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Engineers develop novel method to increase lifespan of joint replacements

, 26 August 2020/in E-News /by 3wmedia

Researchers at the University of Southampton have completed a project that will enable surgeons to fit joint replacements with longer, optimised lifespans. The MXL project uses computational modelling to define the mechanics of an artificial joint

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Encouraging data from stem cell trial in stroke patients as plans for Phase II progress

, 26 August 2020/in E-News /by 3wmedia

Encouraging interim data from the world

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Electrical signatures of consciousness in the dying brain

, 26 August 2020/in E-News /by 3wmedia

The ‘near-death experience’ reported by cardiac arrest survivors worldwide may be grounded in science, according to research at the University of Michigan Health System.
University of Michigan researchers George Mashour, M.D., Ph.D. and Jimo Borjigin, Ph.D., provide the first scientific framework for near-death experiences.
Whether and how the dying brain is capable of generating conscious activity has been vigorously debated.
A U-M study shows shortly after clinical death, in which the heart stops beating and blood stops flowing to the brain, rats display brain activity patterns characteristic of conscious perception.
‘This study, performed in animals, is the first dealing with what happens to the neurophysiological state of the dying brain,’ says lead study author Jimo Borjigin, Ph.D., associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology and associate professor of neurology at the University of Michigan Medical School.
‘It will form the foundation for future human studies investigating mental experiences occurring in the dying brain, including seeing light during cardiac arrest,’ she says.
Approximately 20 percent of cardiac arrest survivors report having had a near-death experience during clinical death. These visions and perceptions have been called ‘realer than real,’ according to previous research, but it remains unclear whether the brain is capable of such activity after cardiac arrest.
‘We reasoned that if near-death experience stems from brain activity, neural correlates of consciousness should be identifiable in humans or animals even after the cessation of cerebral blood flow,’ she says.
Researchers analysed the recordings of brain activity called electroencephalograms (EEGs) from nine anaesthetised rats undergoing experimentally induced cardiac arrest.
Within the first 30 seconds after cardiac arrest, all of the rats displayed a widespread, transient surge of highly synchronised brain activity that had features associated with a highly aroused brain.
Furthermore, the authors observed nearly identical patterns in the dying brains of rats undergoing asphyxiation.
‘The prediction that we would find some signs of conscious activity in the brain during cardiac arrest was confirmed with the data,’ says Borjigin, who conceived the idea for the project in 2007 with study co-author neurologist Michael M. Wang, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of neurology and associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the U-M.
‘But, we were surprised by the high levels of activity,’ adds study senior author anesthesiologist George Mashour, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of anesthesiology and neurosurgery at the U-M. ‘ In fact, at near-death, many known electrical signatures of consciousness exceeded levels found in the waking state, suggesting that the brain is capable of well-organised electrical activity during the early stage of clinical death.

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Herding cancer cells to their deaths

, 26 August 2020/in E-News /by 3wmedia

An advanced tumour is a complex ecosystem. Though derived from a single cell, it evolves as it grows until it contains several subspecies of cells that vary dramatically in their genetic traits and behaviours. This cellular heterogeneity is what makes advanced tumours so difficult to treat. An international team of scientists led jointly by Professors Colin Goding from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research who is based at the University of Oxford and Jos

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All hospitals should require drug, alcohol tests for physicians

