IMPORTANT! MIGLOBAL Presents More about a Possible Approval of HIV Test in Newborns

Due to the diverse global concern about the growing transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced the partial or prequalification of the rapid test of this disease in newborns whose mothers have been infected. All this effort is done in order to avoid vertical transmission (from mother to child) from now on. Today, MIGLOBAL brings you all the information about these advances. Keep reading and know more.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: HIV detection

Around the world millions of dollars have been invested in HIV prevention and treatment campaigns and with the application of this type of tests more children can be met on time in case the results are positive. However, there are still some steps to take to pass these exams altogether.

The prequalified technologies belong to the recognized companies Alere and Xpert HIV-1 Qual Assay, from Cepheid AB laboratory:

• HIV-1 Detect for EID and ID
• HIV-2 Detect for EID and ID

All this information was provided and explained by Mike Ward, director of WHO's Essential Medicines Unit, who explained to the media that thanks to technology and the latest advances by experts in the medical field, these two devices can be used in rural areas that are away from health centers and where results are required within minutes. Mike highlighted than one of those two devices runs on a battery that lasts up to 18 hours.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Technologies belonging to Alere

In addition to that, Gottfried Hirnschall, director of WHO's HIV Department, added that by the use of this technology, experts will not only give a faster diagnosis but also make the mother and child closer to each other, because in some cases, in areas with very scarce resources, health professionals should separate the baby from the mother for several hours to make the different analyzes of the disease.

By [Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza].

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: A faster diagnosis for newborns

[Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza]: Know More about Yoga for Pregnant Women

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Yoga for pregnancy

For many years, medicine in the Western world has wondered whether yoga is beneficial to health or not. Several studies conducted by the University of Michigan in the United States have proven the innumerable positive effects of this practice and, above all, have determined why it is so recommended as an ideal practice for pregnant women. Today, MIGLOBAL brings you all the necessary information for you to learn how yoga can positively affect your pregnancy. See more bellow!

Research and its results

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Yoga during pregnancy

This researches at the US, led by Dr. Maria Muzik, a psychiatrist and research scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development of the prestigious academic institution, determined that yoga not only teaches breathing and helps strengthen muscles, but also reduces depressive symptoms during the gestation period, that may be product of the hormonal imbalance and that are also common in this stage of formation of the fetus in the womb.

Also, some other experts and yoga instructors have provided their opinions about this discipline and lifestyle, which are considered very beneficial for the health status of pregnant women. It is said that the main objective of yoga during pregnancy is to help during the nine months, birth and postpartum status of mom and baby in the most healthy and relaxed way of life. If there is no risk, the exercises that yoga involves are beneficial emotionally, physically and mentally and help women get through their pregnancy with joy and no discomfort.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Yoga postures for pregnant women

Some of the numerous benefits of yoga during pregnancy are:

• Improves blood circulation and prevents varicose veins.
• Controls weight.
• Corrects and relieves back strain.
• Favors the elasticity and control of vaginal and pelvic muscles.
• Channels and balances anxious emotional state.
• Enhances sleep quality.
• Helps to open and flex the pelvis for the moment of the baby's birth.

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IMPORTANT! Technology in Medicine: The Perfect Link for Health Advances

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: MIGLOBAL also providing high-tech services and products

Every day, medicine and technology are more and more linked towards the benefit of patients, doctors and health sector in general. Thanks to this link, aspects of technology that used to be destined only for telecommunications and certain specific branches of science such as robotics, high definition images or virtual reality are taking part the everyday life of health professionals worldwide who use technological tools to deal with challenges effectively, safely and rapidly. As we have told you before, MIGLOBAL has gathered efforts for years to train professionals in these areas in order to use these high technology tools as part of its bid to create effective responses to the world of health throughout the continent. Know more about high technology advances in medicine worldwide that MIGLOBAL brings to you today.

• Cyrcadia Health’s iTBra

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Cancer detecting bra

The iTBra by Cyrcadia Health is a smart bra that is able to keep track of breast health. Sensors that are embedded in the bra keep track of the conditions and rhythms in the breast tissue to alert of the possibility of cancer. The companion app gives information that has been recorded and also has a coaching and information section that gives a person information about optimal breast health and care.

