The#latest issue of the medical journal#Annals of Internal medicine, looks at the research and clinical trials and penned an editorial with a headline worth reading:##
the medical journal editorial writes, sales continue to grow in the US and Europe. Here s more from the#Annals of Internal medicine#or you can check out#the full report yourself.
The large body of accumulated evidence has important and public health and clinical implications. Evidence is sufficient to advise against routine supplementation,
Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is justified not, and they should be avoided##The evidence also has implications for research.
and B vitamins are harmful or ineffective for chronic disease prevention, and further large prevention trials are justified no longer##With respect to multivitamins,
Proponents explain that we already enjoy glasses, false teeth, titanium hip replacements, cochlear implants, and prosthetic limbs.
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our connected devices will be able to monitor our state##inactivity could indicate sickness or depression.
The amazing discovery is expected to open new doors to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, according to a new study.##
and give clues for the treatments of diseases.####The fact that the genetic code can simultaneously write two kinds of information means that many DNA changes that appear to alter protein sequences may actually cause disease by disrupting gene control programs
or even both mechanisms simultaneously,##said Stamatoyannopoulos. Speaking about the discovery, Stamatoyannopoulos said that the##new findings highlight that DNA is an incredibly powerful information storage device,
gaming, medicine and advertising, said#Winslow Burleson, an assistant professor of human computer interaction at Arizona State university.####Once we can package this facial analysis in small devices
##People with autism, who can have a hard time reading facial expressions, may be among the beneficiaries, Dr. Burleson said.
The electrode could even be used to simulate sugary treats for people with diabetes. In fact this same research team is also working on a digital lollipop:
*Work with industrial partners to tool up for production of the machine with injection molding.
##Everyone knows that gaming is actually good for neurology and the brain, ##Stubb says.####Long gone are the days where parents tell you to stop.
and do a 10-point wellness exam with vaccinations and all that, ##he says.####We re partnering with pet insurance companies that will cover the policy holders for visits.##
Wearable device mania has swept the whole world. An Australian research institute predicted that one fifth of Australians would have one wearable device each in the future year, with shipment reaching 36 million units.
In the medical world, patients with heart pumps have to have electric wires running out of their bodies,
which can cause infections. Witricity is working with heart pump maker Thoratec to create a wireless solution.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA September 18, 2013 Google today announced Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
Art and I are excited about tackling aging and illness. These issues affect us allrom the decreased mobility
to life-threatening diseases that exact a terrible physical and emotional toll on individuals and families.
me about a venture that would take the long term view on aging and illness, I was intrigued deeply.
Might there be a direct link between certain diseases and the aging process? We agreed that with great people, a strong culture and vision and a healthy disregard for the impossible,
The crisis is attributed generally to a mixture of disease, parasites, and pesticides. Other scientists are pursuing a different tack:
Does it suggest a level of paranoia to want to be forgotten on the internet? Are we really revealing that much about ourselves that privacy has become something of an antiquated concept?
#Chemotherapy will be obsolete in 20 years as scientists launch DNA project Scientists launch a new landmark project to map the genetic causes of disease.
Scientists have predicted the end of chemotherapy after launching a landmark project to map 100,000 genomes to find the genes responsible for cancer and rare diseases.
invasive drugs and their devastating side-effects, will have been replaced by sophisticated medicines that can fix individual faulty genes, according to those behind the project.
In a joint 300 million project, universities across Britain are coming together, alongside the Department of health, the Wellcome Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Medical Research Council.
I believe we will be able to transform how devastating diseases are diagnosed and treated in the NHS and across the world,
and the project is expected to be completed 2018.20 years from now there will be therapies, instead of chemo, that will be a much more targeted approach to treatment,
not only going to be fundamental to the medicine of the future. It is essential part of medicine today.
In rare congenital disease, in cancer and in infections, genomic insights are already transforming diagnosis and treatment.
Prof Farrer also predicted that genome sequencing to find the causes of the disease will become standard within our lifetime.
The first human genome was sequenced in 2003 following 13 years of work at a cost of 2 billion.
