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• Track Your Loved One’s Status

  30Nov
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  A new technology provides visitors of surgery patients, real time information regarding their loved one’s condition. The latest equipment installed in the Adena Regional Medical Center are tracker boards that update information to a patient’s status inside the surgery room. The trackers display each care stage which basically includes the first assessment, the patient’s transfer to the operating room, when the surgery starts and when the surgery has ended and completed and the post surgery care. The system provides confidentiality. It operates through a card given to the family with specific instructions on how to access their patient’s status. The new system also was installed in their ER Department.

• Overcome Organ Rejection

  08Oct
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  A new tissue typing technology has developed in Sydney to accurately overcome rejection of transplant organs. It is faster, cheaper and more accurate than the current methods.

  To avoid immunological rejection of organs transferred from a donor to recipient it is necessary to use tissue typing to determine whether it is compatible or not. The test involves individual human leukocyte antigen proteins to be examined. These proteins are located on the surface of nearly every cell in the body. Any significant difference in the structure indicates whether they are compatible or not.
  This new technology could help save lives by broadening the base of available tissue and organ donors. By avoiding the complications of essential tissue match required it boosts the speed and accuracy to prevent organ rejection.

• Fabulous Body with UltraShape

  29Sep
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  For those who want to lose that bulging belly quickly and easy without hitting the gym. A machine invented by surgeons called “ULTRASHAPE” can “melt away” stubborn tummy fat without surgery. It’s very effective in removing excess stomach fat, love handles or fat in other areas. It’s the most advance non-invasive method of fat reduction to date. It works by focusing high frequency ultra sound waves from the outside of the body to targeted areas. Absolutely no anesthesia, no pain, and no recovery are needed. The ultrasound waves break down fat cells without damaging blood vessels or other tissues. The fat cells are then eliminated through natural process over a period of three weeks. Patients can resume their normal activities right after every session. It is as fast as having a lunch break.

  ULTRASHAPE is the first and only non-surgical fat destroying treatment. It promises a reduction of 2cm in a single session. Normally about 4 to 5 sessions are recommended to fully achieve the result required. It is available at Marie France, Belo, Godiva and other beauty clinic.

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• Engineers Have Big Ideas for the Latest in Medical Scanners

  14Aug
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  Rutherford-Appleton Laboratories have developed one of the World´s largest imagers that could form the heart of future medical scanners. The new technology will allow doctors to produce more sensitive and faster images of the human body at a lower-cost to the healthcare profession.

  The innovative technology, which has been developed as part of the £4.5m Basic Technology MI-3 Consortium, will help in providing instant analysis of medical screening tests and the early detection of cancer.

  Easier to use and faster than the imagers used in current body scanners, and with very large active pixel sensors with an imaging area of approximately 6cm square, the technology has been specifically developed to meet demanding clinical applications such as x-ray imaging and mammography. This silicon imager is about 15 times larger in area than the latest Intel processors.

  The next step of the project is to produce wafer-scale imagers which can produce images that approach the width of the human torso. This will eliminate the need for expensive and inefficient lenses and so enable lower-cost, more sensitive and faster medical imaging systems. Very large active pixel sensors could soon be making a major impact on medical imaging by further reducing the need for the old technology of film. The UK is a World-lead in such sensors for scientific and medical applications and this is a lead that UK intends to maintain.

• MiroCam: The New Endroscopy

  06May
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  Take anyone who has undergone Endroscopy and he would tell you the difficulties he experienced as he swallowed the flexible or rigid cable — which, of course, can be a source of infection, over-sedation, and, worst, the harming of various body organs. The answer? The wireless capsule camera (which also has other names such as “PillCam,” “video pill,” “Sayaka,” or “Endocapsule” that enables one to view and see areas that the old-fashioned endoscopes have failed to display. This capsule traverses the path of the intestines after a patient takes it in through the mouth. Although it indeed takes a longer time to provide images, the ones it produces are clearer and of better quality.

• Real Fake Leg

  28Apr
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  Prosthetic legs have evolved to lightweight and more “user friendly”. The old prosthetics were designed just to allow patients to stand with “both legs”, but walking and climbing the stairs were difficult, and running was impossible. Then “bendable” prosthetics were developed. Now a prosthetic that looks like the real thing gives people who lost their legs a better chance to live normal lives, and wear clothes that they otherwise would not wear with the old cyborg-like prosthetics.

  One particular design was called LISA, which stood for lightweight, inconspicuous, shapely and active. Running is now possible, and women can even wear shoes with heels, as the ankles can be adjusted with a button.

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• Treatment for Heart Attack Victims

  26Apr
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  Mid-Yorkshire offers new treatment to patients suffering from ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Instead of giving patients a clot-busting drug and later on undergo surgery, paramedics will send STEMI patients to a treatment center at Leeds General Infirmary, and will be given a primary angioplasty.

  For the treatment to be successful, people should be aware of the symptoms of a heart attack, and call an ambulance immediately. Symptoms of heart attack include extreme chest pain that radiates to the jaw, arms or neck, nausea shortness of breath and sweating.

  The program include the coordination between paramedics and hospital staff. The service is available 24-hours a day.

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• Bone Implant Technology

  14Apr
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  People who have lost their teeth and want a more permanent replacement can have a dental implant, where a titanium-based metal is screwed into the jaw bone and a crown is placed on top. The advantage of a dental implant is that the gums do not recede due to the absence of the teeth’s root. The jaw bone also regenerates around the implant, making it permanent.

  Bone lost or damaged due to accidents can also be reconstructed using titanium screws and plates.

  New developments led to the use of porous materials such as ceramic instead of pure metal. This is to replace heavy implant material to lighter ones, and replicate the surface structure of natural bone.

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• Avandia May Raise Osteoporosis Risk

  28Jan
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  The popular diabetes drug marketed as Avandia may increase bone thinning, a discovery that could help explain why diabetics can have an increased risk of fractures.

  New research raises the possibility that long-term treatment with rosiglitazone, as Avandia is also called, could lead to osteoporosis. The diabetes drug is used to improved response to insulin.

  Researchers found that in mice, the drug increased the activity of the cells that degrade bones, according to a report in this week’s online issue of Nature Medicine.

  The finding “has led to a better understanding of the challenges associated with long-term treatment of patients with Type II diabetes,” said Ronald M. Evans of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., lead author of the report.

  “The long-term use of rosiglitazone should be cautious in patients with higher risk of fractures such as older women,” he added. Using it in combination with anti-osteoporosis drugs could be beneficial, he said.

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• Brain talk

  19Jan
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  There is a latest technology out in the market today which allows the human brain to make a direct contact with a computer. This will really help those who are obsessive multi-taskers as they would no longer have to be in direct contact with a computer to avail of its services. This could also help patients who are in a coma as the computers can direct interaction when there is one from the sleeping brain. With the digital automatic consciousness, patients can now stop relying on people to interact with slumbering patients and also, unlike people, computers don’t lose hope as they are programmed to do their job which is to awaken brain power in the patient. It becomes necessary to hope for this kind of computer to proliferate if only to help the medical community cope with almost hopeless cases.