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Microfluidic Chip Aids Tuberculosis Diagnosis
Researchers at the University of London have collaborated with QuantuMDx, a medtech company based in the UK, to develop a microfluidic diagnostic device for tuberculosis. The CAPTURE-XT chip is designed to concentrate and purify Mycobacterium tubercu...
Source: Medgadget - July 10, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs

In an Ideal World, How Much Would We Spend on Health Care? – Part 1
BY BEN WHEATLEY We have heard it said before, and it is no longer shocking to say, that in 2021 the United States spent $4.3 trillion on health care. To put this gaudy number in some perspective, we measure it as a share of our economy and report that health care comprised 18.3% of our gross domestic product. CMS projects that health care will approach 20% of GDP in coming years—one-fifth of everything we buy and sell in this country.  In a recent report, the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value said that “it is unclear what percentage of GDP would represent the ideal level to devote to healt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ben Wheatley Health care spending medical debt Patent Source Type: blogs

In an Ideal World, How Much Would We Spend on Health Care?
BY BEN WHEATLEY We have heard it said before, and it is no longer shocking to say, that in 2021 the United States spent $4.3 trillion on health care. To put this gaudy number in some perspective, we measure it as a share of our economy and report that health care comprised 18.3% of our gross domestic product. CMS projects that health care will approach 20% of GDP in coming years—one-fifth of everything we buy and sell in this country.  In a recent report, the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value said that “it is unclear what percentage of GDP would represent the ideal level to devote to h...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ben Wheatley Health care spending medical debt Patent Source Type: blogs

Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Using Simple Microscope and Smartphone
Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed a simple and rapid technique to assess the antibiotic susceptibility of bacterial samples. At present, this is time consuming and inefficient, often leadin...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Source Type: blogs

A bit about the history of Medicaid
Medicaid was actually something of an afterthought in the 1965 Medicare legislation. As Moore and Smith write, “There was so little comment that Medicaid did, indeed, seem like a casual add-on. A legislative draftsman said that he could scarcely recall working on Medicaid.” Since retirees receiving Social Security were covered by Medicare, Medicaid originally benefited only recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, AFDC, the program generally known at that time as “welfare,” and the smaller categories of recipients of aid for the blind and disabled.Although state participation in Medicaid was voluntary...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 21, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –17th September, 2022.
This study adds to the evidence showing that expanded access to these services could have a longer-term positive impact if continued.”Roughly 1 in 8 beneficiaries in the pandemic group received OUD-related telehealth services compared with 1 in 800 in the prepandemic group, the research revealed. Access to telehealth services was associated with better treatment retention and lower risk of medically treated overdose in the pandemic group compared to those not receiving telehealth services.-----https://healthimaging.com/topics/management/education-training/ai-deterring-students-pursuing-radiologyConcerns about the future ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

The Shocking Impact of an Ancestor ’ s Secret Abortion
BY MICHAEL MILLENSON When my siblings and I were young, we were fascinated by my father’s Uncle Byron. Handsome and confident, he drove a big, 1960s-era Chrysler Imperial, had a glamorous job — an executive at a Baltimore radio station — and radiated panache. He also was part of a small family mystery. His father, Louis, was married three times, and Byron was raised by Wife № 3. But he was the biological child of Wife № 2, who died just a few years after his birth from an unknown cause. Thanks to some persistent genealogical research, I recently discovered that cause: Annie Millenson had a botched a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Dobbs Michael Millenson Roe vs. Wade Source Type: blogs

Underfunding Research Of Female Health Leaves Huge Amounts Of Money On The Table
“Did you know that at least one-third of women have lower back pain before their periods every month, and yet, nobody seems to fully understand why?” – asked a Medical Futurist team member a little while ago. The question led to a discussion about the differences in research, funding and understanding of male-only and female-only health issues, and consequently, to this article. It is a well-known fact that some diseases or conditions dominantly affect one gender or the other. There are the trivial ones, like prostate cancer or ovarian, cervical, uterine cancers. But there is a long list of diseases and condit...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Medical Education women female health under-reseached gender gap in healthcare Source Type: blogs

Respect for Science
I vaguely remember discussing some of this before, but anyway . . . Throughout most of the 19th Century, despite the dramatic advances of science in many areas, nobody gained any useful understanding of human health and disease, and effective therapies were largely lacking. In fact, physicians -- medical school graduates -- advocated bloodletting and violent purging with mercury based emetics and laxatives. For obvious reasons, most  people preferred other healing methods, which didn ' t work either but at least didn ' t kill you. Hospitals were just places where poor people went to die. So what happened to ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Disease at Point of Care: Interview with Shawn Marcel, CEO of Torus Biosystems
Torus Biosystems, a medtech startup that spun out of Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has developed the Synestia system, a point of care diagnostic tool for infectious disease. The system aims to provide rapid, po...
Source: Medgadget - June 24, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Public Health torusbiosystems Source Type: blogs

Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Disease at Point of Care: Interview with Shawn Marcell, CEO of Torus Biosystems
Torus Biosystems, a medtech startup that spun out of Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has developed the Synestia system, a point of care diagnostic tool for infectious disease. The system aims to provide rapid, po...
Source: Medgadget - June 24, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Public Health torusbiosystems Source Type: blogs

AI-Powered App Interprets HIV Test Results
This study is a really strong partnership with AHRI that demonstrates the power of using deep learning to successfully classify ‘real-world’ field-acquired rapid test images, and reduce the number of errors that may happen when reading te...
Source: Medgadget - June 22, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Informatics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs

A health librarian watching television: tuberculosis
I watched some of an interview with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who wrote Hancock ' s Half Hour, a 1960s comedy radio and television show which my Dad was a fan of, and Steptoe and Son, a 1970s television show which he definitely was not!Both writers had been in a sanatorium, with TB, at the age of 18 or so, so I am guessing in the 1940s or 1950s - that was how they had met.There were no antibiotics, so no treatment except bed rest.   The sanatorium where they were had a radio station, and its own newsletter.  The patients undertook work for outside organisations.I ' ve looked in PubMed to see what lit...
Source: Browsing - May 3, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: tuberculosis Source Type: blogs

Health Care Needs Better Marketing, Too
John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article.Inspiration comes in all sizes and shapes. Neil deGrasse Tyson, a world-renowned astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, continues to inspire us with words like, “The good thing about science is that it ' s true whether or not you believe in it. ” Amidst all the confusion and debate in the popular press about health science, this form of uncommon sense needs more media attention. It’s a truism that may have prompted Dr. T...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - March 30, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 29th 2021
Discussion of Systemic Inflammation and its Contribution to Dementia Fisetin Reduces D-Galactose Induced Cognitive Loss in Mice Reprogramming Cancer Cells into Normal Somatic Cells Considering Longevity Medicine and the Education of Physicians Researchers Generate Thyroid Organoids Capable of Restoring Function in Mice In Search of Transcriptional Signatures of Aging A Pace of Aging Biomarker Correlates with Manifestations of Aging Targeting Tissues with Extracellular Vesicles Calorie Restriction Slows Aging of the Gut Microbiome in Mice Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in the Aging Heart Evidence for Hea...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs