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Particles Made of Silk Protect Immune System Boosting Drugs to Fight Cancer
Peptides, or strings of amino acids, are being investigated as a way to help activate the immune system to fight cancer and other diseases. Delivering them into the interior of immune system’s cells is difficult because they’re easily bro...
Source: Medgadget - June 14, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Genetics Materials Source Type: blogs

The Ethics of Keeping Alfie Alive
By SAURABH JHA Of my time arguing with doctors, 30 % is spent convincing British doctors that their American counterparts aren’t idiots, 30 % convincing American doctors that British doctors aren’t idiots, and 40 % convincing both that I’m not an idiot. A British doctor once earnestly asked whether American physicians carry credit card reading machines inside their white coats. Myths about the NHS can be equally comical. British doctors don’t prostate every morning in deference to the NHS, like the citizens of Oceania sang to Big Brother in Orwell’s dystopia. Nor, in their daily rounds, do they calculate opportun...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: OP-ED Uncategorized AlfieEvans Source Type: blogs

Genetically Engineered Tattoo Shows Up if Person Has Cancer
As everyone knows, early diagnosis brings the best chance of fighting cancer. At ETH Zurich, a Swiss technical university, researchers genetically modified skin cells to produce a tattoo that makes itself visible only when the person wearing it has s...
Source: Medgadget - April 19, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics Oncology Source Type: blogs

Two NIGMS MARC Scholars Receive Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
Oxford University. Credit: Andrew Shiva, Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA. MARC U-STAR Scholars Jasmine Brown and Naomi Mburu were among 32 Americans to recently receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University in England. Rhodes Scholars are chosen for their academic and research achievements, as well as their commitment to others and leadership potential. As current MARC U-STAR Scholars, Brown and Mburu are part of an NIGMS research training program for undergraduate junior and senior honor students. MARC is designed to increase the number of people from groups underrepresented in biomedical sciences by prepari...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - January 12, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Juli Rose Tags: Being a Scientist Training Source Type: blogs

The Price of Progress
By ANISH KOKA, MD No one knows who Bennie Solis is anymore. He had the misfortune of being born in the early 1960s marked for death. He had a rare peculiar condition called biliary atresia – a disease defined by the absence of a conduit for bile to travel from his liver to his intestinal tract. Bile acid produced in the liver normally travels to the intestines much like water from a spring travels via ever larger channels to eventually empty into the ocean. Bile produced in the liver with no where to go dams up in the liver and starts to destroy it. That the liver is a hardy organ was a fact known to the ancient Gree...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

SamanTree Medical ’s Histolog Scanner: Interview with CEO Bastien Rachet
The objective was to propose an accurate image-based assessment, working directly with the fresh surgical resection and not requiring specialized staff. The second challenge is the time and consequently ease of use, as surgeon’s and OR time are key...
Source: Medgadget - December 12, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Pathology Surgery Source Type: blogs

Purging Healthcare of Unnatural Acts
BY UWE REINHARDT In tribute to Uwe we are re-running this instant classic from THCB’s archives. Originally published on Jan 31, 2017. Everyone knows (or should know) that forcing a commercial health insurer to write for an individual a health insurance policy at a premium that falls short of the insurer’s best ex ante estimate of the cost of health care that individual will require is to force that insurer into what economists might call an unnatural act. Remarkably, countries that rely on competing private health insurers to operate their universal, national health insurance systems all do just that. They allow...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Repeal Replace Trending Uwe Reinhardt Source Type: blogs

Remembering Uwe
By JEFF GOLDSMITH The healthcare world learned with great sadness this week of the passing of our friend, Uwe Reinhardt. I met Uwe in 1982 at the Federation of American Hospitals meeting in Las Vegas. Uwe opened the meeting by apologizing, in his disarming German accent, for not being his usual sharp self. He had, he said, skipped breakfast because his wife May had instructed him not to pay for anything in Las Vegas that he could get for free at home. This was vintage Reinhardt, innocent and knowing at the same time. That meeting was the beginning of a long and warm friendship. Uwe would have been acutely uncomfortable wi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Tiny Breath Acetone Sensor to Measure Fat Burning During Exercise, Help Monitor Diabetes
Those wishing to lose weight have to watch their diet, but for optimal results they also have to burn existing fat in their bodies through exercise. Any amount of exercise simply won’t do, as body fat only burns when pressed to do so by specifi...
Source: Medgadget - October 13, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs

