Friday, March 31, 2006
It's April Fool's Day Somewhere
Filed under: not funny
We were crestfallen when we learned we wouldn't be running any April Fool's Day gags this year (we could, of course, but that would require posting on Saturday). But we're happy to bring you someone else's gag, making its way across the continents and internets today. It's laziness research from a man named Leth Argos! Get it? There's more on Motivational Deficiency Disorder, or MoDeD, via BMJ:
Neurologist Leth Argos is part of the team that has identified the disorder, which can be diagnosed using a combination of positron emission tomography and low scores on a motivation rating scale, previously validated in elite athletes. "This disorder is poorly understood," Professor Argos told the BMJ. "It is underdiagnosed and undertreated."Professor Argos is an adviser to a small Australian biotechnology company, Healthtec, which is currently concluding phase II trials of indolebant, a cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonist. Although still unpublished, the preliminary results from the company's phase II studies are promising, according to Professor Argos: "Indolebant is effective and well tolerated. One young man who could not leave his sofa is now working as an investment adviser in Sydney."
Interestingly, the disease-mongering conference they refer to is real -- The Disease-Mongering conference features talks on pharmaceutical marketing, the media's complicity, and one intriguing presentation called "Old Age is Fatal" ... Some googling reveals that MoDeD was invented for the conference:
Professor Henry outlines a scenario that will form the basis of an educational exercise. He has created a new 'disease' - Motivational Deficiency Disorder (MoDeD), a previously unknown, but surprisingly common condition. Professor Henry says Professor Leth Argos will present data on the prevalence, social impact and treatment of this exhausting new disorder. "Linked with this, a public relations company will demonstrate how a disease is 'managed', how it is promoted into the community and will explain all the steps and techniques involved in this process," he says.
Let's see how many people diagnose themselves with MoDeD this weekend.
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Friday, March 31, 2006
Cell Phones and Brain Tumors:Swedish Study Shows Link
Filed under: Society
Ugh. Doctors everywhere next week are going to have to field questions about this cell-phone study, which contradicts almost every other report and notes a link between mobiles and brain tumors:
The Dutch Health Council, in an overview of research from around the world, last year found no evidence radiation from mobile phones and TV towers was harmful. A four-year British survey released in January showed no link between regular, long-term use of cell phones and the most common type of tumor.However, researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life said they looked at the mobile phone use of 905 people between the age of 20 and 80 who had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and found a link.
"A total 85 of these 905 cases were so-called high users of mobile phones, that is they began early to use mobile and, or wireless telephones and used them a lot," the study said.
"The study also shows that the rise in risk is noticeable for tumors on the side of the head where the phone was said to be used," it added.
The Swedes adopted cell phones before the rest of us, but then again, older analog phones had a habit of stopping ventilators and causing planes to fall from the sky (new ones don't).
And it's worth noting: when it comes to cancer and radiation, we have never seen a Swedish study that didn't find a link.
A good overview of the cell phone / cancer controversy is available at Wikipedia.
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Truth Phone: Drinking and Dialing
Filed under: Neurology
Our friends at We-Make-Money-Not-Art are covering the Takeaway Festival of DIY-Media in London. Among the novelty devices featured is this mobile phone with a breathalyzer built-in:
Not being able to see them, it's hard to judge others' emotions over the mobile. This model makes phone calls only if one is intoxicated, ensuring nothing but communication from the drunken heart.
There was a time when a cell phone / camera combination seemed strange, so perhaps phones like this are a glimpse into the future. The thing is, we'd much rather prefer a phone that blocks drunk calls (and we think our ex-girlfriends would, too).
More from WMMNA...
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Gum Benefits to be Studied
Filed under: in the news...
Medpundit notes a push by Wrigley Company to shed a scientific light on medical benefits of gum chewing by establishing the Wrigley Science Institute.
From the press release:
"The emerging science behind these benefits supports what we've heard anecdotally from consumers for years, and further study could substantially change the way people use gum as part of their everyday lives," said Surinder Kumar, Wrigley's Chief Innovation Officer.The new Wrigley Science Institute (WSI), the first organization of its kind focused on advancing the research and understanding of the benefits of chewing gum, will be headed by WSI Executive Director Gilbert A. Leveille, PhD. One of the world's most respected nutrition and food science professionals, Leveille will lead an advisory panel of top scientists from around the globe, including researchers from the U.S., the U.K., and China. The inaugural meeting of the WSI Advisory Panel was recently held in Chicago at Wrigley's new state-of-the-art Global Innovation Center.
