StimRouter Receives Health Canada Approval: Interview with Mark Geiger of Bioness
Bioness, a Valencia, California medical device/rehabilitation company, recently received approval from Health Canada for its StimRouter device, an implantable peripheral nerve stimulator designed to reduce chronic pain. We spoke with Mark Geiger, the Global Director of Marketing for Implantables at Bioness to learn more.
Ben Ouyang, Medgadget: Tell me about Bioness and the StimRouter.
Mark Geiger, Bioness: Bioness is a 14 year old medical device company based out of Valencia, California. The founder, Alfred Mann, bought a product called the BION, an implantable to help people with paralysis, and a company called NES...
Source: Medgadget - February 5, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Anesthesiology Exclusive Neurosurgery Pain Management Source Type: blogs
The inevitable downgrading of burdensome, destructive EHRs back to paper & document imaging
In recent days, I ' ve posted about current articles on the destructive nature of today ' s vastly over-complex, burdensome EHR technology. These posts included "Physicians Harassed by Overwhelming Levels of Messaging From Electronic Medical Records" athttp://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2018/01/physicians-harassed-by-onerwhelming.htmland" Medical Economics: Highly experienced physicians lost to medicine over bad health IT " athttp://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2018/01/medical-economics-highly-experienced.html.There are many other earlier articles of a similar nature discussed on this blog, e.g., the May 2017 post "Death ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 31, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: Alexi Wright MD bad health IT burnout Christine A. Sinsky healthcare IT difficulties Healthcare IT failure Ingrid Katz MD NEJM Source Type: blogs
Giving Back
Or helping yourself while you help others. After going through cancer, or other nasty medical misadventure, you are traumatized, and, as in the words of Arlo Guthrie:" ...you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, ... "You do not have fun for many months as you watch your hair fall out, your blood counts go up and down. You also follow your tumor markers more than the stock market, try to figure out how to get rid of your ' chemo pallor ' , and lighten up any surgical scars. At the end you feel like you have been dragged through a swamp, up a mountain, and under the proverbial bus. You spend a lot of time trying...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 30, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer bonds cancer support coping giving back Source Type: blogs
Peregrine falcon in the neighbourhood
Just when you imagine you’ve exhausted the supply of local birds, something new turns up in the neighbourhood. Spotted this young Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) perched in a tree at the edge of Rampton Spinney on the Cottenham Lode side. It startled and headed across fields North Eastwards…sat on a mound of earth about half a mile away and out of range of cameras and even Mrs Sciencebase’s snazzy new bins.
Anyway, I got a few snaps of the Peregrine in the tree. Brings my photographed total since buying this big zoom this time last year to 130 different species. Even if you’re not a birder, you canR...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 22, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Peregrine in the neighbourhood
Just when you imagine you’ve exhausted the supply of local birds, something new turns up in the neighbourhood. Spotted this young Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) perched in a tree at the edge of Rampton Spinney on the Cottenham Lode side. It startled and headed across fields North Eastwards…sat on a mound of earth about half a mile away and out of range of cameras and even Mrs Sciencebase’s snazzy new bins.
Anyway, I got a few snaps of the Peregrine in the tree. Brings my photographed total since buying this big zoom this time last year to 130 different species. Even if you’re not a birder, you canR...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 22, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Girl Cliques: 8 Labels Teens Should Avoid
In social groups of status and hierarchy, relational aggression (“a type of aggression in which harm is caused by damaging someone’s relationships or social status,” according to Wikipedia) often swells underground. In the pressurized atmosphere of a teenage girl clique, the ground can erupt when fears and insecurities (compounded by hormones) frequently predominate.
Ashley Lauren Samsa, a high school teacher in the south suburbs of Chicago, has written an article on www.tolerance.org which examines the dynamics of peer groups from an educational perspective. She links to a quiz on the subject which ex...
Source: World of Psychology - January 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John DiPrete Tags: Books Bullying Children and Teens Parenting Peer Support Self-Esteem Student Therapist Students Success & Achievement Source Type: blogs
Science Fiction Coming to Life
By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD
Given the size and scope of the annual J.P. Morgan (JPM) Healthcare meeting (I resisted the temptation to say “diversity”), everyone in town – the minority who actually attend the formal presentations, and the many others who show up in San Francisco to meet and network – comes away with a slightly different experience.
With this caveat (and with the explicit reminder/disclosure that I now work at a life science venture fund, and as always, I’m speaking only for myself), I left the meeting with two fairly pronounced takeaways.
