That same amount of money could provide them more permanent housing, comprehensive health care and employment services.""A considerable amount of public dollars is spent essentially maintaining people in a state of homelessness,"Dennis Culhane,
The formerly homeless can get mental health treatment counseling or other services to help them overcome their demons,
and flowers while protecting farm workers--who in the past would apply pesticides by hand--from the toxicity of the chemicals."
our health care to be patient-centric and our education to be student-centric, "O'sullivan explains of the growing market opportunity."
but those provide little protection against the harmful effects of high-dose radiation toxicity. Luckily, experimental products that combat cute radiation syndrome (ARS) have already been tested in people
and could be on the cusp of market approval, Nature Medicine reports. Nearly a quarter-million KI doses (pictured) have been amassed by evacuation centers near the site.
But while those guard against the long-term risks of thyroid cancer linked with chronic radiation exposure
they do little for plant workers and emergency personnel in the event of a meltdown.
the extreme radiation sickness associated with exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation over a short period of time.
their treatment options are limited to antibiotics, blood transfusions, and fluid supplements to deal with the symptoms of the disease.
Doctors also sometimes administer cancer drugs to help the immune system rebound. Now, however, several small biotech companies are racing to develop the first approved therapy for ARS,
using biologics and small molecules to halt radiation harmful effects in the field. Some block cell death and protect damaged tissue exposed to radiation;
others replace cells lost to exposure. CBLB502, developed by Cleveland Biolabs, binds an immune protein to activate a cell survival pathway.
CLT-008 from Cellerant Therapeutics replaces blood stem cells lost due to exposure. Those blood progenitor cells form mature infection-fighting
and clotting blood cells when infused by intravenous drip. Prochymal from Osiris Therapeutics is a stem cell therapy derived from adult bone marrow to treat organ damage due to radiation exposure.
AEOL-10150 of Aeolus Pharmaceuticals is a small molecule that reduces inflammation associated with radiation exposure.
and the Pandemic and All-Hazard Preparedness Act (signed into law 2 years later) allotted billions of dollars in funding for research into medical countermeasures to be used in the case of nuclear, chemical,
It's possible to use CO2 to fracture shale rock formations, but it's expensive, particularly in large-scale operations.
reuse the CO2 to fracture rock formations and then capture it again to use on the next well.#
Citizens Health care Working group (CHCWG:##Under the direction of Health and human services, CHCWG commissioned by Congress to enlist citizens to provide input to review health care system.
Grant Thorton reports that a collaborative solution was up and running in less than one month.##
and Case Western Reserve's work applying high-definition multipoint video conferencing to telemedicine. Sue Spradley also pointed out that U s. Ignite is seeking not only to incubate new applications
and the Great RSS Gold rush of 2013 is reaching fever pitch. Bloomberg Businessweek reports. An RSS reader pulls in feeds of articles from various websites.
As next-generation genome sequencing heads into the clinic and public health, it ll be targeted at people who don t necessarily fully understand these issues.
which caused an outbreak of food poisoning in Germany last year. And the winner? Well, each platform has strengths
Basically, that inhibits the ability to do good public health analyses of bacterial genomes. The work was published in Nature Biotechnology this week.
the Obama Administration has been pushing EHRS as the solution to all that ails health care. The idea is that the data they collect can drive change,
This was proven for me today, through an interview with Paul Hensler (above), CEO of the Kern Medical center in Bakersfield, California.
Kern, a county hospital, has needed an EHR for some time. But getting a commercial system meant writing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a consultant who would write an RFP for a system,
A lot of our doctors did their training at the VA. We knew we could download it
We can create personalized medical information. Anywhere there is data and there is interest. Our hope is to be able to do something for the 2010 census
and It'll Heal Your Wounds in 15 Seconds Flat Bloomberg News reports on an incredible new invention that astounding people across the world and across the web.
which was to use a polymer to seal up a wound very quickly. In the beginning I wasn expecting that the polymer itself would be able to quickly stop bleeds.
This is how his invention manages to seal wounds so quickly d
#Smart Highway: Solar power Bike path Opens In Netherlands This Week On November 12, 2014, The netherlands will proudly open up the world first public solar powered road.
