and it is used widely in hospitals. It can also be used to identify potential allergens in food, among other applications.
says Jeffrey Karp, a bioengineer at Brigham and Women Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. ne of the greatest implications of the work is to track thousands of cells simultaneously with a single technique,
Researchers have led by St jude Children's Research Hospital, have developed the antibiotics by changing the chemical structure of Spectinomycin, an old and weak antibiotic
and children globally,"said Mr Richard Lee, corresponding author, St jude Children's Research Hospital. In the study, the scientists have constructed based on the research
the Technology Development Fund is an internal funding mechanism set up by the hospital in 2009 that invests in
Vertex and Johnson & johnson will interact with thought leaders from leading children hospitals in the US
is the Executive director of Technology & Innovation Development Office and Managing Partner, Technology Development Fund at Boston Children Hospital.
Cardiovascular surgeons at Miami Children's Hospital turned to 3d printing to print out a scale replica of a 4-year-old girl's heart
and she's recovering in the hospital. The story recalls a couple of other similar cases such as one at Morgan stanley Children's Hospital of New york-Presbyterian where last year doctors also practiced a complex heart surgery on a 3d model before operating on a baby
. 3d printing adds another element in caring for extremely complex conditions where surgical intervention is thought not typically possible pediatric cardiologist Nancy Dobrolet said in a release.
The human trials may start as early as June of this year at a special facility called the called the Gait Platform housed in the University Hospital of Lausanne Switzerland.
The device is currently being used by Southampton General Hospital. In particular, the pressure tests measure fluid via a channel that links the inner ear with the brain.
The research from Massachusetts General Hospital in the US could lead to amputees growing their own replacement limbs.
'Researcher Dr Harald Ott of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery said:''We are focusing on the forearm and hand.'
Bernhard Jank/Ott Laboratory/Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicinedr Ott has created now dozens of such limbs
and improving the physiological sensors for use in animal shelters and hospitals.''This platform is an amazing tool,
Scientists from The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne and the Boston Children's Hospital, tested hearing in newborn mutant mice by seeing how high they jumped
Surgeons at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital implanted a chip at the back of Mr Flynn eye in a four-hour procedure last month.
Professor Paulo Stanga, consultant ophthalmologist at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, said: r Flynn progress is truly remarkable.
and his data is sent to his hospital and medical team, if there is any indication of a problem the doctors identify it
#Ultra-Fast Software Developed to Scan the Human genome Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital say they have developed an analysis pipeline that cuts the time it takes to search a person's genome for disease-causing variations from weeks to hours.
Massachusetts General Hospital. he fact that we saw clusters in this many patients is really a remarkable finding."
and conducted in collaboration with New york University Langone Medical center and Brigham and Women Hospital of Harvard Medical school.
or sensory recovery, said Hua-Zi Xu, M d.,department of spinal surgery, the second affiliated hospital of Wenzhou Medical University.'
The procedure was carried out at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in the United kingdom, by Dr. Paulo Strange MD.
The integrated data can help hospitals, first responders and electric utility officials better plan to prevent adverse health impacts of prolonged power outages due to storms and natural disasters."
#Patient safety driving increased RFID use in hospitals The University of Vermont Medical center in Burlington, Vt.
Adam Buckley, MD, interim chief information officer and chief medical informatics officer at UVMC, said any time a system allows a hospital to track reliably from ordering through dispensing through administration at the bedside,
"We use a lot of kits in this hospital because our ORS are set up to have dispensed individual kits to the anesthesiologist for each case,
preparation and administration, said Kitcheck"has succeeded out of the gate"by applying RFID tags to anesthesia kits, already operational in over 100 hospitals.
what they refer to"critical inventory"used by hospitals high-cost medications in refrigerators and high-risk drugs in anesthesia kits and trays.
Aethon Inc.'s Medex tracking software links with its TUG robot that robotically transports items throughout hospitals
and track bullets throughout hospitals'pneumatic transport tubes with RFID. RFID vs. barcode Despite the progress RFID has made in the hospital setting, the debate over
"RFID has materialized finally beyond prototypes to products that are live in hospitals today, "said Neuenschwander. UVMC's Buckley said that people are going to figure out the best way to leverage RFID technology."
