Biomedical Communications Research Articles

State of the Art and New Trends from the Second International StemNet Meeting.

The Second International StemNet (Federation of Stem Cell Research Associations) meeting took place on 18-20 October 2023 in Brescia (Italy), with the support of the University of Brescia and the Zooprophylactic Institute of Lombardy and Emilia Romagna. The program of the meeting was articulated in nine sections: (1) Biomedical Communication in Italy: Critical Aspects; (2) StemNet Next Generation Session; (3) Cell-Free Therapies; (4) Tips and Tricks of Research Valorisation; (5) Stem Cells and Cancer; (6) Stem Cells in Veterinary Applications; (7) Stem Cells in Clinical Applications; (8) Organoids and 3D Systems; (9) induced pluripotent stem cells (iPCS) and Gene Therapy. National and International speakers presented their scientific works, inspiring debates and discussions among the attendees. The participation in the meeting was high, especially because of the young researchers who animated all the sessions and the rich poster session.

Skin sarcoma stage detection using antenna resonant scale

In this paper, a small antenna is proposed to diagnose skin sarcoma at an embryonic stage. The antenna has an area of 30.54 × 15.27 mm2 and resonates at 1429 MHz with a reflection coefficient of −17.64 dB. The structure consists of a 35 μm copper sheet etched on a 1.6 mm FR-4 substrate. The diagnosis is based on the resonance frequency shift, and the SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) variation when the antenna is positioned on malignant tissue. For the simulations, a three-layer body phantom (skin, fat, muscle), and a half-sphere tumor phantom were considered. Simulations of the antenna performances showed that for a tumor of 100 μm, the resonant frequency, and the SAR decrease by 2 MHz, and 1.09 mW/Kg, respectively. In addition to sarcoma detection, the antenna’s 3.6 dBi gain allows for 124.47 m biomedical communication links in a complex environment.

Low Profile Orthomode Full-Duplex Antenna for Wearable Biomedical Communication

Low Profile Orthomode Full-Duplex Antenna for Wearable Biomedical Communication

The Role of Biomedical Communication in Forensic Genetics Education: An Interview with Michie Wu

Forensic GenomicsVol. 3, No. 1 InterviewThe Role of Biomedical Communication in Forensic Genetics Education: An Interview with Michie WuInterview by Nicole NovroskiInterview by Nicole NovroskiSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:15 Mar 2023https://doi.org/10.1089/forensic.2023.0003AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 3Issue 1Mar 2023 InformationCopyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersTo cite this article:Interview by Nicole Novroski.The Role of Biomedical Communication in Forensic Genetics Education: An Interview with Michie Wu.Forensic Genomics.Mar 2023.9-14.http://doi.org/10.1089/forensic.2023.0003Published in Volume: 3 Issue 1: March 15, 2023PDF download

William Harold Swanberg: Radiologist, Organizer, and Philanthropist

The American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) currently bestows 3 awards in honor of 3 of its members: Harold Swanberg, MD, the founder of the Association; Walter Alvarez, MD, in retirement, a nationally syndicated health columnist; and John McGovern, MD, a philanthropist who supported initiatives in biomedical communications. However, the details of the lives of these men are unknown to most AMWA members. Accordingly, this biography describes the life and accomplishments of AMWA’s founder, Harold Swanberg, to recognize his achievements and to contribute to the history of the profession and of the Association.

Jam Session for Early- to Mid-Career Freelancers

Southeast Regional Conference Education Session Report Session Moderator Jennifer Minarcik, MS, Principal, Jennifer Minarcik Biomedical Communications, LLC, Moorestown, NJ

Eric Wentworth Martin – Pharmacist, Researcher, Author

For much of its history, the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) has bestowed awards in honor of certain members: Harold Swanberg, MD, the founder of the Association; Walter Alvarez, MD, in retirement, a nationally syndicated health columnist; Eric Martin, PhD, a pharmacist instrumental in professionalizing regulatory writing; and John McGovern, MD, a philanthropist who supported initiatives in biomedical communication. However, the details of the lives of these men are unknown to most AMWA members. Accordingly, this biography describes the life and accomplishments of Eric Martin, to recognize his achievements and to contribute to the history of the profession and of the Association.

Promoting Techno-Scientific Biomedical Communication in Russia: Pro-government Non-profit Organizations

The rapidly expanding e-health market tends to reinvent the roles of science, entrepreneurship, and state. However, the results of such reinvention remain unclear. This study investigates the decade-long history (2011–2021) of the promotion of techno-scientific biomedical communication by pro-government non-profit organizations in Russia. In 2021, the World Bank pointed out that digital technologies have played a critical role in the pandemic in Russia and Russia's economic recovery is gathering pace. Thus, Russia tends to correspond to many other emerging health markets. We compare texts from non-profit organizations' websites and Facebook accounts with official state actions and the national mass media health agenda. The instruments that were used for text mining were topic modeling with latent Dirichlet allocation and an algorithm for keyphrase relationship visualization. The results revealed that promotion started no later than 2011 as a general private initiative in health. Throughout the state reforms and geopolitical crisis of 2014, in 2017–2019 digitalization was finally chosen as a model for the healthcare system. Simultaneously, the idea of digital reform for the health system was disseminated by the mass media. The pandemic drew attention to this communication, but it did not create significant change. Pro-government non-profit organizations continue to promote new directions for biomedical communication in Russia.