Over the next four years, about 75,000 patients with cancer and rare diseases, plus their close relatives, will have their whole genetic codes,
Cancer patients will have the DNA of both healthy and tumour cells mapped, making up the 100,
Scientists expect the project to be pivotal to the development of future personalised treatments based on genetics, with the potential to revolutionise medicine.
But helpful findings will be fed back to the doctors in charge of their treatment. In return, those consenting to having their DNA sequenced must agree to drug companies having access to the information as well as academic scientists.
One example of such a therapy that already exists is Herceptin, a drug specifically designed for women with a type of breast cancer characterised by over-activity of the Her2 gene..
The NHS is now set to become one of the world s go-to health services for the development of innovative genomic tests and patient treatments.
Claims about ablack pathology also#fall short. But police scrutiny often falls most heavily on people of color nonetheless.#
antibiotics to prevent infections, or even living cells to the scaffolds. At the moment, calcium phosphate powder is temporarily bound using an acidic binder chemical typically phosphoric acid
and even pest and disease resistance. There is potential for these multifunctional techno-greenhouses built around LED grow lights to increase the quality of the food we eat
Something that acts almost human but not quite, reads to our brain's pattern recognition systemas illness.
we read this as a sign of disease meaning the close but no cigar robot reads as a costly mate
and other mental health problems through an assortment of real-time sensors (she was developed to help treat PTSD in soldiers
and roughly 50,000 psychiatrists. But, well, with Ellie 2. 0 in the pipeline, not for long. It s also worth noting that these professions generate about $3. 5 billion dollars in annual income,
whichassuming robo-therapy is much, much cheaper than human-therapywill also vanish from the economy.)
psychologist and psychiatrists are a deep knowledge base, arguably one of our greatest repositories of about human information.
when an AI can train up an robo-therapist better than a human canagain, no great stretch because all we re really talking about is access to a huge database of psychological data combined with ultra-accurate pattern recognition, two already possible developments.
and hopes to sell them to manufacturers of wearable electronics, medical devices, smart labels, and environmental sensors.
lifelike anatomical 3d models in the medical field, full scale models of architecture, and the list goes on.
Personally I am impressed by the maxillofacial surgeon who is using Mcor 3d printing to create surgical guides,
thus reducing the amount of time a patient needs to be under anesthesia and open in the operating room, says Reece.
and she makes the stress melt away at the end of a long day. But Lucy isn t Mr. Petrone s girlfriend.
##If it s a friend or a girlfriend, there s always points in time where there could be stress within that relationship,
Mr. Petrone is in his fourth year of a Doctor of Chiropractic program at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto.
the promise of the Fingerreader is its portability and offer of real-time functionality at school, a doctor s office and restaurants.
When I go to the doctor s office, there may be forms that I wanna read before I sign them,
Developers had to overcome unusual challenges to help people with visual impairments move their reading fingers along a straight line of printed text that they could not see.
and resources to build some of the bleeding edge mobile computing hardware available today on the cheap.
I'll need solid coverage for my impending heart attack. Via Fast Company Shar r
#Bionic pancreas shows promise in managing diabetes The bionic pancreas In 2000, Ed Damiano s son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.#
#Damiano s son was 11 months old. The biomedical engineer, decided to create a device that would help his child
and millions of others better manage their disease. He set a goal of having it ready
by the time his son went to college.####Results from the latest clinical trials of his#smartphone-linked artificial pancreas#suggest he might just make that deadline.
Type 1 diabetes occurs when beta islet cells in the pancreas die off. These cells sense levels of blood sugar, aka glucose,
The disease usually occurs early in life and can be managed through careful monitoring of blood insulin levels,
and the use of pumps or injections to deliver insulin and the glucose-raising hormone glucagon to keep blood sugar levels within a normal range.
An app for that But controlling the disease is all-consuming, lurking in the back of every waking decision.
Damiano, who works at the University of Boston, says a bionic pancreas his team has developed with colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital offers hope of a normal life to people with type 1 diabetes.