In 2006 alone, the Wrigley Science Institute expects to support at least 10 groundbreaking research studies. This new research includes three to four studies in the U.S. and U.K. to investigate the potential role of chewing gum in appetite control and weight management, three studies in the U.K. and Asia to study the role chewing gum may have in increasing focus and concentration, and three studies in the U.S. and U.K. to assess how chewing gum may help reduce stress. Each research study will be conducted using state-of-the-art methodology in its respective field and researchers will likely complete the studies and present findings in late 2006 or 2007.
The press release...
Gum Benefits page @ Wrigley ...
Flashbacks: Bacteria Fighting Chewing Gum For Soldiers; Chewing Gum Speeds Recovery After Laparoscopic Surgery
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Breast Implants Banned in the Final Frontier
Filed under: Space Medicine
Virgin Galactic, currently in preparatory stages for its inaugural commercial space flight scheduled for 2008, has decided to rule out prospective cosmonauts who are status post boob job. Sky News quotes Virgin Galactic spokesperson Will Whitehorn:
"We've discovered there may well be issues with breast augmentation.""We're not sure whether they could stand the trip - they could well explode."
Too bad for spectators. Our prediction: more implants are to follow.
Virgin Galactic website...
(hat tip: The Jawa Report)
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
American Medical Association: No Doctors Day Celebrations?
Filed under: Medgadget Exclusive
, Society
This is a total hoot. Medgadget goes to the American Medical Association's website and sees nothing in regards to Doctors Day 2006: no dedicated page, no press release, nothing. Our very own Dr.O, who is due for AMA membership renewal, calls AMA's media relations offices in Chicago and in Washington, D.C. The reply he gets from Brenda Craine, Director of Media Relations, is that AMA has no statement to the fact that there is a Doctors Day holiday and there is no evidence of any celebrations by the AMA. And that's that.
The AMA website...
Flashback: Medgadget and medical blogs battle AMA in Urgent Action Needed!
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Blown Away by Triton
Filed under: Dermatology
, OTC
We're going to call the Triton Luxury Body Dryer a medgadget, because they claim blow-drying your body is more hygienic than towels. And because the pretty lady and the letters falling from the sky amused us (Triton's demo movie actually has a few moments that are NSFW, although, as they say, can be "great fun.")
This abstract is the best literature we could find that gave support to Triton's claims, but it's about hand-drying, and it compares air to paper towels. Also, this paper suggests the act of towel-drying stimulates immune cells. But then again, the Triton spokeswoman looks very healthy.
More from Triton, UK...
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Cortex Matures Differently in More Intelligent People
Filed under: in the news...
Large study of MRI scans, seventeen years in the making, done by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has shown that brain cortex of highly intelligent people matures differently than of their peers:
The researchers found that the relationship between cortex thickness and IQ varied with age, particularly in the prefrontal cortex, seat of abstract reasoning, planning, and other "executive" functions. The smartest 7-year-olds tended to start out with a relatively thinner cortex that thickened rapidly, peaking by age 11 or 12 before thinning. In their peers with average IQ, an initially thicker cortex peaked by age 8, with gradual thinning thereafter. Those in the high range showed an intermediate trajectory (see below). While the cortex was thinning in all groups by the teen years, the superior group showed the highest rates of change."Brainy children are not cleverer solely by virtue of having more or less gray matter at any one age," explained Rapoport [Dr.Judith Rapoport at the NIMH and McGill University in Montreal -ed.]. "Rather, IQ is related to the dynamics of cortex maturation."
The observed differences are consistent with findings from functional magnetic resonance imaging, showing that levels of activation in prefrontal areas correlates with IQ, note the researchers. They suggest that the prolonged thickening of prefrontal cortex in children with superior IQs might reflect an "extended critical period for development of high-level cognitive circuits." Although it's not known for certain what underlies the thinning phase, evidence suggests it likely reflects "use-it-or-lose-it" pruning of brain cells, neurons, and their connections as the brain matures and becomes more efficient during the teen years.
"People with very agile minds tend to have a very agile cortex," said Shaw [Dr. Philip Shaw at McGill University in Montreal and NIHM -ed.]. The NIMH researchers are following-up with a search for gene variants that might be linked to the newly discovered trajectories. However, Shaw notes mounting evidence suggesting that the effects of genes often depends on interactions with environmental events, so the determinants of intelligence will likely prove to be a very complex mix of nature and nurture.
More in the NIMH press release...
More at the NYT...
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Medtronic RestorePRIME Neurostimulation System
Filed under: Neurological Surgery
Medtronic Inc., has received FDA approval for their RestorePRIME™ Neurostimulation system.
