ’s favourite tool for measuring implicit bias is still mired in controversy
A new review aims to move on from past controversies surrounding the implicit association test, but experts can’t even agree on what they’re arguing about
By guest blogger Jesse Singal
It has been a long and bumpy road for the implicit association test (IAT), the reaction-time-based psychological instrument whose co-creators, Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald — among others in their orbit — claimed measures test-takers’ levels of unconscious social biases and their propensity to act in a biased and discriminatory manner, be that via racism, sexism, ageism, or some other category, depending on the con...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: guest blogger Methods Social Source Type: blogs
Can Money Buy You Longevity And Health?
Better treatment options, dietary conditions and (perhaps) less stress could make the life of the rich also healthier. However, when it comes to longevity and aging, do they really have better chances? Can the upper 0.1 percent secure their health for long decades or even reverse the process of growing old? Could society somehow also benefit from the quest of the richest for longevity?
Are health and longevity on the shopping list?
You can have an awful lot of things with money. For a starter, you can buy ice cream or Nutella, which are synonymous to self-love, so the Beatles was only partly right in singing that you can...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers age aging aging research blood eternal life genetics immortality Innovation life sciences longevity silicon valley stem cell Source Type: blogs
Molecular Electronic Devices to Detect E. Coli
Detecting the presence of E. coli and other pathogenic bacteria is time consuming and expensive, requiring biological cell cultures or DNA amplification.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, University of Washington, and TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Turkey have used a single-molecule break junction, a molecular electronic device, to detect RNA from different pathogenic strains of E. coli.
“The reliable, efficient and inexpensive detection and identification of specific strains of microorganisms such as E. coli is a grand challenge in biology and the health sciences,” said Josh H...
Source: Medgadget - November 7, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Pathology Source Type: blogs
Machine-Learning Can Help Anesthesiologists Foresee Complications
During surgeries, anesthesiologists must monitor the vital signs of patients and administer the proper doses of anesthesia at the right times. While managing these responsibilities in a high-pressure situation, it can be difficult to anticipate surgical complications. One issue that can arise is hypoxemia, a condition in which the blood oxygen levels of the patient become too low. Hypoxemia has been associated with serious consequences such as cardiac arrest, cerebral ischemia, and post-operative infections. Although anesthesiologists can monitor blood oxygen saturation in real-time, there are currently no reliable ways of...
Source: Medgadget - October 31, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mark O'Reilly Tags: Anesthesiology Critical Care Informatics Source Type: blogs
Mechanical Devices Without Any Electronics Self-Report Usage to The Internet
Mechanical devices, particularly 3D printed ones, don’t have much room for electronics and so they remain “dumb” in many ways. Electronics need a power source and integrating them within moving components that are already complex can create greater difficulties. Engineers at the University of Washington have now developed a simple way to make devices, such as prosthetic arms, rehab tools, and pill bottles, be able to self-report on their usage without having any electronics at all.
Their technology brings together specially created gears, simple antennas, and a nearby wifi router to be able to detect c...
Source: Medgadget - October 15, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Materials Rehab Source Type: blogs
SleepScore Lab ’s Non-Contact, No Hardware Sleep Monitoring System: Product Review and Interview with CEO
It has been less than a year since Medgadget tried out SleepScore Lab’s SleepScore Max, the company’s second generation of sleep monitoring devices, following the S+ system. Today, we’re onto their third offering: the SleepScore App. While both S+ and SleepScore Max systems paired hardware and software in a combined offering, the latest release from SleepScore Labs is an app-only product that does not require the use of any hardware peripherals to monitor a user’s sleep.
Previously, the company’s hardware scanned the user while sleeping. Now, this functionality comes directly from smartphone s...
Source: Medgadget - October 5, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Cardiology Exclusive Medicine Source Type: blogs
Memories Can Be Distorted – But Not in the Way That You Think
After the recent hearings regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the recollection of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came into question.
One conservative pundit, Ben Shapiro, suggested that because we had “two believable testimonies and no corroborating evidence,” we should basically dismiss Blasey Ford’s accusation.
But in a disjointed opinion piece published on Newsweek.com, Shapiro confuses the science of memory, and what it tells us about how the brain forms, keeps, or distorts memories. Let’s walk through his claims and what science actually says about memory.
Ben S...
Source: World of Psychology - October 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Brain and Behavior General Minding the Media Psychology Research Violence and Aggression Ben Shapiro Brett Kavanaugh False Memories Sexual Assault Source Type: blogs
PragerU's " A Nation of Immigrants " Video Has Serious Problems
This report finds problems with immigrant assimilation in Europe, especially for those from outside of the European Union, but the findings for the United States are positive. In comparison to Europe and the rest of the OECD, immigrants in the United States are assimilating very well. The thirdwork by University of Washington economistJacob Vigdor offers a historical perspective. He compares modern immigrant civic and cultural assimilation to the level of immigrant assimilation in the early 20th century (an earlier draft of his book chapter ishere while the published version is available in thiscollection). For t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 26, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Bi-annual MRI More Effective than Annual Mammogram for Breast Cancer Detection
This study could significantly change the way we approach breast cancer screening." MRI is much more sensitive than mammography, " saidGreg Karczmar, PhD, professor of radiology at the University of Chicago. " It can find invasive breast cancers sooner than mammograms and it can rule out abnormalities that appear suspicious on a mammogram. Unfortunately, MRI is much too expensive for routine screening. " (Source: radRounds)
Source: radRounds - September 20, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Neurotechnology pioneers, please design with the end-user in mind
John Kemp, President & CEO at The Viscardi Center and The Henry Viscardi School in New York
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The importance of being seen, heard and understood for neurotechnology end-users (Center for Neurotechnology at University of Washington):
“Today, when realistic-looking prosthetic hands with articulating fingers are becoming more widely available, one of the first things many people notice about John Kemp is that he chooses to use prosthetic metal clamps instead of hands.
“These don’t look functional,” Kemp said, holding up his clamps. “They’re highly functional. I wear these all day. I need function. I need r...
Source: SharpBrains - September 17, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology Center for Neurotechnology disability end-user engineer John Kemp neuroengineer prosthetic University of Washington Source Type: blogs
The first study to explore what cisgender kids think of their transgender peers
Cisgender kids who categorised their transgender peers by natal sex also showed less liking of them, mirroring similar findings with adults
By Christian Jarrett
With an increasing number of young children transitioning socially to the gender opposite to their birth sex, and with rates of bullying and discrimination against transgender youth known to be high, researchers say it is important that we begin to understand more about how cisgender children (those whose gender identity matches their biological sex at birth) view their transgender peers. A new paper in the Journal of Cognition and Development is the first to explo...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Gender Source Type: blogs
Can We Prevent Patient No-Shows in Radiology?
No-shows can negatively impact both a facility ’s financial operations and patients’ health. A group of researchers led by Joshua I. Rosenbaum, MD, a radiologist at the University of Washington, conducted an extensive studyto determine the factors that make patients skip appointments and what systems can be put in place to deter no-shows.Although all specialties encounter no-shows, the reasons why patients miss imaging appointments are probably different from the reasons that prompt them to forego other kinds of medical procedures. For their study published in theJournal of the American College of Radiology, Dr. Rosen...
Source: radRounds - August 3, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
