from prosthetic skin to electronic paper, for implantable medical devices, and for flexible displays and touch screens. They can be used in rubberlike electronic devices that,
In addition to solving the longstanding problem of productivity for monoclonal antibodies the nanoparticle approach can be applied to many other therapeutic proteins and also to viral vaccines.
and telecommunications medical devices and security he says. If these could be made flexible they could be integrated in clothes rolled up
""MRI SCANNERS are found in nearly every hospital up and down the country and they are used vital machines every day to scan patients'bodies
Personalised medicine is one of the new developments that is deemed to revolutionise health care. A key component is the detection of biomarkers, proteins in blood or saliva, for example,
and is not going to put a big burden on the health care system, "says Brolo. Another expert agrees."
vaccinations, cancer imaging and other medical treatments. Currently, the predominant practice is using viruses for delivery to cells.
Hygienic conditions and sterile procedures are particularly important in hospitals, kitchens and sanitary facilities, air conditioning and ventilation systems, in food preparation and in the manufacture of packaging material.
and monitor diabetes and other conditions, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, for use both in clinics and home settings.
Earlier this year, clinical trials of the sensors were carried out at Addenbrooke's Hospital to monitor glucose levels in 33 diabetic patients.
treatment procedures in remote places with difficult access to hospitals or medical clinics. Although very compact (only a few square centimeters) the lab-on-a-chip hosts various sensing sites distributed across a network of fluidic micro-channels that enables it to conduct multiple analyses.
and medical devices and even fast food and using it to create next generation battery materials, "said Zachary Favors,
They envision the fiber supercapacitor could be woven into clothing to power medical devices for people at home or communications devices for soldiers in the field.
Their blood sugar#level#reductions were on par with study participants who received the â##standard careâ#doctors normally give people with diabetes the U k. s National Health service reports.
This is encouraging because getting set up to play Wii Fit Plus is cheaper than other forms of diabetes care National Health service reports.
The National Health service has a good breakdown of the study which is one of the first to so rigorously examine the health benefits of active video games.
clinics, and hospitals. Users (who need only a few days'training) dissolve samples inside a small beaker in the machine.
#Riley Williams director of the Institute for Cartilage Repair at the Hospital for#Special Surgery says that unlike microfracture this method implants the collagen-rich hyaline necessary to continue competing at the highest level.#
It s difficult to convince people that an ACI is their best option says orthopedic surgeon Andreas Gomoll at Brigham and Women s Hospital even though it s a more durable fix than microfracture.
Jenkins explains that some buildings such as hospitals may need to reconfigure their interior panels quickly to make way for another patient with different needs.
Hospitals are making decisions for what goes into an intensive care unit 10 years in advance says Jenkins.
#Boy Given A 3-D Printed Spine Implant Doctors at Peking University Third Hospital have implanted successfully the first ever 3-D-printed section of vertebra into the young patient.
So during many hours of spinal cord surgery surgeons at the hospital replaced part of the cancerous vertebra in his neck with the implant.
and in April 2013 the Mayo Clinic used a 3-D printer to create a customized artificial hip.
and U s. federal agencies want to fast-track human trials of a promising vaccine. If all goes well,
the vaccine may be available sometime in 2015, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases, told USA Today.
The finding implies that virus could possibly be spread in enclosed spaces such as hospitals and therefore"further studies are needed urgently,
from helping nurses in hospitals to inspecting dangerous power plants and tedious farm work. Autonomous cars and drones are other examples of robots.
It notably supports citizen empowerment through self management of health and disease health promotion and disease prevention.
Most astronauts complete medical training which equips them with the skills to perform procedures such as first aid and basic surgery.
which will promote efficient rehabilitation. e would like to see these robots used for rehabilitation training in hospitals nursing homes and private homes after an injury or for use as a preventive measure prior to injury. i
#Sharp futuristic Health care Support Chair a proactive health care solution Sharp has developed a health care support chair that combines a range of sensors for checking the user health.
