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with some US doctors now prescribing Adderall#amphetamine salts used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy#to healthy children from low-income families purely to improve academic performance.
truck drivers, pilots and doctors are known also to take cognitive enhancers. Stimulant use has long been commonplace in the military,
And last year Sahakian and Ara Darzi of Imperial College London, found that doctors who had been deprived of sleep for one night showed improved working memory, planning,
X-rays transformed medicine by allowing doctors to see inside living bodies. Powell and others hope that by using X-rays to probe the inner workings of engines in fine detail,
is changing the way 2. 5 million people get access to doctors. Nosql database vendor Mongodb was called recently the King of New york start-ups after it raised an eye-popping $150m in funding at a valuation of $1. 2 bn.
Complacent over-prescription of antibiotics by doctors, and their reckless, profligate use in livestock rearing, has provided ample opportunity for resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria to proliferate through natural selection.
the Scanadu Scout is described perhaps best as something approaching a real version of the medical tricorder wielded by Star trek doctor Leonard"Bones#Mccoy.
can be forwarded automatically to doctors. Bluecell is still a few years from commercialisation.""We chose Bluetooth because of its wide distribution in consumer devices,
In future doctors and other medical professionals could gain access to patients'digital medical histories thanks to M-Kadi
Capturing these rare cells would allow doctors to detect and analyze the cancer so they could tailor treatment for individual patients.
and care for families identified with genetic DCM allows doctors to provide tailored monitoring, treatment and preventive care, reduce discomfort for patients
A revolutionary blood test developed by EU-funded researchers helps doctors to make the right call.
doctors first need to know it there. Given that the symptoms could be caused by a variety of problems,
doctors and technicians have yet to develop an artificial hand that can give amputees the sensation of having a natural hand.
But doctors have discovered that they are not effective against all cancers; tumours tend to become resistant during lengthy treatment,
To that end a European research project has developed a huge interactive database of TBI-related physiology patterns to help doctors help their patients, with comprehensive and valuable information.
"I think being trained a medical doctor helped me work out what was needed really in terms of the electronics,
Over the course of a two-year EU-funded research project, called Biobroom, Slovakian doctor Peter Tóth uncovered the intricate relationship between the broomrape and the broomrape fly, Phytomyza orobanchia,
He helped the robot engineers at Politecnico di Milano understand what doctors really need. That includes defining the parameters of the software that plans each operation.
This videogame is like a bonding factor between patients and their therapists and doctors.""The search for videogame treatments to some psychological disorders proved to be specially challenging."
A doctor could transfer data to and from a computer just by wearing an electronic bracelet and belt.
The doctor, or any user of this technology, can receive the necessary information to support a primary task without further delays or interruptions.
Teams of doctors and engineers across Europe are supplying new technologies to improve current medical methods.
##The ultimate goal for us would be for glaucoma patients visiting the doctor to get an injection that would last for the next six months until the next time the patient needed to see the doctor##Prausnitz says.##
#How to coax doctors out of their comfort zones Hearing about a new therapy from an influential colleague increases a doctor s odds of trying it out.
It s difficult to get doctors to adopt new therapies because you are invading people s comfort zones
By analyzing physician social networks the researchers examined how doctors are connected professionally and pass information to each other and how that leads to increasing adoption.
One doctor sees another doctor prescribing a drug or ordering a test and she will catch
It s a surprisingly long road from Food and Drug Administration approval of a new drug or technique to doctors actually using the new drug in their practices notes Weiss whose research focuses on how to get doctors to adopt best practices.
and then doctors in that field were supposed to integrate that into their clinical practice Weiss says.
The problem with that is doctors are busy and don t always read the journals or go to those conferences.
which time 20 out of 36 doctors adopted the assay. We discovered the persuasion model was more accurate in explaining the number
Interventions also can regularly audit doctors adoption. It could say hey you only used this 30 percent of the time
Today doctors try to use chemotherapy to slow or stop cancer from spreading from the original tumor site to other parts of the body
-like particles could give doctors a new option for curbing surgical bleeding and addressing certain blood clotting disorders without the need for transfusions of natural platelets.
#X-rays show live changes in cystic fibrosis New X-ray technology is allowing doctors to see almost instantly
Lead researcher Kaye Morgan from Monash University says the imaging method allows doctors to look at soft tissue structures for example the brain airways
Morgan says this x-ray imaging method would enable doctors and researchers to measure how effective treatments are
WHAT CAN DOCTORS DO? Luby says her findings continue to contradict doctors and scientists who have maintained that children as young as three
or four could not be depressed clinically. She advocates including depression screenings in regular medical checkups for preschoolers,
where a doctor guides a thin needle to the thyroid and removes a small tissue sample for testing.
