Vaccination Innovation: New Technologies Are Leading the Way to Vaccines That Work Better, Hurt Less.

abstract：:An estimated 792 million people live with mental health disorders worldwide-more than one in ten people-and this number is expected to grow in the shadow of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Unfortunately, there aren't enough mental health professionals to treat all these people. Can artificial intelli...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Allen S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late one spring night in 1986, around 1:30 a.m., the residents of Pripyat, a Ukrainian city of 50,000 people at the northern tip of the Dnieper River, were shaken from sleep by a giant explosion originating in the nuclear reactor of the nearby power plant in Chernobyl. It was an event that would forever change the cou...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Berglund J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the number of coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) cases in the United States began mounting in the early weeks of March, health care workers raised the alarm about a looming shortage of ventilators to treat patients. On March 30, 2020, Ford Motor Company announced plans to produce 50,000 ventilators in 100 days [1]...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Mertz L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models are crucial in the biomedical sciences since they provide information that is not otherwise accessible and help in discriminating among possible schemes of interpretation of complex phenomena. Italian research teams have been very active in this field with important contributions in the area of heart mechanics,...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Redaelli A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When you see or think about an object, your brain engages in a unique pattern of activity tied specifically to that object. That's how you know a cat is a cat, and not a dog or a house or a cloud. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and other techniques, scientists are not only able to measure those act...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Mertz L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the first time in more than 20 years, the federal government has recently proposed changes to a regulation that has been a mainstay of scientific research in the United States. The proposal came in July 2011, when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published an advance notice of proposed rule making...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Otrompke J

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 30 years, robots have become standard fixtures in operating rooms. During brain surgery, a NeuroMate robot may guide a neurosurgeon to a target within the pulsing cortex. In orthopedics, a Mako robot sculpts and drills bone during knee and hip replacement surgery. Dominating the general surgery field is ...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Solis M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human body is miraculous in its capacity to heal but it can always use a little help. Wound care traditionally consists of little more than a protective barrier, possibly with an antibacterial agent, to cover the damage while the body works its magic. Now, a new technology has opened up a more active approach to e...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Banks J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today, there is a greater interest in the marketing world in using neuroimaging tools to evaluate the efficacy of TV commercials. This field of research is known as neuromarketing. In this article, we illustrate some applications of electrical neuroimaging, a discipline that uses electroencephalography (EEG) and inten...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Vecchiato G,Kong W,Maglione AG,Wei D

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One objective of bioengineering is the quantification of the biological and medical sciences, with the goal of improving their exactness and preciseness, always in an attempt to remove as many indeterminations and uncertainties as possible, especially when seeking predictions. The extract at the beginning of the colum...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Valentinuzzi M,Kohen A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Back in 2004, Scott Johnson, a type 1 diabetic, could find plenty of online information about the symptoms and complications of the disease that prevents his body from producing the blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin. What he couldn?t find was anything written by someone actually living with his disease. So he sta...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Grifantini K

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a flexible, skin-mounted Biostamp changed the game for wearable diagnostic devices. ...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Chandler DL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most exciting and compelling areas of research and development is building brain machine interfaces (BMIs) for controlling prosthetic limbs. Prosthetic limb technology is advancing rapidly, and the modular prosthetic limb (MPL) of the Johns Hopkins University/ Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) permits ac...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Fifer MS,Acharya S,Benz HL,Mollazadeh M,Crone NE,Thakor NV

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles. A strange polio-like paralysis. Ebola. In the last year, the spread of infectious disease has become standard fare for the nightly news. As such diseases grab headlines, child-care providers, families, schools, and public health officials are turning to new ways of understanding and coping with the spread of ...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Grifantini K

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some babies are born with a rare condition known as esophageal atresia, in which part of the connection between the throat and stomach is missing or nonfunctional. While this was once untreatable and fatal, in recent years surgeons have developed a method using traction to stretch the tissues out on each end until, ov...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Chandler DL

