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Technology and medicine: Applying Google Glass in the medical field
Rosemary Sparacio Medical & Allied HealthcareEvery day, new strides in technology make headlines in all kinds of areas. Nowhere is it is more prevalent or exciting than in the medical field. And one of the most talked about new tech "gadgets" to come onto the scene and into the consciousness of just about everyone who follows the news is Google Glass. The last few months have seen story after story about Goggle Glass being used by physicians.
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Organ transportation becomes big business for air medical services
Joy Burgess Medical & Allied HealthcareAlthough air ambulances focus their services on offering patient transportation, organ transportation has become big business in the last few years. For organs that require transportation over a short distance, a helicopter ambulance is often used, while fixed-wing ambulances may be used to transport organs over long distances.
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Protecting young knees from injury associated with exercise
Heidi Dawson Sports & FitnessKnee pain is something that is too often associated with just the older population. But knee pain is also a common complaint in younger people — especially those who exercise regularly. While in the short term, halting exercise may be beneficial for knee pain, in the long run this is clearly detrimental to overall health. For this reason, it is vital that we help protect young athletes from knee pain. And when it does occur, we must deal with it from the onset.
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Efforts underway to help physicians find best apps to recommend
Pamela Lewis Dolan Medical & Allied HealthcareAs patient engagement becomes an increasingly important aspect of a reformed healthcare system, mobile health applications are often thought to hold great potential for getting patients more involved in their healthcare. With more than 43,000 health-related apps available on the iTunes store alone, and new apps being introduced every day, there is no shortage when it comes to available tools. But due to sheer volume, the ability for doctors to assess and analyze these tools for their safety and efficacy is lacking.
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Infant study highlights need for early identification of autism
Dr. Denise A. Valenti Mental HealthcareA diminished ability to socially interact with eye contact is recognized as a diagnostic marker for autism. A study published Nov. 6 in Nature reported that social engagement using eye contact starts at birth for all infants, but can start to decline as early as two months of age in children later identified with autism.
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Telemedicine legislation: Who is keeping count?
Herb Rogove Medical & Allied HealthcareFor those interested in seeing a brief composite of federal legislation that may be of significant interest to the telemedicine/telehealth community, the following are the most recent ones of note.
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Healthy brains impacting organ donation — but why?
Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied HealthcareBrain death occurs when there is a total and irreversible loss of all the brain's functions. Organ donation most commonly occurs when there is a brain death. Dr. Andreas Kramer and colleagues at the University of Calgary, Alberta, recently published a study investigating changes in the availability of donated organ tissue over the last decade. The rate of organ donation is in decline despite significant efforts to educate the public.
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Understanding integration inhibitors for the treatment of HIV
Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani PharmaceuticalIntegration of the retroviral genome into the host cell chromatin is the key step in the development of HIV disease. Blocking the integration of viral genome by integrase inhibitors is an attractive therapeutic strategy. Many integrase inhibitors were developed by rational drug design strategies. Many of these compounds proceeded for preclinical trials, but further clinical development was halted due to in vivo toxicity and nonspecificity of the drugs towards the target.
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Rx for HEMS: Faster and lower
Mark Huber Medical & Allied HealthcareHow low can you go? (And live.) That has been the perpetual question as the FAA continues to work with the helicopter EMS industry to develop low-altitude infrastructure in the national airspace system, including better weather-reporting tools, low-altitude routes and point-in-space (Pins) instrument approaches.
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Identifying symptoms of acute depression
Dr. Abimbola Farinde Mental HealthcareDepression can develop in any individual regardless of age or gender. It is a common mental disorder, and the incidence of depression increases each day. In order to improve the changes of a positive outcome, the symptoms should be identified almost immediately upon onset, but there are cases where it can sometimes take years to identify.
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