Technique to Produce Multi-Target Antibody Therapies
Researchers in The Netherlands and Switzerland have devised a new technique to reliably produce antibodies that can bind to two different target molecules at the same time, which could be very useful for cancer immunotherapy. Antibodies are Y-shaped ...
Source: Medgadget - August 30, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Oncology Source Type: blogs

More Than 1 Million Young Caregivers Live In the United States, But Policies Supporting Them Are Still ‘Emerging’
Being a family caregiver today is a demanding responsibility. If caregiving is stressful for the “typical” caregiver—a 49-year-old woman—think how much more is at stake when the caregiver is a child or teenager. Yet more than a million youngsters ages 8–18 take on challenging tasks to help a parent, grandparent, sibling, or other relative. While that number is undoubtedly an underestimate, it does not even include an emerging subgroup—children whose parents are struggling with opioid addiction. If we have limited information about the young people taking care of those with diabetes, cancer, and ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Carol Levine Tags: Featured Population Health Public Health Quality Agnes Leu child caregivers family caregivers National Alliance for Caregiving Saul Becker United Hospital Fund Source Type: blogs

8 Foods that Boost Your Mood
What we eat might not be able to cure us indefinitely from depression. I learned that hard lesson earlier this year. However, researchers are compiling strong evidence that what we eat can influence our risk for developing depression and can keep persons in remission from possibly relapsing. Eating better foods has certainly helped my mood and allowed me to get by on less medication. A 2014 review published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition examined the link between diet and depression risk and found that a diet consisting mainly of fruit, vegetables, fish, and whole grains was significantly associated with a r...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Depression Mental Health and Wellness Personal Self-Help Caffeine Depressive Episode Major Depressive Episode Mood Disorder phytochemicals Psychology Psychopharmacology Source Type: blogs

End-of-Life Healthcare Sessions at ASBH 2017
Conclusion: Patients with LEP had significant differences and disparities in end-of-life decision-making. Interventions to facilitate informed decision-making for those with LEP is a crucial component of care for this group. THU 1:30 pm:  “But She’ll Die if You Don’t!”: Understanding and Communicating Risks at the End of Life (Janet Malek) Clinicians sometimes decline to offer interventions even if their refusal will result in an earlier death for their patients. For example, a nephrologist may decide against initiating hemodialysis despite a patient’s rising creatinine levels if dea...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 26, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Top 10 Most Prestigious Medical Centers in the World (2016)
The world is full of excellent medical centers all competing to make the newest medical discovery, perform the latest procedure and be a top-performing hospital with the best reputation. These renowned medical centers model excellent clinical practice and dedicated patient care that you just can’t find anywhere. Out of all the prestigious medical centers in the world, these 10 lead the way: Texas Medical Center: The Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, is the largest of its kind. Not only does the TMC have one of the highest volumes of clinical facilities for patient care, basic science and research, but it also has ...
Source: Unbounded Medicine - May 24, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Jon Mikel I ñarritu Tags: News Source Type: blogs

What They Really Think of Us (Swiss Version) - Novartis CEO Would Not Commit to Changing Company Behavior After Latest of Multiple Legal Settlements
The huge corporations which now dominate global health care are creating amazing records of repeated ethical misadventures.  We last discussed multinational Swiss based pharmaceutical manufacturer Novartis' escapades in early 2014.   Since then, the legal settlements and other legal findings just keep on coming, capped with a big one in late October, 2015.We will summarize them in chronological order.Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry Found that Novartis Concealed Serious Adverse EffectsIn August, 2014, per the Japan Times, but apparently not reported widely outside of that country.Novartis Pharma K...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 5, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: corporate integrity agreement deception Express Scripts impunity kickbacks legal settlements Novartis Switzerland what they really think of us Source Type: blogs