which is strong enough to stabilize various types of compounds, such as antibodies, enzymes, nanoparticles, antibiotics and growth factors, by acting as a protective"cocoon"."
which was used to print the word"contaminated"on surgical gloves. When the gloves were exposed to E coli bacteria,
In addition to bio-sensing gloves that could react selectively to different pathological agents, Omenetto says the ability to print antibiotics in topographical patterns would enable"smart"bandages in
which therapeutics are incorporated custom into the bandage to match a specific injury. Additionally, although the researcher's tests only involved the use of one ink cartridge,
They expect the technology will enable more effective tools in the fields of therapeutics regenerative medicine and biosensing g
#Noninvasive spinal cord stimulation gets paralyzed legs moving voluntarily again Five men with complete motor paralysis have regained the ability to move their legs voluntarily
however, the researchers found success without performing any invasive surgery. The new treatment uses a technique called transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
and it is known to induce walking motions in mice with spinal cord injuries. All five men had been paralyzed for more than two years prior to receiving the treatment,
Edgerton now hopes to test the noninvasive stimulation on people with partial paralysis. He also notes that,
so that the physician and the patient can select a therapy that is best for them.""The study was conducted by researchers at UCLA, the University of California, San francisco,
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineerin r
#Earth's magnetic field may be more than 750 million years older than previously thought The Earth's magnetic field is crucial to life on the planet.
#World First Blood test To Diagnose Irritable bowel syndrome World First Blood test To Diagnose Irritable bowel syndrome Newshealthby Good News Network-May 21,
Two simple tests, developed by gastroenterologist Dr. Mark Pimentel of Cedars-Sinai Medical center in Los angeles,
finally gives doctors the ability to confirm whether a person actually has developed irritable bowel syndrome a common disorder that includes bouts of relentless diarrhoea,
which plagues about ten percent of the world population and nearly 40 million Americans. adsbygoogle=window. adsbygoogle.
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not their head, is going to end a lot of the emotional suffering I have seen these patients endure.
His nearly eight years of research centered around antibodies in the blood that had interacted previously with toxins during food poisoning.
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#Asthma Could Be cured Within 5 Years With This New Breakthrough Asthma could be cured in five years
now that scientists have found the witchthat can turn off triggers that cause the condition in tens of millions of people worldwide.
and are used to treat people with osteoporosis. Researchers found that, when the drug is inhaled, it deactivates the cells and stops all symptoms.
to tackle the underlying causes of asthma symptoms, said Dr Samantha Walker, Director of research and Policy at Asthma UK. f this research proves successful we may be just a few years away from a new treatment.
Scientists are hopeful that patients can take the drug to prevent asthma attacks before they start ending the need to constantly carry an inhaler to end symptoms once an attack has started.
Walker added, ive percent of people with asthma don respond to current treatments, so research breakthroughs could be life-changing for hundreds of thousands of people.
The discovery could also lead to new treatments for chronic bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease that kills tens of millions of people every year and for
which there currently is no cure. When Kids Can See the Chalkboard Eye doctor Donates 100,000 Glasses Researchers say
the treatment that could effectively cure asthma would be available in the next 5 years. The research, funded by Asthma UK, the Cardiff Partnership Fund,
and a Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council award, was published in the Science Translational Medicine journal in April.
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#For the first time, Artificial Feet Can Feel the Ground Scientists in Austria are taking their research on prosthetic limbs one step further by restoring the sense of touch to those who wear them.
Much of the worst quake damage and injuries in recent years result from older buildings collapsinghat because modern buildings in earthquake zones are designed with devices called dampers or isolation units,
#World First Malaria Vaccine Approved and it Will be Not-for-Profit The world first malaria vaccine has been given approval by a European medical agency for future use in Sub-saharan africa, where more than a quarter million children under the age of five die every year from the disease.