• The SmartStop

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Wearable devices

This is a mobile application combined with a revolutionary attachment, and is the way the company is taking medical technology to modernize beyond the methods that have been traditionally used, all this in order to put an end to this problem. Chrono Therapeutics has developed a way to provide the timed delivery of drugs transdermally; using this wearable device, the device will offer a better way to liberate smokers from nicotine cravings, and at the end, letting the bad habit behind.

• Leaf Healthcare Ulcer Sensor

The Leaf Healthcare Sensor is designed to alert a person when it is time to turn and do some moving in order to combat no moving around. The tri-axial accelerometer that is in the sensor can monitor the position that a person is in and then help assist them in proper ways to turn. It even works with optimizing tissue pressurization during turning and moving around.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Alerting the patient

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IMPORTANT! The Best Constructions and Services with MIGLOBAL Group

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: MIGLOBAL and its excellent services of construction

MIGLOBAL is a company always dedicated to work for the well-being of its customers. The company has a recent history of excellent work with the best results in the health and construction sector around the world. Don’t miss today the information about MIGLOBAL’s construction techniques that we bring to you.

The pre-fabricated technique

This is a particular construction technique that speeds up the delivery process of any construction project. The building is pre-fabricated remotely in modules which are shipped to the wished location. The land and foundations and utilities lines are simultaneously prepared, and then the modules are positioned to be attached together.

It is a frequent technique developed by MIGLOBAL for smaller buildings:

• Clinical labs,
• urgent and ambulatory centers,
• dialysis centers,
• support and administration buildings.

Other features 

• The facilities must comply with the handicapped accessibility standards and codes.
• MIGLOBAL works with all the materials that have to meet the local building codes.
• Each one of the project plan and designs must be submitted before the local health department and authorities.

Exterior characteristics

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Quality and durability

• Glass or pre-cast architectural paneling walls.
• Components on architecture subjected to regulations of access and mobility for the disabled.
• Huge variety of options for exterior finishes; plus the option of adding similar finishes of the existing buildings.
• Glass or metal doors and ceilings.

Great alliances

The alliance with the MIGLOBAL’s represented German worldwide industry leader HT+ HospitalTechnik makes possible for the company to offer the On Site Modular Assembly Technique based in orthogonal crosslink components modules which offer various ways of configurations.

Also, MIGLOBAL’s suppliers give the company the highest quality materials and best technology to construct the structures, parts and other components used in the execution of works through the modular system.

Happy clients

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Hospital constructions

The work schedule is planned very carefully by MIGLOBAL, because it is necessary to ensure the material, technological and human resources to the building, hence the various investigations as geology, foundations, roads, access, structural etc., are very important to take every idea to fruition.

The construction of the structures is the realization of all these plans and projects in a reality that not only meet customer expectations, but will serve to meet and allow medical developments in each place where it is installed.

By [Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza].

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: 4 Robots That Are Changing the Methods of Healthcare

The role of robots is gaining more and more field every day in the healthcare sector. They are used in modern medicine to train nurses, doctors and dentists, they also work to comfort and protect elderly patients in early stages of dementia, robots also help people after diverse types of traumas, etc.  The use of these new inventions can help doctors and other professionals to smaller incisions for shorter surgeries, reducing hospital stays and improving patients' prognoses and saving costs. Everything we mentioned and even more is facing the future of medicine, and today, MIGLOBAL will present you 4 of these robots that are changing the methods of healthcare.

1. Sofie

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Sofie

The Surgeon's Operating Force-feedback Interface Eindhoven (Sofie) consists of a master robotics setup, joysticks and a surgeon's control panel. Sofie is not on the floor, but mounted on the operating table. Van den Bedem built the robot with the help of the Eindhoven University's technical department, which patented the process. This robot incorporates force feedback, which can allow specialists to feel the pressure they apply when making a suture or pushing aside a bit of tissue. 

2. RIBA

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: RIBA

The Robot for Interactive Body Assistance (RIBA) is designed to lift people who are too weak or ill to sit, walk, or stand by themselves. RIBA has 454 sensors in its arms; it also has a motor for lifting people and a soft urethane foam skin for comfort. RIBA can respond to commands and is trained to recognize faces and voices.