Maud Mellish-Wilson – Librarian, Editor, Visionary

Maud Mellish-Wilson was an early and influential voice in biomedical communication. In the early 1900s, she was hired by Mayo Clinic to set up its first library, but she accomplished a great deal more. A competent editor, she established the Clinic’s Division of Publications, which helped establish the Clinic as a world-renowned health care and research center, and probably the craft of author’s editing as well. The Division still supports authors during all stages of scientific publishing and remains a model for research centers around the world. She started The Collected Papers of Mayo Clinic, which summarized the articles published by Clinic authors each year; wrote an important book on medical writing and editing; and began what would become Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The Mayo brothers considered her to be 1 of the founders of Mayo Clinic, along with their father. Here, I describe her life and accomplishments to recognize her achievements and to contribute to the history of the profession of medical writing and editing.

John P. McGovern, MD – Physician, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

For much of its history, the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) bestowed 4 awards in honor of 4 of its members: Harold Swanberg, MD, the founder of the Association; Walter Alvarez, MD, in retirement, a nationally syndicated health columnist; Eric Martin, PhD, a pharmacist instrumental in professionalizing regulatory writing; and John P. McGovern, MD, a philanthropist who supported initiatives in biomedical communication. However, the details of the lives of these men are unknown to most AMWA members. Accordingly, this biography describes the life and accomplishments of John P. McGovern, to recognize his achievements and to contribute to the history of the profession and of the Association.

Sales Training and Beyond: Developing Educational Content Across the Pharma/Biotech Landscape

Conference Education Session Report Speakers Gail V. Flores, PhD, Medical Writer, Encore Biomedical Communications LLC, Encinitas, CA Lauren Mays Weddle, PhD, Learning Strategist and Senior Medical Director, Curtis Learning LLC, Philadelphia, PA Julie Munden, BA, Director of Editorial Services, Curtis Learning LLC, Philadelphia, PA

Adaptive Feature Classification Model for Detecting Lung Disorders

Clinical picture preparation is that the method and procedure acclimated make the photos of the physical body [organs] for clinical purposes (clinical methodology looking to uncover analyze or inspect ailment) or clinical sciences(including the investigation of ordinary life structures and physiology). The segment of biomedical imaging nearby Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine [DICOM] gives the fundamental standard to scientists to acknowledge similarity and improve work process productivity between imaging frameworks and other data frameworks in social insurance conditions around the world. Here during this report, the ID of disease tissues is finished by Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) and development of malignancy tumors [Benign and Malignant] in the human lung is examined and suspected obsessive district which will be influenced by this tissues on the grounds that the time advances would be anticipated.

Walter Clement Alvarez: Physician • Researcher • Columnist

The American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) currently bestows 3 awards in honor of 3 of its members: Harold Swanberg, MD, the founder of the Association; Walter Alvarez, MD, in retirement, a nationally syndicated health columnist;; and John McGovern, MD, a philanthropist who supported initiatives in biomedical communications. However, the details of the lives of these men are unknown to most AMWA members. Accordingly, this biography describes the life and accomplishments of Walter Alvarez to recognize his achievements and to contribute to the history of the profession and of the Association.

Guest Editor's Remarks: Journal of Biocommunication Special Issue on Legacies of Medicine in the Holocaust and the Pernkopf Atlas.

The 2019 Toronto Symposium, THE VIENNA PROTOCOL: Medicine's Confrontation with Continuing Legacies of its Nazi Past, was sponsored by Biomedical Communications, Institute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and the Neuberger Centre for Holocaust Education. https://www.holocaustcentre.com/hew-2019/the-vienna-protocol 
 Prof. Leila Lax, coordinated the Symposium and was inspired by its presenters to create an online collection of Holocaust education resources. She is grateful to the Editor-in-Chief, Gary Schnitz and the Journal of Biocommunication Management Board for their dedication to scholarship, ethics, and the advancement of knowledge, in support of this Special Issue, that deals with contemporary controversies from a dark time in history, that is part of our professional legacy - and memory. This Special Issue is dedicated to the memory of the victims portrayed in the Pernkopf atlas.
 Image credit: Table of Contents image provided by the Medical University of Vienna, MUW-AD-003250-5-ABB-151.

Low Power Transposed Form 4-Tap Finite Impulse Response Filter Using Power Efficient Multiply Accumulate Unit

Finite impulse response (FIR) filters find wide application in signal processing applications on account of the stability and linear phase response of the filter. These digital filters are used in applications, like biomedical engineering, wireless communication, image processing, speech processing, digital audio and video processing. Low power design of FIR filter is one of the major constraints that researchers are trying hard to achieve. This paper presents the implementation of a novel power efficient design of a 4-tap 16-bit FIR filter using a modified Vedic multiplier (MVM) and a modified Han Carlson adder (MHCA). The units are coded using Verilog hardware description language and simulated using Xilinx Vivado Design Suite 2015.2. The filter is synthesized for the 7-series Artix field programmable gate array with xc7a100tcsg324-1 as the target device. The proposed filter design showed an improvement of a maximum of 57.44% and a minimum of 2.44% in the power consumption compared to the existing models.

