and bone cancer pain suggesting a promising new approach to pain relief. The scientific efforts led by Salvemini,
As an unmet medical need, pain causes suffering and comes with a multi-billion dollar societal cost.
supporting the idea that we could develop A3ar agonists as possible new therapeutics to treat chronic pain,
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whose main use case is letting surgeons physically eelanomalies such as tumors in CT SCANS, could also revolutionize everything from advertising to architecture.
#Fast-growing Network Beyond Superchargers One of the most commonly cited arguments against electric cars is range anxiety.
But Tesla plan to solve range anxiety goes beyond its Supercharger network. There is another, less-followed network of a different type of charger Tesla has been quietly rolling out at a rapid clip.
#South korea Training Children as Dementia Supporters in One of the Worlds Fastest Aging Countries They were stooped,
Alzheimer disease and other dementias. As one of the world fastest-aging countries, with nearly 9 percent of its population over 65 already afflicted, South korea has opened a ar on Dementia, spending money and shining floodlights on a disease that is,
here as in many places, riddled with shame and fear. South korea is training thousands of people,
Besides the aging simulation exercise, they viewed a Powerpoint presentation defining dementia and were trained, in the hall Dementia Experience Center, to perform hand massage in nursing homes. hat did
I do with my phone? It in the refrigerator, said one instructor, explaining memory loss. ave you seen someone like that?
Hundreds of neighborhood dementia diagnostic centers have been created. Nursing homes have tripled nearly since 2008. Other dementia programs
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
and receive iron-on identification numbers. Citizens encountering wanderers with dementia report their numbers to officials, who contact families.
To finance this, South korea created a long-term-care insurance system, paid for with 6. 6 percent increases in people national health insurance premiums.
In 2009, about $1 billion of government and public insurance money was spent on dementia patients.
Still, with the over-65 population jumping from 7 percent in 2000 to 14 percent in 2018 to 20 percent in 2026
dementia is straining the country, socially and economically. t least one family member has to give up workto provide caregiving,
families may also lose dementia sufferersincomes. Most families no longer have generations living together to help with caregiving,
Dementia Epidemic South korea is at the forefront of a worldwide eruption of dementia from about 30 million estimated cases now to an estimated 100 million in 2050.
South korea also worries that dementia, previously stigmatized as host-seeingor ne second childhoodcould ilute respect for elders,
So the authorities promote the notion that filial piety implies doing everything possible for elders with dementia,
disease of knowledge and the brain which makes adults become babies. But South korea low birth rate will make family caregiving tougher. feel
saying that it destigmatizes dementia and that patients who egress to earlier daysmay ind it easier to relate to young children.
and saying, addy, don drink so much because it not good for dementia. At a Dementia March outside the World cup Soccer Stadium, children carried signs promoting Dr. Yang Mapo district center:
ake the Brain Smile! and ow is Your Memory? Free diagnosis center in Mapo. The Mapo Center for Dementia perches at a busy crossroads of old and new, near a university and a shop selling naturopathic goat extracts.
It has exercise machines out front and a van with pictures of smiling elderly people. Even people without symptoms come,
Dr. Yang said. They are ased by hearing, ou do not have dementia and can visit two years later.
Cha Kyong-ho family was wary of getting him tested. ementia was a subject to hide,
Dr. Yang said. his is the very beginning stages of Alzheimer disease. He suggested that Mr. Cha get a government-subsidized brain M. R i. to confirm the diagnosis,
and said drugs might delay symptoms slightly. He recommended Mapo free programs o stimulate what brain cells he has.
These include rooftop garden loral therapy, art classes making realistic representations of everyday objects, music therapy with bongos sounding ike a heartbeat.
Students as Helpers Schools offer community service credit, encouraging work with dementia patients, whom students call grandmas and grandpas.