 â##The technology will empower health care facilities to more effectively use their limited resources to deliver greater value in the increasingly resource-constrained U s. health care environment. â#SEDASYS will cost about $150 per procedure on a fee-peruse plan from J&j
surgical robots noninvasive radiosurgery robotic systems prosthetics and exoskeletons assistive and rehabilitation robots non-medical robotics in hospitals and emergency response robotic systems and hold
Nursing care robots are designed to fulfill functions which help patients live independently and reduce the burden on caretakers.
as a personal mobile device for intravenous equipment at a hospital, or topped with a telepresence device and acting as a museum tour guide.
but PSS aims to create an environment where genetic testing devices can be used at more medium-sized hospitals emergency testing hospitals and even small clinics.
announced that the RP-VITA Remote Presence Robot has received 510 (k) clearance by the U s. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in hospitals.
and mobility technologies developed by irobot with state-of-the-art telemedicine and electronic health record integration developed by Intouch Health.
#Kubi telemedicine device gets HIPAA clearance for streaming medical data Revolve Robotics and Swymed have collaborated to create a HIPAA compliant telepresence device called Kubi that can stream medical data.
In smaller rural hospitals or even in ambulances, where a specialist cannot be physically there,
many hospitals cannot afford or implement such a full blown solution. I did a test drive back
While there are other telemedicine apps out there that provide consultations, like Teledoc or Doctor on Demand,
business and economic growth does need not to happen at the cost of the environment and public health and safety.
Beyond inspiring curiosity, Prakash hopes Foldscopes can help health care workers quickly, cheaply and safely diagnose blood-borne illnesses in the field."
Patients Wheeled Out of Hospitalon Tuesday at the main hospital in Kathmandu patients injured in last month's quake were being wheeled out in wheelchairs.
was conducted by a team from the Vaccine Research center at the U s. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland.
director of NIAID Vaccine Research center and head of the group reporting the Nature Communications study.
says draining a reservoir ultimately may require combining bispecific antibodies with other latency reversing approaches and immune system stimulators like anti-HIV vaccines.
a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard School of Public health who was involved not in the research. trikingly,
and the inaugural director of the Joint Center for Cancer Precision Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women Hospital,
cell-instructive implants, engineered tissue and organ replacements, hybrid medical devices and therapeutic cell and molecule delivery.
the Clinic for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Plastic surgery at the Leipzig University Hospital; University of Applied sciences Zwickau and its Research and Transfer Centre;
She recently received a grant from the Pediatric Medical device Consortium at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to research this possibility.
A team from Massachusetts General Hospital investigating bone loss during bed rest, in microgravity or through diseases such as osteoporosis, will use the Alvetex Scaffold in experiments 150 miles above the surface of the Earth after the equipment is delivered by the Spacex Dragon capsule.
Medical devices designed to reside in the stomach have a variety of applications, including prolonged drug delivery, electronic monitoring,
Now, researchers at MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have created a polymer gel that overcomes this safety concern
#Unexpected Discovery Offers Insight into Mechanisms of Asthma, Other Diseases A new study from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public health reveals an unexpected discovery In people with asthma,
thanks to findings published today by Professor Gilbert Bernier of the University of Montreal and its affiliated Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.
In 2001, he launched his laboratory at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital and immediately isolated the molecule.
Pedro del Nido, chief of cardiac surgery at Boston Children Hospital, the William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery at Harvard Medical school,
and the Karp Lab at Brigham and Women Hospital, which is affiliated a Harvard hospital, as is Boston Children.
While medical devices that remain in the body may be jostled out of place or fail to cover the hole as the body grows,
#A Computer That Can Sniff out Septic Shock Dr. David Hagar treats dozens of patients each day at the intensive care unit at John Hopkins Hospital in Maryland.
and the Boston Children Hospital, can correctly identify an individual heart anatomical structures by following the lead of a human expert who interprets a small patch equivalent to just one-ninth of the area of each cross section, according to an MIT press release.
The group worked with high-precision MRI scans developed by Medhi Moghari, a physicist at Boston Children Hospital.
Seven cardiac surgeons at Boston Children Hospital will also test the usefulness of 3-D printed heart models in a clinical study this fall.
They will draw up surgical plans for 10 patients who have undergone already surgery at Boston Children hospital
The MIT and Boston Children Hospital research represents yet another promising step forward in this area
#Reseachers Create First Integrated Circularly Polarized Light detector on a Silicon chip What do you get when you combine some biomimicry, metamaterials and nanowires?
in a press release. ortable detectors could be used to determine drug chirality in hospitals and in the field. n research published in the journal Nature Communications,
Lead researcher Stephen Kingsmore, a pediatrician and genomics expert at Children Mercy Hospital in Kansas city, explains that doctors typically run targeted genetic tests for specific diseases
every infant born in the developed world will have sequenced its genome in the hospital.?It just a matter of time before clinical genomics will be with us everywhere,
sterilize medical devices, and even to make diamonds green and pearls black. A key accelerator parameter is the acceleration gradient,
medical devices and Internet of things devices anything that doesn require massive amounts of electricity. It will be launching on Kickstarter in one month for $99,
who previously spent ten years researching digital health and holding clinical trials at Columbia University Medical center.
