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medical clinics#and sound the alarm to stop violence from reaching certain levels of severity.#

With recent advances in technology such as Bluetooth, we are now able to build medical devices that weren't possible just a decade ago#.

"For people who live far from hospitals, in places like Africa, this could be life changing.#

While all employers are required by law to enroll their employees into the National Hospital Insurance Fund,

Dr. G. Mbugua, who has run a small clinic called Uhuru Prestige in a low-income area of the capital Nairobi for the past seven years,

#"In Kenya, we have a problem with saving for health care, #he says.""Most of my patients pay out of pocket.

They prefer to tackle health care when someone is sick. They'd rather buy food than save for health.#

"The notion of paying in advance for access to health services is foreign, but can help in preventing financial catastrophes.##

When they attended clinics, hospitals and other healthcare providers, their cards were swiped and their accounts charged at point-of-sale terminals.

They also have a card for family health care.##Hellen Osteno, of Komarock, a low-income area on the edge of Nairobi, bought a family card in April."

#Besides covering typical medical expenses, the insurance also covers add on services such as income replacement during hospitalisation, funeral assistance,

#Medical device Industry Mergers and Acquisitions Hit All-time High in 2014 says Globaldata Analyst The medical device industry witnessed an all-time record high in terms of deal valuations in 2014,

Niharika Midha, MSC, Globaldata Analyst covering Medical devices, states that the unusually high amount of M&a activity last year highlights a trend that goes beyond mega-mergers and into the expansion of product portfolios.

as the medical device industry consolidates into fewer prominent players that directly compete with each other and innovation is fueled by heightened demand.

creating the world largest medical device company. Despite criticism that the move was rooted in tax inversion,

With support from the Armenian Relief Society, Goenjian and his colleagues helped establish a pair of psychiatric clinics that treated earthquake survivors for 21 years.

In the current study, Goenjian and first author Julia Bailey, an adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public health, focused on two genes called COMT and TPH-2

A technique developed at Boston Children's Hospital allows these subtle mutation patterns to be traced

"Presently, we often wait for failure, in school or in mental health, to prompt attempts to help,

The new sensor is as accurate as the"wet electrode"sensors used in hospitals, but can be used for long-term monitoring

Electrophysiological sensors used in hospitals, such as EKGS, use wet electrodes that rely on an electrolytic gel between the sensor

Columbia University School of engineering and Applied science-Opening new doors for biomedical and neuroscience research, Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering and of radiology at Columbia University Medical center

despite extensive investigations but the study results suggest that a vaccine using a weakened form of the bacteria may offer protection against haemoplasma infection.

and it provides important information for a possible future hemoplasma vaccine. ur findings could help prevent the disease in cats

#Biogen idec Columbia to Conduct Collaborative Genetics Research Biogen idec and Columbia University Medical center have formed a $30 million strategic alliance to conduct genetics discovery research on the underlying causes of disease

founding director of Columbia University Institute for Genomic medicine. his collaboration marries the exceptional drug development expertise of Biogen with cutting-edge genomics expertise at Columbia University Medical center.

Tom Maniatis, Phd, the Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University Medical center and director of Columbia university-wide

#ailure to use effective treatments for older patients with cancer is a health care quality concern in the United states.#

#Radiation plus hormone therapy is such a treatment for men with aggressive prostate cancerssaid lead author Justin E. Bekelman MD an assistant professor of Radiation Oncology Medical Ethics and Health policy at Penn

#Technology Detects Lingering Cancer cells During Breast Surgery Many patients undergoing lumpectomy surgery at NYU Langone Medical center for the removal of an early detected breast tumor the surgical option of choice for this diagnosis

Manufactured and marketed by Dune Medical devices, Marginprobe utilizes non-destructive radio-frequency spectroscopy technology in the operating room to analyze the outer margins of removed cancerous tissue to detect traces of cancer cells.

and water heaters sprouting from government buildings hospitals police stations bus shelters as well as thousands of gaily colored private homes throughout the Caribbean island.

and avoid unnecessary hospitalisation. Arbustini says the subject of the study, familial DCM, is not only an important healthcare problem in its own right but can also serve as a model for developing improved and tailored treatments for other inherited diseases.

However, many realise that others might question their mental health if they were fully aware of the situation.