Teenage girls do foot massage at the Cheongam nursing home, which is run by Mrs. Lee, the Alzheimer Association president,
During one massage session, 16-year-old Oh Yu-mi rubbed a patient toes, saying:
Another girl doing foot massage, Park Min-jung, 17, was shaken to realize that dementia could explain why her grandfather recently grabbed a taxi
and circled his old neighborhood seeking his no longer-existent house. e used to be very scary to me,
A patient wept as the girls left, upsetting 16-year-old Kim Min-joon, the massage group leader.
doing art therapy and attempting physical therapy with dances and alloon badminton (the racket is stretched pantyhose on a frame).
The dementia caregiving program had made him onder why I wasn able to do that with my own grandma,
Citing an epidemic of childhood obesity, regulators are taking aim at a range of tactics used to market foods high in sugar,
The guidelines were created at the request of Congress and written by the commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Agriculture department and the Centers for Disease Control.
and Drug Administration to identify the source of an outbreak of foodborne illness, trace its path
The FDA has had trouble quickly pinpointing the source of national outbreaks of foodborne illness, a task complicated by a lengthy food supply chain where tomatoes might change hands five times from farm to store.
The need for better traceability became clear after a national outbreak of salmonella illness in spring 2008 that sickened more than 1, 300 people across the country.
Initially, investigators at the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified tomatoes as the culprit
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,
A 75-year-old man has just been given the gift of life as a team of surgeons have completed successfully the transplant of the world s first true artificial heart.##
##The patient, so far unnamed, is reportedly recovering at Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris,
inventor and surgeon,#told reporters,#according to#The Telegraph.####This heart will allow for more movement and less clotting.
The study that is starting is being watched very closely in the medical field.####Thousands of heart implants have been carried out,
but Carpentier says the version he developed was the first to fully replicate the self-regulated contractions of a real heart.
Patients who receive artificial heart transplants usually take anticoagulation medication to minimize such risks. Carmat artificial heart mimics the dual chamber pumping action of a real human heart.
started taking shape after the surgeon initially tested the feasibility of developing artificial heart valves using chemically-treated animal tissues as an alternative to plastic.
says Piet Jansen, chief medical officer of Carmat.####The device, powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
#Edible batteries could power smart medicine pills A flexible biodegradable battery just may be what the doctor ordered.
What happens when you forget a dose of medication your doctor has prescribed for a condition that relies on the timed delivery of your medicine?
The smart pill releases medicine on a schedule or as your body needs it. But what would power that pill?
##Obviously, creating smart pills with their own sensors to regulate medicine in the body is a great idea,
#According to Carnegie mellon biomedical engineer Christopher Bettinger, a flexible biodegradable battery just may be what the doctor ordered.
and later removed via surgery. What if the camera could be created from biodegradable material and powered by an edible battery?
This takes the surgery requirement out of the equation, making for a much more comfortable patient.
The edible battery could also be used in medical devices like pacemakers and#implants#that treat Alzheimers and other brain conditions.
Currently, the only way to change the batteries in these implants is through surgery. The edible battery might reduce the amount of surgeries required as its use is less invasive.
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#It s the beginning of a new era for entrepreneurs and startups There are over 20 million non-employer businesses out there today, with more starting every day.
#3d printed eye cells could one day cure blindness Researchers have printed actually viable retina cells using an inkjet printer.
The ability to print up new, living versions of the damaged parts of your body is becoming more viable as a medical procedure,
and cuts and scrapes aren t the only maladies that medical 3d printing can help cure.
Living, 3d printed retina cells could someday aid in curing many#kinds of blindness.####At the University of Cambridge, researchers have pulled off something of a 3d printing coup.
and their internal structures can someday be printed 3d for#surgical purposes. According to Martin even a rapid printing process didn t hamper the research team s results:##
Cells used in this sort of medical 3d printing will be grown to perfectly match those of the patient prior to surgery.
The process could also lead to other neural repair surgeries, possibly even including damaged nerve cells and spinal chord injuries.