#Hospital slashes false-positive diagnoses with CDS platform Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC's electronic surveillance framework for hospitalized kids is poised to significantly reduce false-positive identification of serious health conditions.
The retrospective study of 16,239 Children's Hospital pediatric admissions between January 2006 and December 2013 compared the use of vital signs, a common indicator of patient condition, to that of Perahealth's Pediatric
chief of pediatric critical care medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, said in a news release announcing the finding."
The Joint Commission estimates that 85 to 99 percent of alarms in hospitals do not require clinician intervention.
The ELISA is a common diagnostic tool that requires large and expensive readout instruments that can only be found in well-equipped hospital labs. ELISA is not typically available in remote or developing countries in
and nanotechnology as well as the completion of a device that may improve quality of life in indoor settings, from hospitals to underground parking garages.
But now, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston say they have created a tool that could reveal many of the viruses that have infected a person in the past.
said Dr. Simon Thomson, a consultant in Pain Management and Neuromodulation at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, UK. he simplicity of the programming software saves valuable time in the operating theatre,
. professor of surgery (biomedical engineering) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health & Sciences Technology, report the development of a novel microfluidic chip that is specifically designed for the efficient capture of CTC clusters
and are affiliated with Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois.##For more information, please click herecontacts:
you could do it in your hospital or your doctors office. As the biology and technology become further refined
in association with Montpellier Regional University Hospital and Stanford university, have transformed bacteria into"secret agents"that can give warning of a disease based solely on the presence of characteristic molecules in the urine or blood.
and require sophisticated technologies that are often available only in hospitals. This is where biological systems come into play.
in association with Professor Eric Renard (Montpellier Regional University Hospital) and Drew Endy (Stanford university), applied this new technology to the detection of disease signals in clinical samples.
#Team develops transplantable bioengineered forelimb in an animal model (w/video) A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has made the first steps towards development of bioartificial replacement limbs suitable for transplantation.
who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering AT SEAS."
to $289 billion annually in unnecessary health care costs from additional hospital visits and other issues.
according to a recent study led by researchers at The Ohio State university Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital
Now, researchers at MITS Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have created a polymer gel that overcomes this safety concern
#Hospitals encouraging new mothers to breastfeed by scrapping free formula programs (Naturalnews) A major shift seems to be taking place in how the conventional medical system views appropriate feeding protocols for newborns.
A recent study found that many hospitals across the country are now ditching free infant formula handouts in an attempt to encourage new mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies rather than pump them up with soy protein, corn syrup solids,
the paper looked at the prevalence of hospitals and birth centers distributing infant formula discharge packs to breastfeeding mothers in the U s. between 2007 and 2013.
hospitals are implementing new no-formula protocols to promote breastfeeding over infant formula. Epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Nelson, M d,
which is administered every two years to all hospitals with registered maternity beds. The survey includes questions about how many infant formula discharge packs are distributed to new mothers before these women are discharged from the hospital.
With a nearly 98 percent response rate, the survey is considered a highly credible indicator of infant formula distribution trends among hospitals and birth centers.
Based on the responses gathered the team calculated that infant formula distribution rates dropped by an astounding 41 percent between 2007 and 2013, falling from 72.6 percent to 31.6 percent.
Similarly, teaching hospitals have abandoned almost completely the practice, with only 5. 5 percent of them giving out free formula in 2013.
Six years prior in 2007,63 percent of teaching hospitals handed out free infant formula. The most dramatic decline occurred at hospitals with the highest numbers of babies delivered.
In 2013, less than 12 percent of high-volume delivery hospitals handed out free infant formula. In this case"
high volume"refers to hospitals that deliver at least 5, 000 babies annually. Infant formula companies are just like Big Pharma:
they give free samples to hospitals to gain customers A major issue with handing out free infant formula to new mothers is that it encourages these women to avoid breastfeeding their children,
maintain researchers. Nearly 80 percent of new mothers start out breastfeeding their children, according to the data.
"Hospitals and health care systems are places we look to for guidance on health, "says Dr. Jennifer Nelson,
"When hospitals distribute formula to breastfeeding mothers, it signals that formula feeding is as good as breastfeeding."