Finck worked with researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical centre and the biopharmaceutical company Metabolic Solutions Development Co. The company is involved in clinical trials that are evaluating the drug compound MSDC-0602 as a treatment for diabetes.
single-cell embryos obtained from fertility clinics. They wanted to edit the gene responsible for B-thalassemia, a fatal blood disorder.
and clinics everywhere,"said Mehdi Ghodbane, who earned his doctorate in biomedical engineering at Rutgers University.
150, were associated with inpatient stays in health care facilities, according to the Active Bacterial Core surveillance report by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in US.
The machine, installed at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical centre, draws on the data of more than 250,000 people collected over a period of 30 years to make speedy diagnoses,
a doctor at the hospital, was quoted as telling BBC. Patients at the hospital are linked up to the super computer
which collects and analyses data about their condition every three minutes, measuring everything from oxygen levels to blood pressure to give doctors"everything we need to know about a patient".
#Shanghai Children Medical center opens China first pediatric 3d printing medical research unit When it comes to applications for 3d printing in the medical industry,
the country-along with 3d printing giant Materialise-proudly unveiled their first pediatric-specific 3d digital medical research facility in Shanghai at the Shanghai Children Medical center on Thursday, August 13th.
Among other projects, the new Pediatric 3d printing Unit at the hospital will focus on pediatric medical imaging, digital modelling, 3d fabrication,
it will likely only be a matter of time before other hospitals around the world open up their own 3d printing labs,
This inspiring 3d printing venture has been developed by actual public health physician dr. Wong, who realized that 3d printers are making life in the west much easier,
and regular readers will have noticed doubtlessly a lot of 3d printed components being used in surgeries in Chinese hospitals. And last week, we learned that this number is doubtlessly set to skyrocket,
and Cai Hong of Peking University Third Hospital in cooperation with AK Medical, a Chinese private medical company.
he received support from Liu Zhongjun, Director of the bone department at the Beijng University Third Hospital.
drafts on the individual customization of the medical devices regulations will be introduced for comment, he adds. That will hopefully bode very well for the future d
K2m, a global medical device company focused on developing complex and minimally invasive spine solutions for patients suffering from the most complicated spinal pathologies
Dr Marcelo Jimene and Dr Gonzalo Varela from Salamanca University Hospital decided to remove the patient sternum and part of his rib cage,
In turn, they crossed paths with Aussie medical device company Anatomics. Anatomics CEO Andrew Batty realized that the only process for producing such an implant was through metal 3d printing
The Mayo Clinic suggests that due to the complexity of nerve regeneration, nerve damage can be permanent;
and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function.
previously found 527 per 100,000 Australians were admitted to hospital for impacted wisdom teeth removal in 2008/09--a rate seven times higher than in the UK
This is useful when hospitals, government healthcare units or NGOS conduct healthcare camps, he says. The IISC team has not,
It is the brainchild of a joint research team from Singapore Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), SIMTECH and the Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute.
and vaccines traditionally given by injection. Cheap, lightweight and portable, the advanced nebulizer delivers precise drug doses to patients with life-threatening
or to painlessly vaccinate infants currently subjected to needles. Professor Leslie Yeo, Director of RMIT University Micronanophysics Research Laboratory, said the Respite technology had the potential to revolutionize how patients were treated with drugs
Recent trials in Melbourne also showed sheep given a DNA flu vaccine via a nebulizer had comparable immune responses to animals injected with the vaccine.
The Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois, and the University of Illinois Cancer Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago were partners in this work e
who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS."