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many decades, the popular narrative surrounding anorexia nervosa was that it was an emotional disorder springing from profound cultural pressures combined with dysfunctional family dynamics. Teenage girls, typically, would refuse to eat in an obsessive bid to lose weight. They would imagine themselves to be fat, e...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Reynolds P

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Your phone scans your face to unlock its screen. A social media app offers suggestions of friends to tag in photos. Airline check-in systems verify who you are as you stare into a camera. These are just a few examples of how facial recognition technology (FRT) is now ubiquitous in everyday lives. The industries of law...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Grifantini K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As bedtime approaches, take note! Your pajamas may have something important to tell you. ...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Chandler DL

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Floating in a Petri dish, they look like tiny tapioca pearls in peach broth, a couple dozen in number and none much larger than the tip of a ballpoint pen. But under a microscope, dense, lumpy bodies come into focus, outlined by wispy coronas. ...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Fischer S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell phone chimes, sticky notes, even the proverbial string around a finger-these timehonored external cues help guard against our inevitable memory lapses. But some internal help to the brain itself may be on the way in the form of what's being called memory prosthetics. Once considered to be on the fringes of neuros...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Solis M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in medicine have led to a significant increase in human life expectancy and, therefore, to a growing number of disabled elderly people who need chronic care and assistance [1]. The World Health Organization reports that the world's population over 60 years old will double between 2000 and 2050 and quadruple f...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Lopez NM,Ponce S,Piccinini D,Perez E,Roberti M

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human population is getting older, and technology will play a key role in addressing the pressures this aging will place on healthcare systems. According to the 2015 United Nations' World Population Ageing report [1], the number of people worldwide 60 and older will increase from one in eight in 2015 to one in six...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Mertz L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As scientists make strides toward the goal of developing a form of biological engineering that's as predictive and reliable as chemical engineering is for chemistry, one technology component has become absolutely critical: gene synthesis. Gene synthesis is the process of building stretches of deoxyribonucleic acid (DN...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Leake D

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors presented a first application of 2-D contrast-enhanced ICE in localizing RF ablation lesions and, more importantly, accurately and reproducibly quantifying their extent and depth within the myocardium in the intact beating heart. Furthermore, the study extended this application and presented, for the first...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Khoury DS,Liyun Rao,Panescu D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About this Series This is the sixth and last article in a series on the dramatic transformation taking place in health informatics in large part because of the new Health Level 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. The first article provided background on health care, electronic health re...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Braunstein ML

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On his 70th birthday, Shu Chien's colleagues put together a 600-page book of letters, essays, and photographs as a tribute not only to his contributions to the field of bioengineering but also in honor of his character as a valued friend, research collaborator, and family member. Perhaps they thought that the book wou...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Johnson JP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Leonard D'Avolio (Figure 1) was working on his Ph.D. degree in biomedical informatics, he saw the power of machine learning in transforming multiple industries; health care, however, was not among them. "The reason that Amazon, Netflix, and Google have transformed their industries is because they have embedded le...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Mertz L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now known that nearly half of the toll that illness takes in developed countries is linked to four unhealthy behaviors: smoking, excess alcohol intake, poor diet, and physical inactivity. These common risk behaviors cause preventable, delayed illness that then manifests as chronic disease, requiring extended med...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Spring B,Gotsis M,Paiva A,Spruijt-Metz D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that drug overdose deaths have dropped for the first time since 1990. Between the 12-month period ending December 2017 and the 12-month period ending December 2018, there was a 5.1% decline in overdose deaths. Now the bad news: Experts...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Bates M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past two decades, there has been enormous growth in research activity for microwave diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that target the breast. The clinical need for new tools in the breast cancer armamentarium, combined with the promising lowcost, nonionizing nature of microwave technologies, has fueled ...

journal_title：IEEE pulse

authors： Neira LM,Mays RO,Hagness SC

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00