Medical News
Photo of the Day: Smart Harness Can Help You Walk
Medical Design Technology - 8 Aug 2017 16:19
News Specifically, the algorithm helps patients with balance, lumpb coordination, steering, and foot placement ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler
How to Safely Use Glucose Meters and Test Strips for Diabetes
Medical Design Technology - 8 Aug 2017 15:58
News That's because pre-owned strips can give incorrect results--and may not be safe to use with your device ... Contributed Author: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Topics: Diabetes
FDA Warns Fertility Doctor To Stop Marketing 3-Parent Baby IVF Technique
Tech Times - 8 Aug 2017 15:31
John Zhang used an IVF technique to help a Jordanian couple bear a three-parent baby boy, but the procedure is not yet approved in the United States. The FDA told the fertility doctor to stop marketing the procedure.
New Method for Organ Transplant Monitoring Promises Better Care for Patients
Medical Design Technology - 8 Aug 2017 15:27
News Using a combination of DNA sequencing and computer science techniques, a team of researchers has developed a new method for monitoring the health of organ transplant patients ... Contributed Author: PLOS Topics: Sur...
Breakthrough Device Heals Organs with a Single Touch
Medical Design Technology - 8 Aug 2017 15:23
News This technology may be used to repair injured tissue or restore function of aging tissue ... Contributed Author: Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Topics: Regenerative Medicine
Printable Tool Enables Sensitive Diagnostic Testing
Medical Design Technology - 8 Aug 2017 15:16
News Created by inkjet-printing an array of antibodies onto a glass slide with a nonstick polymer coating, the diagnostic tool ... Contributed Author: Duke University Topics: Medical Diagnostics
Nanotechnology Device Can Heal Damaged Tissues With A Single Touch
Tech Times - 8 Aug 2017 13:49
The technology Tissue Nanotransfection can repair injured legs with just one touch. Treatment takes less than a second and does not have any known side effects. Here's how it works.
First-in-class drug holds promise for therapy-resistant breast cancer
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center researchers have shown that a first-in-class molecule can prevent breast cancer growth when traditional therapies stop working.
Four new fruit fly species from the Himalaya and information about their flower visitation
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(Pensoft Publishers) The first record of flower visitation in a group of fruit flies from Himalayan India, as well as a total of four new species are described in the open access journal ZooKeys. Scientists have observed...
Human gut microbe may lead to treatment for multiple sclerosis
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(Mayo Clinic) Mayo Clinic researchers, along with colleagues at the University of Iowa, report that a human gut microbe discovered at Mayo Clinic may help treat autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis. The findin...
JCU scientist finds alcohol-free solution works
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(James Cook University) A James Cook University scientist has made a discovery that will make life easier for surgery patients and their surgeon.
MPFI researchers make significant advance in understanding calcium channel function
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience) A new study conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience uncovers critical aspects of calcium channel function. Young and his team develope...
Magnetic fields turn up the heat on bacterial biofilms
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A short exposure to an alternating magnetic field might someday replace multiple surgeries and weeks of IV antibiotics as treatment for stubborn infections on artificial joints, new resea...
NYITCOM researcher discovers potential cancer treatment breakthrough
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(New York Institute of Technology) In a July issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Dong Zhang Ph.D., associate professor of Biomedical Sciences at New York Institute of Technology C...
New genes discovered regulating brain metastases in lung cancer
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(McMaster University) Researchers set out to find which genes can regulate the cells that initiate brain metastases, the genes that are sending the signal to leave the lung tumour, go into the blood stream, invade the bl...
New study discovers 'killer peptide' that helps eliminate resistant cancer cells
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of Kentucky) A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that when therapy-sensitive cancer cells die, they release a 'killer peptide' that can eliminate therapy-resistant cel...
New ultrafast method for determining antibiotic resistance
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(Uppsala University) Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for very rapidly determining whether infection-causing bacteria are resistant or susceptible to antibiotics. The findings have now been p...
Newly discovered pathway for pain processing could lead to new treatments
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(McGill University) The discovery of a new biological pathway involved in pain processing offers hope of using existing cancer drugs to replace the use of opioids in chronic pain treatment, according to scientists at McG...
One fall too many
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(Boston University Medical Center) Adults age 65 and older who go to the emergency department (ED) for a fall-related injury are not likely to participate in a fall prevention program after being discharged, despite bein...
One step closer in explaining MS relapse during upper respiratory infection
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) For most of us, the flu is just the flu. We suffer through it for several days, and eventually bounce back. But for patients with mult...
Playing with your brain
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(McGill University) Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study published in Molecular Psychiatry. For over 10 years, scientists have told ...
Regenstrief developing and testing novel, real-world automated patient identification
EurekAlert! - 8 Aug 2017 06:00
(Indiana University) Matching patients to their medical records from multiple health care providers is critical to medical care, but can be challenging to accomplish because their records can be incomplete or inaccurate,...