Medtronic, the pioneer of neurostimulation technology, will initiate a targeted launch of the RestorePRIME System in March and April, followed by full market availability in May.The RestorePRIME neurostimulator is a non-rechargeable device indicated to manage bilateral and complex pain in the trunk and/or multiple limbs that is associated with failed back surgery syndrome, post-laminectomy pain, unsuccessful disc surgery or degenerative disc disease, among others. It is designed specifically for patients with low to moderate energy requirements who need a broader range of neurostimulation coverage but prefer the improved convenience of a non-rechargeable system.
About the size of a stopwatch, the device is typically implanted under the skin of the abdomen and connected to two leads - thin wires with electrodes at the tips. Up to 16 electrodes deliver electrical pulses to the spine. Based on individual patient need, doctors can customize the positioning of the electrodes to deliver stimulation directly to the target area of the spine - and in doing so, block pain signals from reaching the brain. Additionally, to cover varying levels of pain, they can choose for their patients up to 32 program options, the broadest range of any non-rechargeable device on the market. Battery life is similar to that of other non-rechargeable devices, such as the Synergy(R) neurostimulator from Medtronic.
Patients can obtain information on Medtronic neurostimulation therapies at www.TameThePain.com or by calling 1-888-430-PAIN (7426). Information for clinicians about the new device is available at www.MedtronicRestorePrime.com
It's interesting to see the specific URLs for patient and physician information. Following tamethepain.com redirects to a Medtronic internal site that's designed to look a lot like its own entity. The site states "Tame the Pain is an advocacy and awareness campaign designed to improve chronic pain management by connecting people who have chronic pain with pain specialists." In the world of marketing, this is direct-to-consumer at it's finest - setting up a means of increasing patient awareness of treatment options and facilitating their treatment through "on board" physicians. By the way, "Tame the Pain" is copyrighted.
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Review Panel Shocker: Guidant's Disclosure System Needs Work
Filed under: in the news...
The New York Times is reporting on the results of Guidant's independent investigation panel into the company's shortcomings in the wake of their recall fiasco. According to the report, Guidant needs to completely overhaul their disclosure practices.
The toughness of the report may reflect the person Guidant appointed to head the effort, Dr. Robert J. Myerburg, a professor of medicine at the University of Miami. In their 135-page report, Dr. Myerburg and the cardiologists and other experts on the panel were sharply critical of the company's decision to withhold device safety information from doctors, and they rebuffed its arguments for doing so.Dr. Myerburg said that he and other physicians on the panel had an immediate realization when they began work: for years, device makers had not provided them with detailed data on defibrillator failure, and they, as doctors, had been so taken with the life-saving technology that they had never asked for that data.
The result, Dr. Myerburg said, was that information about the potential of devices to fail, even in small numbers, had never been communicated to patients.
"The light went on," he said, "and one of the things that we realized is that industry had to be transparent with physicians about these devices so that physicians could be transparent with patients."
Over months, the Guidant panel interviewed company officials and requested and reviewed documents. In the process, Dr. Myerburg said he realized that engineers at Guidant were deciding medical issues without hearing from doctors.
In a new spirit of disclosure, the report can be found on Guidant's site. Unfortunately for them, insomniac medgadgeteers might not be the only parties reading the 135 page tome:
Its findings were also cited in a lawsuit filed yesterday against Guidant in a Minnesota state court on behalf of a heart patient who died in July. The suit contends that his death occurred because his defibrillator short-circuited and failed.Tara D. Sutton, a plaintiffs' lawyer in Minneapolis, said yesterday that she thought that the panel's report would help establish punitive damages in the case because it provided further evidence that Guidant disregarded the safety and rights of patients.
Guidant's Rebuttal:
A spokesman for Guidant, Steven Tragash, said yesterday that the company did not comment on litigation. Guidant has previously said that it did nothing wrong.
Regulatory and Bioethics classes will have that report as assigned reading from here to eternity. The lawsuits that go along with it might set interesting precedent for future product failures. An interesting question is the investigation into wrongdoing Vs negligence; did they screw up, or did they willingly deceive the public?
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The Fidelity 100 ECG System
Filed under: Cardiology
, Emergency Medicine
, Medicine
Continuing our coverage of this year's Frost & Sullivan awards, we would like to bring to your attention the winner of the Technology Innovation Award in the field of ECG Monitoring: Signalife, Inc.