This makes the development of an effective vaccine to protect against infection, as well as antiviral therapy to combat already-existing infections,
Administering a vaccine to protect against infection would overwhelm the patient's immune system. However, if he or she has the option of receiving an antiviral to eliminate the infection,
and it can go into schools, restaurants, factories, hospitals, ambulances, airports, and even battlefields. he next market Chen is targeting is the smart home,
Trained at Los alamos National Laboratory and Mount sinai Hospital at NYU, Chen started out as a biochemist working on biomedical devices.
and will diagnose diseases without requiring specialized laboratories particularly useful in regions with limited access to doctors and hospitals.
and aims to expand its activities in the field of regenerative medicine and developing medical devices s
and clinics everywhere,"said Mehdi Ghodbane, who earned his doctorate in biomedical engineering at Rutgers and now works in biopharmaceutical research and development at Glaxosmithkline.
and Neck Surgery in the UAMS College of Medicine UAMS is the state only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health professions and Public health;
a hospital; a northwest Arkansas regional campus; a statewide network of regional centers; and seven institutes:
000 physicians and other professionals who provide care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children Hospital, the VA Medical center and UAMS regional centers throughout the state.
sequencing technology will definitely shift from research to clinics, "says Aleksandra Radenovic.""For that, we need rapid and affordable DNA sequencing
This is a crucial step in creating a new generation of foldable electronics-think a flat-screen television that can be rolled up for easy portability-and implantable medical devices.
indicating it is a good material for implantable medical devices. Fatigue is a common problem for researchers trying to develop a flexible, transparent conductor,
This single, self-contained medical device will be effective, for example, in quickly detecting liver toxicity which is a common side effect of chemotherapy.
or outside hospitals,"said Zhiping Wang, Ph d.,a principal scientist in microfluidics and Director of research Programmes at A*STAR SIMTECH.
easy-to-use diagnostic to the clinic and the field with immediate potential to improve patient outcomes and quality of life e
a mix of human-made chemicals thought to pose a risk to public health. A team led by Cockrell School of engineering associate professor Christopher Ellison found that a synthetic coating of polydopamine--derived from the natural compound dopamine--can be used as a highly effective, water-applied flame retardant for polyurethane foam.
#Archaeal Gas Vesicle Nanoparticles Hold Potential to Develop Powerful Malaria Vaccine In a recent breakthrough to combat malaria,
The finding points towards developing a powerful malaria vaccine in the hope of eradicating this debilitating and often fatal disease.
Development of an antimalarial vaccine is an integral part of an effort to counter the socioeconomic burden of malaria.
and this conjugated system was used to vaccinate mice. Interestingly, a subsequent challenge with a lethal strain of mouse malaria parasite in these vaccinated animals showed considerable protection against malaria.
Says Prof. Dassarma, Phd, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the school,"GVNPS offer a designer platform for vaccines
and this work is a significant step forward towards a new malaria vaccine.""This study is a significant advance in the field,
since most other vaccine candidate molecules tested so far confer protection against only a single species of parasite, due to the species and strain specific nature of these molecules."
"The small segment of five amino acids that forms a protective epitope is present in all human malaria causing species of Plasmodium and hence,
Efforts are focused now at developing this into an effective vaccine against malaria a
#Miniature Plastic Digital Fluorescence Microscope for use in Rural areas For a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative,
simple technique may seem a quaint throwback in the age of high-tech health care tools like genetic sequencing,
. who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital,
The researchers also pointed out that this technique does not pose any serious health risks. Since this technique is intended for applications in ultra low power communication systems
and overcome the unmet needs of patients and health care providers through the development of breakthrough remote health care devices, biosignal mapping algorithms,
and reduce the cost of health care. About the Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) As an engineering research agency of Texas,
and staff by up to 30%,allowing an addition of an annual 100 scans a year at Central Manchester University Hospitals.
and for staff at the imaging facility A recent study by scientists at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and The University of Manchester investigated
The FDA has approved previously medical devices-including prosthetics-that have been 3d printed. The new drug, dubbed Spritam,
and shipped them to hospitals and for the first time this process means we can produce tablets much closer to the patient,
It would mean that medical institutions could adjust the dose for individual patients with just a simple tweak to the software before printing.
which require lifelong treatment with blood transfusions and medication. The researchers based their new approach on the fact that a small number of people with damaged adult haemoglobin have an additional, beneficial mutation in the foetal haemoglobin gene."
. who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences s
A team of scientists at the Vaccine Research center (VRC) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases, part of NIH, created VRC07-acd3 under the leadership of VRC Director John R. Mascola, M d.;
7. 9 months before visible signs were picked up by clinics. After treatment, it is difficult to identify
Using the test in healthy people could also lead to a personalised approach to influenza vaccination.