European regulators examined phase III clinical trial results involving more than 16,000 young children conducted by research centers in eight African countries (Burkina faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria
Glaxosmithkline Vice president for Africa told CNN. t is the first time anyone ever has been able to make a vaccine against a parasite.
Perhaps most impressive, Glaxosmithkline, the pharmaceutical company that worked on this vaccine for 30 years, and received $200 million from the Gates Foundation, is making RTS, S available as a nonprofit drug.
with all that money going back into further research for a malaria vaccine that could be even more effective.
and expects to invest a further $200 to $250 million until the vaccine is ready for market.
With this approval from the European Medicines Agency Friday, the vaccine next will be considered by the World health organizations,
and if they will use the vaccine, along with current Malaria prevention techniques, like bed nets. 80%of the children involved in the clinical trials were protected also by insecticide treated bed nets.
RTS S, also known as Mosquirix, was administered to children aged 6 weeks to 17 months in three doses. Over the first 18 months following three doses of RTS, S,
malaria cases were reduced by almost half in children aged 5-17 months at the time of first vaccination and by 27%in infants aged 6-12 weeks.
At study end, over four years of follow-up in children RTS, S reduced malaria cases by 39,
In areas of the highest malaria burden, more than 6 000 clinical malaria cases were prevented over the study period for every 1, 000 children vaccinated
#Nest Thermostats Now Link Up to Products From LG Philips Whirlpool and Others Last June, Nest announced some big names in the first round of integration with its thermostat,
organic products that present little or no health risk. These molecules are also highly stable, even at fairly high temperatures,
and emergency management officials protect those patients who rely on electricity-dependent medical equipment. The empower Map from HHS'Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness
and Response is aimed at 1. 6 million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries whose medical and assistive equipment oxygen concentrators, ventilators,
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."
and EMS teams prepare for surges in medical services. Emergency planners could also use the map to anticipate
"For people who rely on electricity-dependent medical equipment, prolonged power outages can mean life or death,"said Lurie."
#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,
"she said.""We have hundreds of kits in addition we have kit-like trays in our code blue carts and on our resuscitation carts."
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
a nurse could know via proximity reading that he or she has five medications in his hand,
According to Neuenschwander, the nurse would then need to move all five items out of the range of read
"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.
This according to new peer-reviewed research published today in the journal Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
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
mental state) to identify patients requiring urgent intervention with pediatric ICU transfer. The research, conducted by Children's Hospital clinicians,
"Many symptoms of serious pediatric conditions are also found in common conditions that do not require immediate intervention,
chief of pediatric critical care medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, said in a news release announcing the finding."
"Our research found the Pediatric Rothman Index to be a favorable electronic trigger for alerting clinicians to the need for rapid response teams,
complementing the efforts of our nurses and physicians.""Powered by the peer-reviewed Rothman Index,
a disease-agnostic universal score for predicting patient readmission and mortality risk, Perahealth software automatically pulls data from any major electronic health record in real-time.
The goal is to promote care team communication across shifts and alert clinicians earlier to unexpected health problems.
The Joint Commission estimates that 85 to 99 percent of alarms in hospitals do not require clinician intervention.
"False-positive alarms cause anxiety for care teams, patients and families, and can lead to clinicians becoming desensitized to true patient emergencies
and dsync+(TITECH/Georgia Tech) Near real-time plasma disruption detection using ADIOS (Princeton Plasma Research Lab/ORNL) Automated microscopy image analysis for cancer detection,
finding cures to Alzheimer and other diseases, developing new clean energy technologies, and promoting new advanced manufacturing opportunities.
such as disease fighting drugs from entering the nervous system. It only allows a selected few types of molecules to cross including water, some gases and lipid soluble molecules.
The antibodies are able to squeeze past the barrier not just because of their size (these are fragments that consist of one molecule)
The single domain antibodies are exploiting the same mechanism that allows nutrients into the brain,
The scientists add that the method allows them to target multiple types of diseases by producing different carrier molecules.
The method is part of the NRC Therapeutics Beyond Brain Barriers (TBBB) program which has been developing special carrier molecules for the past six years. t really opens the possibilities to use many different types of therapeutics for different diseases that we couldn really use before
unless we inject them directly into the brain which is highly invasive, r. Danica Stanimirovic,
Scientists add that it could become a significant step towards slowing the spread of brain diseases like Alzheimer, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson.
Tough yet flexible, these spongy devices can withstand both shock and stress, a feature that many stretchable electronics do not possess.
#Spoken sentences can be reconstructed from brain activity patterns It is now possible to reconstruct spoken sentences from activity patterns of the human brain surface. rain to Textcombines knowledge from neuroscience, medicine and informatics.
our recent results indicate that both single units in terms of speech sounds as well as continuously spoken sentences can be recognized from brain activity. hese results were obtained by an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers of informatics, neuroscience, and medicine.
The brain activity was recorded in the USA from 7 epileptic patients who participated voluntarily in the study during their clinical treatments.
An electrode array was placed on the surface of the cerebral cortex (electrocorticography (ECOG)) for their neurological treatment.
and have anxiety (even) with getting gas, said Sandoval. ow we can have confidence to charge our electric vehicles and drive them from place to place (in Nevada).
or pump liquids in miniature devices used for chemical analysis. The conducting elastomers can be fabricated in diameters ranging from the very small about 150 microns
#Scientists grow human mini-brains that are giving big insights into autism Scientists first grew mini-hearts in a lab. Then they 3d printed skin.
Starting with skin cells from patient biopsies, scientists transformed them back into stem cells, and from those grew pea-sized,
In a study published last week in Cell, a team from Yale School of medicine used the technique to glean insight into why autism occurs in some people without a clear genetic cause.
Within a month, it was apparent that organoids created from people with autism overproduced one type of neuron that acts to dampen the chatter of normal neural activity.
and may in part cause the faulty wiring behind autism behavioral symptoms. Further sleuthing led the scientists to a single gene responsible for the glitch.
Before mini-brains, scientists had to shift through gobs of genomic data to fish out gene variants associated with autism.
This makes it much easier to home in on potential drug targets for therapy. Scientists also no longer have to solely rely on mouse models of human disorders.
If the rods and cones that make up the photoreceptors of the eye fail because of injury or illness,
and has restored already the sight of people with a specific form of blindness. About 200,000 people in the US have inherited diseases that cause problems for the photoreceptors in their eye.
#Machine that unboils eggs now being used to improve cancer treatment The device can rip things apart with great accuracy,
Using the invention on carboplatin a common cancer treatment drug, used against ovarian and lung cancers has boosted the potency by almost five times.
and this has got applications in chemistry, engineering, biology, medicine, so there's a lot of potential there and that's just for research purposes,
which could soon produce self-healing nail polish and a cure for cracked mobile phone screens. A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
assistant professor of Materials science and engineering at the Mccormick School of engineering and Surgery at the Feinberg School of medicine, has developed a new kind of graphene ink that can be used to print large 3d structures.
#Researchers Develop 3d printing Method to Produce Shell Capsules That Can Be loaded with Therapeutic Drugs Researchers at the University of Minnesota have introduced a novel 3d printing based method to produce highly monodisperse core/shell capsules that can
be loaded with biomolecules such as therapeutic drugs. They expect that this platform of 3d printed programmable release capsules will be useful in applications such as dynamic tissue engineering, 3d printed drug delivery systems, synthetic/artificial tissues, programmable matter,
once perfected, may open the door to a variety of new 3d printing applications within the art industry, medicine, aerospace, security, architecture, and more.
after fractures. While this 3d-bioprintable paste is yet to reach clinical trials, this study could be the first step to a revolutionary treatment method.
Potentially complicated applications such as filling bone fractures with this doughy material could make bones stronger during recovery from fractures.
