About one baby is born every hour addicted to opiate drugs in the United States, according to new research from University of Michigan physicians.
In the research, U-M physicians found that diagnosis of neonatal abstinence syndrome, a drug withdrawal syndrome among new-borns, almost tripled between 2000 and 2009.
By 2009, the estimated number of new-borns with the syndrome was 13,539
Researchers in New Zealand have developed a prototype Bluetooth-enabled medical monitoring device that can be connected wirelessly to your smart phone and keep track of various physiological parameters, such as body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and movements. The prototype could be extended to include sensors for other factors such as blood glucose as well as markers for specific diseases. The connectivity would allow patients to send data directly to their healthcare provider and receive timely advice and medication suggestions.
Helen Zhou and Tim Roberts of the School of Electrical Engineering at Manukau Institute of Technology explain how they have developed a microcontroller-based personal health monitoring unit that can carry medical sensors and a positioning device. The unit can connect to other devices via the short-range wireless networking system known as Bluetooth and so could be readily connected to software on a smart mobile phone for health monitoring.
The team adds that the mobile phone can be used as a gateway to further relay patient health data to a remote database via the mobile network for remote diagnoses. ‘Any medical instructions can be sent back instantly to the mobile users,’ the team says. ‘The use of standard development tools makes it possible for patients to easily use everyday mobile devices for their personal health monitoring and assessment anytime anywhere.’ They add that, ‘Bluetooth and mobile networks enable wireless communications among mobile users, medical professionals and other healthcare givers in an easy, secure and efficient manner.’
The device software is based on the familiar cross-platform Java system and provides user with an easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) on their smart phone that uses the standard navigation buttons on mobile devices.
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Patients given a clot-busting drug within six hours of a stroke are more likely to make a better recovery than those who do not receive the treatment.
The multi-centre, randomised study of more than 3000 patients is the world
Assessing the mental health of eight-year-olds is a way of identifying those children with the greatest potential need for psychiatric care in later life. This is one of the findings in David Gyllenberg
Carestream Health Portugal has been awarded the ATARP Best Company Award by the Portuguese Association of Technical Radiotherapy, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (ATARP).
The award was presented at the 15th ATARP National Congress held in Marinha Grande, Leiria in Portugal. ATARP works to contribute to the improvement of healthcare in Portugal, and promotes professional development in an area of rapid scientific and technological developments.
Accepting the award Mario Garcia, Sales Manager for Carestream Health Portugal said: ‘the ATARP Best Company Award reflects the efforts made by Carestream not only in the research and development of innovative products and solutions for current and future market trends, but also by specifically meeting the needs of our customers during a difficult year. Despite demanding economic conditions and against strong competition, we were successful in a number of major projects in both the public and private healthcare sectors.’
‘In the public sector we won projects such as the Portuguese Institute of Oncology (IPO) in Lisbon, the Centro Hospitalar das Caldas da Rainha (CHON), the Hospital de Santar
A Henry Ford Hospital study found that simulation training improved the critical decision-making skills of medical residents performing actual resuscitations in the Emergency Department.
Researchers say the residents performed better in four key skill areas after receiving the simulation training: leadership, problem solving, situational awareness and communication. Their overall performance also sharpened.
While many studies have shown the benefits of simulation training for honing the skill level of medical professionals, Henry Ford
Emergency minimally invasive repair effectively treats potentially fatal ruptured aneurysms in the abdomen without major surgery, involves less recovery time and fewer discharges to in-patient care facilities
A burst aneurysm (a local area of bulge) in the abdominal aorta
In a new study, a program known as Spatially Invariant Vector Quantisation (SIVQ) was able to separate malignancy from background tissue in digital slides of micropapillary urothelial carcinoma, a type of bladder cancer whose features can vary widely from case to case and that presents diagnostic challenges even for experts.
‘Being able to pick out cancer from background tissue is a key test for this type of software tool,’ says U-M informatics fellow Jason Hipp, M.D., Ph.D., who shares lead authorship of the paper with resident Steven Christopher Smith, M.D., Ph.D. ‘This is the type of validation that has to happen before digital pathology tools can be widely used in a clinical setting.’
To test the software
Leading clinicians and health researchers from across Europe say much greater emphasis must be placed on the scientific evidence for the effectiveness of treatments and other healthcare interventions to ensure patients receive the best care available. The call is contained in a Science Policy Briefing published by the European Medical Research Councils, which also made ten key recommendations on how to improve the quality of research and healthcare in Europe. The briefing,
In research funded by the Medical Research Council and leading UK research charity, Action on Hearing Loss, experts from the University
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