"Part of the problem is that infant formula companies actively distribute samples to hospitals as a way to boost sales
and the connection to community support,"adds Dr. Lori Feldman-Winter, a professor of pediatrics at Cooper University Hospital in New jersey,
"Evidence shows that providing new mothers with free formula in hospitals or as part of discharge packs (free gifts) decreases overall and exclusive breastfeeding
MRSA has spread from hospitals into the community and in 2013, there were 480,000 new cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis worldwide,
which was developed originally for use in hospitals, has been adapted for in-car use and detects vibrations from the driver heart beat and breathing. s we develop more autonomous driving technologies,
The device was implanted surgically in Sorto brain at Keck Hospital of USC in April 2013
The research was conducted by teams from Mcgill University, The Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids), and Duke university,
and proof of principle,"says Harald Ott of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who grew the limb."
But hospitals can buy it for research and educational purposes, such as exploring triggers that cause heart attacks.
000 individuals in Guinea, are welcome news. Kimberley Steeds, an Ebola vaccine trial team member, in the Ebola vaccine laboratory, Donka Hospital in Conakry,
Luis Paz-Ares, doctor at the Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre in Madrid and lead researcher of the trial, said,
Stephen Elledge, an HHMI investigator at Brigham and Women's hospital and his colleagues made use of Virscan in order to screen the blood of 569 people in the US, Thailand, South africa and Peru.
#Continuously Disinfecting Light Fixtures Commercialized Designed to continuously disinfect the air and surfaces in hospitals,
The lights can be used to inactivate a range of microorganisms that are known causes of hospital-acquired infections,
a teaching hospital operated by the National Health service. The technology and its effectiveness have been the subject of more than 20 peer-reviewed academic publications and 30 conference presentations since 2008.
The company provides a clinical partners program to assist hospitals in evaluating the performance and cost-savings potential of the technology.
who treats patients at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of medicine.
explains Dr Nira Pollock, senior author and Associate Medical Director of the Infectious diseases Diagnostic Laboratory at the Boston Children Hospital. his new test,
researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical school have restored hearing in mice with a genetic form of deafness.
a specialist in genetic hearing loss at Boston Children's Hospital who is familiar with the work."
000 fish have been distributed to hospitals and charity organisations around the country. Being deficient in iron means the body doesn produce enough red blood cells,
More recently, researchers at St jude Children Research Hospital in Memphis revisited the drug, with an interest in increasing its potency.
"lead researcher Allen C. Ho from the Wills Eye Hospital in Pennsylvania, US, said in a press release."
In this new study researchers compared 64 healthy control subjects to 75 patients who had experienced trauma that brought them to the emergency department at Bellevue Hospital Center in New york city with
When 11 year old Naomi Lalandec walked into Dr. Robert Koenekoop's clinic at the Montreal Children's Hospital of the Mcgill University Health Centre (MUHC) with blindness and dwarfism due to
#DNA nanoswitches reveal how life's molecules connect Now a new approach developed by researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering Boston Children's Hospital
Professor of Vascular Biology at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical school and a Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.
"said co-author Joseph E. Bavaria, MD, from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia."
Joining forces with dermatologists and oncologists from the University Hospital in Zurich and backed by the University Research Priority Program"Translational Cancer Research,
Empa and the University Hospital Zurich thus teamed up to develop the sensor"Glucolight,""which gages the blood sugar level through the skin,
and the first clinical studies are scheduled at the University Hospital Zurich for 2015. However it could be years before the use of Glucolight becomes standard.
Empa and the University Hospital Zurich are currently in negotiations with partners for the industrial production of the sensor.
and possibly the overall aging process. said Audrey Tyrka MD Phd Director of the Laboratory for Clinical and Translational Neuroscience at Butler Hospital and Associate professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University.
with an integrated enterprise including educational and research facilities, hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centers and other primary and specialty care facilities serving 24 counties in northwest North carolina and southwest
"says the researcher from the University of Bonn Hospital. Simplified test to test novel viruses for risk of human infection Triggered by epidemics such as SARS and Ebola,
in association with Montpellier Regional University Hospital and Stanford university, have transformed bacteria into"secret agents"that can give warning of a disease based solely on the presence of characteristic molecules in the urine or blood.
and require sophisticated technologies that are often available only in hospitals. This is where biological systems come into play.
in association with Professor Eric Renard (Montpellier Regional University Hospital) and Drew Endy (Stanford university), applied this new technology to the detection of disease signals in clinical samples.