Neither the doctor nor the patient knew which drug the patient was receiving. Clomid works by traveling to the brain, where it partially blocks estrogen receptors.
so that doctors can stop the disease in its tracks before it takes hold and kills.
They were accompanied by a study nurse 24 hours a day and slept in a hotel,
Published in the journal Child abuse & Neglect, the study shows that clinicians with access to expert nurses provided more thorough
a forensic nurse practitioner and research nurse at the Betty Irene Moore School of nursing at University of California,
Davis."The assumption that hospital nurse staffing can be reduced to save money, without adversely affecting patient outcomes, may be foolish at best
istockphoto) University of Southampton Nurse staffing, education tied to hospital death rate ith this technology, we can help children who might otherwise not receive this level of care.
Provided by advanced practice nurse practitioners and sexual assault nurse examiners with more than 10 years of experience evaluating abuse,
Telehealth offers support and built-in peer review for nurses, physicians, and other clinicians practicing in relative isolation.
The telehealth network uses secure teleconferencing equipment to link UC Davis nurses with rural clinicians.
This advanced technology essentially puts expert nurses in the room with examining clinicians. TELEHEALTH NETWORK To test whether telehealth improved care, the researchers brought in independent experts to review examinations from eight rural hospitals, five
GENERAL PRACTITIONERS he great benefit of the video and software is for general practitioners who do not have trained the eye to look for subtle early warning signs of autism
Esler says. hese signs would signal to doctors that they need to refer a family to a specialist for a more detailed evaluation.
doctors quickly give intravenous tpa, hoping it will dissolve the clot without causing additional damage.
But doctors haven known with any precision which patients are likely to suffer a drug-related bleed.
doctors should consider changing their practice. f we could eliminate all intracranial hemorrhages, it would be worth it,
That process, known as syneresis, defeats the purpose of defining the space doctors hope to fill with new tissue. f the transition gellation temperature is one or two degrees below body temperature
will be able to alert doctors to encroaching bacterial infection, which causes acidosis, a drop in ph levels in nearby tissue.
and transmits the information to a radio frequency identification reader held by a doctor. The wirelessly powered chip can be attached to implants
Fu is collaborating with doctors at the University of Michigan Medical school. Eva Feldman, professor of neurology, studies amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
Pickles is now on the trail of a human biomarker that would tell doctors if an RSV-infected infant is at greater risk of developing severe lung disease.
#Microbes could expand how doctors use ultrasound The addition of nanoscale organisms could potentially expand the range of medical conditions diagnosed with noninvasive ultrasound.
#X-rays show live changes in cystic fibrosis New X-ray technology is allowing doctors to see almost instantly
Lead researcher Kaye Morgan from Monash University says the imaging method allows doctors to look at soft tissue structures for example the brain airways
Morgan says this x-ray imaging method would enable doctors and researchers to measure how effective treatments are
It also presents compelling reasons for doctors to start using virtual humans as medical screeners. The honest answers acquired by a virtual human could help doctors diagnose
and treat their patients more appropriately. Virtual humans For the study, which will appear in Computers in Human Behavior,
or act as roleplaying partners for training health professionals. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the US ARMY funded the research.
so that doctors can stop the disease in its tracks before it takes hold and kills.
Chemistry has letters of support from the World health organization Doctors Without Borders and the Clinton Health Access Initiative.
says Piet Jansen, chief medical officer of Carmat.####The device, powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
#Edible batteries could power smart medicine pills A flexible biodegradable battery just may be what the doctor ordered.
What happens when you forget a dose of medication your doctor has prescribed for a condition that relies on the timed delivery of your medicine?
#According to Carnegie mellon biomedical engineer Christopher Bettinger, a flexible biodegradable battery just may be what the doctor ordered.
Doctors will use your DNA to keep you well. A digital guardian will protect you online.
##Doctors will use your DNA to keep you well Global cancer rates are expected to jump by 75 percent by 2030.
IBM wants computers to help doctors understand how a tumor affects a patient down to their DNA.
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.
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,
Experts warn that even doctors and government officials could one day be replaced by increasingly smarter systems.
In other examples, the#Artificial neural network#helps#Mayo Clinic#doctors diagnose cardiac patients and many websites provide free medical advice;
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 doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers were encouraged to form networks Accountable Care Organizations (ACOS) to coordinate care
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.
if their doctor recommended they do so, they would use their smartphones to track their health and fitness even more.
where doctors could simulate how a patient might respond to different types of treatment, reducing the risks
#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.