Their setup resembled a fever thermometer, where the length of the mercury column in a capillary is controlled by the thermal expansion of the mercury in a reservoir connected to the capillary.
#Monitor Diabetes From Your Smart Watch My son, Evan, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in August 2012.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that attacks the pancreas and prevents insulin production. The body needs insulin to transport glucose from the blood to the cells.
Synthetic insulin is used to manage type 1 diabetes, but it doesn work as quickly as human insulin.
Determining the right dose of insulin for a given meal carbohydrate content becomes an all-consuming balancing act.
The shock of the diagnosis continued to set in over the next few months as my wife, Laura,
I wanted usaura, the school nurse, and meo be able to see his glucose level at any moment
as it allowed Evan some freedom from the typical type 1 diabetes regimen at day care.
because his life is disrupted far less by the demands of diabetes. We can mitigate most hyper
what we lost that day in August 2012 and blessed to know that my little boy diabetes has helped so many others.
This article originally appeared in print as IY Diabetes Remote Monitoring.
#Cheap Earthquake Warning Systems While predicting earthquakes remains a dream, scientists have developed early warning-systems systems that give people precious seconds to run out of buildings
However carbon nanotubes are still expensive not to mention the fact that there is still some debate about their possible toxicity.
#Diabetes Has a New Enemy: Robo-Pancreas The first great wonder drug was insulin, the blood-sugar-regulating hormone that was isolated in Canada nearly a century ago.
so those with the disease must work hard to mimic that organ function. If blood sugar goes too low,
and adjust the injection of insulin to account for it All the burden of self management goes on night and day.
and closed-loop systems that take over more of the diabetes management are in trials. Finally, everybody in the field agrees that a solution is nigh.
and nights in a controlled setting, surrounded by doctors and engineers. e used a Dexcom continuous glucose sensor,
(although technically he is supposed to recheck the numbers with a finger stick before an injection).
there a lot we can do to affect disease management. For instance, doctors could mine the data for patterns in which patients suffer from low blood sugar,
then adjust diet or insulin dosage accordingly. The information can also be used to prove to insurers that the money they spend on health care is producing results. ealth care providers are more and more being paid for outcomes,
Valdes says. ayers want patients to stay on the system; now they can make sure that patients do.
when a hospital-based experiment proved, in principle, that it was possible to achieve near-normal blood-sugar control.
rather than through frequent injections. Soon after, a hospital system called Biostator GCIIS was released in Germany;
says Francine R. Kaufmann, the company chief medical officer and a practicing endocrinologist. Why the long delay between the proof of concept and routine use?
so the insulin can get to the liver more quickly. ut youe talking about surgery, Haidar says. f you have a 2-year-old daughter,
a medical geneticist who heads artificial pancreas research for the JDRF. A third kind of algorithm tries to model human physiology, for instance by considering how quickly food passes through your system
People with diabetes often carry a special pen charged with glucagon for others to use on them
But at a diabetes technology conference held in Paris this past February, funding organizations appeared to have doubled down on the simpler one-hormone system in the hope that it will get approved more easily.
As the millions of people with type 1 diabetes work out the kinks in the new technology,
it will spread to the hundreds of millions with type 2 diabetes, many of whom would also benefit from insulin
Erik had no qualms about signing up for brain surgery, but his mother wasn happy about it. he was just being a mom,
the surgery gave Sorto superhuman abilities. In the experiments, Sorto simply imagines reaching out to grab an object
To prepare for Sorto surgery in April 2013 the researchers first used functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify two precise regions of his parietal cortex that activated when he imagined reaching and grasping motions.
The surgeons implanted two tiny microelectrode arrays, each with 96 electrodes that could record the electrical activity of single neurons.
Within one month of surgery, Sorto was ready to get to work. The researchers connected cables to the pedestals, bringing the neural signals to a computer that analyzed them and sent commands to the robot arm.
Most of the prior studies in which paralyzed people used implanted BCIS were conducted by John Donoghue, director of Brown University Institute for Brain science and a pioneer in the use of implants in the motor cortex.
More than two years after his surgery, his electrodes are still functioning and his enthusiasm is undimmed.
