Notes from WIRED Health 2018 at Francis Crick Institute
Set in its new home of the Francis Crick Institute, WIRED Health 2018 brought together world leaders and change-makers in cancer, aging, artificial intelligence, government, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals, to name but a few. Alongside the main event, cutting-edge medtech companies demonstrated their new technologies, and budding start-ups pitched for the chance to be crowned WIRED Health start-up of the year.
Bruce Levine from the University of Pennsylvania opened the day by setting the challenge of how to treat a condition like cancer, which is fundamentally the result of “our own bodies gone awry.” Bruce intro...
Source: Medgadget - March 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tom Peach Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Companion Dogs as a Model for the Details of Human Aging
For research purposes, dogs are argued to be a good compromise between the very long life span of humans, meaning costly and lengthy studies that result in high quality data, and the very short lives of mice, meaning less expensive, shorter studies, but questions regarding the relevance of the data to human medicine. Mice are not humans, and any number of efforts to produce new medical technologies have been shipwrecked on that rock. Dogs, of course, are also not humans, but they are much closer than mice in terms of aging and its relationship with cellular biochemistry and metabolism. To pick one example from the scientif...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 27, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Veterinary Medical Ethics Committee – First-of-Its-Kind
As with human medicine, advances in veterinary technology provide pet owners with an ever-increasing array of treatment options for their pets. However, more options can lead to complex situations and difficult questions about care goals and quality of... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 5, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Stethee, an AI Powered Electronic Stethoscope, Now Available
M3DICINE, a Brisbane, Australia firm, just launched an “AI enabled” electronic stethoscope called Stethee. The device, which we originally profiled a few years ago while it was still a Kickstarter project, can be used like a traditional stethoscope to auscultate patients, but to also amplify, filter, and record sounds, as well as to analyze the sounds with an accompanying smartphone app. It comes in three varieties, specifically indicated for clinical use, veterinary applications, and for medical education and research use.
M3DICINE touts its “Aida” artificial intelligence software that powers the S...
Source: Medgadget - January 30, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Make The Busy Patient ’s Living Room Their Waiting Room
The following is a guest blog post by Chelsea Kimbrough from Stericycle Communication Solutions, as part of the Communication Solutions Series of blog posts. Follow and engage with them on Twitter: @StericycleComms
Patients are busier than ever before. Between the hours of eight to five, a majority have only limited availability to reach out to their healthcare providers. And after the day’s work is done, other responsibilities – such as their children’s after-school activities or errands – reign supreme. Providing easy-access avenues to securing care is the key to acquiring these patients’ loyalty.
In many ways...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 14, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Healthcare Healthcare Communication HealthCare IT Patients Chelsea Kimbrough Communication Solutions Series Health Care Communications Patient Experience Stericycle Stericycle Communication Solutions Source Type: blogs
Belgian Sunshine Act Decrees Issued, Providing Guidance
On June 23, 2017, the Belgian “Sunshine Act” became law, requiring life science companies to disclose relationships with healthcare actors in the country. The Decree confirmed that the first publication of data under the statutory transparency regime will cover transfers of value for the year 2017 and will be published on betransparent.be by June 30, 2018.
The June 23 Decree notes that the provisions of the Sunshine Act apply to “premiums and benefits granted during calendar year 2017 to healthcare professionals, healthcare organizations and/or patient organizations.”
A second Decree was issued on August 22, 2017...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 10, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
False balance in reporting the case of a local mother jailed for contempt of court for reneging on an agreement to vaccinate her child
I sometimes like to write about things happening in my neck of the woods that are relevant to the kinds of things I normally blog about every day. This habit of mine dates back at least to the days when investigative reporter Steve Wilson of our local ABC affiliate used tolay down fear mongering barrages of nonsense about mercury in vaccines that would have made Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. proud if he ever knew about them. Then there was a report on " orbs " seen in photographs where the reporterspeculated whether they were actual spirits. Then there ' s the periodic fascination with veterinary quackery that pops up on localnew...
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 5, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: oracknows Source Type: blogs
What ’s It Like to Have a Radiologist at the Zoo?
