Medical News
Psychotic disorders and obesity: New report shows big waistlines are to blame
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(Florida Atlantic University) A number of factors, including obesity, shorten the lifespan for those with schizophrenia by 20 years and by 10 years for those with bipolar disorder compared to the general population. In t...
Linking mental health and the gut microbiome
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(Frontiers) Better understanding the gastrointestinal microbiome may help psychiatrists treat mental health disorders such as depression, highlights a review in Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Alternative Cancer Treatments More Than Double Risk Of Death
Tech Times - 23 Aug 2017 15:05
Cancer patients who opted to use alternative treatments were found to be at greater risk of dying early compared with their counterparts who use standard treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Steve Jobs used ...
Photo of the Day: Virtual Reality Revolutionizing Medical Care
Medical Design Technology - 23 Aug 2017 14:40
News They also stated that psychologists have found it as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler
Artificial Intelligence Helps with Earlier Detection of Skin Cancer
Medical Design Technology - 23 Aug 2017 14:33
News The AI system--trained using tens of thousands of skin images and their corresponding eumelanin and hemoglobin levels ... Contributed Author: University of Waterloo Topics: Oncology
New Degree Will Engineer Future Healthcare Solutions
Medical Design Technology - 23 Aug 2017 14:23
News The degree will offer four majors including medical biomechanics, medical computing, medical devices and, signal and imaging processing ... Contributed Author: University of Newcastle, Australia
Self-Powered Paper-Based 'SPEDs' May Lead to New Medical-Diagnostic Tools
Medical Design Technology - 23 Aug 2017 14:23
News The self-powered, paper-based electrochemical devices, or SPEDs, are designed for sensitive diagnostics at the "point-of-care ... Contributed Author: Purdue University Topics: Medical Diagnostics
Medtronic Receives CE Mark for Attain Stability Quad MRI SureScan Active-Fixation Heart Lead
Medical Design Technology - 23 Aug 2017 14:23
News CRT is a treatment for heart failure in which an implantable device sends low levels of energy through thin wires, called leads, to stimulate the heart ... Contributed Author: Medtronic Topics: Cardiovascular
Comparing food allergies: Animals and humans may have more in common than you think
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) Not only people, but mammals like cats, dogs and horses suffer from symptoms and problems of food intolerance and allergies. The Messerli Research Institute of Vetmeduni and ...
Discovery fuels hope for Rett syndrome treatment
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Vanderbilt University researchers have relieved symptoms of Rett syndrome in a mouse model with a small molecule that works like the dimmer switch in an electrical circuit.
Disease-carrying mosquitoes rare in undisturbed tropical forests
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) A new study by scientists from the Smithsonian, the Panamanian government and the US Environmental Protection Agency, among other institutions, concludes that conserving old-grow...
International eye cancer research project to improve future therapies
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of Liverpool) A new international research project, involving the University of Liverpool's leading eye cancer research group, has identified specific subtypes of ocular melanoma that will help develop improv...
Is MRI needed in children with a sports-related concussion?
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study reviewed more than five years of records of pediatric patients treated for sports concussion, the most common form of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among child...
New equipment maps brain activity and blood flow in state-of-the-art neuroscience lab
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of Alberta) The optical brain-imaging tool, called the Imagent, comes to the University of Alberta as the result of new funding for neuroscientist Kyle Mathewson, from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF), a...
New guidelines point way toward more effectively addressing hypertension in kids, teens
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(Case Western Reserve University) The first new national guidelines since 2004 on identifying and treating high blood pressure in children and adolescents (aged 3-18 years old) have been published by the American Academy...
New insights into the world of trypanosomes
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of Würzburg) Such detailed images of the pathogen that causes sleeping sickness inside a host are unique so far: They illustrate the manifold ways in which the parasites move inside a tsetse fly. A research ...
New research finds deep evolutionary origins of a unique mammalian anatomical pattern
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(Midwestern University) By performing detailed dissections and corresponding examinations of embryological development, researchers at Midwestern University, led by Margaret Hall, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Plochocki, Ph.D., show...
New understanding of how muscles work
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(McGill University) Muscle malfunctions may be as simple as a slight strain after exercise or as serious as heart failure and muscular dystrophy. A new technique developed at McGill University now makes it possible to lo...
Nutlin-3, a p53-Mdm2 antagonist for nasopharyngeal carcinoma treatment
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(Bentham Science Publishers) Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a form of head and neck cancer that is highly prevalent among men in the populations of Southern China and Southeast Asia. This review will discuss the poten...
Omega-3 intake reduces cardiac death risk according to comprehensive new study
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(GOED) Results from a new study showed that in 14 randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) of 71,899 people, consumption of EPA and DHA omega-3s reduced the risk of cardiac death by a statistically-significant average of 8 p...
On the other hand, the immune system can also cause cancer
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) CU Cancer Center study describes how immune response designed to scramble viral DNA can scramble human DNA as well, sometimes in ways that cause cancer.
Outstanding Investigator Grant Awarded to Dario C. Altieri, M.D., Wistar President & CEO
EurekAlert! - 23 Aug 2017 06:00
(The Wistar Institute) Wistar is pleased to announce that distinguished scientist Dario C. Altieri, M.D., Wistar president and CEO and director of the Institute's Cancer Center, has been awarded an Outstanding Investigat...