, 26 August 2020/in E-News /by 3wmedia

To improve patient safety, hospitals should randomly test physicians for drug and alcohol use in much the same way other major industries in the United States do to protect their customers. The recommendation comes from two Johns Hopkins physicians and patient safety experts.
In addition, the experts say, medical institutions should take a cue from other high-risk industries, like airlines, railways and nuclear power plants, and mandate that doctors be tested for drug or alcohol impairment immediately following an unexpected patient death or other significant event.
‘Patients might be better protected from preventable harm. Physicians and employers may experience reduced absenteeism, unintentional adverse events, injuries, and turnover, and early identification of a debilitating problem,’ write authors Julius Cuong Pham, M.D., Ph.D., an emergency medicine physician at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Gregory E. Skipper, M.D., of the drug and alcohol treatment center Promises, in Santa Monica, CA. also contributed.
Pham, Pronovost and Skipper note that ‘mandatory alcohol-drug testing for clinicians involved with unexpected deaths or sentinel events is not conducted in medicine,’ even though physicians are as susceptible to alcohol, narcotic and sedative addiction as the general public. (A sentinel event is an incident which results in death or serious physical harm.)
The authors recommend in their commentary that hospitals take a number of steps as a model to address this overlooked patient safety issue. They are:
— Mandatory physical examination, drug testing or both, before a medical staff appointment to a hospital. This already occurs in some hospitals and has been successful in other industries.
— A program of random alcohol-drug testing.
— A policy for routine drug-alcohol testing for all physicians involved with a sentinel event leading to patient death.
— Establishment of testing standards by a national hospital regulatory or accrediting body. The steps could be limited to hospitals and their affiliated physicians at this time, since hospitals have the infrastructure to conduct adverse event analysis and drug testing, note the authors. Hospitals also have the governing bylaws to guide physician conduct and an existing national accrediting body, The Joint Commission, the authors add.
In cases in which a physician is found to be impaired, a hospital could ‘suspend or revoke privileges and, in some cases, report this to the state licensing board,’ the authors write. Impaired physicians would undergo treatment and routine monitoring as a condition for continued licensure and hospital privileges.
‘Patients and their family members have a right to be protected from impaired physicians,’ argue the authors in the JAMA commentary. ‘In other high-risk industries, this right is supported by regulations and surveillance. Shouldn

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Neuroimaging study sheds light on cognitive fatigue in MS

, 26 August 2020/in E-News /by 3wmedia

A new study by Kessler Foundation scientists sheds light on the mechanisms underlying cognitive fatigue in individuals with multiple sclerosis. Cognitive fatigue is fatigue resulting from mental work rather than from physical labour. This study by Genova H et al: (

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Second Sight Medical Products? Argus II named Invention of the Year by Popular Science magazine

, 26 August 2020/in E-News /by 3wmedia

Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., the leading developer of retinal prostheses for the blind, is pleased to announce that its Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System (Argus II), has been recognised by Popular Science magazine as

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Quality of patient care drives physician satisfaction

, 26 August 2020/in E-News /by 3wmedia

Being able to provide high-quality health care is a primary driver of job satisfaction among physicians, and obstacles to quality patient care are a source of stress for doctors, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

While physicians note some advantages of electronic health records, physicians complain that the systems in use today are cumbersome to operate and are an important contributor to their dissatisfaction, the study found.

The findings suggest that the factors contributing to physician dissatisfaction could serve as early warnings of deeper quality problems developing in the health care system.

‘Many things affect physician professional satisfaction, but a common theme is that physicians describe feeling stressed and unhappy when they see barriers preventing them from providing quality care,’ said Dr. Mark Friedberg, the study’s lead author and a natural scientist at RAND, a non-profit research organisation. ‘If their perceptions about quality are correct, then solving these problems will be good for both patients and physicians.’

The findings are from a project, sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA), designed to identify the factors that influence physicians’ professional satisfaction. The issue is of increasing importance as health reform and other forces in the U.S. health care system alter contemporary delivery and payment models.

‘Overcoming modern medicine’s greatest obstacles to first-rate medical care can simultaneously enhance the quality of care and improve professional satisfaction among physicians,’ said AMA President Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven. ‘The AMA is committed to leading a national dialog regarding the major factors driving many physicians to feel increasingly disconnected from what really matters

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Bone grafting improvements with the help of sea coral

, 26 August 2020/in E-News /by 3wmedia

Sea coral could soon be used more extensively in bone grafting procedures thanks to new research from Swansea University that has refined the material

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Ultrasound device combined with clot-buster safe for stroke

, 26 August 2020/in E-News /by 3wmedia

A study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) showed that a hands-free ultrasound device combined with a clot-busting drug was safe for ischemic stroke patients.

The results of the phase II pilot study were reported today in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. Lead author is Andrew D. Barreto, M.D., assistant professor of neurology in the Stroke Program at the UTHealth Medical School. Principal investigator is James C. Grotta, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at the UTHealth Medical School, the Roy M. & Phyllis Gough Huffington Distinguished Chair and co-director of the Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.

The device, which uses UTHealth technology licensed to Cerevast Therapeutics, Inc., is placed on the stroke patient

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