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Hydrogels for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
The advancements in scaffold-supported cell therapy for musculoskeletal tissue engineering have been truly dramatic in the last couple of decades....
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Virtual Reality in Healthcare
In our modern 21st century, daily life would be unthinkable without computers. Multimedia and virtual reality are useful for people with special...
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Access to Information on Demand by the aid of Digital Talking Books
This chapter addresses the concept and the fundamental ideas of the digital talking book (DTB), with a particular focus on DTBs in the DAISY format....
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Ubiquitous Healthcare: Technology and Service
Ubiquitous healthcare is introduced in terms of technology and service, considering the current technology as well as the future technology and...
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Gait Training System for Computer-aided Rehabilitation
This Gait Training system is designed to simulate the effects of gait training in a swimming pool. The weight of the subject is supported by a...
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Electronic Locomotion Aids for the Blind: Towards More Assistive Systems
This chapter first presents a review of existing locomotion assistance devices for the blind. These devices are merely proximeters, that measure the...
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Biopolyesters in Tissue Engineering Applications
Tissue engineering is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research focused on the development of vital autologous tissue through the use...
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Interfaces to Control Cell-Biomaterial Adhesive Interactions
Cell adhesion to adsorbed proteins and adhesive sequences engineered on surfaces is crucial to cellular and host responses to implanted devices,...
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Polymeric Systems for Bioinspired Delivery of Angiogenic Molecules
Growth factors are increasingly utilized to promote regeneration of lost or compromised tissues and organs. However, current strategies applying...
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Information Technology for Deaf People
In our modern information and communication society, daily life would be unthinkable without technology. Information and Communications Technology...
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Multimedia Communication System for the Blind
A Multimedia communication system for blind users is developed. The system is named MIMIZU and its terminal is composed of a refreshable tactile...
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Multimedia Medical Informatics System in Healthcare
In our modern 21st century, daily life would be unthinkable without computers. Multimedia and virtual reality are useful for people with spein...
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Self-Assembling Nanopeptides Become a New Type of Biomaterial
Combining physics, engineering, chemistry and biology, we can now design, synthesize and fabricate biological nano-materials at the molecular...
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Modulating Extracellular Matrix at Interfaces of Polymeric Materials
As extracellular matrices (ECM) closely interact with cells in living tissues and, through this, influence essentially any aspect of life...
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Safety and Psychological Outcomes of Tandem t:Slim X2 Insulin Pump with Control-IQ Technology in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: A Systematic Review
The Tandem t:slim X2 insulin pump is a second-generation automated insulin delivery system with Control-IQ technology. It consists of an X2 insulin...
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Tirzepatide Improved Health-Related Quality of Life Compared with Insulin Lispro in Basal Insulin-Treated Adults with Type 2 Diabetes and Inadequate Glycaemic Control: A Randomised Controlled Phase 3b Trial (SURPASS-6)
IntroductionPatients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) who require intensification of basal insulin therapy need treatment options that can improve their...
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Clinical management protocols for community pharmacist-led management of urinary tract infections: a review of the grey literature and quality appraisal
BackgroundPharmacist-led management of urinary tract infections has been introduced as a service in the United Kingdom, Canada, United States of...
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Association of Changes in A1C Following Continuous Glucose Monitoring Acquisition in People with Sub-Optimally Treated Type 2 Diabetes Taking GLP-1 RA Therapy
IntroductionBoth glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA) and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) improve glycemia in patients with type...
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Analysis of bacteraemia caused by group C and G Streptococcus (Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis) in Western Sydney over a 6-year period (2015–2020)
PurposeStreptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) has increasingly been recognised as a significant pathogen that causes a myriad of...