Some might say that Signalife's ambulatory 12-lead ECG system, called the Fidelity 100, is a new generation cardiac diagnostic instrument. As reported by the company, the technology, originally developed to monitor brain waves of US Air Force F-16 pilots to see objectively their performance, is focused on signal fidelity.
Signalife's technology compresses and reduces noise prior to amplifying the ECG signal, eliminating the need to filter the signal after amplification. This means that 100% of the signal is preserved, allowing physicians to detect shifts in the ST segment as small as 5 microvolts (a 100 microvolt shift is considered statistically significant).The improved quality of the data means that, for the first time, physicians can record full ECG signals from a patient during exercise or everyday activities - and the improved clarity of the data may increase the ability to detect silent ischemia or other difficult to detect abnormalities of the heart, allowing much earlier detection of cardiovascular disease and facilitating more aggressive and less damaging therapy, improving the patient's quality of life.
Because Signalife's patented noise-reduction technology significantly improves the clarity of the data being collected, it greatly enhances the physician's ability to diagnose and treat cardiac illness. The improved ability to accurately diagnose and treat cardiac illness could potentially save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and result in billions of dollars in cost savings to patients, governments, healthcare providers and insurance companies.
To read more about the system, go to company's website...
The press release (.pdf)...
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Doctors Day 2006
Filed under:
It is time to congratulate ourselves and our clinical audience with choosing the best profession there is. Today, by the act of the Congress of the United States, there is an official holiday celebrating physicians. The roots of the holiday go back to the birth of the only specialty of medicine that was conceived on American soil: anesthesiology.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists explains:
Communities throughout the United States will be celebrating the national observance of Doctors Day on March 30, 2006. While physicians in all specialties and primary care medicine are honored, Doctors Day was first observed because of the efforts of one physician whose endeavors specifically related to the specialty of anesthesiology.On March 30, 1842, Crawford W. Long, M.D., of Jefferson, Ga., administered the first ether anesthesia to James Venable and then operated to remove a tumor from the man's neck. The man would swear later that he felt nothing during the surgery and was not aware it was over until he awoke. Dr. Long's history-making achievement on that day, and the continuous efforts by physicians to alleviate human suffering in the 164 years since then, have become the basis for celebrating Doctors Day each year.
According to ASA President Orin F. Guidry, M.D., "The advances in anesthesiology since Dr. Long's historic event have resulted in a medical specialty comprising highly trained men and women who are dedicated to relieving pain and saving lives in a variety of settings, from the operating room to a battlefield or disaster site."
More about this year's ASA efforts to promote emergency preparedness...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Guinness World Record Request: Show Your Skin!
Filed under: in the news...
The University of California, San Francisco is planning to hold a Guinness World Record breaking event on May 6th, that might be of a direct benefit to you:
Members of the public are invited to undergo free skin cancer screenings on Saturday, May 6, at a UCSF community event that is part of a national effort to set a new Guinness World Record.The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, 1701 Divisadero Street, 3rd Floor, in San Francisco. No appointment is necessary. Sponsored by the UCSF Department of Dermatology and the American Academy of Dermatology...
More info...
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Temperature-Sensitive Drug Delivery Technology
Filed under: in the news...
The National Science Foundation reports about a newly developed cool drug delivery system:
Researchers have now crafted tiny, hollow capsules out of lipids--water-repellant molecules in the same family as fats and oils--that crumple and collapse when cooled below body temperature. The collapse squeezes out whatever chemicals are inside the miniscule ball in a controlled manner that could one day deliver drugs to the human body or improve cosmetics.Developed by physicist and NSF (Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awardee Sahraoui Chaieb and his colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the capsules range in size from 10 to 100 micrometers (millionths of a meter) across.
For now, the capsules are in the earliest stages of development and not yet ready for medical use, although the researchers are discussing potential applications of the technology with a cosmetics company.
The NSF press release...
U of I press release...
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Bio-artificial Liver Machine
Filed under: in the news...
The MIT Technology Review has an interesting article about ongoing progress at the Mayo Clinic to develop an artificial liver--liver "dialysis" machine--using clusters of porcine hepatocytes. The Mayo machine is loaded with 200 grams of freshly isolated pig hepatocytes, which is about 20% of liver mass of normal human liver. The research is being conducted by a group of associates led by Scott L. Nyberg M.D., Ph.D.