3. Lokomat

Some people that lose their ability to walk and turn after suffering a stroke, spinal cord damage, traumatic brain injury or other harm to the central nervous system. For these people, Lokomat was created. Robot-based technologies such as Lokomat combine medical and engineering approaches in order to help patients regain mobility faster, with less pain. 

4. NeuroArm

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: NeuroArm

The neuroArm allows a surgeon to perform biopsies and other interventions on patient’s brains while processing MRI scans of the patient; this helps the surgeon to be oriented and guided through the operation.

By [Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza].

IMPORTANT! MIGLOBAL Presents Information about Medicine and Health Museum

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: New announcement about health museum in Granada

[Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza], expert in medical equipment and CEO of MIGLOBAL Group, recently announced that the Museum of Medicine and Health Sciences is the new project of the University of Granada and the Royal Academic of Eastern Andalusia, whose purpose is to preserve the scientific and medical collections that have been part of Spanish historical evolution, and to put them at the service of society, in favor of education and the expansion of collective knowledge. Today, MIGLOBAL brings you all the details and information regarding this great announcement.

The project

The space destined to the Museum will be installed in the former Faculty of Medicine of the University of Granada and will have the collaboration of specialists in different areas such as Fine Arts, History, Restoration, Conservation, Museology, Anthropology, Health Sciences, Pedagogy and Documentation, who will let the important value of the things to be exposed to a high level.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Spaces of the Museum

This information was announced by the Vice Chancellor of Extension in the University, Víctor Medina, during the presentation of this project started in the Strategic Plan of the City 2007, whose validity is maintained due to the search for the endowment of specialized sites and with such attractive and formative cultural characteristics, for the inhabitants of Granada.

Details about the announcement

Víctor Medina added that the Museum of Medicine and Health Sciences will be the first of Andalusia, and the third that is concretized nationwide. In addition to that, about 80 medical museums in the country and the world have been analyzed to verify the sections that will be included: Pharmacy, Dentistry and Sanitary Instrumental.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Details about the project

Alfredo Menéndez, professor of the History of Science at the University of Granada, explained that even a needle can tell the civilization many things about pain and the history of healing is one of the driving threads of human history; for this reason, the creation of this museum could become an extraordinary journey through medicine and the search for hope.

IMPORTANT! Siplik: An App for Health Care Created by a Venezuelan

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Siplik Providing Great Solutions 

Health professionals now have an extraordinary digital application that allows them to save medical records and schedule appointments. This new app, called Siplik, was created by the Venezuelan doctor, Gabriel Escalona, who sought to facilitate the access of doctors to the information of each of their patients to be able to follow them with greater speed and efficiency. Today, MIGLOBAL brings you more details about this new app and the great benefits it carries to doctors and patients.

Siplik is a free platform that arises from the need to have a digital data system, so that doctors can obtain and safeguard any record of their patients instantly. It also makes the queries easier to organize because it also allows the doctor and the patient to keep a record of the appointments with their details or changes in an agenda.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Storing, saving and keeping safe medical records 

Gabriel Escalona, creator of this app and medical surgeon specializing in advanced laparoscopy, explains that this platform will also provide benefits to patients, who will have the opportunity to request rewards and medical exams, request appointments without calling the office, and even look for any specialist at any time and any day of the week.

This new application will have a positive impact on the digitalization of data in hospitals and clinics in Venezuela, according to comments by [Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza], expert in the area of medicine. And this will also contribute to saving time and resources, which can be invested in the maintenance and improvement of spaces, practices and care with the inclusion of more advanced health technologies. Also, it’s good to mention that this application is available for the Android and iOS operating systems, and with the Premium version, patients can perform video queries.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Easy functions to benefit doctors and patients

According information provided by Escalona to the media, in Venezuela there are about 25 million medical consultations per year and less than 15% are digitized, being the majority of them processed and stored manually, which means an unnecessary waste of time that can be used in other tasks.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Advances for the health sector

As you may know, the team at MIGLOBAL is always looking and searching new advances in the world that try to impact the health sector in a positive way. These technological advances we present to you today are thought to improve the health of people and to positively start being part of the everyday life of clients and patients. Keep reading and discover what the world is doing for the medicine technology.

