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Medical device plastic material innovations to watch
Don Rosato ManufacturingThe medical device universe encompasses a particularly imposing spectrum of constant technological innovation, including hundreds of different technologies and thousands of types of products. This affords high performance specialty plastics material suppliers unique opportunities in medical device market development.
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A blood test that predicts suicide?
Dorothy L. Tengler Mental HealthcareThere are other variables, however, that affect suicide rates, such as socioeconomic status, employment, occupation, sexual orientation and gender identity. But there may be more; it could be that changes in gene expression can indicate heightened risk for self-harm. Alexander Niculescu, a psychiatrist at Indiana University in Indianapolis, has been looking for biological signs of suicide risk in an effort to prevent these tragedies. Because of the brain's complexity and inaccessibility, he has focused on molecular signs, such as biomarkers.
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Text messaging in emergency medicine
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareTexting via cellphones and other electronic communication devices is used more than ever today. Interacting with friends and family, text messaging shapes our lives and language in many ways. And those ways are increasing, especially for patients with diabetes.
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Reactions mixed to announced meaningful use changes
Pamela Lewis Dolan Healthcare AdministrationA new proposed timeline for the meaningful use incentive program for electronic health record use was announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The change came with mixed reaction from many healthcare member organizations advocating for more flexibility in the incentive program. It was also met with some initial confusion over what the revised timeline means.
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Full tilt: The future of helicopter design leaning to propellers
Mark Huber Transportation Technology & AutomotiveThe future of helicopters is ... propellers! The Pentagon recently awarded initial development contracts for the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Future Vertical Lift program, and all of the winning designs were compound helicopter designs. That is, they had the ability to take off and land like helicopters but fly with the speed of slow jet or fast turboprop airplanes.
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The ER doctor in your living room
Maria Frisch Healthcare AdministrationVirtual ERs benefit hospital-based locations by screening and treating low-urgency and common medical problems. This frees up both staff time and resources to focus on high-urgency, major medical concerns. For this reason, some local ERs have started to offer their own virtual service.
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Media distort reality of latest treatment for blindness
Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied HealthcareWe all want heroes and dramatic rescues, and we want the day to be saved. A happy ending is preferred, and perhaps this is at the expense of unbiased observations from the media and the limited availability of neutral reporting on medical advances. Such is the case with how the media has handled the information regarding retinal prosthetic devices.
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The role of nanomaterials in the treatment of cerebral palsy
Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani Medical & Allied HealthcareCerebral palsy is a chronic childhood disability that may be a result of injury to the developing brain either in uterus or immediately after birth. The injury to the brain can lead to defects in motor, sensory and cognitive functions. The child develops rigidity and distortion of limbs later in life. Although there are different causes for the development of cerebral palsy, neuroinflammation plays a major role in brain injury.
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Why HealthCare.gov should have been a mobile app
Alex Bratton Healthcare AdministrationOf all the problems with the HealthCare.gov site, perhaps the most baffling is why it was created as a website in the first place. The main target of the HealthCare.gov website is young, healthy millennials, those aged 18 to 29 years old. Since millennials don't run up big healthcare bills, their monthly premiums will subsidize the insurance benefits of nearly 4.3 million older and less healthy Americans.
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10 tips to help your clients help themselves
Heidi Dawson Sports & FitnessSuccessful treatment of an injury or pain condition comes down to a working partnership between the therapist and the client. Each person has to keep to his/her end of the deal to achieve the desired result. Here are my top 10 tips for helping your clients to understand the importance of their own efforts, feel empowered into helping themselves and for aiding even the busiest or most forgetful client in getting their homework done.
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