JPM: Two Contrasting Takeaways
First, this feels like an unbel...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Strengthening Radiology Report Literacy for Patients
The average adult struggles to understand patient radiology reports — as they contain language written for and by medical professionals. A newstudy published in theJournal of the American College of Radiology found that patient resources from MedlinePlus, RadLex, and PORTER (Patient-Oriented Radiology Reporter) produce imaging procedure results that are often unintelligible for patients. Teresa Martin-Carreras, MD, and Charles E. Kahn Jr., MD, MS from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania sought out to determine if the radiology department ’s lay-language radiology glossary could help patients gain a better un...
Source: radRounds - January 13, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Two NIGMS MARC Scholars Receive Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
Oxford University. Credit: Andrew Shiva, Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA.
MARC U-STAR Scholars Jasmine Brown and Naomi Mburu were among 32 Americans to recently receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University in England. Rhodes Scholars are chosen for their academic and research achievements, as well as their commitment to others and leadership potential.
As current MARC U-STAR Scholars, Brown and Mburu are part of an NIGMS research training program for undergraduate junior and senior honor students. MARC is designed to increase the number of people from groups underrepresented in biomedical sciences by prepari...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - January 12, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Juli Rose Tags: Being a Scientist Training Source Type: blogs
Physicians need a new attitude towards debt
I am continually running into people who are confused as to what constitutes debt when we are doing a makeover with their spending plans. Wikipedia defines debt as money owed by one party, the borrower or debtor, to a second party, the lender or creditor.
I have clients who list out their accounts payable as personal debt. For example, they see the dentist, and he is going to send a $200 bill. When they get the bill, they plan to pay it in full. This is not debt, it is part of the ongoing expenses in the spending plan, just like the electricity bill. If the bill isn’t paid when due, then it becomes debt.
Another common m...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/cory-fawcett" rel="tag" > Cory Fawcett, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
The changing needs of a cell: No Membrane? No Problem!
Russian nesting dolls. Credit: iStock.
How “membrane-less” organelles help with key cellular functions
Scientists have long known that animal and plant cells have specialized subdivisions called organelles. These organelles are surrounded by a semi-permeable barrier, called a membrane, that both organizes the organelles and insulates them from the rest of the cell’s mix of proteins, salt, and water. This set-up helps to make cells efficient and productive, aiding in energy production and other specialized functions. But, because of their semi-permeable membranes, organelles can’t regroup and reform in respons...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - January 3, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Kathryn Calkins Tags: Cell Biology Cells Cellular Processes Nucleolus Organelles Proteins RNA Source Type: blogs
Genetics-based app could help you find true love
The first genetics-based dating app, called Pheramor, is expected to launch in 2018. The name is based on pheromones:https://pheramor.com/pheramor-kit/The founders say: "Genetic-based human attraction has to do with pheromones. And when we smell pheromones, what we're actually smelling is how diverse someone's immune system is compared to our own.""Evolution is very strong. So we're smelling each other, trying to figure out who is the best person to mate with. And that's what love at first sight actually is. It's smelling someone's pheromones from across the room, and your brain says, "That's the most perfect pheromone pro...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - December 27, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Genetics Source Type: blogs
For some happy doctors, medicine is a hobby
“A hobby is an activity, interest, enthusiasm, or pastime that is undertaken for pleasure or relaxation, typically done during one’s own time.”
– Wikipedia
“A job is often defined as a regular activity pastime performed in exchange for payment.”
– Wikipedia
If you search “hobby” on Wikipedia, you’ll be presented with a lengthy list of the most common ones: everything from magic to beekeeping to vehicle restoration. But if you look at these “hobbies” closely, you may notice that any of those could be a vocation as well.
So at what point do we begin to differentiate between something w...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 27, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/passive-income-md" rel="tag" > Passive Income, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
This is the 1000th presentation to my bioethics blog since starting on Google Blogspot.com in 2004.There has been many topics covered. Though comments by the visitors has always been encouraged and, since as a "discussion blog", comments leading to discussions I have felt was the definitive function here. Virtually none of the thread topics have gone unread and most have had some commentary, some with mainly particularly strong and emphatic opinions http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2013/01/should-pathologists-be-physicians.html, some with extensive up to 12 years long continued discussion http://bioethicsdiscussion....
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Maurice Bernstein, M.D. Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
