Mobile Machine Saves Lives

There is now a new machine that has the ability to add oxygen a patient's blood stream suffering from smoke inhalation. This added oxygen can help prevent organ failure and save lives. The machine, called Cardio Help, can help any patient whose blood is not getting enough oxygen. Cardio Help helps enrich the blood with oxygen, thus giving patients a better chance to recover from smoke inhalation, infections, and much more. Check out the video above to see this small machine with big life saving potential.

Credits:
"Medical Technology at the Medical Trade Fair in Düsseldorf/G". Youtube.com. 25 November 2008. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CllYxHrX3G8&feature=PlayList&p=CEE20E07AC0E6CEF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=45>. 13 August 2009.

Can digital health protect your privacy?

As patients` records making their way to the digital world did you think how it will affect your privacy?
Digital record is a good idea say experts, what do you think?

http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/11/technology/electronic_health_records_privacy/?postversion=2009081115

Work Cited:

David Goldman, CNNMoney.com staff writer, “Can digital health protect your privacy”, August 11, 2009: 3:27 PM ET

TED Talks: Eva Vertes

An interesting video that features Eva Vertes talking about medical breakthroughs that might lead to the cure of Alzheimer's. She is a microbiology prodigy, at the age of 17 she found a compound that stops fruit-flies brain cells from dying. It has been regarded as a step towards the cure of Alzheimer's. She continues to research the roots of such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer's. Fully understanding these diseases may lead to cures.

Practicing Medicine in the Web 2.0 Era

Practicing Medicine in the Web 2.0 Era

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This video peaked my interests simply becasue of the title of it. Right after I finished my paper on Web 2.0 I began to surf the web looking for interesting medical things to post on my blog. And this is what I found, it ties in perfectly to what we were researching in class. It shows a real life application of Web 2.0. An internet that collects data, provides services, and practicall thinks for itself. Enjoy!

The Future, Personalized Medicine

When Steven Burrell addressed the AdvaMed 2008 conference, a medical technology conference in Washington, it would seem that he was writing part of a plot to the movie. He said that medicine will soon be so advanced that you will walk into a Wal-Mart like store, give a sample of your blood, and leave with a bag that contains the cures for everything that could be wrong with you. This of course is a very general idea, but one that may be plausible. Medicine has advanced at an alarming rate in the past 50 years, and if it continues along the same evolutionary path will one day reach this potential. He said that soon our cloths will be filled with senors and probes that will monitor our health. Most of the technology is already around, people just need to find a cheap and practical use for it. Nike has already partnered with Apple to create a senor that fits in some Nike brand shoes that monitors different things when your running. The possibilities for this new industry are endless, and will undoubtably lengthen the life expetency around the world.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802482.html

Microchips, Can They Cure Diseases?

Scientific researchers at the University of Florida have recently received a $2.5 million grant to be used for researching microchips. These microchips are supposed to be implanted into the brain and will help cure some human illnesses. Initially they are looking to cure epilepsy and paralysis, but as all evolution goes one day they may be able to cure almost anything. The mini computers that they are going to be implanted into the brain and meant to interpret the signal being sent out and correct it.

There researchers feel extremly confident that within the next four years they will have a prototype to test on humans beings, they are currently testing on rats. Much of the technology is already there, scientists have been able to decode brain activity for years. They do feel however that more work needs to be done, scientists will need to pinpoint exact casuses of diseases before they can be fixed.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070724145124.htm

The Future of Artificial Limbs

The future of prosthetic legs that look and feel like actual limbs may be soon realized. The big problem with replicating a human limb is that there are so many things that the human arm can do. Many people take it for granted but the potential uses of a humans limb is almost unlimited. Trying to make sure a prosthetic limb can do all of these actions is hard. Its like building a machine that can do 100,000 things.

This recent surge in necessity for prosthetic limbs has been caused by the war in Iraq. Thousands of U.S. soldiers have lost a limb. Many of these soldiers are young and still have a long life to live. Scientists are trying to provide them a means to live a normal life. These new prosthetic limbs are going to be fused to the bone and completely controlled by the brain.

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-07/waiting-arm-and-leg?page=2

Proton Power Beats Cancer Better

For many years, doctors have been treating cancer patients with radiation therapy. Radiation therapy is based on using X-rays to destroy cancer cells in the patients body. However, there is another type of treatment for cancer that is more effective than radiation. With traditional radiation therapy, doctors use kind of a blanket shot of radiation at an area of a patient's body affected by cancer. Proton-therapy allows doctors to accurately target cancer in the body and then release the radiation energy within the tumor. This therapy is called Proton-therapy and it has been around since the 1950's. Now you're probably wondering why I am including a treatment that has been around for over half a century in the future section of this blog. The reason for that is because it has not been very widely used up to this point. The equipment for Proton-therapy is incredibly expensive and there are only five locations in the United States that offer the treatment as of 2007. However, advances in technology will one day make the equipment for Proton-therapy more affordable, thus making the therapy itself more affordable. Hopefully, this powerful treatment will be able to defeat cancer one day and make the world a much happier and healthier place in the process.

