Choosing a career is difficult, and slightly overwhelming, for high school and college students. Often times students do not receive the opportunity of exploring their career choice beforehand. Adventist Health is helping students make their careers feasible with a summer program that allows them to experience medical school. Adventist Health...
The University of Hawaii’s John A Burns School of Medicine is offering a 5-month long training program as an alternative track for third year medical students. So far, 39 medical students have signed up for this program. Students in this program will be working directly with members of the community...
In this day and age, technology has had a tremendous impact in most industries, especially healthcare. From simulations to robotic assisted surgeries, technology is taking medicine to a whole new level. Telemedicine is making it’s way into the physician to patient relationship. Many physicians are now diagnosing and treating their...
Purdue University is working on a new affordable, self-learning device to be placed into existing MRI machines. This technology will allow medical professionals to better monitor their patients by performing concurrent medical imaging and recording for diagnostic purposes. Ranajay Mandal and Nishant Babaria, graduate research assistants in Purdue's College of...
Surgical robots are becoming a popular commodity in the healthcare industry, however, the high costs and lack of training facilities are limiting the number of robots on the hospital floors. At the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M), they have created a trainer surgical robot that could help address this...
Treating patients with dementia has a fair share of approaches and many that relate to the way other interact with them. Some methods include social interactions, creative simulations, and, as a last resort, antipsychotic medications. A UK study has shown that patients with dementia can improve their lives and save...
Titan Medical is collaborating with Florida Hospital Nicholson Center for feasibility and validation studies to support Titan's regulatory application for its SPORT Surgical System. These studies are expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2017 and continue into 2018. Titan Medical is a Canadian company focused on research and...
Studies done by CME Outfitters (CMEO), an accredited provider in continuing medical education, found incorporating online medical simulation into educational activities helped clinicians achieve best practices in screening for comorbidities in psoriasis, as well as counseling and treating patients with psoriasis. CMEO presented findings from two activities on psoriasis demonstrating...
Arsenal Medical has developed a foam system, called ResQFoam™, is designed to control acute hemorrhage. The way ResQFoam works is by injecting two liquid polymers, which together combine to create a foam. This foam quickly expands though actively flowing blood to compresses the injury and control bleeding. Upon undergoing surgery,...
The American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) launched a new tool, Family Medicine Residency Explorer (www.healthlandscape.org), designed to help family medicine residency programs accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) succeed in the move to a single graduate medical education (GME) accreditation system. Programs currently accredited solely by the AOA...