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#The cyborg future of telemarketing While a human is picking up the phone, and a human is dialing the phone,
Americans xenophobia. We want to hear from people who sound just like us. In the course of reporting this story,
What kind of anxiety might you start to feel each time you opened your mouth? No wonder people like hitting the button that says,##Hello, I m Richard!##
What was seen previously as the domain of paranoid nitpickers has exploded into the public consciousness, shaking international ties and making many people reevaluate how they live their lives online.##
The discovery has implications for understanding age-related diseases including cancers, neurodegenerative disorders and diabetes.##One way all mammalian cells produce energy is via aerobic respiration, in
which can lead to conditions such as Alzheimer s disease and diabetes. To investigate why this decline occurs,
These mice also had higher levels of a protein produced by the nucleus called hypoxia inducible factor (HIF-1a.
At the end of the week, markers of muscular atrophy and inflammation had dropped and the mice had developed even a different muscle type more common in younger mice.
##We found that modulating this pathway can improve mitochondrial function and age-associated pathologies in old mice,
##It is believed to involve high-frequency sound waves similar to those used by dentists for removing plaque from patients teeth.
Doctors will use your DNA to keep you well. A digital guardian will protect you online.
##You ll be able to pick up problems like dyslexia instantly, ##Meyerson said.####If a child has extraordinary abilities,
##Doctors will use your DNA to keep you well Global cancer rates are expected to jump by 75 percent by 2030.
IBM wants computers to help doctors understand how a tumor affects a patient down to their DNA.
They could then figure out what medications will best work against the cancer, and fulfill it with a personalized cancer treatment plan.
The hope is that genomic insights will reduce the time it takes to find a treatment down from weeks to minutes.##
to help those with disabilities better navigate urban streets. Of course, as in the upcoming video game Watch Dogs from Ubisoft, a bad guy could hack into the city and use its monitoring systems in nefarious ways.
The#latest issue of the medical journal#Annals of Internal medicine, looks at the research and clinical trials and penned an editorial with a headline worth reading:##
the medical journal editorial writes, sales continue to grow in the US and Europe. Here s more from the#Annals of Internal medicine#or you can check out#the full report yourself.
The large body of accumulated evidence has important and public health and clinical implications. Evidence is sufficient to advise against routine supplementation,
Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is justified not, and they should be avoided##The evidence also has implications for research.
and B vitamins are harmful or ineffective for chronic disease prevention, and further large prevention trials are justified no longer##With respect to multivitamins,
Proponents explain that we already enjoy glasses, false teeth, titanium hip replacements, cochlear implants, and prosthetic limbs.
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our connected devices will be able to monitor our state##inactivity could indicate sickness or depression.
The amazing discovery is expected to open new doors to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, according to a new study.##
and give clues for the treatments of diseases.####The fact that the genetic code can simultaneously write two kinds of information means that many DNA changes that appear to alter protein sequences may actually cause disease by disrupting gene control programs
or even both mechanisms simultaneously,##said Stamatoyannopoulos. Speaking about the discovery, Stamatoyannopoulos said that the##new findings highlight that DNA is an incredibly powerful information storage device,
gaming, medicine and advertising, said#Winslow Burleson, an assistant professor of human computer interaction at Arizona State university.####Once we can package this facial analysis in small devices
##People with autism, who can have a hard time reading facial expressions, may be among the beneficiaries, Dr. Burleson said.
The electrode could even be used to simulate sugary treats for people with diabetes. In fact this same research team is also working on a digital lollipop:
*Work with industrial partners to tool up for production of the machine with injection molding.
##Everyone knows that gaming is actually good for neurology and the brain, ##Stubb says.####Long gone are the days where parents tell you to stop.
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.##
Wearable device mania has swept the whole world. An Australian research institute predicted that one fifth of Australians would have one wearable device each in the future year, with shipment reaching 36 million units.
Others have concerns about pollution or toxic residue from the conversion process. Blest tells us that,
polyethylene, polystyrene and polypropylene##PP, PE,#PS plastics), there is no toxic substance produced and any residue can be disposed of with regular burnable garbage.