#Doctors Can Now Successfully 3d Print A Knee joint While this footage isn as exciting as
Essentially, doctors at the Columbia University Medical center have been able to print a knee meniscus using a degradable plastic scaffold and a protein growth system.
there little that orthopedists can do to regenerate a torn knee meniscus, said study leader Jeremy Mao in a release. ome small tears can be sewn back in place,
which greatly increases the risk of arthritis. The scaffold isn just a plastic shell, however.
and shipping the scaffolds to patients and their doctors s
#Why It s Right To Report On The Sony Hack o one private life can totally withstand public scrutiny,
But more importantly, employees dealing with sensitive information seem not to understand that email is not a place where an HR employee needs to be detailing a child medical treatment,
or which child medical claims were being denied. The media has reported, however, that is the kind of information these documents contain.
a care management platform designed to help low-income Utah residents suffering from mental health issues.
Doctors prescribe antidepressants in the Beehive state at nearly twice the average rate in the U s. Speculation as to
Utah Smartcare partners with three local mental health authorities and 2 community health clinics in Utah.
one of the local mental health authorities participating in the Utah Smartcare initiative. his data will allow us to better assess how our clients are doing between appointments
Ginger. io is working separately on projects with UC San francisco, Partners Healthcare (Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women Hospital,
and Mclean Hospital), Duke university, UC Davis and University of Nebraska Medical center i
#TV s Disruption On Display As Netflix And Amazon Go Head-To-Head At Golden Globes More proof that good television doesn have to be developed by traditional industry players:
#Kinsa Raises $9. 6m Series A For A Smart Thermometer That Tracks The Spread Of Illness Kinsa the company behind the world s first app-enabled FDA-approved smart thermometer
which lets Kinsa track the spread of illness at schools and in other small communities.
#It s the most ubiquitous medical device in the world and we re simply piggybacking off of and improving regular behavior.#
Having a record of fever with a feature to take notes on prescriptions and symptoms that are dated automatically gives doctors valuable information
when diagnosing and treating issues. And when you add in social functionality parents can start to differentiate between a common cold (that may not require an immediate doctor visit) and strep throat.
Kinsa s Fluency program begins with a campaign that lets schools sign up to receive free Kinsa thermometer kits for each family.
The Kinsa costs $29. 99 and alongside hardware sales the company is considering how they can be a communications layer for other companies working on telemedicine prescription delivery and other startups in the health ecosystem.
Differentiation from the market mean of unlimited cloud-based storage is the new calculus for its niche.
and even health tech that organizes patient information for hospitals f
#Secret Media Makes Ad Blockers Useless To Display Those Sweet, Sweet Pre-Roll Video Ads Chances are installed that you an ad blocking extension to skip Youtube pre-roll video ads.
And Thermometer Lets Doctors Check Your Vitals From The Cloud We are getting that much closer to building the doctor office of the future right within our homes today.
and have a doctor access them via the cloud. These digital devices can track things like your temperature
The physician can then give a diagnosis without patients having to leave their homes. he stethoscope
and thermometer are the two most important tools we have in medicine for diagnosing common conditions,
if a cough is just a cold or something more serious, like pneumonia or asthma.
in order to make it easier for people to find out what wrong without having to go to a doctor office to figure that out.
According to Debt. org, the average 15-minute doctor-office visit cost patients an average of $69 in 2011.
Even with insurance and copays to help with costs, hauling yourself to the doctor is the last thing most people want to do when sick.
Lin says. e fit in as part of that first step into telemedicine. Like Scanadu devices, the Clinicloud medical kit hooks information from the app up with remote physicians.
Clinicloud has set up a special partnership with Doctors On Demand to do this for now, but could expand to include other telemedicine services in the future.
The other thing to keep in mind about the kit is the price. The technology offers convenience
but it not cheap. Customers can pre-order the Clinicloud stethoscope and thermometer kit for $109,
and Boston Children Hospital wants to make it easier for educators therapists and parents to collaborate so kids get the help they need.
and Dr. Howard Shane who leads the Autism Language Program and the Center for Communication Enhancement at Boston Children Hospital.