Compact textile UWB antenna with hexagonal for biomedical communication

AbstractThis paper introduces a small-sized, low profile, planar and flexible ultra-wide band (UWB) antenna using Jeans, a textile material as the substrate. A novel shape of hexagonal slot in rectangular step shape patch with partial ground plane is developed with bandwidth of 12 GHz is proposed. It is the primary approach in using natural textile as the substrate for UWB antenna which operated in a wide range of bandwidth. The UWB antenna is designed for short range applications including wireless body area network (WBAN), which is the current revolution with growing demands in wireless sensor networks. The antenna operates from 2.8 to 10.9 GHz, which is a suitable candidate for WBAN operation.

Life Mask.

Life Mask Shelley Wall (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 217] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 218] Shelley Wall Shelley Wall is an illustrator and associate professor in the Biomedical Communications graduate program at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her primary area of research and creation is graphic medicine—that is, comics as a medium for narratives of health and illness. In addition to creating her own comics and collaborating with others to tell their stories visually, she teaches a graduate course on graphic medicine within the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, and offers seminars in graphic medicine and illustration as a means of reflection for medical students, interprofessional education classes, and medical practitioners. Copyright © 2021 Johns Hopkins University Press

Design of radio frequency integrated circuit for RF to DC power converter for bio-medical application

In modern biomedical communication systems, high level integration using CMOS technologies plays an important role for low cost performance. For mobile biomedical communication systems, the low voltage and low power design issues are crucial due to the limitation of battery capacity. Therefore, the volume and weight of the transceivers can be further reduced using the low voltage and low power technique. As such, all the designs proposed here are realized with standard CMOS technology and they are suitable to be a building block in low voltage, low cost, compact size, high gain and low power receiver front end design owing to the superior performance. The most significant building blocks in the receiver front end are low noise amplifier (LNA),RF to DC rectifier(RFDC) , local oscillator (LO) and intermediate frequency (IF) amplifier. Here, the main emphasis is given on design of the RFDC rectifier, which is regarded as the main part of the receiver front end, as the total linearity of a system dependents on the linearity of the RFDC rectifier. In CMOS transceivers, the Gilbert cell RFDC rectifier is widely used as the down converter since they are broadband with good isolation, good conversion gain and high linearity, nevertheless with some drawbacks of high supply voltage and high power consumption. In this work, different integrated topologies are implemented to dissolve the trade-off problems in the RFDC rectifier design. The simulated results show significant improvements in the aforementioned parameters in comparison to recent approaches.

Professional medical writing assistance in oncology clinical trials.

e14088 Background: Academic publishing remains the cornerstone of biomedical research and scientific communication. Researchers often assign professional medical writers (PMWs) to craft publications, as these individuals may improve the overall writing quality and/or reduce time to publication. We sought to characterize the landscape of PMW utilization in phase III cancer clinical trials. Methods: We searched ClinicalTrials.gov for phase III randomized clinical trials between the years 2003 and 2018. Randomized multi-arm trials assessing a therapeutic intervention in cancer patients were included. After identifying the corresponding publications, we identified whether a PMW was involved in writing the manuscript based on author disclosures, along with any related funding information. Results: Six-hundred oncology RCTs with corresponding manuscripts were identified. In total, 260 (43.3%) trials used a PMW. Financial support to medical writers was largely provided by the industry (247/260, 95.0%). In multivariate analyses, PMW utilization was higher among industry-funded trials compared to non-industry-funded trials (OR: 14.2, p= 0.001). PMWs were used more frequently to report successful trials that met their primary endpoint (OR: 1.8, p= 0.03) but did not differ between English-speaking and non-English-speaking countries ( p= 0.19). Cooperative group trials used PMWs with less frequency compared to non-cooperative groups (OR 0.68, p < 0.001). PMWs were used more often in trials that led to subsequent drug FDA approval (69.6% vs 40.6% in trials that did not lead to subsequent FDA approval), but this association did not reach statistical significance in multivariate analysis ( p = 0.744). The use of PMWs has increased significantly over time (OR: 1.11/year, p =0.001). Conclusions: In this analysis, we show a strikingly high prevalence of PMW utilization in phase III oncology trials, with a vast majority of industry-supported studies using PMWs. We believe that professional writing assistance plays an important role in clear and efficient scientific communication. However, the disproportionate role of PMWs in reporting positive, industry-funded trials may represent a conflict of interest. We urge continued and increased reporting of utilization and funding of professional writing assistance in cancer clinical trials.

Uncertain Words, Uncertain Texts. Perception and Effects of Uncertainty in Biomedical Communication

Uncertain Words, Uncertain Texts. Perception and Effects of Uncertainty in Biomedical Communication