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

#"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.#

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,

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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,

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

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

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

"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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.##

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.##

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.

#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),

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

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,

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.

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.

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.

and power wearable sensors or medical devices or perhaps supply enough energy to charge your cell phone in your pocketsays James Hone professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University

#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

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. aper documents are lost easily or destroyedhe says. ur 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

in addition to tracking vaccinations says Mark Thomas executive director of Vaxtrac a nonprofit organization supporting Jain s research. olving the puzzle of fingerprinting young children will have far-reaching implications beyond health care

a virtual human application that can be used to identify signals of depression and other mental health issues through real-time sensing and recognition of nonverbal behaviors.

and medical devices to structural components for the automotive civil and aerospace industries. he cellulose nanocrystals represent a potential green alternative to carbon nanotubes for reinforcing materials such as polymers and concrete.

Such sensors could be used for monitoring in traffic security environmental science health care and infrastructure applications. or the future Wang and his research team plan to continue studying the nanogenerators

#New transistors offer high output at low voltage A new type of transistor could pave the way for fast computing devices that would use very low energy including smart sensor networks and implanted medical devices.

'when judging art health-care-cartoons 525 University of Rochester Cartoons depict 100 years of health care debate Other applications abound.

Commercial applications in small electronic devices solar cells batteries and even medical devices are just around the corner.

This kind of capability can transform how health care services are delivered around the world.##The device certainly has the potential to help slow the spread of HIV around the world.

The team reports that it took just 30 minutes of training to fully familiarize health care workers with how to use the device

#Freedom Driver allows man with artificial heart to await transplant at home Heart failure patients awaiting organ transplants normally find themselves anchored to the hospital bed by a washing machine-sized device that keeps blood pumping through their veins.

#Scientists find that exposure to nanoparticles could impact cardiovascular health Due to its huge potential in applications ranging from cheaper vaccinations to energy-storing car panels there's plenty of excitement surrounding the emergence of nanotechnology.

Because our research demonstrates a clear cardiovascular health risk associated with this trend steps need to be taken to help ensure that potential health

providing day care and home care, have increased fivefold since 2008, to nearly 20,000. Care is subsidized heavily. And a government dementia database allows families to register relatives

we have a first aid kit. So, the thought is always, what can cops bring with them to the scene that can increase their effectiveness,

The edible battery could also be used in medical devices like pacemakers and#implants#that treat Alzheimers and other brain conditions.

The large body of accumulated evidence has important and public health and clinical implications. Evidence is sufficient to advise against routine supplementation,

and B vitamins are harmful or ineffective for chronic disease prevention, and further large prevention trials are justified no longer##With respect to multivitamins,

and do a 10-point wellness exam with vaccinations and all that, ##he says.####We re partnering with pet insurance companies that will cover the policy holders for visits.##

and other mental health problems through an assortment of real-time sensors (she was developed to help treat PTSD in soldiers

and hopes to sell them to manufacturers of wearable electronics, medical devices, smart labels, and environmental sensors.

#Sanaria will use robots to mass produce a promising new malaria vaccine Sporobot would increase the speed of production 20 30 times over.

What if you had developed a vaccine for malaria that, in early trials, was 100%effective.

But you couldn t get the funding you needed to produce enough of the vaccine to market it because of political wrangling over the budget.

First, design a robot to help produce the vaccine, and, second, run a crowdfunding campaign to pay for it.

#Vaccines have been notoriously ineffective against the disease, which stems from a parasitical infection. Last year, Sanaria reported that in a Phase I clinical trial

the vaccine administered at the higher of two doses kept all the patients who got it from becoming infected with malaria

To produce the vaccine, called Pfspz, Sanaria cultivates mosquitos in a sterile environment and infects them with#Plasmodium falciparum (the Pf in Pfspz).

filter out other contaminants and gather them up into an injectable vaccine. If it sounds laborious,

which is nowhere near enough to mass-produce a global vaccine. So two years ago, Sanaria began working with theharvard Biorobotics Lab#to develop a robot that could do the work faster.

The work has to be done under sterile conditions to produce a vaccine that could earn FDA approval.

That makes more vaccine available at a lower cost which is important for a disease that disproportionately affects developing countries.

just as mass, anonymised patient records could improve health care. But its success depends on service providers persuading users (farmers

Power Japan Plus intends to first launch batteries for the medical device and satellite industries, which are focused hyper on safety.