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.
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,
Doctors are often talkative during the ubjectivepart of an exam, when patients are asked to describe their symptoms,
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,
ike whether the student is facing the patient, unconscious eye rolls from the student doctor, head rolls.
#Mayo Clinic s Better turns your smartphone into a personal health concierge The Mayo Clinic is offering unlimited access to the famed hospital nurses through a smartphone app for about $50 a month.
Along with real-time video chats with Mayo Clinic nurses, the new service also includes personally-tailored health information culled from Mayo Clinic databases
Beyond Sherpaa, there also Grand Rounds, Stat Doctors, Doctor on Demand, and even a free app for Canadians, Medeo,
The usual procedure for surgery requires doctors to remove tumors and neighboring tissue which may or may not have cancer cells.
but with Facet doctors could make more accurate depression diagnoses and also determine whether their patients are responding well to their medication Bartlett said.
as biologists and doctors are unlikely to be prepared to wait hours for an image to form. o
From the ground, doctors can see an astronaut's vital signs, as well as how well the spacefarers are sleeping
"CSA chief medical officer Raffi Kuyumijian said in a new videoreleased by the agency.""People who live in remote communities,
for example, will have an easy access to a doctor,"Kuyumijian added.""They can have these shirts on them all the time.
and alert the doctors following at a distance.""Indeed, the technology is used already for sports monitoring On earth.
"Rotarians, government leaders and health professionals have made a phenomenal commitment to get us to a point at
The virus could be lurking in cells that doctors have not been able to test such as cells in the brain or heart.
but also require a visit to a doctor s office for a digital rectal exam, something that isn t necessary with an exosomal diagnostic test."
Later, he learned that other patients were being treated aggressively by doctors chasing stringent LDL targets.
when ATP III called on doctors to push LDL levels below set targets, the concept of low cholesterol has become synonymous with heart health.
and some hospitals reward doctors when patients hit cholesterol targets. In 2011, US doctors wrote nearly 250#million prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering drugs,
creating a US$18. 5-billion market, according to IMS Health, a health-care technology and information company based in Danbury,
but instead encourage doctors to prescribe a moderate dose of statin when otherwise healthy patients have high LDL cholesterol.
SLIDESHOW France's Sentinelles'network of doctors reporting cases of influenza-like illness has produced a clear picture of how the 2012-13#flu season has evolved.
And the cloud-based interfaces let him collaborate with doctors in Israel without worrying about repeatedly transferring data on slow Internet connections."
) Doctors will increasingly want to use sequen#cing data to guide decisions about patient care, but might not necessarily want to invest in staff
#Facial recognition System Detects Pain It a dilemma that plagued doctors for centuries: When it comes to pain management,
Doctors typically rely on self-reporting, in which patients are asked to rate their pain on a scale of zero to ten.
Nurses might only check on a pediatric patient every few hours whereas a facial recognition system could provide constant monitoring.
Doctor Qaiser Sajjad of the Pakistan Medical Association in Karachi said that a lack of understanding of heatstroke among the public how to spot symptoms
According to Wuh, a medical doctor, this kind of wider recognition is an indication that these bite-size barcodes could play a role in a tech revolution sweeping through medicine. t (Trutag) is really a game-changer
and the nurse comes in with a cup that has seven pills in it. They are out of the package in the cup and there all of these morning pills together,
Today however researchers and doctors can take advantage of faster low-cost genomic tools that allow them to study the entire bacterial system of individual patients.
Currently, when a doctor wants to run a series of blood tests on a patient, he or she collects several vials of blood
For a few types of cancer doctors have developed more targeted approaches. With ovarian cancer the best results are achieved
a nurse called and asked about every ache and pain, Cima says. After two weeks, there were none.
Usually, doctors cauterize these lesions (which don disappear on their own) while patients are under anesthesia in an operating room.
Mint Solutions aim Reynisson says is to aid nurses in rapidly efficiently and correctly administering medication.
We want the device to be the nurse s best friend says Reynisson now Mint s CEO.
Systematic approachto use the Medeye a foot-high box in a white housing a nurse first scans a patient s wristband
The nurse then pushes the assigned pills into the Medeye via a sliding tray. Inside the device a small camera scans the pills rapidly identifying them by size shape color and markings.
because it s new for instance the system alerts the nurse who adds the information into the software for next time.
We save a lot of time for nurses that way. Similar systems exist for catching medication errors:
These systems also require nurses to use a handheld scanner to scan a patient s wristband
Feedback from nurses using Medeye to ease their workloads has been positive Reynisson says. And errors are caught more often than expected.
when a nurse at the Dutch hospital demonstrated the Medeye for department heads on a random patient.
