At Boston Children Hospital, physicians are now using 3d printed replicas of brain regions theyl be working on to practice with before actual surgery.
#Use of Ultrasound to Promote Faster Healing of Wounds Sometimes discoveries in science are not about the development of new medical devices or drugs,
and offer robotic capability to clinics that don have millions of dollars in discretionary funds.
making this part of the screening process readily available for most clinics. The hardware is equipped with a light source
Paramedics equipped with these fizzy bandages could prolong the lives of patients during transit to the hospital, for instance
sequencing technology will definitely shift from research to clinics, says Aleksandra Radenovic. or that, we need rapid and affordable DNA sequencing
and vaccines against many dangerous diseases including HIV, hepatitis and cancer. The research, led by Yury Stebunov,
Material moves foldable electronics, new implantable medical devices a step closer Abstract: Researchers have discovered a new stretchable,
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,
sequencing technology will definitely shift from research to clinics, "says Aleksandra Radenovic.""For that, we need rapid and affordable DNA sequencing
In each test, the researchers'newly fabricated patches picked up body signals that were stronger than those taken by existing medical devices,
Lu is cofounder and scientific adviser for Stretch Med Inc.,a medical device company in which she has an equity partnership.
Discussions are now under way for tests to be carried out at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV.
Discussions are now under way for tests to be carried out at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV.
that if you want to make vaccines out of nucleic acids or if you want to modulate the immune system using nucleic acids, for vaccines or systemic suppression therapies,
then the spherical nucleic acid architecture is likely the most potent t
#Nanospheres cooled with light to explore the limits of quantum physics A team of scientists at UCL led by Peter Barker
and creates previously unachievable geometries that open opportunities for innovation not only in health care and medicine,
Now Toshiba Ltd and Kawasaki City Institute for Public health have collaborated in the development of a rapid and efficient automatic abbreviated DNA detection technology that can test for 14 major types of food
and in a collaboration with Kawasaki City Institute for Public health, used to simultaneously detect 14 different types of foodborne pathogens in less than 90 minutes.
Dr. Sharp and project co-leader Joshua Nosanchuk, M d.,professor of medicine at Einstein and attending physician, infectious diseases at Montefiore Medical center, developed a wound-healing therapy that uses
it will be possible to measure oxygen using the optical microscopes already present in most hospitals. Thomas Just Sørensen is Associate professor at the Department of chemistry, Nanoscience Centre, University of Copenhagen.
"The detector and light source was the same as on light microscopes found at any hospital, but my colleague Tom Vosch has optimized the microscope to the point where everything is almost beyond the possible.
This costs the health care system and puts undue strain on clinicians, patients and their families. Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers may have discovered a way to prevent rejection by using biodegradable nanoparticles that release needed medication into the eye after surgery.
In theory, genome engineering will eventually allow us to permanently cure genetic diseases by editing the specific faulty gene (s). Revolutionizing health care Genome engineering involves the targeted
and the need for blood transfusions. Understanding and reproducing key features of bone marrow formationnd hence, the creation of blood cells and platelets in tissue culture for storage and later useould help in treatment of a variety of medical problems.
according to the Mayo Clinic. Nerve damage is often permanent. Advanced 3d printing methods may now be the solution.
and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function."
or cadavers that hospitals could use to create closely matched 3d printed guides for patients s
. who is the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital as well as Professor of Bioengineering AT SEAS."
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,
and vaccines against many dangerous diseases including HIV, hepatitis and cancer. The research, led by Yury Stebunov,
The researchers say this approach also could be used for vaccines or immunotherapies for other conditions such as cancer or AIDS o
In each test, the researchers'newly fabricated patches picked up body signals that were stronger than those taken by existing medical devices,
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.
Scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical center designed a new delivery system for these drugs that,
which to test viruses and vaccines.""This plant is the'laboratory rat'of the molecular plant world,
Consultant Anaesthetist at Glenfield Hospital. hat we are proposing is a system that learns with the user to form an effective vocabulary that suits the person rather than the machine,
Researchers at USC and Wake Forest Baptist Medical center have developed a brain prosthesis that is designed to help individuals suffering from memory loss.
