#medical monitoring

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Cell Watch

A smartwatch wraps around your wrist to measure your heart rate and count your steps. Now there’s a device that could do the same for your individual cells. The flexible material (red) can snugly wrap around neurons (brain and nervous system cells, blue), monitoring and even altering the electrical and metabolic activity within. They gently snap into place, like the ‘slap bracelets’ 90s kids may remember, when activated by light, which can be shone through the body allowing entirely non-invasive positioning. This flexibility allows the wearables to conform to the many different shapes neurons take, and once in place they could help prevent neuron degradation and even compensate for the lost insulation that comes with conditions such as multiple sclerosis. The technology could eventually be used to integrate with other materials in tiny circuits that could measure and modulate individual cells, taking activity tracking to a new level.

Written by Anthony Lewis

Image from work by Marta J. I. Airaghi Leccardi and colleagues

MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Published in Communications Chemistry, October 2024

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Baby boomers are likely to be more demanding medically than their elders.

Several factors converge towards this trend

Level of education and information

Baby boomers are generally more educated and informed than previous generations.

They have better access to medical information and are more likely to seek quality care.

They are more likely to ask questions, challenge diagnoses, and seek alternative treatment options.

High expectations for quality of life

Baby boomers grew up in a period of prosperity and have high expectations for quality of life.

They are less willing to accept age-related limitations and are more likely to seek solutions to maintain their autonomy and well-being.

They have a proactive approach to their health, they want to continue being active for as long as possible.

Familiarity with technology

Baby boomers are more comfortable with technology than previous generations.

They are more likely to use digital tools to monitor their health, search for medical information and communicate with healthcare professionals.

They are more likely to use telemedicine tools or medical monitoring applications.

Awareness of patients' rights

Baby boomers are more aware of their rights as patients.

They are more likely to hold healthcare professionals accountable and seek recourse if something goes wrong.

The financial aspect

Baby boomers often have better financial situations than their elders, which allows them to have access to more expensive care.

Potential consequences

This increased requirement could lead to an increase in demand for health services, which could put a strain on health systems.

It could also stimulate innovation in the healthcare sector, with the development of new technologies and new approaches to care.

In conclusion, it is likely that baby boomers will be more demanding in terms of medical care than their elders, which will have important implications for health systems.

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[fruit-sy]

"The subject scrambles for an advantage. They appear lost and disoriented. Heavy breathing is indicative of fear, and rightly so.

Don't fight. Fighting only makes it work quicker."

My friend showed me a picture of this guy to tempt me to watch chapter 4 and I Am not immune to propaganda this guy instantly latched onto my brain like a parasite grrrrrajkdha

He is a bad bad terrible awful man god he deserved what was coming to him

[alltubedandwiredup]

Been fantasizing about living with my own personal doctor… who takes good care of his special patient.

Takes me to my room and tells me they are getting me ready for treatment… they connect me to an ecg… a nasal cannula is put on my face… pulse oxymeter on my finger.

I turn my head and look at the million machines by my bedside… the cardiac monitor… the ivs… the oxygen tanks…

A ball gag holds my mouth open

- dont want you biting or screaming baby - im told

I then get tied down, an oxygen mask goes over the cannula and the gag. The elastic tight against my cheeks.

I can help but stare at my self in the mirror at my right.

A vibrator between my legs. It turns on

- we are going to have fun are we? - they say sweetly as they run a hand trough my hair.

- look at what a pretty patient you are… my good girl…-

They stay always at my side, the vibe buzzing away as i loose myself… staring at that poor girl in the mirror, breathing through tubes and wired up… drooling as she bites and sucks on the gag between her teeth.

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Stretchy Needlework

A stretchable and customisable microneedle electrode array for sensing electrical signals in skeletal muscle with other potential applications such as targeted drug delivery

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Qinai Zhao and colleagues

Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Published in Science Advances, May 2024

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boss makes a dollar i make a dime that's whiy i tf2 shitpost on company time

[ecgekg]

No more lab rats, this guy is examining a gym rat

[evalab]

To be in love and to be connected

[good-beansdraws]

In honor of Milgram 🤝 Alien Stage Pain Week, have au WIPs of some official art redraws that were requested 🎉 (06-08-10-03-01-09)

The coloring is going to take me a while but I'm still super happy with the linework -- very close to the references but with some small character adjustments 👍I'll expand more when I post the finish product but these character assignments (which I chose depending on the individual art) create some really interesting new roles in the story overall. The Mizi-Sua tragedy becomes one of parental loss, the leader of the rebellion is actually very self-doubting, and the fan favorite asthmatic may be a bit more than subtly ruthless...

[med-tech-enthusiast]

how to piss off your entire family in 5 minutes

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

It still kind of blows my mind that it's 29 years ago since my grandfather, two aunts, my mom, my uncle, the pharmacist and her treating doctor had to harass state health insurance to testify that my great-aunt would benefit from an at-home blood sugar meter, even if she didn't have type 1, as opposed to going to the doctor 3-5 times a day to have it measured. The thing was the size and weight of a brick, took several drops of blood to read, and the test strips were the size of my grade schooler pinky. It was accurate...ish. Text was gray on Nintendo screen green, and about the size of Arial 10. Three people were schooled on how to use it, in case it was necessary while she was unconscious. She had to pay for it herself as a pensioner who had never worked, and the entire family chipped in to make it happen, before they got on more of a first name basis with the ambulance drivers than they already were, what with there being just-in-case pastries in the house daily to "make sure those boys ate lunch".

Today I have my own blood sugar meter that I bought for less than 10 bucks "just in case". I've lost test strips down the back of the sofs and never had to be horrified about how much money I'd just wasted. My doctor just read out my hb1c value from a pinprick of blood in less than 2 minutes. The second I need constant monitoring, I'll get CGM sensors that work with my phone, paid out by insurance.

Most millennials are older than the concept of all kinds of diabetes being able to be monitored reliably, easily and affordably at home. It feels kinda unreal.