The blood test the first of its kind for the diagnosis of a mental health condition has been commercialised

The faster surgery and shorter hospitalisation times also reduce the impact on patientslives. Manufacturing costs are reduced, too.

The only new costs for hospitals are for the materials. Access to the software for the process is simple

although new applications need to pass strict medical device regulations for implant suppliers. The collaboration between 22 very diverse specialist institutions from six different countries brought a unique solution to cost,

Olli Tenovuo, Neurologist, Turku University Hospital explains the content: ll (the patient) clinical background. What kind of diseases has had the patient before?

#Nanotechnology to fight hospital superbugs Each year, twice as many people die in Europe from hospital acquired infections than from road accidents.

But, even in the journey from laundry to the hospital, there are all sorts of opportunities for new infections.

6. 6%of all patients catch a hospital acquired infection (HAI; France now reports 750,000 HAI cases a year,

and ground-breaking nature of their work in both cancer and HIV could provide a valuable boost to the competitiveness of the EU in the fields of health care and nanotechnology e

We believe that the PEF will become the new world standard for polyester bottles. with the possibilities it opens up for future work in vaccine discovery was recognised with the naming of Professor Lomonossoff as Innovator of the Year 2012 by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council

#Award-winning innovation revolutionises vaccine production A European union (EU)- funded research project has opened up a radical new era in the world of vaccine discovery and production.

Focused on veterinary vaccines, the project's work has made possible a dramatically faster and more effective route to the creation of vaccines to combat some of the most devastating diseases affecting farm livestock.

The same accelerated route can be used to uncover a vast new range of urgently-needed vaccines for humans as well.

Named PLAPROVA (Plant Production of Vaccines), the project was the successful result of an unprecedented co-funding initiative between the EU and Russia

with Russia matching the#2 million of funding provided by the EU under its 7th Framework Programme.

the PLAPROVA consortium focused on the use of plants proteins to produce vaccines against diseases such as avian flu, bluetongue, foot and mouth disease,

which has revolutionary implications for future vaccine production. It also helped win a major innovation award for the lead researcher.

This triggers the production of proteins which are of potential pharmaceutical interest as the basis for new vaccines.

thus opening up much wider possibilities for genuinely novel vaccines. Previously, the timescale required before results were known for just a single protein meant researchers naturally played safe and tended to produce'biosimilars'

i e. vaccines which replicated already existing ones. It was a situation which discouraged the search for new products.

when dealing with seasonal outbreaks when a vaccine needs to be created urgently, usually in a matter of months from the time the strain of disease is first indentified.

Discussions are in progress with vaccine manufacturers in South africa about production of a bluetongue vaccine. And a Canadian firm, Medicago Inc, has applied successfully the technique to the discovery and production of pandemic flu vaccines for humans, on

which it has completed recently a Phase II clinical trial. The revolutionary impact of the new PLAPROVA technique

with the possibilities it opens up for future work in vaccine discovery, was recognised with the naming of Professor Lomonossoff as Innovator of the Year 2012 by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council (BBSRC), U s

but also for public health budgets and for the European biotechnology industry n

#0. 05mm: a new accuracy standard for industrial robots An EU-funded project brought together industry

Fernando Fernández-Aranda is a researcher in Eating Disorders at Bellvitge University Hospital. He said:"

Game developers, psychologists and therapists worked together on tailoring the right scenarios for both pain rehabilitation and mental health treatments.

A 70 year old patient of the Southampton Hospital in the UK, Anthony Batchelor, has already been subjected to triple bypass surgery,

said Joel M. Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at University of California, Berkeley School of Public health.

What the law does not require is that consumers be provided information about the specific health risks of being exposed to radiation.

whether there are health risks associated with cell phone use. The COSMOS study is looking at cell phone records

"said Eugene S. Flamm, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Montefiore Medical center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine."

"However because these warnings are not going to be accompanied by information about specific health risks, "some people will be concerned about this

if users are worried about the possibility of health risks, including using a headset and texting instead of talking g

#Factory Dairy farms on the Rise in Asia The expansion of industrial dairy farms in Asia could lead to severe consequences for the environment, public health, animal welfare and rural economies, according to a policy paper by Brighter Green.

#Hospital Sustainability Spending on the Rise Fifty-four percent of global health care professionals say their hospitals currently incorporate sustainability into purchasing decisions

and 80 percent expect that to be the case in two years according to a Harris Poll commissioned by Johnson & johnson. The global findings are similar to those of US health care providers where 52 percent say their hospitals currently incorporate sustainability into purchasing

According to respondents their hospitals have plans in place for minimizing environmental impact when using or disposing of medical products.

Globally respondents report their hospitals prioritize sustainability purchasing as follows: About eight in 10 respondents say sustainable products help protect hospital staff

when choosing a hospital. Health care professionals also agree it makes good financial sense for hospitals to go green both in the US (79 percent) and globally (69 percent) and report a strong commitment to sustainability from top hospital management

at 67 percent in the US and 60 percent globally. In regard to purchasing US respondents report the most important sustainability considerations are followed energy efficient devices by recyclable packaging latex free devices products designed for multi-use devices free of heavy metals

which showed that hospitals were placing greater emphasis on green products used in patient care and throughout their facilities.

and we can t generate live virus vaccines.####Noroviruses are intestinal viruses that cause violent vomiting and diarrhea.

Although a vaccine for these viruses is in clinical trials there is still no medication to combat them.

##Ultimately this system should open up new avenues for norovirus vaccine and antiviral drug development.####Source:

##The technology can be embedded in any porous material such as cloth potentially opening the door for wider applications says Collins. He envisions smart scrubs for health care workers that can sense exposure to a virus;

Brenda Cartmel a senior research scientist and lecturer at the Yale School of Public health is a co-author of the paper along with researchers from the USDA/Agricultural research service Grand Forks Human nutrition Research center and the University of Utah.

#Lab mice bred to test Ebola vaccines University of North carolina at Chapel hill University of Washington rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Derewicz-UNC on November 3 2014researchers have developed the first genetic strain

It s a critical step toward developingâ#treatments and vaccines.####You can t look for a cure for Ebola

and successfully test a strain of mice to permit active research on potential Ebola vaccines and treatments.

Rationally designed treatments and vaccines are needed desperately##adds Fischer who was not part of this research project.

and the way they usually do things says lead author Curtis Weiss assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The authors analyzed the social networks of critical care physicians in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Optimized interventions could help increase adoption of best practices in hospitals around the country and increase quality of care Weiss says.

and handling our system can reduce potential exposure to health care workers##says Connor a researcher at Boston University s National Emerging Infectious diseases Laboratories (NEIDL).#

and Marburg s comparative evolution could##affect design of vaccines and programs that identify emerging pathogens##researchers write in the journal Peerj.

Understanding the virus ancient past could aid in disease prevention Taylor says. If a researcher were trying to create a single vaccine effective against both Ebola

and Marburg it could be helpful to know that their evolutionary lineages diverged so long ago.

Collaborating with Ian Paul, a pediatrician at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical center they took samples of blood and of cells inside the cheek from 39 healthy mother-child pairs.

and public hospitals empaneled by VAS for below-the-poverty-line (BPL) families with little or no access to tertiary care;

and health camps in rural areas by empanelled hospitals which helped screen patients for tertiary care and transport them to hospitals in urban centers.##

##The results of this study are important to India as it makes choices on how to make progress towards universal health coverage##says Onno Ruhl World bank Group Country Director for India.##

##The program shows how purchasing health services for the poorest can both improve health and provide protection from impoverishment due to out-of-pocket payments for health care.##

##The study published in the journalâ#BMJ included more than 82000 households. Since the program was phased covering poor households in the northern part of Karnataka in the first phase before expanding to the rest of the state the study compared the health outcomes of roughly 45000 households from villages that were covered by the insurance to roughly 37000 households

but such disparities were eliminated completely in villages with insurance coverage##says Neeraj Sood professor and director of research at the Schaeffer Center for Health policy and Economics at University of Southern California.##

and incurring payments for health care that push them deeper into poverty##says Patrick Mullen a World bank Group senior health specialist and the manager of the evaluation.

The elusive mechanics of the virus have hampered the development of effective treatments and vaccines. Typically when a virus enters the body

#3, 600 crystals in wearable skin monitor health 24/7 A new wearable medical device that uses up to 3600 liquid crystals can quickly let you know

With its 3600 liquid crystals the photonic device has 3600 temperature points providing sub-millimeter spatial resolution that is comparable to the infrared technology currently used in hospitals.

