Nanomedicine: The Future of Medicine

NANOMEDICINE: THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE Nanomedicine, refers to highly specific medical intervention at the molecular level for curing disease or repairing damaged tissues. Though in its infancy, could we be looking at the future of medicine? Early clinical trials certainly look promising. НOW NANOMEDICINE Nanomedicine works WORKS by injecting nanoparticles into the body CAN BE USED TO: One human hair is approximately 80,000 nanoparticles are between Deliver medicine Repair damaged cells Find and treat nanometers 1 and 100 disease wide nanometers in diameter APPLICATIONS OF NANOMEDICINE Nanotechnology is already commonly used in sunscreen and to make tennis balls more bouncy DRUG DELIVERY Using nanotechnology to deliver medicine, diabetic rats kept stable blood sugar levels for 10 days after injection E CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT Using microRNA from a patient's blood plasma and nanotechnology: Using Nano-Therm therapy to overheat brain cancer cells helps to destroy them: In clinical trials, those with recurrent Medical professionals can determine if lung cancer is present... glioblastoma survived a median of 13 months and begin treatment the same day More than double the survival rate of those who did not receive Nano-Therm therapy FLU TESTING NANOMEDICINE GOLD FLU TESTING: Immediate treatment to Today's flu tests are: X Time consuming X Inaccurate Instant results prevent spreading to others commercial nanotech testing no more than 5 years away CELL FEEDRACK Nanomedicine can be used to test cell response to drugs Instant feedback on how cells respond to Can save years and millions of dollars on More effective than current medicine testing and clinical trials medications In a 1956, Arthur C. Clarke first wrote of the nanotechnology concept in a short story, The Next Tenants ADVANTAGES OF NANOMEDICINE Faster diagnosis of many ailments More precise treatments of conditions such Repair tissue deep within the body Target only diseased organs without destroying healthy tissue as cancer Brought to you by: ASSOCIATES-DEGREE-IN-NURSING.ORG SOURCES: https://commonfund.nih.gov/nanomedicine/overview.aspx http://www.understandingnano.com/medicine.html http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn400630x http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v6/n10/full/nnano.2011.147.html http://www.dana.org/news/features/detail_bw.aspx?id=35592 http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Articlelanding/2011/AN/C1AN15303J http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.201001642/abstract http://www.clinam.org/benefits.html