The FDA has approved previously medical devices including prosthetics made with 3d printing. An agency spokeswoman confirmed the new drug is the first prescription tablet approved that uses the process.
self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, health care, GOOGLE TV mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
in the hope of encouraging more hospitals to adopt it. The approach involves inserting a slim,
says Karim Brohi a trauma specialist at the Royal London Hospital. But he cautions that there are no figures as yet on
in the hope that more hospitals would adopt it. The approach involves inserting a 1-centimetre-long probe directly into the brain.
says Karim Brohi, a trauma specialist at the Royal London Hospital. But he cautions that there are no figures yet on
They and their colleagues devised an implant made from an inert porous material already used in medical devices,
Simple stem cell therapies are finally making their way towards the clinic, and a treatment for wounds caused by Crohn disease could be the first off-the-shelf therapy to get European union approval.
But such devices haven made it to the clinic yet, in part because they aren very comfortable to use,
says Armando Manduca at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. here could potentially be great value in using
"The FDA had approved previously medical devices made with 3-D printing. The company that makes Spritam says the 3-D-printed version of the drug allows it to dissolve more quickly,
Surgeons at Salamanca University Hospital reported the man's case and how they made the prosthesis last month in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
of Salamanca University Hospital, said in a statement. He and his colleagues hope the better fit will mean fewer complications in the long run.
#3d printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You It a development that could spell the end of horse pills,
and shipped them to hospitals and for the first time this process means we can produce tablets much closer to the patient,
Today, most bespoke drugs are formulated at specialized compounding pharmacies that are frequently miles away from the hospitals and clinics in
which they are used. 3d printing could bring those capabilities into hospitals and clinics, cutting time off delivery and making custom pharmaceuticals easier to obtain b
It was developed jointly by researchers from Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard university and Brigham and Women's Hospital."
"said Dr. Pedro del Nido, chief of cardiac surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. The catheter is inserted through a vein in the neck or groin and directed to the area of the defect.
While medical devices that remain in the body may be jostled out of place or fail to cover the hole as the body grows,
The adhesive was developed in the lab of Dr. Jeff Karp, a bioengineer at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Chirag Patil, one of the researchers behind the test at Cedars Sinai Medical center in Los angeles, told NPR.
The good news, finally, is that scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston have unveiled a new brain-scanning method that allows doctors to see chronic pain in exquisite detail for the first time.
MIT sees it as a potential system for hospitals or rescue work, and it easy to imagine the same robots that here dispense beer instead taking orders for water bottles and crackers at an emergency shelter.
or blood transfusions could play a role in transmitting prions, putting patients at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer.
#Gene on-off switch works like backpack strap A research team based in Houston Texas Medical center has found that the proteins that turn genes on by forming loops in human chromosomes work like the sliding plastic adjusters on a grade-schooler backpack.
While this old, simple technique may seem a quaint throwback in the age of high-technology health care tools like genetic sequencing,
and has been used in hospitals and universities for more than 30 years. It's just one of the many powerful technologies made possible by a tiny device called a SQUID, short for superconducting quantum interference device.
Scientists at the Univ. of Nebraska Medical center designed a new delivery system for these drugs that,
"Today's announcement presents a major environmental, social and public health opportunity for the U s, . and we're proud to be part of a national effort to reduce the food that goes into landfills."
Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of psychological symptoms, ranging from changes in behavior through to hallucinations and delusions.
In the study, researchers from Kansas city VA Medical centre in Kansas city, USA, examined the effect of TRT on cardiovascular outcomes by comparing incidences of heart attack, stroke,
Most C. difficile infections originate in settings such as hospitals, clinics and assisted living facilities. Making matters worse,
who performs surgeries at Barnes-Jewish Hospital?.""Patients often can't insert a catheter to empty their bladders
The researchers believe the test could be used in the clinic to make decisions about which patients should be given chemotherapy.