According to the blurb,##the film details plastic s path over the last 100 years and provides a wealth of expert interviews on practical and cutting edge solutions to recycling, toxicity and biodegradability.##
In the medical world, patients with heart pumps have to have electric wires running out of their bodies,
which can cause infections. Witricity is working with heart pump maker Thoratec to create a wireless solution.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA September 18, 2013 Google today announced Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
Art and I are excited about tackling aging and illness. These issues affect us allrom the decreased mobility
to life-threatening diseases that exact a terrible physical and emotional toll on individuals and families.
me about a venture that would take the long term view on aging and illness, I was intrigued deeply.
Might there be a direct link between certain diseases and the aging process? We agreed that with great people, a strong culture and vision and a healthy disregard for the impossible,
The crisis is attributed generally to a mixture of disease, parasites, and pesticides. Other scientists are pursuing a different tack:
Does it suggest a level of paranoia to want to be forgotten on the internet? Are we really revealing that much about ourselves that privacy has become something of an antiquated concept?
#Chemotherapy will be obsolete in 20 years as scientists launch DNA project Scientists launch a new landmark project to map the genetic causes of disease.
Scientists have predicted the end of chemotherapy after launching a landmark project to map 100,000 genomes to find the genes responsible for cancer and rare diseases.
invasive drugs and their devastating side-effects, will have been replaced by sophisticated medicines that can fix individual faulty genes, according to those behind the project.
In a joint 300 million project, universities across Britain are coming together, alongside the Department of health, the Wellcome Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Medical Research Council.
I believe we will be able to transform how devastating diseases are diagnosed and treated in the NHS and across the world,
and the project is expected to be completed 2018.20 years from now there will be therapies, instead of chemo, that will be a much more targeted approach to treatment,
not only going to be fundamental to the medicine of the future. It is essential part of medicine today.
In rare congenital disease, in cancer and in infections, genomic insights are already transforming diagnosis and treatment.
Prof Farrer also predicted that genome sequencing to find the causes of the disease will become standard within our lifetime.
The first human genome was sequenced in 2003 following 13 years of work at a cost of 2 billion.
Over the next four years, about 75,000 patients with cancer and rare diseases, plus their close relatives, will have their whole genetic codes,
Cancer patients will have the DNA of both healthy and tumour cells mapped, making up the 100,
Scientists expect the project to be pivotal to the development of future personalised treatments based on genetics, with the potential to revolutionise medicine.
But helpful findings will be fed back to the doctors in charge of their treatment. In return, those consenting to having their DNA sequenced must agree to drug companies having access to the information as well as academic scientists.
One example of such a therapy that already exists is Herceptin, a drug specifically designed for women with a type of breast cancer characterised by over-activity of the Her2 gene..
The NHS is now set to become one of the world s go-to health services for the development of innovative genomic tests and patient treatments.
Claims about ablack pathology also#fall short. But police scrutiny often falls most heavily on people of color nonetheless.#
antibiotics to prevent infections, or even living cells to the scaffolds. At the moment, calcium phosphate powder is temporarily bound using an acidic binder chemical typically phosphoric acid
and even pest and disease resistance. There is potential for these multifunctional techno-greenhouses built around LED grow lights to increase the quality of the food we eat
(i e. get me the hell away from this toxic thing response), it dehumanizes the other person,
Something that acts almost human but not quite, reads to our brain's pattern recognition systemas illness.
we read this as a sign of disease meaning the close but no cigar robot reads as a costly mate
and a toxic substance and our reaction is deep disgust. But the uncanny valley is only the first step in
and other mental health problems through an assortment of real-time sensors (she was developed to help treat PTSD in soldiers
and roughly 50,000 psychiatrists. But, well, with Ellie 2. 0 in the pipeline, not for long. It s also worth noting that these professions generate about $3. 5 billion dollars in annual income,
whichassuming robo-therapy is much, much cheaper than human-therapywill also vanish from the economy.)
psychologist and psychiatrists are a deep knowledge base, arguably one of our greatest repositories of about human information.
when an AI can train up an robo-therapist better than a human canagain, no great stretch because all we re really talking about is access to a huge database of psychological data combined with ultra-accurate pattern recognition, two already possible developments.
and hopes to sell them to manufacturers of wearable electronics, medical devices, smart labels, and environmental sensors.
lifelike anatomical 3d models in the medical field, full scale models of architecture, and the list goes on.