Multiple hospitals have agreed to provide blood samples for analysis to Wistar for this next study."
Stephen Elledge, an HHMI investigator at Brigham and Women's Hospital, led the development of Virscan."
"Why Speed Matters in Infection Control In hospitals and clinics worldwide, bacterial infections are a major source of illness,
For that reason, many hospital-acquired infections are treated presumptively, before they are identified definitively, using broad-spectrum antibiotics.
and improving outcomes for people with hospital-acquired infections--though the effectiveness of the approach remains to be proven in future clinical trials.
Dr. Oliver Eickelberg and Dr. Claudia Staab-Weijnitz of the Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC) at Helmholtz Zentrum München and their colleagues at LMU University Hospital in Munich and Yale university
has already been tested on a small sample of patients at the La paz University Hospital and in ex vivo tissues of animal models.
a consortium that wants to boost the collaboration between research centres and hospitals in the autonomous community of Madrid with the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) and other institutions in the Boston area (USA.
"We witnessed a LP on a 29-day-old baby that had arrived at the accident and emergency department at Boston Children's Hospital with a fever.
Madrid hospitals La paz, Quirón and San Carlos also provided significant assistance. In Boston, they worked with Massachusetts General Hospital.
Arrayto date, 300,000 euros has been invested in the project, awarded by the Madrid-MIT M+Visión Consortium.
who has started already this work as a guest researcher at the Sahlgrenska Academy Hospital in Sweden."
a gynaecologist and research associate in the Fertility Clinic and Research Laboratory on Human Reproduction at Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels,
UEG's inflammatory bowel disease expert, Dr Charles Murray of the Royal Free Hospital, London, UK comments;"
and commonly available in hospital and research labs. Since two antibodies are bound in the first step alsesignals can be avoided,
"Nearly all of the participants in our study had blood markers identical to patients admitted to hospital with sepsis.
#Discovery promises new treatments to thwart colon cancer Scientists at St jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered how an immune system protein,
and will now be tested in a larger trial involving three hospitals in London. Researchers analysed breath samples of 210 patients using the test.
Now, 400 patients at UCLH (University college London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust,
In collaboration with Pr Véronique Del Marmol (Department of Dermatology, Erasme Hospital, ULB) and the group of Pr François Fuks (Laboratory of cancer epigenetics, Faculty of medicine, ULB), Larsimont and colleagues demonstrated that
M d.,lead author of the study and director of the clinical retina research unit At wills Eye Hospital."
#First hospital light fixture to kill bacteria safely, continuously becomes commercially available in North america Indigo-Clean#is a light fixture manufactured through an exclusive licensing agreement with the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland,
a large teaching hospital operated by NHS (National Health service) Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The technology and its effectiveness have been the subject of more than 20 peer-reviewed academic publications and 30 conference presentations since 2008.
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports around 1 in 25 hospital patients in the US have at least one infection contracted in the health care setting.
and 99,000 deaths in acute care hospitals in the U s. and add $35-45 billion in excess health care costs each year.
HAIS can also result in significant financial penalties for hospitals under the Affordable Care Act.
those providers scoring poorly in the Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) program receive lower Medicare reimbursements.
The new Phase I clinical trial is being supported by University Hospitals as well as a significant philanthropic effort including the Immunogene Therapy Fund, Paula and Ronald Raymond Fund and the Kathryn and Paula Miller Family Fund."
researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical school have restored hearing in mice with a genetic form of deafness.
a specialist in genetic hearing loss at Boston Children's Hospital who is familiar with the work."
as well as Tang Du Hospital in China, University of the Negevin, Israel, and the Instituto Neurologico C. Besta in Italy.
Oliver Eickelberg, Chairman of the Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC) at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and University Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Mason Freeman, Massachusetts General Hospital; David Bushinsky, University of Rochester; and Martha Mayo, Dahlia Garza, Yuri Stasiv, Rezi Zawadzki and Lance Berman, from Relypsa a
It will only be available in the Ebola Treatment Units, not the hospitals,"Sakoba Keita,
More than half of South korea's infections have been traced to a hospital in Pyeongtaek city, 65 km (40 miles) southwest of Seoul, where the man shared a room with another patient."
