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Liquid Biopsies Using New IBM Microchip

August 11, 2016 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">A microfluidic device was created by IMB that is capable to sort microscopic particles down to 20nn. This will enable scientists to separate exosomes from body fluids and will be able to serve as trackers for biomarkers for cancer and other diseases.<br /><br />Cell membranes release Exosomes that contain genetic and protein information, these can be spotted in cancer cells also. This is important  with regards to the goal of developing liquid biopsies from blood samples.<br /><br />Deterministic Lateral Displacement (DLD) pillar array is used by the new IBM microchip. Exosomes from other sample components are separated by this new technology and  accurately sort based on size. <br /><br />Scientists will be able to compare exosomes and study these exosomes giving them the capability in source identification. Although not exactly a cancer detector, early diagnosis and screening of the variety of cancer is Made possible.<br /><br />The microchip is already being tested in helping the early diagnosis of prostate cancer doing away with traditional biopsies..<br /><br />Source: Readings from http://www.medgadget.com/2016/08/ibms-new-microchip-to-make-liquid-biopsies-possible.html<br /></span></div>
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Implants to link with prosthetic limbs

August 08, 2016 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">While most people will cringe at the thought of implanting a piece of technology under their skin, researchers believe it’s the future. In fact, they’ve created a grain-sized sensor implant to prove their point.<br /><br />Engineers from the University of California Berkeley have designed a tiny sensory transplant the size of a grain of sand. When implanted, the device allows users to monitor the body’s vitals in real time. It can also be adopted to one day neurologically link individuals to their prosthetic limbs and assist users in operating them, reports Gizmodo.<br /><br />The sensor itself is approximately 3 millimeters long and is powered by a piezoelectric crystal. The crystal converts ultrasound vibrations into electricity, which gives the device the juice it needs.<br /><br />While the prototypes are coated with surgical-grade epoxy, the researchers hope that succeeding designs will be even smaller and can be made to last decades or even a lifetime inside the human body.  /Alfred Bayle<br /><br />Source: http://technology.inquirer.net/50593/grain-sized-implant-could-one-day-control-prosthetics#ixzz4GiVlDnQd <br /><br /><br /></span></div>
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Health IT Innovations Technology Implants to link with prosthetic limbs

While most people will cringe at the thought of implanting a piece of technology under their skin, researchers believe it’s the future....

DOH Gears up for Drug War

August 05, 2016 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">Since the inauguration of President Duterte, the wave of “surrenderees” has been astonishing. The  number has been tagged at 500,000 as of August 1, 2016. These “surrenderees” are composed of drug addicts and small time pushers coming from the destitute communities all over the country. They are depicted in numerous TV news, radio programs, and print matter.<br /><br />It is unprecedented as was pointed out as an indicator of success on the new administrations’ war on drugs. But the sheer number overwhelmed the services that is supposed to serve as the first base of managing the illegal drugs problem. The local health units of every LGU, already devolved from the national agencies found it difficult to cope with the unexpected deluge.<br /><br />The Department of Health (DOH) has already been preparing for such an eventuality since “D-Day” or the first day of the new administration. In coordination with other government agencies on how to manage the influx of the surrenderees.<br /><br />Last August 2, 2016, DOH-NCR initiated a 4-day program in training about 30 doctors from local government units (LGUs) with regards to determining and diagnosis of drug addicts. This will also be the basis on what kind of treatment will be applied upon referral to the DOH.<br /><br />Dr. Alfonso Villaroman of the DOH treatment and rehabilitation center based in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City cited the different levels of addiction during a health forum in Quezon City. The different levels will result in different treatment protocols ranging from counselling, out-patient rehabilitation or being admitted to a residential rehabilitation facility.<br /><br />Dr. VIllaroman explained the types and these are the following:<br /><br />1.    Experimental Users – those that tried using marijuana and then never used it again.<br />2.    Occasional Users – those that take drugs during parties and night outs with friends.<br />3.    Regular Users – those that imbibe on illegal drugs consistently (every 3 days, once a week or every 2 weeks).<br />4.    Compulsive Users – also diagnosed with co-morbid disorders or co-occurring diseases. The frequency of use will result in mental disorders (psychosis, paranoia), hypertension, cardio-pulmonary diseases and even infectious diseases such as HIV and TB made more likely because of the lifestyle. <br /><br />The participants of the training program will be able to assess the level of addiction and will recommend the correct response to each addiction.<br /><br />Levels 1 to 3 can be managed by counselling and out-patient programs while those level 3 and 4 will be managed by admission in rehabilitation centers. <br /><br />“Addiction is an illness. Not all illnesses are severe. It’s the same with addiction.” Said Dr. Villaroman.<br /><br />LGUs will also be provided a manual for community based drug treatment that was launched last year by the DOH and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime together with the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB).<br /><br />This training will also be given to social workers of the DSWD and will be adopted in other regions. This multi-pronged approach will be utilized to manage the “surrenderees” and is part of a broad spectrum strategy in fighting illegal drugs and drug addiction in the country. The “three pillars” of this approach will be “assess, diagnose and refer”. This will be undertaken with the cooperation of the DILG, DOH and DSWD. <br /><br />Dr. Villaroman said “Don’t be judgmental. They can be the best that they can be.”</span></div>
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UP Students Win in Hackathon with device and app that could help save lives

