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Eight Big Medical and Science Trends to Watch in 2021
The world as we know it has forever changed. With a greater focus on science and technology than before, experts in the biotech and life sciences spaces are grappling with what comes next as SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 illness, has spread and mutated across the world.
Alternative Approaches to Pain Management
Chicago Health Magazine
Kari Wagner was walking home from the park with her dog and 10-year-old son when she was thrust onto the asphalt. After that, she has only a few memories: lying in the street, being transported in an ambulance and being in the hospital. A car had hit her from behind and sped off. The right side of her face took the brunt of the impact, causing a traumatic brain injury to her right frontal lobe. Fluid, swelling and clotting filled her forehead. But what happened afterward became more gruesome for Wagner than the car accident.
New Battle Against a Silent Killer
Chicago Tribune
Vivian Moore loves to play the 2-cent slot machines at Aurora’s Hollywood Casino. Although she can’t seem to finish a book, Moore, 67, jokes she can finish an entire newspaper in one sitting and enjoys picking up the National Enquirer on occasion when some—like Patrick Swayze—is featured.
The dove-haired grandmother also made history last week by becoming the first person in Chicago to undergo a highly confidential clinical trial for a device known as the Pipeline embolization device that is pending FDA approval and could potentially revolutionize treatment for brain aneurysms according to neurosurgeons and medical experts.
Making Medicines: Milton Brown, MD, Ph.D.
INOVA Magazine
Milton Brown, MD, PhD, Director, Inova Center for Drug Discovery and Development, searches for cancer cures Milton Brown, MD, PhD, a physician scientist, is one of only a handful of people in the United States who has a Doctor of Philosophy in synthetic chemistry and a Doctor of Medicine degree.
After serving as the founding director of the Drug Discovery Program at Georgetown University Medical Center, he brought a team of scientists to Inova in 2017 to focus on finding cures for cancer. Their aim: Develop new drugs in-house and place those clinical therapies into practice quickly to benefit more patients.
The ROI of an Advanced Health Care Degree
MODERN HEALTHCARE
As the Affordable Care Act reshapes the health care industry, a new set of roles and career opportunities are emerging in hospitals and health systems nationwide.i These new roles are not only helping to significantly transform the way health care is delivered – they are leading the transformations within health care organizations.
Chicago Health Magazine
It had been a few weeks since Cathy Joyce had completed her first marathon.
The 51-year-old North Center resident, who has been running since her college days, felt a sharp pain in the bottom of her foot as she was trying to get out of bed.
“It took me by surprise,” she says. “I didn’t know what it was. I thought it was a random weird thing, but then I mentioned to someone that I had this terrible pain on the bottom of my foot, mostly my heel.”
Chicago Tribune
I was seven months pregnant when a woman in a children’s toy store stopped me while I was browsing a few books.
“I know what you have,” she said very loudly looking at my legs that were bandaged up to my knees in seven layers of gauze and blue medical boots on my feet. “You just had a bunionectomy.”
GMO 2.0 is here. Even though more consumers are asking for non-GMO verified foods, businesses need to be aware of changes coming from within the supply chain as gene-editing technologies like CRISPR and TALENs rapidly change the food industry, especially in the United States.
Be Vigilant When Trying to Determine Food Allergies
CHICAGO HEALTH ONLINE
As a parent, it can be overwhelming to see your child’s face become red and botchy within minutes of eating a meal. Trying to diagnose and determine exactly what foods or ingredients are causing a food allergy can feel like a medical treasure hunt. The process is full of twists, but the reward is keeping a child healthy.
Chicago Health Magazine
The safety of gene-edited animals produced for food and who will regulate the industry has been hotly debated.
Many from within the organic and natural food industry would like more regulation, stronger oversight and testing coupled with greater safety measures, including more transparent labeling so consumers (and those managing the supply chain) can better understand what is genetically modified and what isn’t.
A potential shift in regulatory authority and oversight from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to the USDA over genetically modified animals could dramatically change the industry. For nearly two more weeks, businesses and consumers have a chance to voice their opinion about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposed regulation and oversight of genetically engineered animals of "amenable species," which includes farm animals and catfish.
An FDA spokesperson told New Hope Network that the public comment period is intended to gather input on a potential proposed rule, because the USDA has not proposed a draft rule at this time.
“It’s is the USDA’s way to ask the public, ‘We are kind of thinking about this, what do you think?'” says Jaydee Hanson, policy director for the Center for Food Safety. “This is the USDA lobbying for industry support to be regulators of the agriculture industry. Regardless of the administration, the USDA favors big agriculture and big agriculture favors genetic engineering because it allows the industry to raise more animals in a cheaper fashion.”
Michigan Avenue Magazine
There’s no shortage of star power when it comes to the celebs and athletes who rely on chef Shauna Shaik, founder of Fit Foodie Kitchen, and husband Dr. Jason Jared, DC, founder of Old Town sports physical therapy Trifactive Sports Injury + Performance Clinic.