Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/3aNsAmXBDFc   Today’s newly announced medical discoveries that point to future therapy: Lab on a chip offers speedy heart attack diagnosis Better vaccine immunity from a skin patch than a jab Steerable catheters to deliver brain therapy And finally, a tissue glue based on barnacles     It currently takes hours to confirm the heart muscle damage diagnostic of a heart attack.  Bioengineers at Notre Dame working with cardiologists at the University of Florida now report a 30 minute, ultra-sensitive membrane-based test to detect the microRNAs that confirm a heart attack diagnosis.  Their system uses tiny amounts of blood, can distinguish the cardiac muscle changes due to lack of oxygen from so-call re-perfusion changes, and is portable.  It may provide a life-saving resource to areas far from cardiac cath facilities.   A 3D printed vaccine patch invokes a 10-fold stronger immune response compared with delivery of the same vaccine into the arm muscle.  This from a University of North C