July 26, 2016 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The Philippine public health system have come a long way. This writer remember stories told by grandparents who had brothers and sisters, parents and relatives who died of cholera, typhoid and dysentery. This was a time wherein there was no piped water and there was open sewage. <br /><br />The breakthrough came when clean water was provided and a sewerage system was constructed. In  an urbanized community, wherein there is a dense population, such infrastructure is one of the basics of public health.<br /><br />Now it is still a health concern since population pressure in the urban areas continues unmitigated. Also, infrastructure development is still very much wanted in rural and remote localities.<br /><br />With these in mind, a group of students from the University of the Philippines (UP)  is trying to address this health concern via their mobile device and application. This device and app won first prize at the #thinkOPENhealth Hackathon for Health that was held last April 16 – 17, 2016 at the Asian Institute of Management. The group won Php100,000 in cash and various gadgets for their entry. <br /><br />Physics students from UP, called Quantum Hackers developed and created a device that analyzes the quality of water. This was done in Hackathon manner within 24 hours. Norman Mascarinas, Kit Guial and Junel Bagcong came up with a user-friendly device and app that has sensors that can test for water quality such as salt content and turbidity (clearness from particles). It is called Shine Herald.<br /><br />It is a product with remote and far flung areas in mind wherein a barangay official need only push a button to conduct tests on water quality. It can then be transmitted to the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) where sensors can be installed for water quality monitoring.<br /><br />The inspiration came from Guial’s sister who is a nurse and have experienced medical missions in such areas wherein water quality has to be assessed first and tends to me a tedious process. Water from the area needs to be brought to a laboratory in Manila for analysis.Then can only the health professionals go to the location and conduct the medical mission with the data and information at hand.<br /><br /> “Our goal is to identify which rural areas have polluted water which could lead to diseases. We want to equip barangays with affordable and easy- to-build instruments. The locals can test and assess water quality themselves. They just have to submerge the probe into the sample,” said Mascarinas.<br /><br />“As a startup, we could deploy to rural areas these devices with the help of the DOH. Many of these places are not easily accessible to government agencies. We want to automate the entire water testing and analysis process,”  Bacong disclosed.<br /><br />“The portable Shine Herald device, which cost just P4,000.00 to build, has a microcontroller that acts as its CPU. We wrote a program that can generate a message of 140 characters, very much like the maximum characters of a text message,”  according to Bagcong.<br /><br />Source: Readings from DOH website</span></div>
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The Philippine public health system have come a long way. This writer remember stories told by grandparents who had brothers and sisters,...