Credits:

Layton, Julia. "Is proton therapy better than traditional radiation for cancer treatment?." 10 March 2007. HowStuffWorks.com. 11 August 2009.

http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060822/060822_proton_therapy_vlrg_9a.widec.jpg (picture)

Robots Are Taking Over the Operating Room

The future of medical technology sees robots as champions of precision surgery. In this video, advanced robots developed by a company called Quanser are redefining minimally-invasive surgeries. These robots can be connected to advanced sensors that allow them to perform surgery with more precision than even a human surgeon may be capable of. The same equipment that is used to control the robots in surgery also has applications for helping stroke victims regain thier motor skills. By participating in interactive video exercises on a computer monitor, patients can manipulate a cursor to different parts of the screen to practice regaining their motor skills. Many people picture robots taking over the world in the future, but for now it would seem that they are just stuck helping people get better.

Credits:
Digital Journal. Inside the Robotic Operating Room of the Future. Youtube.com. Toronto, 9 October 2007. . 8 August 2009.

Meeting of the Minds

America's health care system is on the verge of a massive transformation, fueling a debate that has pitted neighbor against neighbor, patients against insurers, and the haves against the have-nots. We've demanded reform, but now that reform is raising more questions than answers.In "Meeting of the Minds: The Future of Health Care" hosted by CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, CNBC assembles some of the biggest names in the industry and government to advance the conversation and propose solutions to America's health care crisis. Will universal access lead to lower quality of care? Will our efforts to health care for all stifle business and put America at a disadvantage in the global arena? And what will American health care look like for the next generation?"Meeting of the Minds: The Future of Health Care" will crystallize what's at stake in this great debate and get to the heart of what reform will mean for America.

Visit the website:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/30582844/

Future Of Health Care Reform

President Barak Obama is talking about the future of health care.

->How to focus financial resources on medicine that does cure instead on the one that doesn’t prove itself as effective?
->Who is a good physician?
->Does only outcomes counts?
->What it the better route to take?
End one life? Is that a personal choice?

And many more…

10 Coming Trends in Healthcare

Ten 10-Year Trends for the Future of Healthcare: Implications for Academic Health Centers

1. More Patients
2. More technology
3. More information
4. The patient will be the ultimate consumer
5. Different delivery model
6. Opportunity for innovation
7. Costs will increase
8. Uninsured will increase
9. Providers will be paid less
10. Need for a healthcare reform

To expand on these trends visit the website:

http://www.ochsnerjournal.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1043%2F1524-5012(2001)003%5B0010%3ATYTFTF%5D2.0.CO%3B2&ct=1


Work cited:

Garson Jr Arthur, MD, MPH1 and Steven A. Levin2 “Ten 10-Year Trends
For the Future of Healthcare: Implications for Academic Health Centers”. The Ochsner Journal. Pg 10- 15. Volume 3, Issue 1 (Winter 2001). Aug 7 2009.

Explore New Ideas

HealthcareSpeakers.net is designed to quickly give you a sense of the most exiting topics and speakers on the scene. The speakers are sharing ideas, new possibilities that you cannnot find somewhere else. It is a great opportunity to explore different points of view. Many of the topics deal with the future and innovation of medicine. Enjoy and take a look of what other brilliant individuals have to share…

Visit: http://www.healthcarespeakers.net/

The Personalized Future of Medicine

Drug treatments tailored to match individual patients' genes sound like science fiction -- except, in a limited way, they're already here

“Some day, genomics might give doctors a way to predict with a much higher degree of accuracy which medicines you should take and those that be avoided….”

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf20010816_538.htm

Work cited:
David Shook .”The Personalized Future of Medicine”. THE BIOTECH BEAT. Businessweek online Journal. AUGUST 16, 2001

Human Cloning: Playing God or Helping Others Continued

Here is the second part of the last post on human cloning. Again, please watch the video and come up with your own conclusions to this critical debate in medical research both today and in the foreseeable future.

Credits:
Dixon, Patrick Dr. Human cloning - part two - why investors don't like cloning. 14 June 2007. Youtube.com. London, UK. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yU99-QlDLc&NR=1>. 05 August 2009.

Human Cloning...Playing God or Helping Others

Whether you are for or against it, human cloning seems to have a place in the future of medical research and technology. I invite you to watch this video and the second part of it which will be in another post and develop you own opinion as to whether or not you believe that human cloning has any place in the world.

Credits:
Dixon, Patrick Dr. Human cloning - part one - who is doing human cloning. Future of human cloning and why few clones have been made for medical research. Reasons / arguments for and against human cloning. Cloning animals and biotechnology. 14 June 2007. Youtube.com London, UK. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfLyOGQ3TpA>. 05 August 2009

New Insight From a New Researcher

Here is another great TED Talks video about a brilliant young girl who has noticed some stunning breakthroughs in the field of cancer research. Her discoveries are bound to be at the forefront of fighting cancer in the future. Even though the video is long, it is very interesting to hear Ms. Vertes' new insight into this disease which has plagued mankind for far too long. In fact, you can actually skip a few minutes into the video if you want to, because she starts off with a personal story. I hope everyone enjoys this video and finds something interesting along the way.

Credits:

TED.com. Eva Vertes: The Future of Medicine. Moneterey, CA, February 2005. 5 August 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YesVOFjZGcs.

Hope for the Future: HIV Vaccine Research

As the medicine keeps moving forward many new diseases could be prevented. Maybe in the future HIV could be prevented...

Possible Cure for Cancer in the Future

Eva Vertes -- only 19 when she gave this talk -- discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Althoug the talk is long it is one that WORTH to hear!!!

About Eva Vertes
Eva Vertes is a microbiology prodigy. Her discovery, at age 17, of a compound that stops fruit-fly brain cells from dying was regarded as a step toward curing Alzheimer's. Now she aims to find…