Medical News
2775 Series Pressure/Vacuum Pumps
Medical Design Technology - 8 Sep 2017 17:48
Product Announcement The 2775CE50 (115/60/1) is UL approved and provides an open flow of 5.5 cfm (155.7 l/min) and can operate up to 100 psi (6.9 bar) ... Contributed Author: Gardner Denver THOMAS
Tackling Four Supplier Visibility Challenges Using Automation
Medical Design Technology - 8 Sep 2017 17:45
Article In this demanding environment, where supply chains are increasing in complexity, end-to-end visibility has grown as a strategic corporate priority... Contributed Author: Terrance Holbrook, Senior Product Manager,...
Photo of the Day: Device Measure Heart's Sticky Blood Flow
Medical Design Technology - 8 Sep 2017 17:38
News When a heart's viscosity is high, it could be a sign for potential problems. In that case, the heart has to work harder to pump sticky blood, McBride wrote ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Cardiovascular
'Cancer Pen' Could Help Surgeons Spot Tumor Cells in Seconds
Medical Design Technology - 8 Sep 2017 17:30
News The pen will make it easier to surgically clear out all the cancer cells surrounding a tumor ... Contributed Author: Dennis Thompson, HealthDay News Topics: Oncology
Electrical Current Provides a Look Inside the Lungs
Medical Design Technology - 8 Sep 2017 17:28
News It couldn't be simpler, more convenient or cheaper: with electrical impedance tomography, a belt featuring electrodes is applied directly to the skin ... Contributed Author: Florian Aigner, Phys.org Topics: Medical ...
Folic acid may mitigate autism risk from pesticides
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of California - Davis Health System) Researchers at UC Davis and other institutions have shown that mothers who take recommended amounts of folic acid around conception might reduce their children's pesticide...
Hepatocellular carcinoma: Resection vs. transplantation
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(Deutsches Aerzteblatt International) Liver transplantation is the gold standard for treating early hepatocellular cancers. Because of the lack of donors, this option is, however, available to a limited degree only. Cura...
Immune cells help fat deal with environmental challenges
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Immunosuppressive regulatory T-cells play an important role in the functioning of adipose tissue. This is the discovery of scientists from th...
Improving cervical cancer screening rates for transgender men
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study indicates that alternative options for cervical cancer screening, including self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, could improve the screening ...
Juvenile stroke: Causes often not known
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(Deutsches Aerzteblatt International) Strokes without a definitive identifiable cause account for up to 50 percent of juvenile strokes. In juvenile strokes, the range of causes is wider and their frequency distribution d...
LORELEI: Taselisib boosts breast tumor shrinkage
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(European Society for Medical Oncology) Adding taselisib to letrozole before surgery significantly improved outcomes for patients with early breast cancer that was both estrogen receptor positive and HER2-negative (ER+/H...
Later circadian timing of food intake is associated with increased body mass index
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) BWH investigators examine the relationships between body fat and body mass index, and the timing of food consumption, to time of day and to the body's circadian or body clock.
Lazy ants make themselves useful in unexpected ways
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Arizona) Sizable populations of inactive workers in ant colonies have puzzled scientists for a long time. However, new research by UA biologists shows that these ants are far from useless.
New book on The Biology of the TGF-β Family from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) "The Biology of the TGF-β Family" provides a comprehensive view of the different members of the TGF-β family, the signaling pathways they control, and how they influence developmen...
New data confirms superiority of docetaxel based triplet therapy in gastric cancer
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(European Society for Medical Oncology) The superiority of docetaxel based triplet therapy over standard care in patients with resectable esophago-gastric cancer has been confirmed in late-breaking results from the FLOT4...
New guidelines discourage use of brain imaging as a 'lie detector' for chronic pain
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(University Health Network) A task force consisting of researchers from around the world and led by a scientist at the Krembil Research Institute in Toronto has released a set of recommendations that advise against the u...
Nursing home workers often fail to change gloves, risking spread of infection: New study
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(Elsevier) The failure to change gloves is common among certified nursing assistants, and may be a significant cause of the spread of dangerous pathogens in nursing homes and long-term healthcare settings, according to a...
PATH and WRAIR announce largest-ever controlled malaria infection
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(Burness) PATH's Malaria Vaccine Initiative and the US Department of Defense's Walter Reed Army Institute of Research announced today that vaccinations are under way in a clinical trial to evaluate modifications to the v...
Patients with high risk prostate cancer may benefit 'equally' from two new treatments
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(European Society for Medical Oncology) Patients with high risk prostate cancer starting long-term hormone therapy may benefit from two new treatments, according to late-breaking results from the STAMPEDE trial presented...
Pembrolizumab: promising response rate in pretreated metastatic gastric cancer
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(European Society for Medical Oncology) Pembrolizumab has shown a promising response rate in patients with pretreated metastatic gastric cancer, according to late-breaking results from the KEYNOTE-059 trial presented tod...
Penn Cancer biologist given National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) M. Celeste Simon, PhD, who studies cancer cell metabolism, tumor immunology, and the influence of oxygen availability and deprivation on tumor growth, has been given a Nati...
Polio-like disease in children
EurekAlert! - 8 Sep 2017 06:00
(Deutsches Aerzteblatt International) In Germany in the summer and autumn of 2016, several cases of illness in children were observed that were accompanied by acute flaccid paralysis. In an article in the current issue o...