#medical monitoring

[bpod-bpod]

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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[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

[3liza]

one of the most urgent medical needs rn that I don't see discussed much (only slightly less important than a herpes simplex vaccine) is the development of antipsychotic medication that doesn't completely destroy your metabolism

[batwynn]

I’ve been awake since five am so take this with a grain of salt but why is there this weird assumption that depressed people want to be depressed? That we’re intentionally staying depressed, or choosing to be, or even sabotaging our mental health by choice?

I’ve tried 20+ antidepressants and 50+ different therapists over the years with varying degrees of success and failure. When something works, I hold on for it as long as I can. It’s never my choice to stop using something that works. It is always a really bad side effect, a therapist leaving the profession, insurance changes, etc. I have never, in my entire life, knowingly, intentionally tried to sabotage my health. I have always tried my best, in spite of everything working against me.

I try to tell every new doctor some version of this when I rate high on the depression test they do at the start of every appointment. I also try to explain that four of the questions are rated the way they are because I have ADHD and chronic illnesses that make eating and having a good attention span difficult. That I have anxiety, and my life is one stressful situation after another. I also lie every single time about being suicidal, because doctors do not understand that it’s a chronic, back-of-the-mind state of being and the fact that I’m Still Here means I know how to fucking manage it. (Hint: that therapy for intrusive thoughts helped!)

And every single time, they treat me like I’m doing it to myself. That I’m not Trying Hard Enough. That I’m making a choice to ‘not get help’. They never, once, consider that the record in front of their faces proves that all I’ve always done is try to get help. Or that I’m still here. Or that I’ve survived every deep depression I’ve been in. Or that I’m still visiting doctors at all after years of medical abuse.

The assumption is and always will be that I am intentionally making myself unhappy and not ‘fixing myself’. That I just don’t want to be happy.

And honestly? Fuck y’all for that. Because that right there is a high-tier reason people who get those suicidal thoughts get one step closer to death. That makes you ten times more dangerous to our health than anything we could fucking do, or not do.

[midwest-chainsaw-massacre]

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

[bpod-bpod]

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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[ecgekg]

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

[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.

[evalab]

To be in love and to be connected

[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.