HACT App To Help Fight HIV/AIDS

July 21, 2016 The Mail Man 0

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span>The HACT Bacolod Application launching ceremony led by Dr. Julius Drilon, Medical Director, CLMMRH, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">HACT Hub Head Dr. Joan Cerrada, MD., </span></span>John
 Dave Duenas, Chief Operations Officer TTC, Atty. Kimberly Cua 
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Said to be a first in Southeast Asia, a software application that is sensitive and responsive to the needs of people with HIV/AIDS (human immuno-deficiency syndrome) and are undergoing anti-retroviral therapy (ART) has been turn over to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) yesterday, July 19, 2016.<br /><br />Developed by TAS Tradesoft Corporation (TTC), a Bacolod-based software development company as part of its social responsibility, the HIV AIDS Core Team (HACT) Bacolod Application was warmly welcomed by officials of the hospital led by it head, Dr. Julius Drilon.<br /><br />John Dave Duenas, TTC chief operation officers explains, "the focus on developing the HACT Bacolod Application is to facilitate greater knowledge management to alleviate the efficiency of case management and monitoring of the HIV/AIDS Patients from the inception of the infection towards full care administration. The development of the app is geared towards collecting data to be used for research and analysis, patient care and prioritization of healthcare provider resources".<br /><br />Witnessing the turn-over, the Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology (BNEFIT) Executive Director Jocelle Batapa-Sigue says, "the project will be a great boost to creating a more responsive and holistic set of strategies to address the lack of important data in the fight against HIV-AIDS. Data analytics today is seen as an effective tool to understand and provide solutions to real-world problems. The young men and women of TAS Tradesoft Corporation has done the world a big favor by looking at the problem of HIV-AIDS in a more objective and systematic manner, affording persons with the infliction the respect, convenience and privacy of health information, at the same, providing aggregated data to medical practitioners in the hope of developing more effective interventions".<br /><br />Duenas told the media in a press conference that followed the launch, "the consideration of the application’s full potential is on using the information from the electronic medical records of “real time” value to support the HACT Hub, the national, and international organizations involved in HIV/AIDS care, for research and prevention strategies. The standards and modules for HIV-specific reporting functionalities are developed patterned on the Epidemiology Bureau of the Philippines data requirements and the World Health Organization Guidelines (May 2015)".<br /><br />Sigue adds, "this intelligent data gathering system is the most important value of the project, and something that might just be the greatest adversary of HIV-AIDS".<br /><br />TAS TradeSoft Development team worked closely with the Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital HACT Hub, which is composed of their Medical care professionals, site implementation officers with the direction of the HACT Hub Head Dr. Joan Cerrada, MD.<br /><br />It took six months for the application to be developed by a young team of developers. The functionalities of application include Patient Module or General Profile of the Patient; Medical Abstract Module or Medical Summary of the Patient’s health profile; and Consultation Module  which Medical Care professional can use while recording the clinical consultation records of the patients. This works as the main module for the Electronic Health Record.<br /><br />The application also has a VCT Module or Voluntary Counseling and Testing module that collects the data of the patient/client prior to the extraction of the blood specimen for HIV testing. This profiles the patient when it comes to their sexual habits, occupation and sexual preferences.<br /><br />It has a Laboratory Module which module records all the Laboratory results of the patient which were requested by the Medical care professional. It automates summarization of the results and graphs the movement thereof.<br /><br />It has a Tuberculosis Module which is a specialized module that focuses mainly on the TB profile of the patient; an OB Gyne Module that captures the OB Gyne records of the female patients; Mortality Module that keeps the records of all moratility records of the HIV/AIDS Patients and their underlying causes and a Pharmacy Module that works as the warehouse management system of the center for its storing of ARV’s and other medicines.<br /><br />It also has Reports Module which summarizes the entire reports that can be generated by the system from all the data encoded. /bnefit<br /></span></div>
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The HACT Bacolod Application launching ceremony led by Dr. Julius Drilon, Medical Director, CLMMRH, HACT Hub Head Dr. Joan Cerrada, MD., ...