We now need to test this prognostic index in larger groups of men in the clinic"The work was funded by the MRC with support from the National Cancer Research Institute Testis Cancer Clinical Studies Group,
Becker, together with scientists from the departments of Experimental Epileptology and Neuroradiology of the University of Bonn Hospital as well as from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel
at Gothenburg Sahlgrenska University hospital, orthopaedic surgery has moved to a 6-hour day, as have doctors and nurses in two hospital departments in Umeå to the north,"The Guardian reports.
While impressions of staff being happier and full of energy aren exactly scientific basis for declaring 6-hour work days as'better'than the 8. 7-hour work day endured by the average American,
while a separate study found that working 49-hour weeks was associated with lower mental health, particularly in women.
and how mutations in the gene cause disease,"said one of the team, Xin Liu, from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical centre.
And any parents who are concerned about the possible effects of vaccines have their hearts in the right place
and now a broad study of anti-vaccination websites helps to explain why. Researchers from the Johns hopkins university Bloomberg School of Public health analysed close to 500 anti-vaccination websites
and found that they deliver a distorted mixture of pseudoscience and misinformation to parents seeking information about vaccines.
According to the researchers, more than two thirds of anti-vaccination websites present nonscientific information and other forms of misinformation as cientific evidenceto support the view that vaccines are dangerous to children,
and nearly one third of sites reinforce the idea through the use of anecdotes and stories.
Facebook pages and health sites perpetuate an alarming mixture of misinformation about vaccines and use a range of persuasive techniques to get the reader on side.
Almost two thirds of the sites suggested that vaccines cause autism, and more than 40 percent claim theye responsible for rain injury The majority present information as scientific when it doesn actually qualify for that distinction.
In addition to condemning vaccines, the sites also promote some positive behaviours, such as healthy eating (recommended by 18.5 percent of anti-vaccination sites),
and the benefits of breastfeeding (5. 5 percent) and eating organic food (5. 2 percent). The study, presented this week at the American Public health Association annual meeting in Chicago,
may help actual scientists such as doctors and health care workers better understand how to reach and communicate with parents who are concerned genuinely about any perceived risks of vaccination
(and who may be exposing themselves to potentially dangerous misinformation on these kinds of sites). he biggest global takeaway is need that we to communicate to the vaccine-hesitant parent in a way that resonates with them
and is sensitive to their concerns, said Meghan Moran, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School department of health, behaviour and society. n our review,
we saw communication for things we consider healthy, such as breastfeeding, eating organic, the types of behaviour public health officials want to encourage.
I think we can leverage these good things and reframe our communication in a way that makes sense to those parents resisting vaccines for their children. i
#Solar cooling system keeps water at 9 degrees Celsius for up to three months Maintaining food in places where high temperatures prevail,
"said Dr. Inoel Rivera, a urologic oncologist at Florida Hospital Cancer Institute, which collaborated with Huo on the recent pilot studies."
D c. Huo's team is pursuing more extensive clinical validation studies with Florida Hospital and others,
including the VA Medical center Orlando. She hopes to complete major clinical trials and see the test being used by physicians in two to three years.
although extensive further work is needed now to will be needed before sequential treatments make it in to the clinic,
Five of the six cases involved patients under the care of Dr. Saunder Bernes, a neurologist at Barrow neurological institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital.
The early establishment of bifidobacteria has been shown to be associated with improved immune response to vaccines, development of the infants'immature immune system,
She recently received a grant from the Pediatric Medical device Consortium at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to research this possibility i
as well as physicians from the Rambam, Carmel and Hadassah Medical centers, who are studying tumors and their treatment. kpc1 an important and vital pathway in the life of the cell,
low-cost molecular tumor diagnosis A device developed by Massachusetts General Hospital investigators may bring rapid,
which patients the most,"says Henrik Schmidt, consultant at the Department of Oncology at Aarhus University Hospital,
and could easily be introduced at the hospitals s
#Shape-shifting molecule tricks viruses into mutating themselves to death A newly developed spectroscopy method is helping to clarify the poorly understood molecular process by
"said study co-author Paul M Ridker, MD, MPH, the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school and director of the Center for Cardiovascular disease Prevention at Brigham and Women's Hospital."