The nurse scanned four pills which had been assigned to the patient and added an extra erroneous pill to show how Medeye caught errors.
But to his surprise so were two other pills that the nurse had assumed were correct
because another nurse had dispensed those Reynisson says. Goes to show that even with full focus it is common for nurses to be in a position where they are expected to catch errors made in other parts of the medication-delivery process.
Vision for new technologyhelgason conceived of Medeye while studying in the MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology program.
and efficiently without asking the nurse to pick up a pen. Mint Solution now has 40 Medeye systems ready to deploy across Europe in the coming months with hopes of gaining some client feedback.
helping doctors predict whether a tumor is going to spread. Separating cells with sound offers a gentler alternative to existing cell-sorting technologies,
With the current version doctors would need to do a surgical biopsy to get enough tissue
Doctors routinely give cancer patients two or more different chemotherapy drugs in hopes that a multipronged attack will be more successful than a single drug.
and help doctors predict how a given patient will respond to chemotherapy drugs. The new test, described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of April 21, can analyze four types of DNA repair capacity simultaneously, in less than 24 hours.
Measuring tumors oxygen levels could help doctors make decisions about treatments but there s currently no reliable noninvasive way to make such measurements.
Using this kind of sensor doctors may be able to better determine radiation doses and to monitor whether treatments are having the desired effect according to the researchers who describe the device in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of April 21.
Doctors often use MRI to diagnose tumors but currently MRI can only reveal the size and location of a tumor.
With the new MIT sensor doctors could track the state of the tumor and predict how it might respond to radiation treatment according to the researchers.
An accurate reading of how much oxygen is present would help doctors calculate how much radiation might be necessary.
who are now developing such antibodies. hat could become part of a kit that doctors would use to distinguish a patient who has a tumor that going to metastasize,
such as primary-care doctors. Some policy analysts have suggested that expanding Medicaid could reduce emergency department visits by the formerly uninsured by bringing them into more regular contact with primary-care doctors and clinics for preventive care.
In theory, that could also reduce overall system costs, since urgent care is expensive. Indeed, prior work by Finkelstein, Baicker,
they showed that Medicaid coverage increases doctor visits, prescription drug use, and hospital admissions; reduces out-of-pocket expenses or unpaid medical debt;
One is to screen patients who come to the emergency room complaining of symptoms that might indicate a blood clot allowing doctors to rapidly triage such patients
Bhatia is working on a urine dipstick test similar to a pregnancy test that doctors could give patients
and to talk with nurses and doctors about unmet clinical needs. e learned quickly that the most successful entrepreneurs are good listeners,
Doctors have begun using this kind of personalized approach when choosing drugs that match individual patientsgenetic profiles,
This kind of"hypermodal"imagingf it came to fruitionould give doctors a much clearer picture of patients'organs
Jonathan Lovell Differences like these mean doctors can get a much clearer picture of what's happening inside the body by merging the results of multiple modalities.
"Combining these two biocompatible components into a single nanoparticle could give tomorrow's doctors a powerful,
This would enable doctors to better see where tumors begin and end, Lovell says. Explore further:
and protein diagnostic devices into every single doctor's office said Stuart Lindsay an ASU physics professor and director of Biodesign's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics.
which is the destruction of the fluorescence dye that reduces the amount of time doctors and scientists have to image a tissue sample.
If successful doctors will be able to release sequentially two or more drugs through the biomarker.#
when we use the word'diagnose'its doctors not instruments that actually diagnose patients. An instrument can only ever highlight a set of conditions to a clinician it's always going to be the doctor who makes a call as to
whether someone has a disease. There is of course a wider issue here. What utility does the information you're producing actually have?
and Molecular Systems Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart then doctors will in the foreseeable future call upon micro
"In the near future, we can foresee the device in doctors'offices or even at the bedside,
so that doctors and researchers can track the particles. Finally they need to perform their function at the right moment ideally in response to a stimulus. The Nanoparticles By design Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science
By encapsulating a dangerous substance such as a cancer-treating drug into a nanosheet doctors can attack very specific parts of the body.
Patient noncompliance with doctor-recommended glucose testing frequency can be a problem. By making lancets more affordable and potentially noninvasive we are addressing a critical global need he said.
Using a silicone breast model identical to those used to train doctors in manual breast exams,
said he envisions a stethoscope-like device that a doctor would press across a patient's chest to image the buried palpable structure.
or CBE, doctors manually examine the breast for abnormalities and use their hands to palpate the tissue in search of lumps.
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