Diagnostic error will bring about a new era of digitalized medicine

Networked Wearable Musical Instruments Will Bring A New Musical Culture

Many people enjoy music daily, but in a very passive way. To more actively enjoy music, some novel musical instruments are necessary. As a candidate for a novel musical instrument, we propose a networked wearable musical instrument. This paper describes the design of the networked musical instrument as well as a prototype system. Furthermore, we demonstrate several possible novel applications o...

personalized medicine: a new era in endocrinology

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New Era in Medicine

Diagnostic error in medicine: introduction.

In 1999 the Institute of Medicine (a division of the US National Academy of Sciences) published a landmark report indicating that from 44,000 to 98,000 deaths per year could be attributed to preventable medical errors (Kohn et al. 1999). Although the majority of errors related to therapy, including medication and surgical errors, the report identified a significant number of diagnostic errors. ...

Will Allergen Fusion Bring New Energy to Immunotherapy?

from either grass or tree pollens, insect venoms, cat dander as well as house dust mites [2–13] ( fig. 1 ). Such fusion proteins can then be expressed in Escherichia coli , yeasts (e.g. Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Pichia pastoris ) and plant or mammalian host cell systems prior to purification and refolding. One advantage, obviously, is to produce the multiallergen drug substance as a single mo...