Yona Gidalevitz

Yona is a Product Manager with a keen interest in medical technology. He is an avid musician, photographer, and writer with a deep passion for learning and teaching. Yona was born in Israel, and currently lives in Chicago, IL. He graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology with a degree in Technical Writing.

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Nanomedicine

December 30th, 2014 In the United States, Alzheimer's disease affects an estimated 5 million people over the age of 65 (1 in 9). However, the Alzheimer's Association predicts that by the year 2050, this number will climb to an alarming 13.8 million people over 65 (1 in 4). Symptoms of the disease, while debilitating, do not become fully apparent until...
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May 1st, 2014 Stapling and suturing are routine parts of surgical procedures, but they've always had downsides. In many situations it may be difficult to get a stapler to a site or to have enough room to insert sutures. Moreover, suturing and stapling can damage fragile soft tissue. A team of French scientists have now used silicon dioxide and iron...
Anesthesiology

April 21st, 2014 Nanoparticles that target specific spots in the body have usually been developed for oncologists to attack tumors. A team of researchers at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine wanted to see whether nanoparticles ferrying local anesthetics could be effective in perioperative anesthesia and analgesia. Specifically, they evaluated...
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April 17th, 2014 3D printed replacement body parts are already saving lives and helping to offer new therapies for otherwise crippling conditions. Yet, in practice this has been limited to plastic replacements for bones and other structural components in the body. Printing a soft tissue, vascularized, complicated organ like the heart is still a ways...
Nanomedicine

April 2nd, 2014 Delivering radioactive therapeutic agents to tumors can be a dangerous process if healthy tissues are exposed to the material. An international team of researchers has developed nanocapsules that can transport alpha emitters and help contain the daughter ions they produce. Alpha radiation is both highly energetic and easily contained...
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March 7th, 2014 Artificially printed tissue may one day revolutionize how diseased organs are treated, fractured bones are fixed, and drugs are tested without human subjects. A great deal of progress has already been made toward this goal, but a major hurdle, that of integrating vasculature and bringing together different cell types into a functional...
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