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List of Open Access Medical Imaging Datasets
Open access medical imaging datasets are needed for research, product development, and more for academia and industry.   We hope this guide will be helpful for machine learning and artificial intelligence startups, researchers, and anyone interested at all.  This is a growing list and will be periodically updated - if you know of another open medical imaging dataset, please email data@radrounds.com.Radiology Open Repositories:NIH- 100,000 chest x-rays with diagnoses, labels, annotationTCIA - The Cancer Imaging Archive consisting of extensive number of datasets from Lung IMage Database Consortium (LIDC), Reference Image ...
Source: radRounds - December 2, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: radRounds Radiology Network Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 216
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogJust when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 216. Question 1Where was this photo taken and what is the significance of this “Trauma Room 1”? By Jpotter1138 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27892379+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answerexpand(document.getElementB...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five aspirin Baxter burns Charles Frederic Gerhardt Charles Frederick morris saint Charles Rufus Baxter Jack Ruby JFK John Connally john f kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald Lewis Macken occam's razor parkland formula Source Type: blogs

ICER Expanding Probe
A nonprofit group, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), recently received a three-year $13.9 million grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to expand its ongoing investigative scope on drug pricing to include all new medicines and price increases on existing treatments. Up until now, ICER hasn’t had the resources to review all new medicines. The additional funding “puts us on a new trajectory,” according to Steven D. Pearson, president of ICER. “Now we’re going to be able to cover the landscape.” ICER was essentially founded with a $5.3 million grant from the Arnold Foundation in 20...
Source: Policy and Medicine - November 21, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Should Pathologists and Radiologists Become One Speciality?
A new study has found a growing connection between pathology and radiology. According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Scripps Research Institute, the two specialties should be combined into one role called the “information specialist.” Not only would this individual interpret diagnostic images, but they would oversee artificial intelligence disease-screening technology.Since the dawning of the specialty, radiologists have come to rely on computers to make accurate assessments. The study authors hypothesize that since interpreting these images is a form of pattern recognition, we should use auto...
Source: radRounds - October 26, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

The Science and Technology of Liquid Biopsies Improving Rapidly
I have blogged about liquid biopsies over the course of seven years (see, for example:Does the New Term"Liquid Biopsy" Make Any Sense?;Rapid Adoption of the Term"Liquid Biopsy" on the Web;"Liquid Biopsy" Used to Refer to Detection of Any Serum Cancer DNA). The procedure has the potential to revolutionize both the diagnosis and monitoring of malignant lessons. A recent article discussed the technology in detail (see:Going With the Flow: The Promise and Challenge of Liquid Biopsies). I offer below only a short excerpt from the article. Be sure to read the whole thing if you are interested....
Source: Lab Soft News - September 23, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Food and Drug Administration Lab Industry Trends Lab Processes and Procedures Medical Research Surgical Pathology Source Type: blogs

Not subject to debate
Here is a partial list of entities and people who accept that human activity is causing dangerous changes in the earth ' s climate.195 sovereign nations (participants in theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). That is every country on earth including the Democratic People ' s Republic of Korea. It also includes countries whose economies are heavily dependent on fossil fuel extraction, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Saudis are planning to leave much of their oil in the ground. Exxon Mobil Corporation (although they lied about it for decades)Former Exxon CEO and current U.S. Secretary of State Rex TillersonV...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 19, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Addiction doesn ’t just ruin the addict’s life
Despite what the textbooks say or how much research is devoted to substance use disorder, I still meet people who feel that addiction is a “choice,” and that these patients don’t need “treatment” (you made your bed, and now you can just lay in it). To a certain degree, this is true. Like Little Debbie cakes and type 2 diabetes, cigarettes and lung cancer, lack of exercise and essential hypertension, addiction does start with a choice. And instead of arguing about how this turns into a disease or trying to convince you to have a bit of compassion, I only wish to show others that: Addiction does...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/leah-stalnaker" rel="tag" > Leah Stalnaker < /a > Tags: Education Emergency Medicine Medical school Primary Care Source Type: blogs