Animals at the Brookfield Zoo can now get medical imaging evaluations thanks to Marina Ivan čić, MD, the Chicago Zoological Society’s full-time, board-certified veterinary radiologist. Like human radiologists, Ivan čić starts her day by doing rounds with the rest of the veterinary practitioners, and then focuses on examining images and writing diagnoses. The Brookfield Zoo is one of three zoos in the country that operates its own CT scanner. They also have fluoroscopy and ultrasonography equipment and a set protocol for bringing animals to other facilities for MRIs. Ivan čić ' s passion for veterinary radiology ...
Source: radRounds - July 29, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Coping with the loss of a pet
Over a third of American households own at least one pet, and people often have close bonds with their pets. In one study, 13 of 16 people said they would give a hard-to-get lifesaving medicine to their pet over non-family people.
The death or loss of a pet can be a traumatic experience and result in grief and bereavement. The loss is unique in a number of ways. While pets may die naturally, through accidents, or by trauma, pets can also die through euthanasia, which often means that the pet owner must decide exactly when his or her pet is put down. Pets can also be lost when they run away, with no opportunity for closure....
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: David R. Topor, PhD, MS-HPEd Tags: Behavioral Health Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - Second Week of June 2017
Star the Donkey arrived at the Sanctuary last week and she ’s living with the goats, serving as a livestock guardian. She ’s 18 years old (donkeys live to 35) is about 100 pounds overweight. We ’ll be restricting her diet, giving her daily exercise, and provide intensive veterinary care until her weight normalizes. I expect that will take a year or two. Her first vet visit and farrier (hoof) work will be this week.Honey the chicken develop wheezing this week and we ’ve isolated her from the flock. Although she has intermittent breathing issues, she ’s eating, layi...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - June 8, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Pain in Animals Workshop 2017 – Creating a Research Roadmap for measuring chronic pain in dogs and cats
Despite recent advances, chronic pain is one of the most poorly understood, under diagnosed, and under treated medical problems facing veterinary medicine today. One of the most frustrating parts of chronic pain therapeutic development in veterinary medicine is the lack of validated methods to measure chronic pain in different species and diseases.In parallel, translational success has come under the spotlight. Numerous reviews have highlighted a lack of translation of basic research into new approved therapeutics for treatment of persistent pain in humans. The use of spontaneous painful disease in companion animals has be...
Source: Psychology of Pain - May 13, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
Can Interactive Group Therapy Boost Productivity in Medicine?
By DEVON HERRICK
Imagine attending private lectures and taking all your college exams in your professors’ offices individually, one-on-one. Your instructors lecture you, then pepper you with questions, grading your answers and recording your scores. This is not unlike traditional physician visits. Contrast this to attending classroom lectures and taking online multiple choice exams where a computer algorithm or Scantron tallies your answers and calculates your grade. Classroom instruction with standardized testing is much more efficient that private tutoring. Hundreds of students can learn and take their online exams si...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Asynchronous Communication Physician Communication Robert Graboyes Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Lions, Tigers, and Bears Can Fit in This CT Scanner
Animals at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago are getting world-class radiology care. Last summer, La Grange Memorial and Hinsdale hospitals donated their 16-slice CT scanner to the zoo, one of the largest scanners in existence.Both hospitals consolidated their equipment when they moved their imaging services to the Amita Health Cancer Institute& Outpatient Center in Hinsdale, IL. The Brookfield eagerly accepted the new scanner that produces images 16 times faster than their old scanner, thus reducing the amount of time the animal needs to be under anesthesia.The scanner ’s tunnel is 90 centimeters wide, and is suitable f...
Source: radRounds - April 13, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
TWiV 436: Virology above Cayuga ’ s waters
At Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Vincent speaks with Susan, Colin, and Gary about the work of their laboratories on parvoviruses, influenza viruses, and coronaviruses that infect dogs, cats, horses and other mammals.
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Source: virology blog - April 9, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology Cornell University coronavirus host range influenza virus parvovirus tropism veterinary medicine viral virus entry viruses Source Type: blogs
Adventures in bad veterinary medicine reported by the local media (2017 edition)
Just because people think that sticking needles into their meridians will somehow unblock their qi and fix whatever ails them doesn't mean it's OK to inflict the same nonsense on our pets. Unfortunately, a local TV station disagrees. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 28, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking acupuncture dog Mike Petty Priya Mann Steve Garagiola veterinarian WDIV Source Type: blogs
