All patients were treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital between 2003 and 2012, and each received pre-and post-chemoembolization MRI scans to assess the effects of therapy on the tumors.
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.
Conventional MRI technology widely used in hospitals can typically resolve details of up to one tenth of a millimeter for example in cross-sectional images of the human body.
In standard hospital instruments the magnetization of the atomic nuclei in the human body is measured inductively using an electromagnetic coil.
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
points providing sub-millimeter spatial resolution that is comparable to the infrared technology currently used in hospitals.
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
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
Eventually we might be able to use NIR-IIA to learn how each neuron functions inside of the brain. ther coauthors of the study are from Stanford Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical school.
In the future Gradinaru says the methods could be used in the clinic for the rapid detection of cancer cells in biopsy samples.
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.
be an object of this type. ur goal was to understand all circumstances that resulted in the damaging shock wave that sent over 1200 people to hospitals in the Chelyabinsk Oblast area that daysays Peter Jenniskens meteor astronomer at SETI Institute.
when it s the wrong timesays Wayne Sossin a neuroscientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at Mcgill University and senior investigator on the paper. his is especially important with nerve cells in the brain as you only want the brain to make precise
Another possible application is small portable X-ray sources to improve medical care for people injured in combat as well as to provide more affordable medical imaging for hospitals and laboratories.
which adjusts to their growing abilities without the need for one-to-one interaction with a therapist. anks of these systems could be used simultaneously by multiple children in a clinic
#Slow-wave sleepspecifically the results of complex experiments performed at Massachusetts General Hospital and then analyzed at Brown show that the improved speed
'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.
And the dongle is small and light enough to fit in the palm of one#s hand making its use in remote or mobile clinics far more practical.
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.
so while more testing may become available in rural clinics the dongle isn#t necessarily going to mitigate#the nervousness one might feel about walking through a clinic#s doors.
The team reports that it took just 30 minutes of training to fully familiarize health care workers with how to use the device
but would permit clinics to begin offering a risky and experimental fertility procedure. Mitalipov counters that the UK vote to permit select clinics to offer the procedure is in reality a clinical trial
and that performing the technique on actual volunteer women is the only way to know
"By making an inexpensive system you could have one in every hospital to test for traumatic brain injuries
#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.
and often sees patients remain in hospital for months or even years at a time. But in June 2014 the Food and Drug Administration approved the aptly named Freedom Driver.
but once they do they are free to leave the hospital and wait for their new heart at home.
Larkin's departure from hospital marks the first time that a patient has been switched over to the Freedom Driver at the University of Michigan hospital
#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.
The scientists from the Technion Rappaport Faculty of medicine Rambam Medical center and the Center of Excellence in Exposure Science and Environmental Health (TCEEH) worked with cultured laboratory mouse cells that resemble the cells of arterial walls
Because our research demonstrates a clear cardiovascular health risk associated with this trend steps need to be taken to help ensure that potential health
However a significant number of stroke victims don t get to the hospital in time for the treatment#Kim said.
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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 patient, so far unnamed, is reportedly recovering at Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris,
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.##
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In other examples, the#Artificial neural network#helps#Mayo Clinic#doctors diagnose cardiac patients and many websites provide free medical advice;
If a hospital discharged a patient and he or she ended up being readmitted within 30 days for the same issue,
the hospital would be penalized. And doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers were encouraged to form networks Accountable Care Organizations (ACOS) to coordinate care
and align their economics around improved care and outcomes. The good news: economics are aligned around improving patient care and outcomes.
which could land the patient back in the hospital or (at a minimum) back at the doctor s office.
#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
and treating heart conditions in hospitals all over the world, where doctors could simulate how a patient might respond to different types of treatment,
Dr. James C. Perry, Professor of Pediatrics at University of California San diego and Director of Electrophysiology and Adult CHD at Rady Children Hospital in San diego explains,
Glass has seen its strongest professional reception in medicine, with a variety of pilot programs in hospitals, operating rooms,
where patient-physician encounters about specific diseases will be transmitted in real time over 16 miles between the medical center and a lecture hall.
Power Japan Plus intends to first launch batteries for the medical device and satellite industries, which are focused hyper on safety.
Researchers at King College London and the San francisco Veteran Affairs Medical center report they have cleared those hurdles. ur new method can be used to grow much greater quantities of lab-grown human epidermal equivalents,
#Mayo Clinic s Better turns your smartphone into a personal health concierge The Mayo Clinic is offering unlimited access to the famed hospital nurses through a smartphone app for about $50 a month.
The Mayo Clinic partnered with Better, a California-based health technology startup, to launch the new subscription-based app.
The app is covered not by insurance but offers real-time, 24/7 health care assistance. Think of it as a mobile Webmd.
said Paul Limburg of Mayo Clinic Global Business Solutions in a press release. eople consistently tell us they want more convenient access to Mayo Clinic knowledge.
and invested in Better to create a powerful way for people to connect with Mayo Clinic in their homes and communities,
Concierge medicine could also be a potential new revenue stream for the Mayo Clinic. Fast Company has covered previously New york-based medical concierge service Sherpaa and Oscar, a new health insurer which tailors its products for web and mobile use.
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.
The Mayo Clinic Global Business Solutions wing has been actively building partnerships with everything from benefits providers to a variety of software developers.
The Mayo Clinic is entering a crowded market of smartphone-based concierge medicine firms. Beyond Sherpaa, there also Grand Rounds, Stat Doctors, Doctor on Demand,
and even a free app for Canadians, Medeo, which offers subsidized concierge medicine services via smartphones for residents of British columbia.