Officials have not identified the hospitals where MERS patients are being treated, but the Pyeongtaek facility has been shut
His visit to us was just unavoidable exposure to other people in the hospital,"the nurse,
When the man was admitted at another hospital, where he was diagnosed finally, he at first only told staff he had visited Bahrain,
"said an official at the hospital where he was diagnosed on May 20, who also declined to be identified."
He is in hospital in China. As of Wednesday, the index patient was on a respirator in a government-designated hospital.
The fund will also bring in mentors from Manipal Hospitals, Narayana Health, and Pfizer. he devices could become the new standard of care for breast screening in India and other low-resource markets around the world.
fatigue or even tremors after a long day at the hospital can make things challenging,
is currently being tested at Sickkids Hospital, and researchers are hoping that the technology might soon lend a helping hand to surgeons around the country.
from the Children Hospital of Los angeles (CHLA) took a step forward and ordered a fully-3d model of his patient heart. s useful as scans are for visualizing structural defects,
currently performed at only a handful of pediatric hospitals in the US. Studying the heart model allowed Kim to accurately plan the procedure
#Smart devices track hand-washing in hospitals to help reduce the spread of infection In fact,
and Philip Liang SM 6 is using smart devices to monitor hand hygiene among hospital staff
Currently, the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospital in London is studying the correlation between the Medsense system and reduction in HAIS.
wee trying to be a support system for the hospital. In the atient zone Medsense consists of four smart devices,
In 2011, researchers at Queen Mary Hospital in Hong kong published a paper in the journal Biomed Infectious disease that found Medsense was 88 percent accurate in monitoring staff compliance with THE WHO guidelines.
and Medsense has been trialed in 10 hospitals across the United states and Europe, and in Saudi arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar.
Another possible application is real-time location of surplus staff particularly important when there a sudden influx of patients in one area of a hospital,
the multidisciplinary team also included Michel Gilliet of Switzerland Lausanne University Hospital, and Jure Dobnikar and Daan Frenkel of the University of Cambridge.
the Ingalls Professor of Cancer Genetics at the university School of medicine and a medical oncologist at University Hospitals Case Medical center Seidman Cancer Center. e have developed a drug that acts like a vitamin for tissue stem cells,
from the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals, and from multiple National institutes of health grants that included the Case GI SPORE,
if a tissue is cancerous, according to researchers from the Department of energy Oak ridge National Laboratory and Brigham and Women Hospital/Harvard Medical school.
#Pioneering gene therapy takes aim at inherited blindness Canada first human gene therapy trial for eyeshe replacement of a faulty gene with a healthy ones now underway at the Royal Alexandra Hospital to preserve
such as in hospitals, in manufacturing facilities and in airplane cabins. Visible light communications has the potential to significantly increase the speed of Internet connection in multiuser indoor environments due to the broad bandwidth of the visible light,
said Dr. James K. Min, director of the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging at Newyork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical center,
researchers at Boston Children Hospital and Harvard Medical school have restored hearing in mice with a genetic form of deafness.
a specialist in genetic hearing loss at Boston Children Hospital who is familiar with the work. ochlear implants are great,
Mekhail team also found that the DNA hospital, also known as the nuclear pore complex, repairs damaged DNA inaccurately.
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
Further, researchers from the team of Jean-Pierre Bourquin from the University Children Hospital in Zürich
an infectious disease doctor at Boston Children Hospital, told Science. t was more sensitive than I expected for a rapid antigen diagnostic test. his test can be done in very austere environments,
Ray Flynn, 80, had the Argus II device implanted during a four-hour procedure carried out by Prof Paulo Stanga at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.
and Women Hospital showed that Americans worry that insurance companies and employers may discriminate against them based on their family histories or genetic test results.
and chief of inpatient and critical care pediatrics at The University of Vermont Children's Hospital.
And Juno partner, Seattle Children Hospital, has started just a Phase 1 CAR-T trial for children with neuroblastoma,
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