Personally I am impressed by the maxillofacial surgeon who is using Mcor 3d printing to create surgical guides,
thus reducing the amount of time a patient needs to be under anesthesia and open in the operating room, says Reece.
and she makes the stress melt away at the end of a long day. But Lucy isn t Mr. Petrone s girlfriend.
##If it s a friend or a girlfriend, there s always points in time where there could be stress within that relationship,
Mr. Petrone is in his fourth year of a Doctor of Chiropractic program at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto.
the promise of the Fingerreader is its portability and offer of real-time functionality at school, a doctor s office and restaurants.
When I go to the doctor s office, there may be forms that I wanna read before I sign them,
Developers had to overcome unusual challenges to help people with visual impairments move their reading fingers along a straight line of printed text that they could not see.
and resources to build some of the bleeding edge mobile computing hardware available today on the cheap.
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#Bionic pancreas shows promise in managing diabetes The bionic pancreas In 2000, Ed Damiano s son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.#
#Damiano s son was 11 months old. The biomedical engineer, decided to create a device that would help his child
and millions of others better manage their disease. He set a goal of having it ready
by the time his son went to college.####Results from the latest clinical trials of his#smartphone-linked artificial pancreas#suggest he might just make that deadline.
Type 1 diabetes occurs when beta islet cells in the pancreas die off. These cells sense levels of blood sugar, aka glucose,
The disease usually occurs early in life and can be managed through careful monitoring of blood insulin levels,
and the use of pumps or injections to deliver insulin and the glucose-raising hormone glucagon to keep blood sugar levels within a normal range.
An app for that But controlling the disease is all-consuming, lurking in the back of every waking decision.
Damiano, who works at the University of Boston, says a bionic pancreas his team has developed with colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital offers hope of a normal life to people with type 1 diabetes.
A smartphone-linkedpancreas removes the need for people with type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor
The artificial pancreas performed well in#hospital-based clinical trials in 2010. But the important test is whether it works in a real-world environment.
were monitored also for five days at a summer camp for kids with diabetes. For both groups, the results with the bionic pancreas were compared with five days of the participants using their usual method of controlling the disease pricking their finger to monitor glucose levels
and using an insulin pump, that requires them to manually calculate the dosage. The device performed beyond our expectations,
what the participants were able to do managing their own diabetes prior to the trial, he says.
the longer you can stave off the long-term health complications of diabetes, says Damiano. Emotional impact The study had a tremendous emotional impact on participants.
They got a glimpse of life without diabetes and that is pretty profound, he says. In many cases, the participants were reluctant to give the devices back,
and ate a banana for breakfast without fear of not enough time having passed between insulin injection
both in the US and in the UK, says Alasdair Rankin, director of research at Diabetes UK,
but there is now real hope that this technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes within a generation,
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Experts warn that even doctors and government officials could one day be replaced by increasingly smarter systems.
Dr. Eric Topol, director of the#Scripps Translational Science Institute, describes in a#Youtube#video#how patient-focused technology improves medicine.
In other examples, the#Artificial neural network#helps#Mayo Clinic#doctors diagnose cardiac patients and many websites provide free medical advice;
and even TV ads often disclose critical data. The ultimate tool to replace doctors though, could be the nanorobot,
a tiny microscopic-size machine that can whiz through veins replacing aging and damaged cells with new youthful ones.
This nanowonder with expected development time of mid-to-late 2030s could eliminate nearly all need for human doctors.
and the growth of new neurons or neurogenesis is an important step in developing therapies to address impaired learning
and memory associated with neurodegenerative diseases and aging. The new research was published June 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Memory loss is a major health problem both in diseases like Alzheimer s, but also just associated with aging, said Yanhong Shi,
Ph d.,lead author of the study and a neurosciences professor at City of Hope. In our study, we manipulated the expression of this receptor by introducing an additional copy of the gene
and those who have a neurological disease or brain injury. The bulk of the brain s development happens before birth,
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