For Better, the Mayo Clinic, and other concierge medicine providers, the real (and unanswered) question is just how much of a market for their services really exists via smartphone apps s
but theye likely to reach the clinic long before replacement organs are available s
#Bitcoin is not only digital currency, it s Napster for finance Bitcoin will start its transformation from a mere currency into an entire open-source.
but it has already been used during surgery at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of medicine.
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
with up to 10 hospitals cleared to participate. The company is currently studying the device for treating Hepatitis C with patients on chronic dialysis,
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
and then synthesized the entire thing from scratch said study leader Jef Boeke a synthetic biologist at NYU Langone Medical center who was previously at Johns hopkins university.
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 cells have demonstrated both capabilities in animals. 1 The company said it expects to begin enrolment early this summer at up to seven US medical centres.
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,
This provoked Graham Wiggins of the Center for Biomedical Imaging at New york University's Medical center to build his own version.
"says Stephen Liggett, director of cardiopulmonary genomics at the University of Maryland Medical center in Baltimore,
says Caroline Tapparel, a virologist at the University Hospital of Geneva in Switzerland, but she cautions that with the exception of the troublesome HRV-C viruses,
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."
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital discovered that exosomes preserve the genetic information of their parent cells in 2008
There are 18 U s. hospitals participating in the clinical trial, sponsored by the Accelerated Brain Cancer Cure Foundation.
director of urologic oncology at Columbia University Medical center. There are additional reasons, however, for high PSA levels
2012), has long been negotiating with the government for facilities to link basic research at the Center for Developmental biology in Kobe, where he works, with clinics and industry.
however, have a head start in the clinic. Former heads of the biotech company Geron, based in Menlo Park, California,
But ips cells are edging towards the clinic too. Advanced Cell Technology says that it will begin talking to the US Food
#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
#The time? About a quarter past a kilogram Physicists have created an atomic clock that relies on a fundamental link between time and mass.
from leftover embryos at fertility clinics that would have been thrown away. The NIH does not fund the derivation of the lines, only the subsequent research.
when Todd Sacktor at the SUNY Downstate Medical center in New york city wiped out established spatial memories in rats.
and some hospitals reward doctors when patients hit cholesterol targets. In 2011, US doctors wrote nearly 250#million prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering drugs,
and recruit hospitals to offer it. The Argus II is not the only retinal implant under development.
Flu Near You, a system run by the Healthmap initiative co-founded by Brownstein at Boston Children s Hospital,
The scheme hopes to become self-sustaining by requiring milestone payments as drugs move from laboratory to clinic and from additional partnerships and screening services."
#Synthetic vaccine could prevent future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease Virologists have devised a way to create an entirely synthetic vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease.
The vaccine could prevent future outbreaks of the disease, and potentially lead to new treatments for polio and other human diseases.
and spurred a decision to protect against future outbreaks with vaccination rather than mass slaughter.
however a vaccine made from inactivated virus caused another UK outbreak. The authors say that there is absolutely no chance that their new vaccine could revert into an infectious virus
because it contains no viral genes. Also being entirely synthetic, it cannot be contaminated with live virus during manufacturing.
It will be 6-8 years before the vaccine is available to farmers, they estimate. But if the method used to create the vaccine proves successful when scaled to commercial production,
it could also be used to create vaccines for human diseases that are caused by viruses of the same family, such as hand, foot and mouth disease,
which is ubiquitous in Southeast asia, and polio, which still blights the lives of millions of people in the developing world."
But if we could use this to move away from inactivated polio viruses in the vaccines,
Earlier attempts to produce a synthetic vaccine for foot and mouth disease were thwarted often by peculiarities of viral geometry.
The team got around the problem by engineering the vaccine to have disulphide bonds cross-linking the protein triangles together.
says John Oxford, a virologist at St bartholomew s and the Royal London Hospital.""This really is an ace paper#they've truly given the entire issue a whole new dimension,
and Charleston that the new vaccine is unable to cause an infection or outbreak. Marvin Grubman, an animal-disease researcher at the US Department of agriculture in Orient Point, New york, says that the new vaccine"is a good piece of work,
but certainly not very novel, pointing to a foot-and-mouth vaccine his team devised that uses adenovirus to deliver empty viral shells.
That vaccine, he says, has been approved for use in the United states for cases of emergency. The authors however point out that their vaccine does not require the injection of live viruses
and that it would be suitable for preventive vaccination as well as in cases of severe outbreaks o
#Scientists map protein that creates antibiotic resistance Japanese researchers have determined the detailed molecular structure of a protein that rids cells of toxins,
but can also reduce the effectiveness of some antibiotics and cancer drugs by kicking them out of the cells they are targeting.
Another month in the hospital on intensive chemotherapy drugs did nothing to help. By the time the man started the trial,
as ever more affordable sequencing moves from academia into the clinic (see Nature 494,290-291; 2013).
and hospitals to analyse data. But one of the biggest questions will be how deeply analysis companies can reach into medical settings,
Hospitals can be fined if patient privacy is compromised, and clinical geneticists may be uneasy about uploading data to the cloud."
That is a large part of why many hospitals have chosen so far to build their own analysis infrastructure,
The study, conducted by an international ALS consortium that includes scientists and clinicians from Columbia University Medical center (CUMC), Biogen idec,
as opposed to a medical device, and therefore hasn undergone any testing, except those required by the Underwriter Laboratory to ensure its electrical safety.
The rat limb was grown by a team from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. They used a technique called ecellularization,
Hospitals have been on a crisis footing and dedicated heatstroke treatment centres have been set up around the city to treat the tens of thousands affected by heatstroke
According to figures collected by AFP from hospitals around the city, a total of 1, 079 people have died as a result of the heatwave.
Karachi hospitals have treated nearly 80,000 people for the effects of heatstroke and dehydration, according to medical officials.
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