"While multiple sclerosis is the initial focus for translating this research into the clinic, a number of other disorders involve myelin loss
that were obtained from local fertility clinics. However the work is very controversial, with some warning it could be the start of a slippery slope towards designer babies.
"Dr Yalda Jamshidi, Senior Lecturer in Human genetics, St george's University Hospital Foundation Trust, said:""Inherited genetic conditions often result
Daniel I. Chasman of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical school in Boston; and Kara Dolinski at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton university."
and community office settings,"commented lead investigator Tomohiko Yamada, OD, of the Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota."
"This will improve vaccine development, lead to better treatment outcomes and ultimately benefit cancer patients
suggests that measures applied in hospitals during gastroenteritis outbreaks may be insufficient to effectively contain this kind of infection.
conducted the study at 8 hospitals and long-term care facilities affected by gastroenteritis outbreaks. Researchers gathered air samples at a distance of 1 meter from patients, at the doors to their rooms,
"said Elena Marks, president and CEO of the Episcopal Health Foundation and a health policy scholar at the Baker Institute."
"Right now, those at the lowest incomes must rely on health care that is highly subsidized by county and state tax dollars,
or get by without needed health care.""The 31 percent decrease in the rate of uninsured Texans was similar to drops in other states that did not expand Medicaid coverage,
#Scientists dramatically improve method for finding common genetic alterations in tumors St jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have developed a significantly better computer tool for finding genetic alterations that play an important role in many cancers
scientists can upload data for analysis. Work on CONSERTING began in 2010 shortly after the St jude Children's Research Hospital--Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project was launched.
#Breast cancer vaccines may work better with silicon microparticles Model studies showed that microparticles loaded with an antigen, HER2,
"We could completely inhibit tumor growth after just one dose of the cancer vaccine in the animal model,
"Cancer vaccines are designed to turn a patient's own immune system more strongly against cancer cells, and have been an area of recent and intense interest among oncologists.
Since 2010, the FDA has approved vaccines and other immunotherapy drugs for melanoma, prostate cancer, and lung cancer.
There are currently dozens of active clinical trials evaluating vaccines for cancer therapy. Approximately 235,000 new diagnoses of breast cancer were made last year,
As yet, there are no FDA-approved vaccines for breast cancer. Such a vaccine might target HER2 a cell surface hormone receptor that is overexpressed in the tumor cells of 15 to 30 percent of breast cancer patients.
Such cells are called HER2+or HER2 positive. In this case, HER2 is both a naturally occurring hormone receptor and an antigen target for therapy.
A vaccine against HER2 would train the immune system's more destructive agents to recognize the cancer cells overproducing HER2
But so far, vaccines against HER2 have seen only moderate success."Vaccines targeting the HER2 oncoprotein have been tried,
"But these vaccines have mostly not been very potent because of inefficient vaccine delivery, a poor immune response at the site of the tumor,
We have shown that the PSM-mediated vaccine is not only potent enough to trigger tumor cell killing,
and that the PSMS could be loaded with multiple antigens for a single vaccine target, or multiple antigens for several targets, possibly enhancing the approach's effectiveness further."
"Besides developing a highly potent breast cancer vaccine, we have demonstrated also that PSMS are said versatile, "Shen."
"This is a technology platform that can be applied by other scientists to develop vaccines for other types of cancers, ultimately helping,
these methods require X-ray light with a well-defined wavelength aligned in a particular way--properties that conventional CT SCANNERS in hospitals do not deliver sufficiently.
--but these are large and expensive machines that cannot simply be implemented at every research institute and clinic.
