A system incorporating a smartphone app may help adolescents and young adults with spina bifida to improve their daily selfmanagement skills, suggests a paper.
With features including mobile reminders and messaging with healthcare providers, the
An interactive web system with the help of your mobile phone can be an effective tool for better blood pressure control. Test persons lowered their blood pressure, were better able to understand how their lifestyle affects their blood pressure and actively participated in follow-up discussions.
Well controlled blood pressure reduces the risk for cardio-vascular complications. In addition to taking daily medication, persons with high blood pressure need to understand the sometime complicated connection between the blood pressure values and daily life. Blood pressure medication combined with changes in lifestyle gives good results, but despite awareness of this, few people are able to reach a well controlled blood pressure.
In her thesis, researcher Ulrika Bengtsson developed and evaluated an interactive system for persons living with high blood pressure that, with the help of their own mobile phone, can be used to self-manage the high blood pressure on a daily basis.
As of the 1st of October 2015, SCHILLER Latin America merged with SCHILLER America to form the subsidiary SCHILLER Americas. This entity has responsibility over the entire American continent, with cardiologist Francesco Iacona, former General Manager of SCHILLER Latin America, in the role of CEO. Consolidation of both territories comes with many advantages: all processes are being optimized, reaction time is further reduced. Customers will benefit from increased efficiency thanks to resource sharing, from office space to personnel and services, including inventory management, purchasing and logistics. This merger is the starting point for an even stronger representation of SCHILLER in America.
www.schiller.chA recent study found that cervical cancer patients without enlarged lymph nodes could benefit from SPECT-MRI imaging of their sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) to assess whether metastases are present.
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, with more than 500,000 new cases globally each year. According to a 2014 University of Maryland study, cervical cancer affects 18.6 women per 100,000 in the United States. Early diagnosis is critical. Although surgical removal and examination of the sentinel lymph nodes remains the most accurate way to determine whether the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes, SPECT-MRI imaging may reduce false negative MRI findings in early-stage patients and potentially save some from invasive diagnostic procedures.
Researchers at the University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands, used Tc-99m-nanocolloid SPECT-MRI fusion for the assessment of SLNs (for size and absence of sharp demarcation) in patients with early-stage cervical cancer.
Jacob P. Hoogendam, MD, the corresponding author of the study, notes,
A revised adult vaccination schedule could save millions in health care costs
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are challenging the convention that tetanus and diphtheria vaccine boosters need to be administered every 10 years. Their paper recommends that the current adult vaccination schedule should be revisited.
At conhIT – Connecting Healthcare IT, Europe’s leading event for the Health IT industry which takes place from 19 to 21 April in Berlin – a competition will be presenting an award for the best health app once again.
This event, part of the internationally recognized AppCircus series, will be taking place for the second time, and is regarded as the world’s biggest competition for mHealth apps. Taking part gives companies and mHealth app developers an opportunity to present their products to an outstanding audience and to increase awareness of their companies in the Health IT sector. At conhIT 2016 more than 7,500 visitors and some 400 exhibitors are expected to attend.
The competition will be looking for an app that assists the daily work of medical professionals, nurses and patients and can be used in Europe in hospitals, rehab centres, care homes and general patient care.
The award ceremony will take place on 20 April 2016 in the mobile health zone at conhIT. This section of the exhibition focuses on innovations and trends in mobile health applications.
The winner of the conhIT AppCircus competition will be nominated for the Mobile Premier Awards, the world’s biggest app exhibition at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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To operate on the brain, doctors need to see fine details on a small scale. A tiny camera that could produce 3-D images from inside the brain would help surgeons see more intricacies of the tissue they are handling and lead to faster, safer procedures.
An endoscope with such a camera is being developed at NASA
In a paper recently published, EORTC researchers identified health related quality of life (HRQOL) components that should be considered as most relevant for achieving optimal care for older cancer patients.
Dr. Andrew Bottomley, Head of the EORTC Quality of Life Department and senior investigator of this study says,
Conducted by Adexsol among 754 healthcare professionals (514 radiologists and 240 pediatricians), this survey provides for the first time, data on the medical imaging offer for children.
Pediatric imaging diagnosis waiting times seem long, especially for MRI and to a lesser extent for the CT Scan, according to the survey, published during the French Radiology Days (JFR) in Paris last October.
Results show pediatricians usually refer children to ambulatory radiologists for general imaging
Patients who get blood quickly after severe injuries are less likely to die, according to researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Emergency Medicine.
‘More than 180,000 people die from trauma every year,
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