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
The system, eautyexplorer, is targeted at beauty-treatment clinics, cosmetics makers, beauty product stores, etc. t is a product that proposes mental and physical cares,
The first, second and third elements are used for customer services at beauty-treatment clinics, cosmetics makers and beauty product stores.
the indexes of the effects of beauty-treatment that they received at clinics. Because the new system is targeted at women,
virus infections, scams, and data leakage. At the same time, based on activity logs on PCS, such as when the PCS freeze, they have developed a technology for calculating different usersrisks of being victimized.
which accumulate in tumor cells and scatter light making the tumors easy to see with a special camera.
The particles are each about 140 nanometers (0. 000005 inches) across and consist of eight-point gold stars that are surrounded by a layer of dye
because earlier efforts to make such nanoparticles weren't able to produce the consistent shapes needed said Dr. Moritz Kircher a molecular imaging specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New york city.
so that they were very likely to develop cancer and injected them with the nanostars. The particles spread thorough the bloodstreams of the mice and built up in the cancerous cells.
and tumor cells that researchers had suspected existed but hadn't seen. It was thought precancerous cells also develop the larger pores like cancer cells.
The nanostars could be important in treating people with cancers in which the dangerous cells are sometimes hard to see such as liposarcoma a cancer that arises in fat cells.
You go in and open up the abdomen say and see all that fat Kircher said. You see some streaks that look abnormal
but don't know where edges of the tumor are. So doctors either have to take out all of the tissue that might possibly contain cancer
or risk leaving some cancerous cells in the body. These new nanoparticles would show where the dangerous cells are
and make the surgery a lot more precise he said. There are other benefits over earlier efforts Kircher said.
The nanostars are nonspecific they don't need to be custom-made for each type of cancer. Earlier experiments with nanoparticles often required them to be built to order coated with proteins that would link to specific types of cancer cells.
But before these nanoparticles get to the clinic there is still work to be done testing their toxicity
The work appears in today's (Jan 21) issue of Science Translational Medicine e
#Bye bye Baubles: New 3d printers Could Build Implants Electronics Several new 3d printers showcased at CES 2015 in Las vegas earlier this month suggest that the 3d printing industry best known for churning out brightly colored plastic doodads could be turning over a new
, more scientific leaf. Amid the rough-edged replicas of superheroes and army tanks that adorned the expo's 3d printing space stood a machine that prints tiny medical implants that dissolve inside the human body.
Another printer uses a combination of conductive inks and filaments to print quadcopters already embedded with the electronics that allow them to hover in the air.
One company displayed a prototype of a 3d printed medical device that can automatically stitch up patients after surgery.
Increasingly, this trendy technology is turning into a must-have tool for doctors, researchers and engineers, according to Nick Liverman, CEO and founder of Old world Labs (OWL), a Virginia-based company that designs dissolvable 3d printed implants.
"Liverman told Live Science. 3d printed implants OWL's MC-1 and MC-2 printers were both on display at CES.
For example, cancer researchers who want to deliver localized treatments to patients are using OWL's machines to build what Liverman called"microfluidic devices."
"You can also build custom implants, like tissue scaffolds, "Liverman said.""You can inject stem cells into the scaffold that you build with the printer
"7 Cool Uses of 3d printing in Medicine During cartilage replacement surgery, the scaffold containing the stem cells would be implanted in the knee,
From strings of lights adding holiday cheer to artificial sunlamps alleviating seasonal affective disorder, they brighten our days.
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.
how proteins aggregate in the earliest stages of diseases like Alzheimer and Huntington, has begun just.
Understanding disease progression at the single-molecule level could help identify when early intervention might be advantageous.
This results in disease that kills about 700,000 children every year, and stunts the physical and mental development of many more,
#Exoskeleton Helps Spinal cord Injury Patient Walk LAS VEGAS Bionic exoskeletons are helping spinal cord injury and stroke patients walk again.