The researchers findings could influence the design of medical devices because when platelets grab onto the surfaces of catheters

and monitored using blood tests done with costly test equipment maintained in hospitals clinics or commercial laboratories.

Additional coauthors contributed from USC and Children s Hospital Los angeles s

#Cells press down to make wounds heal faster National University of Singapore rightoriginal Studyposted by Karen Loh-NUS on September 12 2014scientists have uncovered more details about how our bodies repair wounds.

and diagnose cardiac disease using contactless video monitoring##says Jean-Philippe Couderc from the University of Rochester Medical center s Heart Research Follow-up Program.

The results challenge the perception that low-fat diets are always better for the heart says lead author Lydia Bazzano professor in nutrition research at Tulane University School of Public health and Tropical Medicine.##

Approximately 75 percent of urinary tract infections acquired in the hospital are associated with a urinary catheterâ##a tube inserted into the bladder through the urethra to drain urine.

The study was conducted among 222475 inpatient admissions in the three hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania Health System between March 2009 and May 2012.

because they don t receive their vaccinations on time. Researchers are developing a new system that scans a child sâ#fingerprints to track

when vaccinations are due which means parents will need no longer to keep paper documents. In developing countries keeping track of a baby s vaccine schedule on paper is largely ineffective says Anil Jain professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State university.##

##Paper documents are lost easily or destroyed##he says.####Our initial study has shown that fingerprints of infants

and become a part of the vaccine registry system. Once the electronic registry is in place health care workers simply re-scan the child s fingers to view the vaccination schedule.

They know who has been vaccinated for what diseases and when additional booster shots are needed. The new electronic registry system will help overcome the lack and loss of information

which is the primary problem in the vaccine delivery system in developing countries Jain says.

Collecting fingerprints from fidgety infants isn t easy. Another challenge is their small fingerprint patterns have low contrast between ridges and valleys.##

in addition to tracking vaccinations says Mark Thomas executive director of Vaxtrac a nonprofit organization supporting Jain s research.##

##Solving the puzzle of fingerprinting young children will have far-reaching implications beyond health care including the development of civil registries government benefits tracking and education recordkeeping.##

and progress new treatments to the clinic at a much quicker rate a key goal of co-authors Martin Donnelley and David Parsons of the CF Gene therapy group at the Women s and Children s Hospital and the University

##Coauthor Christopher Basler professor of microbiology at Mount sinai Hospital was the first to show that VP24

The group includes researchers at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai Washington University the University of Texas Southwestern Medical center Howard University and Microbiotix Inc. a Massachussetts biopharmaceutical company Source:

The babies who were patients in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at St louis Children s Hospital ranged from 23 to 33 weeks in gestational age

or treatment of NEC##says co-first author Barbara Warner a professor of pediatrics who treats patients at St louis Children s Hospital.##

Other coauthors of the study are from Stanford, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical school a

the methods could be used in the clinic for the rapid detection of cancer cells in biopsy samples.

or if their caregivers requested treatment, they were referred to mental health providers. Currently, there are no proven treatments for depression that arises in the preschool years.

The National Institute on Mental health of the National institutes of health, the CHADS Coalition, and the Sidney Baer Foundation supported the work.

#Vaccine triggers alarm to fight dust mite allergy A new vaccine uses a booster normally found in cancer vaccines to combat dust-mite allergies by naturally switching the body immune response.

In animal tests, the nano-sized vaccine package lowered lung inflammation by 83 percent, despite repeated exposure. hat is new about this is we have developed a vaccine against dust-mite allergens that hasn been used before,

says Aliasger Salem, professor in pharmaceutical sciences at University of Iowa and a corresponding author of the paper.

public health professor and a contributing author of the paper. his work suggests a way forward to alleviate mite-induced asthma in allergy sufferers.

The vaccine takes advantage of the body natural inclination to defend itself against foreign bodies.

The booster has been used successfully in cancer vaccines but never had been tested as a vaccine for dust-mite allergies.

Put broadly, Cpg sets off a fire alarm within the body, springing immune cells into action.

theye also taking in the vaccine, which has been added to the package, much like your mother may have wrapped a bitter pill around something tasty to get you to swallow it.