"We work closely together with two clinics to study tumors, "Eggl says.""One of our plans is to image breast tissue samples
what scale,"explains Sophia Zackrisson and Kristina Lång, radiologists at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö and researchers at Lund University.
but mass public health campaigns to administer the medication have been stalled because of potentially fatal side effects for patients co-infected with Loa loa,
inexpensive technologies that can be applied to a wide range of health care problems and settings.""Testing for HIV-1 in whole bloodcurrent tests for HIV infection detect antibodies to HIV in the individual's blood.
in collaboration with clinicians from Marseilles Public Hospitals (AP-HM) and scientists from the Salk Institute in San diego (US), has revealed a new gene that plays a crucial role during early development in humans and
as well as in nine renowned academic hospitals s
#Scientists determine how antibiotic gains cancer-killing sulfur atoms In a discovery with implications for future drug design,
Researchers from Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, institutions in Finland and Iceland, and the U s. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases report their discoveries and implications for future studies of epidemic diseases in an upcoming Journal of Clinical Investigation (early online).
"explained Ulrich-Christian Schröder, a Ph d. student at the Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute of technology in Germany.
"said Ute Neugebauer, group leader at the Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute of technology. What exactly does the team's medical device detect?"
"In our pilot study, we were able to identify Escherichia coli (more commonly known as E coli) and Enterococcus faecalis--two species known to cause urinary tract infections--within 70 minutes,
The team will continue toward its goal of developing an easy-to-use spectroscopy-based point-of-care medical device for fast and reliable diagnostics."
"We hope this project will be useful to treat serious public health problems such as diabetes and obesity,"concludes the specialist s
Hospital. In Sub-saharan africa, where 24.7 million people are living with HIV (71 percent of all people living with HIV),
"said the trial's co-primary investigator, Craig R. Cohen, MD, MPH, UCSF professor in the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive health in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences.
55 patients with atypical moles agreed to have monitored their skin by researchers at Pisa University Hospital using a laser Doppler system.
The academics have been joined in the project by Dr Atul Gaur, Consultant Anaesthetist at Glenfield Hospital."
The discovery that alpha-synuclein prions can transmit MSA raises a public health concern about treatments
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
whether blood transfusion from young individuals to older ones confers benefits.""The results of this work may provide additional evidence that eotaxin plays a role in the deleterious effects of aging,
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,
Right now, CNV is not a commonly used diagnostic measurement in the clinic.""We're looking into the best way of collecting samples,
He adds that CSHL has collaborations with many hospitals, notably Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the North Shore-LIJ Health System,
to bring single-cell analysis to the clinic. For Schatz, Gingko represents a culmination of CSHL's efforts over the past decade--spearheaded by CSHL Professor Michael Wigler--to pioneer techniques for studying single cells."
We still have to develop them before they can go in the clinic, "Vogel said.""But what we know now is that they're not toxic--they have low toxicity to noncancerous cells,
We still have to develop them before they can go in the clinic, "Vogel said.""But what we know now is that they're not toxic--they have low toxicity to noncancerous cells,
150, were associated with inpatient stays in health care facilities, according to the Active Bacterial Core surveillance report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
stating that it"represents a serious threat to public health and the economy.""In March, a National Action Plan outlined critical next steps for key federal agencies and departments.
antibiotic resistance is a problem that adds around $20 billion annually to health care costs in the U s."The biggest question scientists have to ask to tackle antibiotic resistance is,
In both the U s. and Europe, the spread of MRSA is a major threat to people in hospitals and other health care facilities.
which is how it spreads into hospitals and other medical facilities.""Before you go into the hospital for surgery,
many hospitals will do a nasal swab, and if you have staph, they will treat you before surgery
because it could be transferred into your body and cause serious infection, "Falkinham said d
#First realization of an electric circuit with a magnetic insulator using spin waves Researchers at the University of Groningen, Utrecht University,
Dr James Fildes, from the University's Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research and the Transplant Centre at the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, led the study.
and Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M d.,Ph d.,who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering
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