At present, an annual flu vaccine is recommended for groups such as the over-65s pregnant women and people with chronic medical conditions, who are believed to be at greater risk of influenza complications.
Identifying those who are genetically susceptible could help doctors to decide more accurately who should receive influenza vaccination n
and ultra-low cost vaccine manufacturing, says Govind Rao who leads the research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Center for Advanced Sensor Technology.
as healthcare increasingly moves from hospitals to patient homes with the advent of technology like home diabetes tests. perfect storm in healthcare is happening,
Cell-free production tech could be used to produce low-cost vaccines tremendous paradigm shift is definitely comingas well as personalised medicines.
and ultra-low cost vaccine manufacturing, says Govind Rao who leads the research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Center for Advanced Sensor Technology.
as healthcare increasingly moves from hospitals to patient homes with the advent of technology like home diabetes tests. perfect storm in healthcare is happening,
Cell-free production tech could be used to produce low-cost vaccines tremendous paradigm shift is definitely comingas well as personalised medicines.
a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard School of Public health who was involved not in the research. trikingly,
when theye admitted to the hospital, while others become infected during their hospital stay. So two different sepsis patients admitted at the same time may be at very different stages of a complex inflammation process. ow do you figure out which tiny fraction of those changes was caused by infection?
when first admitted to the hospital as well as patients who were diagnosed with it later in addition to healthy control subjects.
or something that is useful in the clinic, Kamm said. ne of the i-Teamsrecommendations was to develop systems for researchers.
Institute and a neurologist at VA Medical center, San diego. The findings are derived from postmortem analyses of 10 patients who participated in phase
The published findings come from AD patients who participated in safety trials from March 2001 to October 2012 at UC San diego Medical center.
particularly when there are flu vaccine shortages or limitations.""A therapy based on these inhaled drugs may help deal with new viral and bacterial strains that are resistant to conventional vaccines
and treatments and could be a game changer in terms of our preparedness for future pandemics and seasonal flu outbreaks because it's focusing on host immunity,
#Bacterial Study Points to Possible New MRSA Vaccine New research led by NYU Langone has uncovered why a particular strain of Staphylococcus aureusnown as HA-MRSAECOMES more deadly than other variations.
These new findings open up possible new pathways to vaccine development against this bacterium, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said accounts for over 10,000 deaths annually, mostly among hospital patients.
Torres also said that these study results challenge the current mindset for finding a vaccine against staphylococcal infections,
in order to develop an effective vaccine. n a separate set of laboratory experiments previously described in the journal Cell Host & Microbe online August 27, researchers at Torreslaboratory and colleagues in The netherlands, France,
and lymphoma teams at Texas Children Hospital. Ball said STAT3 has been a target for scientists trying to shut down cancer cells.
chemicals and novel materials to impact public health and the environment. his work addresses the broader question of how can we repurpose the protein synthesis machinery of the cell for synthetic biology,
and associate chief of hematology/oncology at Boston Children Hospital. t a very different approach to treating disease. he data provide proof of principle that targeted edits to BCL11A enhancer in blood stem cells could be an attractive approach
suggesting that this could be a promising strategy to translate into the clinic.?Although fixing the sickle mutation itself would seem the most straightforward approach,
#Personalized Heart Models for Surgical Planning Researchers at MIT and Boston Children Hospital have developed a system that can take MRI scans of a patient heart and,
This fall, seven cardiac surgeons at Boston Children Hospital will participate in a study intended to evaluate the modelsusefulness.
Medhi Moghari, a physicist at Boston Children Hospital, developed new procedures that increase the precision of MRI scans tenfold
and Andrew Powell, a cardiologist at the hospital, leads the project clinical work. The work was funded by both Boston Children Hospital and by Harvard Catalyst,
a consortium aimed at rapidly moving scientific innovation into the clinic. MRI data consist of a series of cross sections of a three-dimensional object.
Like a black-and-white photograph, each cross section has regions of dark and light, and the boundaries between those regions may indicate the edges of anatomical structures.
The problem with that approach is that many of the cardiac patients at Boston Children Hospital require surgery precisely
The clinical study in the fall will involve MRIS from 10 patients who have received already treatment at Boston Children Hospital.
a cardiac surgeon at Boston Children Hospital who is not a co-author on the new paper. e have used this type of model in a few patients,
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