A Safer Way To Legalize Marijuana
Eight US states, the District of Columbia, and the country of Uruguay have recently legalized the recreational use of marijuana, with Canada and more US states poised to do the same. The new laws include limits on youth access, operation of motor vehicles when using, and high-volume purchases or possession. However, none of the laws consider which kinds of marijuana products should and should not be legally sold. While we take no position on the overall desirability of marijuana legalization, we propose here that policy makers in favor of it consider only permitting the sale of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) extracts intended ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 8, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Rebecca Haffajee, Alex C. Liber and Kenneth E. Warner Tags: Featured Public Health drug policy legalization of marijuana Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 204
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 204. Question 1 Richard Doll published an epidemiology paper in 1950. What had he discovered? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1398470481'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1398470481')) The link between smoking and lung can...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 7, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five addison's disease bubo bubonic plague cancer endocarditis JF Kennedy Libman Sacks moritz roth richard doll roth spots SLE smoking Source Type: blogs

An Immune Response to Viral Infection can Promote Cancer
Here, researchers find an unrelated mechanism by which an immune response to invading viruses might as a side-effect damage DNA in cells, and thus raise the risk of certain types of cancer. Both bacterial and viral infections of various types have been linked to increased cancer risk. There is no doubt a diverse set of mechanisms yet to be discovered that might explain these correlations. You might recall a recent paper suggesting that some bacteria force a more rapid pace of replication in stem cells, boosting the occurrence of mutational damage as a result, for example. That is very different from the mechanism uncovered...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 25, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

To Combat ‘Information Blocking,’ Look To HIPAA
Back in 2009, when the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act became law, US taxpayers committed $300 million to seed nationwide health information exchange. Taxpayers also agreed to pay what turned out to be $35 billion in incentive payments for physicians and hospitals to adopt and “meaningfully use” electronic health records (EHRs). In implementing the meaningful-use program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) required eligible providers and hospitals to attest to certain activities, including engaging in health information exchange and providing their patients ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 24, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucia C. Savage Tags: Health IT 21st Century Cures electronic health records HIPAA information blocking medical data privacy Source Type: blogs

Deep Sequencing of Loose DNA in Blood for Early Detection of Many Cancers
A collaborative project between scientists in the U.S., Denmark, and The Netherlands has developed a way of spotting bits of DNA in blood that derive from tumors deep in the body. The technology may allow for early detection of cancers before any sym...
Source: Medgadget - August 21, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics Oncology Pathology Source Type: blogs

Diabetes - a death sentence
The last time I posted, we had just been to the nephrologist. I wrote this:Gave him 3-5 years before he will need dialysis. That's interesting because only 2 years ago he was told that he needed dialysis then. I think this just confirms to me that labs really can't forecast what you do and don't need as they can quickly change for the good or the bad.Could I have been in any more denial? I think it finally hit both of us that that's exactly what we did - we made up excuses to "prove" the doctor was wrong.So what if he only has 3 - 5 more years before dialysis? And what if he still doesn't want dial...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - August 19, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs

Rural Tobacco Control and Prevention
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable mortality and morbidity in the United States and is responsible for over 400,000 deaths each year. Smoking causes about 90% of all lung cancer deaths in the United States. Those who smoke regularly are more likely than nonsmokers to develop heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer. About 50% of smokers develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This new Rural Tobacco Control and Prevention Toolkit from the Rural Health Information Hub provides information, strategies, and resources to help rural communities implement tobacco control and prevention programs. Divided i...
Source: BHIC - August 9, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Rural Source Type: blogs

We Need To Raise The Bar To Improve Cancer Treatments. What ’s The Best Way To Do It?
Over the past 20 years, we have witnessed an unprecedented development of new life-science technologies. Although clinical outcomes have also improved, the benefits often remain out of reach for many patients. Translating scientific and technological gains into clinically meaningful outcomes that are accessible and affordable to all who need them is one of the great challenges of our time. Several prominent voices have called on the field to “raise the bar” and aim higher in research efforts, to measurably and meaningfully lengthen and improve patients’ lives. The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), for exa...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Jacqueline Zummo Tags: Drugs and Medical Innovation clinical trials Source Type: blogs