A smartphone-linkedpancreas removes the need for people with type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor
The artificial pancreas performed well in#hospital-based clinical trials in 2010. But the important test is whether it works in a real-world environment.
were monitored also for five days at a summer camp for kids with diabetes. For both groups, the results with the bionic pancreas were compared with five days of the participants using their usual method of controlling the disease pricking their finger to monitor glucose levels
and using an insulin pump, that requires them to manually calculate the dosage. The device performed beyond our expectations,
what the participants were able to do managing their own diabetes prior to the trial, he says.
the longer you can stave off the long-term health complications of diabetes, says Damiano. Emotional impact The study had a tremendous emotional impact on participants.
They got a glimpse of life without diabetes and that is pretty profound, he says. In many cases, the participants were reluctant to give the devices back,
and ate a banana for breakfast without fear of not enough time having passed between insulin injection
both in the US and in the UK, says Alasdair Rankin, director of research at Diabetes UK,
but there is now real hope that this technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes within a generation,
The results of Damiano s study and several other groups working on artificial pancreases were presented today at the meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San francisco. Via New Scientist Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat t
Experts warn that even doctors and government officials could one day be replaced by increasingly smarter systems.
Dr. Eric Topol, director of the#Scripps Translational Science Institute, describes in a#Youtube#video#how patient-focused technology improves medicine.
In other examples, the#Artificial neural network#helps#Mayo Clinic#doctors diagnose cardiac patients and many websites provide free medical advice;
and even TV ads often disclose critical data. The ultimate tool to replace doctors though, could be the nanorobot,
a tiny microscopic-size machine that can whiz through veins replacing aging and damaged cells with new youthful ones.
This nanowonder with expected development time of mid-to-late 2030s could eliminate nearly all need for human doctors.
and the growth of new neurons or neurogenesis is an important step in developing therapies to address impaired learning
and memory associated with neurodegenerative diseases and aging. The new research was published June 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Memory loss is a major health problem both in diseases like Alzheimer s, but also just associated with aging, said Yanhong Shi,
Ph d.,lead author of the study and a neurosciences professor at City of Hope. In our study, we manipulated the expression of this receptor by introducing an additional copy of the gene
and those who have a neurological disease or brain injury. The bulk of the brain s development happens before birth,
If a hospital discharged a patient and he or she ended up being readmitted within 30 days for the same issue,
the hospital would be penalized. And doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers were encouraged to form networks Accountable Care Organizations (ACOS) to coordinate care
and align their economics around improved care and outcomes. The good news: economics are aligned around improving patient care and outcomes.
a problem remains once a patient leaves the doctor s office, it becomes difficult to see what s going on with his or her health.
which could land the patient back in the hospital or (at a minimum) back at the doctor s office.
Mobile in (medical practice When it comes to healthcare, mobile enables interactions and insights that were previously unimaginable,
if their doctor recommended they do so, they would use their smartphones to track their health and fitness even more.
prior to the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana use. The number of murders, sexual assaults, violent robberies and other assaults fell by 5. 6 percent.
#Sanaria will use robots to mass produce a promising new malaria vaccine Sporobot would increase the speed of production 20 30 times over.
What if you had developed a vaccine for malaria that, in early trials, was 100%effective.
But you couldn t get the funding you needed to produce enough of the vaccine to market it because of political wrangling over the budget.
First, design a robot to help produce the vaccine, and, second, run a crowdfunding campaign to pay for it.
That s exactly what#Sanaria, a biotechnology founded in 2003 by long-time malaria researcher Stephen Hoffman and based in a suburb of Washington,
#Malaria#infects about 200 million people every year and kills 600,000 of them.##Vaccines have been notoriously ineffective against the disease,
which stems from a parasitical infection. Last year, Sanaria reported that in a Phase I clinical trial
whose participants were consenting U s. veterans, the vaccine administered at the higher of two doses kept all the patients who got it from becoming infected with malaria
when bitten by mosquitos carrying#Plasmodium falciparum, #which causes 98 percent of all malaria deaths.