Chrono Therapeutics is an American company that has developed a device designed to help people to stop smoking through a wearable technology, which now goes to the ranks of health. This equipment, which is connected directly to the smartphone, has the ability to record the moments of anxiety caused by the cigarette, and helps to control it, releasing doses of nicotine, handled by an algorithm previously stipulated according to its intensity.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Devices developed by Chrono Therapeutics

The SmartStop is a mobile application, combined with a revolutionary attachment, and is the way the company is taking medical technology to modernize beyond the methods that have been traditionally used, all this in order to put an end to this problem. Chrono Therapeutics has developed a way to provide the timed delivery of drugs transdermally; using this wearable device, the device will offer a better way to liberate smokers from nicotine cravings and, at the end, letting the bad habit behind.

There is also interesting information related to ophthalmologic technology and all the inventions that companies and organizations are working on. For example, the smart contact lenses designed by Sony and that received its patent in April this year. Inside this device, located in the user's eye, the RAM memory chip would be found, as well as the processor, the antenna and the read-only memory (ROM). In that place, an image processor detects every blink of the person, and identifies if the blink was unintentional or done on purpose to activate the camera or access the computer located inside the lens, everything "in the twinkling of an eye".

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Smart contact lens

Samsung also obtained a patent on a similar device which, like Sony, connects the system to a nearby phone to transmit images and videos, as well as to regulate the network connection.

IMPORTANT! MIGLOBAL Presents its Best Construction Technique for Health Centers

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Relocable modular technique for fast constructions

The pre-fabricated technique is a particular construction technique that speeds up the delivery process of any construction project. The building is pre-fabricated remotely in modules which are shipped to the wished location. The land and foundations and utilities lines are simultaneously prepared, and then the modules are positioned to be attached together. MIGLOBAL Group is a company dedicated to deliver the best quality of constructions for health centers; today, we will distinguish some of its main characteristics.

Construction and provision of infrastructure are one of the steps taken by the company in offering professional and high quality services, and this is one step in which no risk can be left to act, from the permits of any nature, to the development of a schedule adapted to reality and in line with the client’s expectations, contracting, supervision and delivery of the physical plant and its equipment with the latest technology and human resources.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Construction and provision of infrastructure

Nowadays, this is a frequent technique developed by MIGLOBAL for small buildings and has been used in many of its main constructions in the health sector such as:

• Clinical labs,
• urgent and ambulatory centers,
• dialysis centers,
• support and administration buildings.

Some characteristics of the pre-fabricated technique

• The facilities must comply with the handicapped accessibility standards and codes.
• MIGLOBAL works with all the materials that have to meet the local building codes.
• Each one of the project plan and designs must be submitted before the local health department and authorities.

Exterior characteristics 

• Glass or pre-cast architectural paneling walls.
• Components on architecture subjected to regulations of access and mobility for the disabled.
• Huge variety of options for exterior finishes; plus the option of adding similar finishes of the existing buildings.
• Glass or metal doors and ceilings.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Record in constructions and designs

Interior characteristics

• Solid core wooden doors.
• Tempered glass or stainless steel paneling for sterile and semi-sterile areas.
• Fiber glass Reinforce Plastic) Panels.

By [Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza].

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: MIGLOBAL Group Presents the Best Medical Apps for your Health

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Using your mobile technology for medical purposes

Nowadays, we spend many hours of our lives using our smartphone displays, continually playing addicting games and watching videos that may actually have adverse effects on our health in the long term. However, as you may know, a smartphone can also be a great medical accessory with the right use and set of mobile apps.

Today, Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza brings you information about the new uses of mobile apps for medical purposes for your good and your doctor’s.

MICROMEDEX

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Apps that also help your doctor

Micromedex is a pharmaceutical reference app with features such as proper drug dosage and medicine recommendations. You can search the name of a specific drug to find out how it should be taken, as well as any potential side effects. You can also search by drug recommendations that will combat your medical problem. Anyone can quick and easily find what they are looking for in a pinch with Micromedex.