After graduating from university with a degree in computer science Izak created an ipad app that was inspired by his younger brother Oriel who has autism.
and store lesson plans schedules and other educational materials and track a student behavior and progress so it can be shared with other teachers therapists and parents.
and makes it simpler for educators to coordinate with therapists and support staff. veryone has diverse and unique needs
For example the Arc of Northern Virginia an advocacy group has used Specialneedsware technology to create a program to help people with learning disabilities navigate public transportation.
or developmental disabilities especially since only 15 states met the U s. Department of education basic standards for special needs education last year. t really a massive opportunity to help students with unique and diverse needs
You can even share your toothbrushing data with your dentist or hygienist and an Oral B spokesperson told me me at an event at Mobile World Congress last week,
Turning iphones Into Medical Diagnostic Devices Medical research is plagued by small sample sizes and inconsistent data collection.
a new ios software framework that lets people volunteer to join medical research studies. Researchkit lets people take tests like saying hhhto detect vocal variations, walking in a line,
or tapping in rhythm to test for Parkinson Disease. Users will decide how to share their data
They help people participate in tests for Parkinson, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and breast cancer. Apple Jeff Williams came out on stage today at the Apple Watch event to show off Researchkit.
Apple learned about some of the biggest obstacles to scientific research in medicine. Finding and recruiting subjects can be tough.
With Researchkit, researchers can build out a medical testing app for ios that accessible to people far from their physical lab. Users can signup with a digital signature,
The touch screen can feel people tapping in rhythm to detect inconsistencies that may signal a disease.
And the microphone can notice minute fluctuations in someone voice that may indicate Parkinson or another health problem.
they can talk to their doctor about it. Since medical data is obviously sensitive, Apple won see anything you put into Researchkit apps
and you can give permissions for how data is used by researchers. The question will be how many developers jump aboard the Researchkit.
it could make mass medical research easier than ever r
#Purelifi Raises £1. 5m For Tech That Uses Pulsating LED Light To Create Wifi Alternative Purelifi,
how to boost the operational efficiency of hospitals and improve patient care by helping staff make better choices about how resources are allocated.
Its founders liken their product to an ir traffic controller for the hospital and healthcare system Their real-time analytics platform predicts changes in demand
to external factors gleaned by scraping public data such as weather info, disease seasonality and even local events
And while Analyticsmd does offer its own real-time dashboard view too its added layer of data processing helps hospitals achieve greater operational efficiencies by providing a nudge ahead of time.
and let the hospital know; second: find the root causes, we actually filed some IP on that,
to prevent this you need to call a doctor in one hour earlier, or you need to open that bed.
Or even to detect which patients may not have had the best service in the hospital. The team claims one early implementation of its platform was able to cut the number of patient falls in half over a 1. 5 month period,
how long it takes a nurse to respond, what the patient was asking for, how much they were moving around in their bed and so on. istorically we detected patterns to patients that had fallen
So, for instance, a nurse just arriving for a day shift will be automatically in the loop about any ongoing issues from the night before
and that happen to them in hospital are now being processed, and how certain actions might trigger certain healthcare outcomes?
In its current rollouts Garg says is only utilizing data elements that hospitals were already capturing,
They probably just see the hospital as being a lot more responsive. Without necessarily seeing the tech explicitly,
if a hospital started asking for additional decisions that maybe required additional data elements to be captured then the team would efinitely want to have a conversation with the patients to make sure they are comfortable with that Newhouse also points out that Analyticsmd makes a point of not capturing personal data such as patientsnames
while working in hospitals on operational issues where they saw how day to day operational challenges
picking out new diseases as theye coming to the area so we can start helping different systems
companies like Matternet are creating drones that will deliver medicine. Then there are drones that will deliver life vests to drowning victims,
and also to reproduce the functional and biochemical signals of diseases especially rare ones and those that make taking muscle biopsies difficult.
Interestingly there is no mention here of using these tiny bits of working muscle muscle that twitches in response to electricity
and it looks like it will be a real boon for researchers trying to figure out the effects of various diseases and drugs on the body.
#The 3d printed Peek Camera Helps Diagnose Eye disease In Developing Areas The Peek, or Portable Eye Examination Kit app, is based a smartphone system for diagnosing eye problems.