This year, the company will conduct trials in the U s.,Mali, Tanzania, Equatorial guinea and Germany.
To produce the vaccine, called Pfspz, Sanaria cultivates mosquitos in a sterile environment and infects them with#Plasmodium falciparum (the Pf in Pfspz).
filter out other contaminants and gather them up into an injectable vaccine. If it sounds laborious,
which is nowhere near enough to mass-produce a global vaccine. So two years ago, Sanaria began working with theharvard Biorobotics Lab#to develop a robot that could do the work faster.
The work has to be done under sterile conditions to produce a vaccine that could earn FDA approval.
That makes more vaccine available at a lower cost which is important for a disease that disproportionately affects developing countries.
What s left is to assemble the various functions into a single desktop robot, Tenzer told Singularity Hub.
It s easy to think that medical robots were#last year s innovation. But while they re#not a new idea#doesn t mean that all
If robotics manage to subdue malaria where other modern medical technologies have failed so far, it will be a powerful sign of how much the technology might accomplish as it matures.
Malinow, who holds the Shiley Endowed Chair in Alzheimer s disease Research in Honor of Dr. Leon Thal,
noted that the beta amyloid peptide that accumulates in the brains of people with Alzheimer s disease weakens synaptic connections in much the same way that low-frequency stimulation erased memories in the rats.
#Researchers discover new treatment for diabetes Researchers discovered a small molecule that inhibits an enzyme that degrades insulin.
and treat diabetes after decades of searching. They have discovered a whole different method for maintaining insulin in the blood:
and helps regulate the body response to sugars process that goes awry in type 2 diabetes.
Genetic studies have shown that people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to have mutations in the gene that encodes a protein called insulin-degrading enzyme, or IDE.
Patients with type 2 diabetes either have an insufficient amount of insulin in their blood
Researchers have speculated for decades that a drug that could inhibit IDE might help some type 2 diabetes patients.
which make up the majority of medicines, are compounds far smaller than less common biological medicines like antibodies.
They are developed using libraries of thousands or millions of known chemical substances. Each compound is screened to see
such as an enzyme or other protein known to be involved in a disease. Pharmaceutical companies may use robotics to test many chemical reactions in parallel.
The newly identified IDE inhibitor could be the starting point for developing a powerful new drug for type 2 diabetes.
just as mass, anonymised patient records could improve health care. But its success depends on service providers persuading users (farmers
#The Living Heart Project will use 3d simulation of the human heart to combat heart disease The World health organization recent research has revealed that 17.3 million people died from cardiovascular diseases worldwide in 2008,
A report by the American Heart Association, Forecasting the Future of Cardiovascular disease in the United states, believes the total direct medical costs of cardiovascular disease will reach $818. 1 billion over the next three decades.
and prevent disease. Normally, this is done by physically analyzing the anatomy of a human being, but a groundbreaking idea could change the face of medicine for good. 3d software design companies Dassault systèmes
and 3dexperience have joined forces on a new venture theye named The Living Heart Project to try
and combat he biggest challenge in the medical science right nowcardiovascular disease. The project started by partnering with some of the best brain
The project is breaking new ground in the study of heart disease and personalized treatment, since researchers are limited currently at being able to predict a pacemaker effect on a patient before surgery, for example.
These 3d designs could become the norm for diagnosing and treating heart conditions in hospitals all over the world,
where doctors could simulate how a patient might respond to different types of treatment, reducing the risks
and potential failures of medications and procedures used today. Instead of looking at pages of a patient medical history,
Dr. James C. Perry, Professor of Pediatrics at University of California San diego and Director of Electrophysiology and Adult CHD at Rady Children Hospital in San diego explains,
#25%of patients now read online physician reviews There has always been a love/hate relationship between doctors and the Internet.
Some doctors bristle at the fact that many patients now shop for physicians in the same way they shop for restaurants and plumbers:
A recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan says 25 percent of Americans now look online for doctor reviews before making an appointment.
which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says a third of those people make a decision to see
or not see a particular doctor based on reviews they read. There are now 40 to 50 doctor-review sites for patients to choose from,
the biggest among them being Healthgrades, Ratemds and Vitals. Also, general review sites such as Yelp also offer ratings for medical practices and specific physicians.