In another twist, combining the antigen (the vaccine) and Cpg causes the body to change its immune response,

Saint Onge says. ut increasing rates of depression among the elderly pose continued health risks, beyond suicide.

and the Montreal Children Hospital Foundation n

#Cell discovery could lead to strep throat vaccine A new study clarifies how Group A Streptococcus (strep) bacteria resist the human immune system.

The research could eventually lead to the development of a safe vaccine against strep throat, necrotising fasciitis (flesh-eating disease),

and rheumatic heart disease. Previous efforts to develop a strep throat vaccine had resulted in immune system reactions that caused other diseases such as rheumatic fever

and heart damage, says co-lead author Jason Cole of the University of Queensland School of Chemistry

which has hindered the development of a safe vaccine. ased on this information, we are now able to produce a modified group A carbohydrate for further vaccine studies,

avoiding previous safety concerns associated with a strep vaccine. Strep throat is responsible for more than 700 million infections and 500

000 deaths each year. The study appears online in Cell Host & Microbe. University of Queensland Professor Mark Walker, in collaboration with Emory University and University of California, San diego, are working on additional preclinical testing of the modified vaccine.

Walker says the preclinical trials were designed to demonstrate that the vaccine was safe and effective before proceeding to human clinical trials.

The University of California, San diego Program in Excellence in Glycosciences, the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust,

Other researchers on this project contributed from Penn State, PPD Vaccines and Biologics Laboratory, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research,

But that study took place in a controlled hospital inpatient environment where participants essentially stayed in bed for the whole period

the University of Massachusetts Medical center in Worcester, the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, and Stanford Universitynd will begin on June 16 at MGH.

#Telehealth consults improve child abuse exams Telehealth consultations for clinicians at rural hospitals improve their ability to provide forensic examinations for sexual abuse, according to new research.

TELEHEALTH NETWORK To test whether telehealth improved care, the researchers brought in independent experts to review examinations from eight rural hospitals, five

whom were treated at telehealth hospitals, evaluating the thoroughness, accuracy, and overall quality of these exams.

and accuracy scores were all significantly higher in the telehealth hospitals. The team hopes these findings will spur other hospitals to expand their telehealth capabilities. f we create a statewide network,

we can really improve the quality of these exams in rural communities, says Miyamoto. e can provide a service for many children who don receive this level of care

Mark twain Medical center, Northern Nevada Medical center, and the California Department of public health Material, Child & Adolescent Health Program.

249 men from 14 fertility clinics in the UK and asked them to fill out detailed questionnaires about their medical history and their lifestyle.

assistant professor of clinical medicine at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital. ore clinical studies are needed,

going forward, could make optical neuroimaging much more useful in research and the clinic. While DOT doesn let scientists peer very deeply into the brain,

it could be useful immediately in homes and clinics. Neither, however, expects it to become widely usedot because clinicians, teachers,

When patients come to the hospital within a few hours of suffering an ischemic stroke, doctors quickly give intravenous tpa,

Most stroke patients, Leigh notes, don get to a hospital within the window for optimal tpa use

and efficacy requirements for using this wireless charging system in commercial medical devices. But it has the potential to eliminate bulky batteries

Either way, far-field electromagnetic waves have been ignored as a potential wireless power source for medical devices. Near-field waves can be used safely in wireless power systems.

Some current medical devices like hearing implants use near-field technology. But their limitation is implied by the name:

because they hope it will yield a biological marker to prioritize bipolar disorder care to those who need it most urgently to stabilize their moodsspecially in regions of the world with scarce mental health services.

Because other mental health conditions also cause changes in a person voice the same technology framework developed for bipolar disorder could prove useful in everything from schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress disorder to Parkinson disease,

Despite the worldwide use of vaccination and other antiviral interventions, the flu virus remains a persistent threat to human health.

Because flu vaccines are not 100 percent effective, antiviral drugs play an important role in fast-spreading epidemics.

hen young children arrive at the hospital with an RSV infection, it challenging and frustrating to guess which children you can safely send home,

versus those you should admit to the hospital because they might require supportive care in an intensive care unit,

but also helps us use health care resources more wisely. Using animal models, Pickles has already found candidate molecular biomarkers that indicate

and is a prime example of how genomics can transform public health, says Julia Newton Bishop,

the new findings support the idea that genetic differences expressed early during brain development may have a lot to do with the development of bipolar disorder symptomsnd other mental health conditions that arise later in life, especially in the teen and young adult years.

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