From the article:
The Mayo liver device looks vaguely like a fish tank set on a cantilevering metal platform. The reservoir is filled with a highly oxygenated liquid medium into which Nyberg deposits up to 500 grams of live pig hepatocytes. Blood from the patient first courses through membranes that separate red cells and plasma from the larger white blood cells.The plasma and smaller blood cells continue on their circuit into a tube immersed in the liquid suspension of clustered pig cells. The pore size of the tube's membrane allows blood to flow in and out of the hollow fiber while the hepatocytes remove bile, ammonia, urea, and other impurities. The pore size also blocks the hepatocytes and any pig cell debris from entering the patient's blood.
The machine uses a rocking motion -- 15 seesaws per minute -- to bathe the liver cells in nutrients so they can survive longer and function better. In the dog tests, Nyberg says, the cells remained fully active in the reservoir for 48 straight hours of blood detoxification. He says he's kept pig liver cells metabolically viable in the device for up to a month, and sees no reason why humans could not be kept alive while attached to the device for at least that long.
To read more, go straight to the article or visit Dr. Nyberg's lab...
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Retro Hearing Aid Assembly Video
Filed under: the good old days...
The National Association of Manufacturers [NAM] has a great video series on their website: Cool Stuff Being Made. They almost never feature medgadgets being made, but this week we've got a gem: a vintage piece from "Industry on Parade," a show hosted by the NAM back in the 50's. The product: Hearing aids.
This one shows hearing aids being made at the Solitone (sp?) Company in Elmsburg, New York. You see what passes for high-tech and miniaturization back then. Listen carefully and you'll hear the narrator refer to the "girls" who are dong the assembly. He also notes that the diverse pieces of the assembly process are "brought together by intelligent management." This was clearly the pre-Dilbert era.It ends with a tug on the patriotic heartstrings -- as if "Hearing for the Deaf" isn't enough to tug on the heartstrings -- showing a battleship and planes flying overhead. All a part of the times.
I particularly got a kick out of how they tied all the medical research back to military applications. Definitely a sign of the times, as now that paradigm is pretty much reversed. New medical technologies are being born out of programs run by DARPA.
Link to the NAM blog (the video is SO worth 4 minutes, 29 seconds of your time)
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Crutches That Fold
Filed under: Rehab
Foldable crutches! Will similes ever be the same?
The people who designed the XBox 360 turned their sites on the time-tested crutch when one of their colleagues needed it. Of course, foldable crutches aren't new, but Astro Studios has probably made the coolest-looking ones yet.
Via Gizmodo and the Design Blog...
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DexCom: Dextrose Communication
Filed under: Diagnostics
Dexcom is trying to help diabetics monitor their blood sugar, continuously and wirelessly. We last covered this company over a year ago. Last week, they got some good news:
DexCom Inc. on Monday announced that U.S. regulators approved its glucose-monitoring system designed to diabetics manage their blood-sugar levels.DexCom said its STS Continuous Glucose Monitoring System consists of a tiny wire-like sensor that is inserted by the patient just under the skin.
The sensor continuously measures glucose levels, which are transmitted wirelessly to a cell phone-like receiver, DexCom said. The receiver provides patients with real-time glucose measurements and alerts them about high and low glucose levels.
More from DexCom.com
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StressEraser Calmly Accepts Award
Filed under: Psychiatry
Helicor's StressEraser was honored at the Oscars of Medgadgets, the Frost & Sullivan Awards last week (attended by yours truly):
Frost & Sullivan's 2006 Technology Innovation Award goes to Helicor, Inc. for developing the breakthrough "StressEraser" device technology. Intended for use by licensed psychological and psychiatric health care professionals, this handheld relaxation-training device is able to provide effective relief from chronic stress at the physiological, mental, and emotional level......StressEraser works by measuring the influence of the vagus nerve (the primary nerve of the parasympathetic nerves) on heart rate... The StressEraser uses a proprietary implementation of the Consecutive Heart Period (CHP) to measure vagal activity.
Several peer reviewed clinical studies indicate that CHP measurement (computed from the beat-to-beat heart rate) has a linear correlation with the level of vagal activity. Therefore, the StressEraser uses 'wave by wave' CHP measurement to observe the activity of the vagus nerve in real-time. Each time a person has an emotionally charged thought, there is a temporary inhibition of parasympathetic outflow.
In other words, every time a person has painful or emotional thought, there will be a temporary inhibition of the vagus nerve. This causes the real-time CHP measure to drop to near zero. By monitoring real-time CHP, the StressEraser can detect when that happens and respond appropriately.
When we blogged about the high-concept, expertly designed StressEraser last October, we knew it had great potential. This award may be just the beginning -- Helicor is pushing for clinical trials of the Stress Eraser in treating generalized anxiety disorder. No pressure.
More from StressEraser...
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