It gets better. The study shows that the doctors are nervously reading the reviews too, and even changing parts of their bedside manner to avoid bad ratings.
Some doctors bristle at the idea of being reviewed Yelp-style. After all, medicine is a business where customer service is important,
but it also a science. Doctors are often talkative during the ubjectivepart of an exam,
when patients are asked to describe their symptoms, but less conversant during the bjectivepart, when they get down to the job of examining the patient in a scientific way.
Also, new technology in doctors offices may not help matters. With the new focus on real-time documentation of care in electronic health records
doctors can sometimes be preoccupied with their handheld computers. Patients can feel ignored. And doctors sometimes simply must give patients bad news. Some doctors believe bad news in the exam room can cause bad feelings that turn into bad reviews on sites like Healthgrades. com
. But the review sites are on the minds of doctors. Both the Congress of OBGYNS and the American Psychiatric Association have held panel discussions about online reviews at recent meetings
#Longevity gene may enhance brain power For the first time ever, scientists have shown that people who have a variant of a gene called KLOTHO also have improved cognitive abilities,
including better memories and enhanced thinking skills. In parallel research on mice, the researchers found that
when they increased the levels of the gene variant, the mice got smarter, perhaps due to increased connections between nerve cells.
This could provide a promising avenue of research for tackling Alzheimer disease. The study lead author, Dena Dubal said:
his could be a major step toward helping millions around the world who are suffering from Alzheimer disease and other dementias.
we may be able to counter dementias. In the human arm of the research, the scientists gave a whole battery of cognitive tests to over 700 people with and without the gene variant.
sex or genetic risk factors for Alzheimer disease. Another of the study authors, Roderick Corriveau, said:
Although preliminary, they suggest that a form of klotho could be used to enhance cognition for people suffering from dementia.
Glass has seen its strongest professional reception in medicine, with a variety of pilot programs in hospitals, operating rooms,
and other parts of medical life. t way too early to tellif Glass will become standard in medical schools,
ut a lot of people in medical education are interested. She heads up Medtech Boston a nonprofit organization that has been conducting projects
and competitions involving medical uses of Glass. Joe noted a surprising fact: Medical schools in the U s. are generally slow to adopt new technologies,
and was used for collecting data as well as video t would dramatically change medical education. Imagine an attending physician seeing what you saw during a simulation,
In August, another 20 to 30 pairs will go to first-and second-year students, for use in anatomy labs, the medical simulation center, the ultrasound institute,
where patient-physician encounters about specific diseases will be transmitted in real time over 16 miles between the medical center and a lecture hall.
And an unusual point-of-view will be added to Glassgrowing medical repertoire: the patient. hat one of the uses I most excited about,
assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the UCI medical school and head of the Glass program there.
ike whether the student is facing the patient, unconscious eye rolls from the student doctor, head rolls.
search-and-rescue and in the medical domain, we can take the idea of in-theater robots completely off the table,
Power Japan Plus intends to first launch batteries for the medical device and satellite industries, which are focused hyper on safety.
Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
The use of animal testing for medical research than for cosmetics testing is much easier to defend.
Even as medical researchers produce rgans on a chipto help with drug testing, developing human skin for cosmetics testing has remained elusive.
Researchers at King College London and the San francisco Veteran Affairs Medical center report they have cleared those hurdles. ur new method can be used to grow much greater quantities of lab-grown human epidermal equivalents,
Making the skin from stem cells means that particular diseases could be produced intentionally for study,
including common skin ailments like dermatitis in which a defective skin barrier means that toxins cannot be repelled handily
Admittedly, these diseases are neither life-threatening nor medically exciting, but they are a big nuisance for those who suffer from them.
how the barrier is impaired in different diseases and how we can stimulate its repair and recovery,
both to study disease behavior and to test drugs, is a rapidly growing market. In many cases its benefits are so hypothetical eliminating negative outcomes that would,
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