It uses a 3d printed add-on that can allow ophthalmologists to give detailed and complete eye exams in the field using an app and a small camera overlay.
Created by British ophthalmologists, the system recently hit £130, 475 on Indiegogo and is now up for pre-order by doctors.
The Peek can view the retina using a smart phones high-quality camera, see cataracts, and offer visual acuity tests as well as color
and contrast tests. The project is led by Dr. Andrew Bastawrous and Stewart Jordan and was designed by Kate Tarling and Dr Mario Giardini.
In a TED Talk, Dr. Bastawrous described his research into helping developing areas receive better eye care including the restoration of sight through cataract removal and prescription lenses.
Medical images taken by Peek can be sent to doctors remotely to diagnose and suggest treatments for patients.
The creators note that 80 percent of blindness worldwide is preventable but the tools necessary to address eye problems in the field are heavy, clumsy,
ophthalmologists are able to address eye care problems anywhere in the world. Interestingly, the system also allows you to give eye tests by showing increasingly smaller letters and figures on the screen.
It also addresses color blindness through similar means. This is obviously not for consumers, but it will enable doctors
and trained personnel to give real and usable eye tests in the field. By bringing the tools of an ophthalmology office into your pocket
and offering a very simple and inexpensive way to take great pictures inside the eye doctors can visit locations in need
but also includes data on medical conditions that a user can pre-populate into the app.
Thus, if you have a medical emergency and press the button, it will automatically send potential allergies
and blood type info to first responders to help them properly handle your conditions. This data is compatible with all U s. dispatch centers
#Nanometer-Sized Robots Can Now Take Colon Biopsies Researchers have invented a noninvasive way for thousands of nanometer sized robots to perform tissue biopsies.
then be extracted by a doctor. These tiny devices are made of materials that react to things like temperature, ph level,
Eventually, the team will work on creating versions that can perform biopsies in the brain bloodstream, and even more locations throughout the body
#Bringing Eye Exams To The Palm Of A Doctor Hand, Smart Vision Raises $6. 1 Million Commercializing a new tool to bring the basic eye exam into the palm of a doctor hand
Ds doctors of optometry, and doctors get to put something in the palm of their hand that used to be a 40 pound machine,
says Newman. own the road, the number of applications for this technology is much bigger. r
however, with a health-focused wristband that provides constant patient information for participants in medical studies and clinical field trials.
and the dedicated medical wearable unveiled today also monitors and reports information continuously, for better delivery of real-time actionable info to researchers and medical professionals.
Testing for the medical band begins this summer, according to Google, and it going to pursue regulatory approval for its use in medical contexts in partnership with academic institutions and drug companies, per Bloomberg.
This isn Google first move in building medical hardware; Google X is also creating contact lenses that can monitor blood glucose level to help in managing conditions like diabetes.
The competition is also eager to contribute to the medical research community pple has introduced Researchkit,
which allows studies to use iphones and ipads to gather participant data from a wider potential user pool, for instance o
#Lexus Teases A Real, Liquid nitrogen-Cooled Hoverboard Well everyone now racing to make a hoverboard
#Opternative Online Eye Exam Gets You A Glasses Prescription From Home The annoyance of going to the doctor keeps tons of people from finding out
it could earn a fortune undercutting standard $50 to $100 ophthalmologist visits and making the world see clearer.
Opternative Test Photolee tells me the trials were wild successand that regulators have deemed Opternative online test tatistically equivalent to the refractive exams done in the doctor office.
and if you have any eye conditions. You calibrate your screen by measuring a credit card and sync your phone as a remote control for your computer over Wi-fi and an SMS confirmation.
if it an X or an O. Being at a doctor office, you feel a sense of confidence that the results will be right
However, Opternative can detect eye-based medical conditions, so youl still need to visit a doctor every few years to check for those.
Screen Shot 2015-07-27 at 2. 13.15 PM Vision For The Future Until now the only ways to get eye exams were the doctor office,
house calls with specialty equipment, or expensive smartphone dongles like one made by Smart Vision Labs. Eyenetra is working on a VR headset-based test,
Google researchers created the software through a kind of digital brain surgery, plugging together two neural networks developed separately for different tasks.
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