Best Public Healthcare System: DOH Sec. Paulyn Jean Ubial off to Cuba

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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />In efforts to have meaningful and effective health and social services, the new administration is off to emulate the best health and social practises that is available. In a laudable move, President Duterte is sending his secretaries and experts all over the world in studying, developing and implementing projects and programs that will benefit the Filipino people.<br /><br />One of the most notable public healthcare systems can be found in Cuba. Notwithstanding the economic and political; embargoes since the late 1950s imposed on Cuba, that country has managed to evolve its healthcare system.<br /><br />Newly minted Department of Health Secretary Paulyn Jean Ubial will be sent to Cuba in order to study its healthcare and health welfare system so as to assimilate and craft a system that will be applicable to the Philippine context. <br /><br />This is hoped top address the public health system wherein a considerable number of Filipinos die without even seeing the services of health professionals. President cited the experience of Philippine General Hospital physicians who had to provide money for patients to procure needed medicines. <br /><br />Although the DOH has had its budget increased during the past administration, such additional projects and programs that the new thrust would entail will need additional funding. PAGCOR is one of the potential source of funds since its last declaration of P11,549,625,355.77 of total income can be a source of such funds.<br /><br />“That’s why I’m sending Secretary Ubial to Cuba. So kung sinong gustong pumunta, that has something to do with human welfare, they have a good practice there and if you guys want to go there you can go, I will allow you,”, “They had perfected a welfare system for all na ba ka makopya natin (that we could copy),”  Duterte disclosed.<br /><br />Cuba has been cited by the World Health Organization (WHO) for being efficient in its implementation of universal healthcare.<br /><br />According to a case study titled “Cuban experience with local production of medicines, technology transfer and improving access to health”, which was published in 2015 by WHO,  enlisted the Cuban Government’s changes made in the health sector, which developed prevention of diseases.<br /><br />“Health activities to fight infectious diseases were carried out nationwide, among them the national polio vaccination campaign; this activity, held annually since 1962, has eliminated polio in Cuba, an achievement officially recognized by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the (WHO),” it cited<br /><br />Since 1966, Cuba created  the first health science institutes in specialized hospitals and is a fully integrated national system. Also from the WHO, in the year 2015, Cuba was validated as  the first country that eliminated transmission of HIV and syphilis in mother to child transmission mode. Cuba posted a national life expectancy average for its citizens at 78.45 years.<br /><br /></span></div>
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Filipino Students Develop App for Mental Health

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<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br />A Mental Health First Aid mobile App was developed by two University of the Philippines (UP) students. The Computer Science majors, Chad Errol Booc and Chara Mae San Diego crafted their thesis “PsychUP” with the Psychosocial Wellness Program (PWP) of UP. <br /><br />The duo cited the need to increase the level of mental health awareness in the Philippines.  Together with UP Manila’s guidance counselling program which aims to “foster  awareness of mental health as a priority issue”. Faculty, health professionals and student representatives participated and provided feedback on improving the mobile application.<br /><br />Currently, it is a campus-based mobile app that requires 3 participants in the process. The student, the peers who provide counselling and the university administration that will monitor the application.<br /><br />A message based app that will utilize the transmission of messages between the students and counsellors with the objective of the student attaining a resolution to a problem. Upon resolution, the chat history can be deleted so as to prevent any chance of reliving the process towards the resolution. <br /><br />Another important feature is the anonymity it will provide for those who would require the aid of the app. This will enable the students to freely express themselves without having the stigma of having mental health issues. <br /><br />The lack of laws that addresses mental health problems is resulting in growing concerns that the mental health problems of the Filipino is not being adequately served by the government. This is evidenced by the incidence of suicide among students that at least 10 college students in the past years and also among the youth.<br /><br />A law for mental health has yet to be passed by Congress that will enable early intervention such as mental health first aid in averting such mental health related tragedies.<br /><br />“[Mental health first aid] is necessary until the person receives professional help. This helps in ensuring that the person does not harm his or her self; in preventing the worsening of the problem; in recovering; and in giving relief to the person,” citing the thesis.<br /><br />The reason for the project according to Booc was “We have recognized the need for an accessible mental health care. I have friends who had suffered from mental health problems but were not able to seek help due to inaccessibility of services. They did not know what to do with it. Others were afraid of seeking help thinking other people might judge them.”<br /><br />Although the Philippines has the lowest suicide rate in Southeast Asia, the country has an estimated 4.5 million suffering from depression and that makes it the highest in the region and only 1 in 3 avail of help from specialists.<br /><br />The Information Management Service of UP Manila is already in discussions with both the proponents of the thesis for deployment and tests in the UP Manila campus.<br /><br />Sponsors willing to help may contact Booc at 0943-425-5212 or via email at chadbooc@gmail.com.<br /><br />Dwight De Leon is the president of DZUP Radio Circle, the official student organization arm of the official AM radio station of UP Diliman, DZUP 1602. He is also currently an intern for Rappler.<br /><br />Source: Readings from: http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/137967-up-students-create-mobile-app-mental-health-first-aid</span></div>
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