One man with a partial spinal cord injury, Shane Mosko, demonstrated here today (Jan 8) at the 2015 CES how the new bionic legs operate,
More than 3, 500 patients with either spinal cord or stroke injuries have walked more than 15 million steps with the device,
The new exoskeleton can also help people with spinal cord injuries, like Mosko, who uses a wheelchair
you can prevent toxic mining waste from being poured into the environment, according to the company. And by keeping electronics out of the garbage dump, you also prevent the toxic materials found inside these devices (things like mercury and cadmium) from leaking into the ground.
Of course, not all of the electronics that find their way into the ecoatm are taken actually apart and used for parts.
Dr. Daniel Kraft, a pediatrician and the founding executive director of Exponential Medicine, at a talk here at the 2015 CES."
said Dr. David Landers, a cardiologist and cofounder of the Edgewater, N. J.,company that makes the device.
"We feel that the findings have potential relevance to a wide range of microsystems technologies biomedical devices, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, 3d circuits, sensors and so on."
however, is paralysis on either side of the body, which can cause loss of movement and diminished range of motion in the arms and legs.
Symptoms, Tests and Treatment In an effort to help patients regain movement on the side of their body affected by stroke, my colleagues at The Ohio State university Wexner Medical center and
Often, when those impairments have persisted even after completing 3 to 6 months of outpatient therapies,
doctors have not known how to reset the brain back into the state of rapid recovery that we see in the initial months after a stroke.
and we think that using a powerful magnet to enhance brain plasticity prior to therapies may be the solution.
Rebooting recovery Doctors think that part of the problem is that the healthy and injured sides of brains of some stroke patients develop an imbalance over time
either as a direct result of the tissue injury from stroke or through lack of use of the weaker side of the body.
Video game Therapy Proving Powerful for Stroke Patients (Op-Ed) The critical advance of this technology is the navigation tool,
The process helps improve the brain's receptiveness to activity-based therapy. The technology isn't limited solely to motor recovery after stroke in fact,
and arm therapy free of charge. The current Phase III clinical trial was launched in June 2014 and researchers will continue to conduct trials over the next 12 to 18 months.
We hypothesize that pretreatment with carefully dosed magnetic pulses to the motor cortex will predispose participants to make bigger gains with therapy than they would have with 6 weeks of therapy alone.
yet nonspecific, way of preparing the brain for all types of therapies, and depending on where the magnet is aimed,
can potentially affect many of the brain circuits that are impaired during stroke or other types of brain injuries.
we can vary the location of magnetic stimulation to target the brain regions associated with other neurologic impairments, e g.,
Thus, rtms treatment could be potentially improve aphasia, hemispatial neglect or pain perception resulting from stroke or brain injury.
This bodes well for neurorehabilitation programs in the future shedding light on the possibility that this technology might not be limited to stroke recovery alone a
#New Health Trackers Aim to Prevent Emergencies LAS VEGAS New health trackers aim to prevent health crises before they happen,
From sensors that aim to halt asthma in its tracks, to home monitors that warn the family
The Best Fitness Tracker Brands Derailing asthma Long before someone has an asthma attack there are warning signs that their respiratory function is going downhill.
"said Salman Bakht, the chief technology officer at Health care Originals, which makes a new asthma monitor called the Adamm.
But children and even adults often don't even realize they are having trouble breathing, especially if they've gotten used to their lungs functioning at a lower level than normal, Bakht,
who has told asthma Live Science. Adamm is a wearable, three-sensor monitor that will hit the market later this year.
so that chances can be made to their daily medicines or lifestyle. Is Grandma OK? Forget the cliché of dying alone and unnoticed till neighbors notice a funny smell.
Allergic response Another device, the Veta, made by Aterica, is essentially a smart case for an Epipen,
a name brand injection device that delivers the medication epinephrine to treat the life-threatening allergic response called anaphylaxis.
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