The app is covered not by insurance but offers real-time, 24/7 health care assistance. Think of it as a mobile Webmd.

Better founder Geoffrey Clapp was previously an executive at telemedicine pioneerhealth Hero Network; his new company was launched with $5 million from venture capital fund The Social+Capital Partnership and the Mayo Clinic itself.

As a research professor at the University of California San diego's Machine Perception Lab Bartlett has been studying the use of facial recognition software to help people with autism for several years. 5 Controversial Mental health Treatments

ADAMM (Automated Device for Asthma Monitoring and Management) is an upcoming wearable developed by Rochester, NY based Health care Originals.

Since the fresh air radius of the billboard is up to five blocks it could go a long way toward reducing the health risks to inhabitants of large urban areas.

The man-made DNA could be used for everything from the manufacture of new drugs and vaccines to forensics

For example researchers could make synthetic strains of yeast to produce rare medicines such as the malarial drug artemisinin or vaccines like the Hepatitis b vaccine.

The opportunity to improve access to education health care financial systems and employment will take a revolution one that we are tremendously proud to be said part of Branson.

The new money will go to vaccination programmes, better disease surveillance and research on new vaccines.

The global polio initiative, a mammoth programme involving the vaccination of billions of children, has reduced the number of polio cases by 99

Nigeria, where polio vaccines were denounced by religious leaders, and false rumours circulated that they carried HIV

the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar provinces in India, where vaccine effectiveness has been hampered by poor sanitation and high population density;

and in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where conflict has hampered vaccination campaigns. Unless the virus is eliminated in these regions,

now that air pollution is a serious health risk, "says Wang.""But attempts, such as China's, to regulate air quality have not yet borne fruit."

#Vaccine switch urged for polio endgame By sunrise on a warm December morning, Janila Shulu s team are out in the dirt roads and alleyways of Ungwan Rimi, a poor neighbourhood in a predominantly Muslim section of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria.

Three female health workers, accompanied by a community leader, dart from house to house, squeezing a few drops of polio vaccine into the mouths of all the young children they can find,

but this month the World health organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed a shift in vaccination strategy from oral vaccines to injected ones that may have to be administered in clinics.

which have poor access to health care. The new policy is an important step towards eradication,

Jonas Salk is credited with developing the first polio vaccine in 1955, an injected vaccine containing killed virus,

but the oral live vaccine devised a little later by his competitor Albert Sabin is the workhorse of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

This public-private effort, started in 1988 and coordinated by THE WHO, has cost about US$8#billion so far.

Northern Nigeria has been battling such vaccine-derived outbreaks since 2005, and one emerged last year in Pakistan (see Nature 485,563;

) In a 4 january announcement, THE WHO called for oral polio vaccine containing the polio strain type 2, one of the Sabin vaccine strains,

but vaccine-derived forms of the strain still circulate in Nigeria and neighbouring countries. Oral polio vaccination will continue,

but it will use a vaccine that protects against just the two other types of polio virus that are still circulating in their wild form in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Meanwhile the policy also calls for the introduction, as quickly as possible, of the oral vaccine s old competitor:

the inactivated Salk vaccine. That costs more than ten times as much as the oral vaccine and requires trained health workers to administer it,

says Roland Sutter, a vaccinologist at THE WHO. But it carries no risk of causing polio.

By giving children an inactivated vaccine that protects against all three subtypes of polio, health workers hope to gradually stamp out vaccine-derived outbreaks."

"You have to have a transition period in which both oral and inactivated vaccines are used,

"because if you stop cold turkey you re going to have outbreaks, says Vincent Racaniello, a virologist at Columbia University in New york city.

THE WHO will phase out all oral polio vaccines. The high cost of the inactivated polio vaccine remains a significant hurdle for the plan,

which depends on a reduction in cost to less than 50 cents per dose from the current cost of more than $2,

and delivering the vaccine under the skin instead of into muscle, could help to lower the dose required and cut costs,

as could new kinds of vaccine, he says. Health infrastructure poses another big hurdle, says Grassly.

Delivering the vaccine in clinics instead of door to door will pose a challenge for Nigeria,

Less than 50%of children receive a complete schedule of childhood vaccinations, and in parts of northern Nigeria that figure is around 10%."

and a member of THE WHO committee that issued the new vaccination policy. He sees the eventual switch to inactivated vaccines as an opportunity to align polio eradication with routine immunization."

"We should have done this a lot earlier, he says

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