Details of Scientific Electronic Aspirin

Electronic Aspirin

ASPIRIN

For the people who suffer from migraines, cluster headaches, and other causes of chronic, excruciating head or facial pain, the "take two aspirins and call me in the morning" method is useless. Doctors have long associated the most severe, chronic forms of headache with the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG), a facial nerve bundle, but haven't yet found a treatment that works on the SPG long-term. A technology under clinical investigation at Autonomic Technologies, Inc., (Redwood City, CA) is a patient-powered tool for blocking SPG signals at the first sign of a headache. 

The system involves the permanent implant of a small nerve stimulating device in the upper gum on the side of the head normally affected by headache. The lead tip of the implant connects with the SPG bundle, and when a patient senses the onset of a headache, he or she places a handheld remote controller on the cheek nearest the implant. The resulting signals stimulate the SPG nerves and block the pain-causing neurotransmitters.

Needle Free Diabetes Care

Needle-Free Diabetes Care

Needle Free Diabetes Care Device

To say, Diabetes self-care is a pain—literally. It brings the constant need to draw blood for glucose testing, the need for daily insulin shots and the heightened risk of infection from all that poking. Continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps are today's best options for automating most of the complicated daily process of blood sugar management – but they don't completely remove the need for skin pricks and shots. But there's new skin in this game. Echo Therapeutics (Philadelphia, PA) is developing technologies that would replace the poke with a patch. Currently, the company is working on a trans-dermal bio-sensor that reads blood analyses through the skin without drawing blood. The technology involves a handheld electric-toothbrush-like device that removes just enough top-layer skin cells to put the patient's blood chemistry within signal range of a patch-borne bio-sensor. The sensor collects one reading per minute and sends the data without wire to a remote monitor, triggering audible alarms when levels go out of the patient's optimal range and tracking glucose levels over time.

The iPad: Not a healthcare-grade device??

The iPad: Not a healthcare-grade device?

Let’s not kid ourselves: Apple did not create the iPad for healthcare professionals. Might it still be of use to the healthcare industry? Almost everyone, including its competitors, agree that it will.“The iPad is a content consumption device that will enable doctors to review images, including zooming in on and annotating x-rays,” Mike Stinson, Motion Computing’s VP of Marketing told MobiHealthNews. “I don’t think the iPad is a real data acquisition device… So, the iPad will be in the mix and will become part of the workflow but it won’t replace slates like [Motion's C5] in the same way that [Motion's slates] haven’t replaced desktops.”What else is the iPad missing? In which other ways does it fall short for healthcare professionals? Here are a few common complaints or observations about the iPad’s hangups for HC workers:

1. The iPad has no camera, an important feature for any connected health tablet.
2. Despite the iPad’s rather impressive “up to” 10 hours of battery life, some have lamented Apple’s continued use of non-swappable batteries. Most tablets targeting the healthcare environment boast swappable batteries so clinicians can continue using them without waiting for a charge.
3. Industry onlookers have argued that the iPad’s 9.7 inch screen is not quite big enough for use with intensive medical applications.
4. Some people believe that the iPad is perhaps too big for many clinicians who would prefer a device that fits snugly into their pockets.
5. The iPad is not ruggedized and its screen will likely break if dropped. Many healthcare tablets claim to be drop resistant from about three feet.
6. The iPad’s inability to multi-task, meaning it can’t run more than one application at once is another big shortcoming that might hamper uptake for healthcare workers.
7. Most healthcare tablets have barcode scanners — the iPad does not.
8. Most healthcare tablets are easily disinfected, water-proof and dust resistant. The iPad does not appear to address any of those issues.
9. As another maker of healthcare tablets put it:
10. “First and foremost the iPad is a consumer device — that is the big thing,” Panasonic’s Senior Developer Greg Davidson told MobiHealthNews. “Doctors say it’s what they want, but when they go and talk to their IT departments and are told ‘it’s not running the right operating system;’ ‘it’s not easily sanitizable;’ ‘it doesn’t have the ports we need;’ or ‘it doesn’t run the particular apps we need.’”

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Johns Hopkins researchers report that their test of an interventional X-ray guidance device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2013 has the potential to reduce the radiation exposure of patients undergoing intra-arterial therapy (IAT) for liver cancer.