by Bruce Brown | August 21, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Robotics in various forms has multiple applications in medicine and healthcare. Point of view (POV) is a helpful starting point in assessing potential uses for robotics. For example when a physician uses a workstation to insert a stent using robotic arms in a remote...
by Bruce Brown | August 20, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
The devastating opioid addiction crisis continues to ruin American lives, including 115 people who die every day after overdosing according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Pharmaceutical companies traditionally seek drug-centric painkillers that also...
by Bruce Brown | August 17, 2018 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
The amount of data from global biomedical research is massive and growing fast. Big Data should probably be re-named “Bigger Data.” The National Center for Biotechnology Information reported recently that the increased data from genomics sequencing...
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by Alfred Poor | August 17, 2018 | General News, Medical
Patients who have sustained injuries from accidents or stroke often face a long and difficult recovery. They must endure frequent physical therapy sessions as they relearn to control their bodies’ movements. One problem with this is that the sessions are...
by Bruce Brown | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
Subjective reporting about healthy behaviors results in data that are shaky at best and outright wrong and misleading in the worst cases. A metastudy of medical adherence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published in 2014 found patient noncompliance...
by Alfred Poor | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
“Mind over matter; if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” That is a gross oversimplification of a new approach to patient pain management: hypnosis. Medical hypnosis has long been used as a tool to help patients with pain, stress, and anxiety....
