Newsletter 12th September 2022

Axiom Space will build Nasa's 2025 moon suit

When astronauts return to the Moon after 50 years, they'll wear suits.

Axiom Space will construct the spacesuits for Artemis III in 2025.

Nasa awarded Axiom Space $228.5m for the "historic mission" on Wednesday.

Nasa chose Axiom and Collins?Aerospace ?in June to create spacesuits for Artemis Moon and the ISS. Both businesses will compete to provide suits for lunar landings and other uses.

Artemis III is scheduled for 2025 and will be the first mission of Nasa's new Artemis programme to land people on the Moon since 1972's Apollo 17 mission. Hamilton Standard, Collins Aerospace's progenitor, developed Apollo spacesuits.

However, NASA will not buy spacesuits from Axiom or Collins as they did during the Apollo period and instead will use "spacesuit services" to rent them.

When the ISS departs at the end of the decade, Axiom Space intends to launch its own commercial space station.

AI can slash A&E wait times by an hour

Researchers are refining the AI model to improve hospital bed management.

Artificial intelligence ?can significantly affect how long a patient in A&E must wait for a hospital bed and how often they must change beds. Researchers have made an AI tool that can predict with a lot more accuracy whether a patient who comes to a casualty ward will need to stay overnight or not.

Researchers at University College London made the AI model and tested it at UCLH, the university's hospital. It could help staff prepare the right kind of beds, which can have very different needs. For example, a "cardiac monitor" bed is set up to monitor how the heart is working, and an "airway bed" has special mattresses that protect the airway. The models were changed to account for the significant differences in the number of people who went to emergency rooms after the event.

Support for the study came from the Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) at UCL and Partner Hospitals and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre.

10 Webinar Success Tips

The term "webinar," a combination of the term "web" and "seminar," has generated debate among language enthusiasts. Text-based information exchange has been going on at least since the 1980s.?

The term "webinar" is now often used to refer to any online presentation that includes a screen sharing or slide show.?

Improve your webinar presentation by following these ten tried-and-true?guidelines .

Virtual medical events: The future?

Medical conferences are vital; they feature fresh discoveries and peer-reviewed research. Many such activities provide CME (Continuing Medical Education) credits. Stopping medical conferences and activities has far-reaching effects on patients that aren't always obvious.

As 2020 loomed, medical conferences were cancelled left, right, and centre. Although the medical profession welcomed social distance and cancelled activities more than others, it didn't lessen the severity of the crisis.

Surgeons, gastroenterologists, cardiologists, and other procedure experts would've been struck hardest. These speciality areas depend on cadaver displays or simulations they may follow.

There's the joy of meeting colleagues and peers in an informal, relaxed atmosphere, a luxury few in medicine can afford.

Virtual medical events are being held more and more frequently. Our?article ?looks at whether virtual medical events are here to stay.