RED CROSS FIRST AID

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Red Cross First Aid App

No one is safe from accidents, but most of times we do not always know what to do when they happen. The Red Cross’ official First Aid app provides simple step-by-step instructions to guide you through everyday first aid scenarios, whether talking asthma attacks or broken bones. It also supplies you with a host of informative quizzes and safety tips regarding natural disasters; and best of all is that you never have to worry about whether you have mobile service.

MYCHART

MyChart allow you to access your medical records on your phone at any time. You can quickly see which vaccinations you have had and when at a glance, along with the last time you visited the doctor and which prescriptions you are taking. Also, you can send a non-urgent message to your clinic and receive a response within a couple days, schedule visits from directly within the app, and request prescription refills. How not to consider download it?

MIGLOBAL Presents Pioneer Skin Transplant in Spain

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: The team of experts

Andalusia, in southern Spain, has become a place of interest to medical researchers around the world because a pioneering process in skin transplantation has been carried out in that locality, combining tissue engineering and nano structures extracted from a 29-year-old woman, who presented burn of 70% in her body since April, making it the first person to receive such treatment on the planet, occupying international headlines. Today, MIGLOBAL will present more information about this pioneer skin transplant.

The experts behind the experiment

The use of skin made from the patient's own cells avoids the risk of rejection by the body and improves recovery. Furthermore, this method is the first treatment using a chemical "harvested" substance from a seaweed, which aims to improve the elasticity and thickness of the skin. This patent has been registered in the Andalusian Health Service and the University of Granada, which has asked to be available nationwide.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Talking about the procedure

Medical professionals from hospitals involved and the Andalusian Health Service and the University of Granada are confident that this new technique can improve the prognosis in many patients. The process was performed using skin leaves of 5.9 cm that were grafted into two batches, with the participation of the Cell Production Unit of the University, and the Major Burns Unit of the Virgen del Rocio in Seville, culminating the cycle of several years of hard work.

Hope for the near future

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Excelents results after the pioneer skin transplant

Dr. Miguel Alaminos, one of the head experts of the team that performed the intervention, explained that the creation of this biomaterial represents a milestone that comer after more than a decade of research and experiments with tissue engineering, and if all goes as is expected, it should allow the patient to leave the hospital in a month.

A Possible Better Future for Paralyzed People

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Ian Burkhart and researches

Researchers in Ohio, United States, are now seeking to restore the use of limbs of paralyzed people using computer chips that reconnect the muscles directly to the brain. The device, called NeuroLife, has already helped a quadriplegic young man hold his credit card and use it, or play a video game guitar; taking this into consideration, the implications of what can be achieved in the future are unlimited and amazing. Today, MIGLOBAL brought some information about the great medical advances that will probably change the life of paralyzed people.

The chip transmits brain signals to a software program that interprets and translates them into movements that the user wants to perform, and recode the signal and then send it through a wire to a special sleeve placed on the arm of the patient, which has electrodes that stimulate movement, in this case, the arm and hand.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: New medical advances

Ian Burkhart, the young man, was paralyzed from the neck down because of an accident six years ago, but today, he can share a game of Guitar Hero with his friends, thanks to the NeuroLife implant, which decrypts the messages from his brain through patterns that are then translated into a language that the muscles can understand, thus causing the movement of the limbs.

Burkhart has also tested other precision movements controlled by this device: serving water, pass a credit card and take a cellphone. This is the first time a paralyzed person has managed to make such a complex series of precise movements with his own hand, which represents an achievement for medical advances related to this branch.

The team is still in development period by Bartelle, a non-profit organization, and the Ohio State University. Much of the work has been based on the creation of software algorithms that can decode the intentions of the patient through the brain signals, and how to transmit them to the limbs in the form of electrical impulses to achieve the results.

Iván Ernesto Moreno Plaza: Ian Burkhart plays a guitar video game

In the future, an enhanced version of the device could have sensory feedback that, in other words, will provide touch sensations and accompanying the action itself. This new technology can be used in cases of strokes and other similar cases, helping 5.6 million people (in the US only) living with paralysis.