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In neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), continuous monitoring of vital signs is essential, particularly in cases of severe prematurity! BIOMEDICINE Binodal,wireless epidermal electronic ...RESEARCH ARTICLE SUMMARY BIOMEDICINE Binodal,wireless epidermal electronic systemswith in-sensor analytics for neonatal intensive care Ha Uk Chung*, Bong Hoon Kim*, Jong Yoon Lee*, Jungyup Lee*,ZhaoqianXie*,!! Current monitoring platforms require multiple hard-wired, rigid interfaces to a neonate's fragile, underdeveloped skin and, in some cases, invasive lines inserted into their delicate arteries! Northwestern University team develops wireless sensors for ...with-in...Published in Science, 28 February 2019: A team from Northwestern University has published on their wireless sensor technology, used for intrapartum and newborn monitoring. "In neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), continuous monitoring of vital signs is essential, particularly in cases of severe prematurity.!! These platforms and their wired interfaces pose risks for iatrogenic skin injury, create physical barriers for skin-to-skin parental/neonate bonding, and frustrate even basic clinical tasks! Binodal, wireless epidermal electronic systems with in ...medworm.com/675958810/ ...with-in...Binodal , wireless epidermal electronic systems with in-sensor analytics for neonatal intensive care Existing vital sign monitoring systems in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) require multiple wires connected to rigid sensors with strongly adherent interfaces to the skin.!! Technologies that bypass these limitations and provide additional, advanced physiological monitoring capabilities would directly address an unmet clinical need for a highly vulnerable population.
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Trump, DeVos bungle Special Olympics budget | TheHill
The contrasting positions played out amid a backdrop of lawmakers grilling agency chiefs about draconian cuts to popular government programs, leaving administration officials with the choice of defending the spending reductions or disagreeing with Trump, who is known to prize loyalty among his Cabinet members
DeVos went before appropriators to defend the administration's proposal to slash $8.5 billion, or 12 percent, from the education budget
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But appropriators seized on the $18 million cut for the Special Olympics, the world's largest sporting event for adults with disabilities. Trump has proposed cutting funding to it in each of his three annual budget proposals.
America must get out of the woods on medical research funding | TheHill
As negotiations play-out, a broad network of stakeholders — some inside the Beltway, and others at key academic centers across the nation — ask with increased urgency: Will medical research get its due? Will promising scientific research be supported at levels that produce breakthroughs? Or will the U.S. pass on opportunities to deliver new therapies and cures and cede leadership to other nations
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According to ACT for NIH, while any funding increase is positive, it would take $2.6B a year for the next 5 years to get us back to the purchasing power in 2003 – and given the promise of imminent breakthroughs, we should be investing more.
Metal oxide semiconductor nanomembrane–based soft unnoticeable multifunctional electronics for wear
Wearable human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are an important class of devices that enable human and machine interaction and teaming. Recent advances in electronics, materials, and mechanical designs have offered avenues toward wearable HMI devices. However, existing wearable HMI devices are uncomfortable to use and restrict the human body's motion, show slow response times, or are challenging to realize with multiple functions. Here, we report sol-gel-on-polymer–processed indium zinc oxide semiconductor nanomembrane–based ultrathin stretchable electronics with advantages of multifunctionality, simple manufacturing, imperceptible wearing, and robust interfacing. Multifunctional wearable HMI devices range from resistive random-access memory for data storage to field-effect transistors for interfacing and switching circuits, to various sensors for health and body motion sensing, and to microheaters for temperature delivery. The HMI devices can be not only seamlessly worn by humans but also implemented as prosthetic skin for robotics, which offer intelligent feedback, resulting in a closed-loop HMI system.
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