Medical News
A Biomarker for CTE Could Make Living Diagnosis Possible
Discover - 27 Sep 2017 19:49
The discovery of a biomarker for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) could lead to diagnosis of the disease in living individuals, something not currently possible. CTE is a neurodegenerative brain disease thought to ...
Video of the Day: Bloody Sound
Medical Design Technology - 27 Sep 2017 16:41
Videos The device is able to sift through particles from the blood samples ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Medical Diagnostics
Gaskets for EMI/RFI Shielding
Medical Design Technology - 27 Sep 2017 16:30
Product Announcement All knitted mesh configurations are supplied on spools, coils, or cut to length as individual gaskets with or without end seals ... Contributed Author: Tech-Etch
Faster Imaging at The Nano Level
Medical Design Technology - 27 Sep 2017 16:18
News The Tufts researchers discovered a way to use new channels of information that had been traditionally discarded as noise ... Contributed Author: Taylor Mcneil Topics: Oncology
FDA Selects Participants for New Digital Health Software Precertification Pilot Program
Medical Design Technology - 27 Sep 2017 16:13
News The FDA's Pre-cert pilot program is intended to inform a tailored approach toward digital health technology by looking at the software developer ... Contributed Author: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
DENSO Introduces New HSR High-Speed 4-Axis Robot
Medical Design Technology - 27 Sep 2017 16:05
News Reduced shaft whip and settling time, along with a lighter-weight arm and an optimized arm structure, make the HSR more efficient ... Contributed Author: DENSO
Here's Another Good Reason To Lose Weight: You'll Save Up To $36,000
Tech Times - 27 Sep 2017 14:58
A new study showed that obese and overweight adults can stand to save up to $36,000 over their lifetime if they drop to a healthy weight. The money will be saved from direct medical costs and productivity losses.
Number Of STD Cases In The US Now At The Highest It's Ever Been: Report
Tech Times - 27 Sep 2017 14:34
The number of new STD cases continues to grow. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its annual STD surveillance report, showing that in 2016, the country recorded its highest rate of new STD cases ...
High rate of prescriptions for new cholesterol medications never filled
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(The JAMA Network Journals) In the first year of availability of the cholesterol lowering medications PCSK9 inhibitors, fewer than 1 in 3 adults initially prescribed one of these inhibitors actually received it, owing to...
Interactive web tool shows potential impact of tobacco policies
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Michigan) If the minimum age for buying tobacco legally were changed to 21, it could save more than 35,000 lives in Texas, 15,000 in Florida and more than 12,000 in Michigan by 2100, according to a new web...
Iron supplements have long-term benefits for low birth-weight babies
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(Springer) Babies classified as low birth weight (under 2,500 grams) are at risk of iron deficiency, which is linked to impaired neurological development. A long-term randomized study now shows that providing such babies...
Modeling brain connections to understand Parkinson's disease
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(Frontiers) A study published in open-access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience uses a new approach to model the strength of connections within the brain's basal ganglia. Determining how these differ between...
NIH announces centers for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome research
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award four grants to establish a coordinated scientific research effort on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fati...
NIH awards $9.6 million grant to Columbia for chronic fatigue syndrome research center
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) The NIH has awarded a five-year $9.6 million grant to the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health to create...
New class of molecules may protect brain from stroke, neurodegenerative diseases
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, has discovered a new class of mo...
Opioid crisis in Staten Island affects all races and socioeconomic backgrounds
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Contrary to media reports, the opioid epidemic on Staten Island is not confined to affluent young white residents, and affects all neighborhoods, races, ages, and s...
Penn Medicine develops model to predict ER visits in lung cancer patients
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A pilot program that uses big data to predict which lung cancer patients will require a trip to an emergency department (ED) successfully anticipated a third of all ED visi...
Pioneering bacterial energetics and antimicrobial resisitance group honored
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Otago) A world-leading team of microbiologists, whose work on a novel new way to fight TB infections shows great promise, has been selected as the recipient of New Zealand's University of Otago's latest Re...
Plant substance inhibits cancer stem cells
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(Lund University) Lab experiments show that the chemical compound damsin found in the plant Ambrosia arborescens inhibits the growth and spread of cancer stem cells. The similar but synthetically produced ambrosin has th...
Preventing Zika from being transmitted to fetus is goal of new NIH grant to Hawaii
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Hawaii Cancer Center) New funding awarded to the University of Hawaii may lead to solution to a compelling dilemma -- a way to prevent the Zika virus in pregnant women from being transmitted to the fetus.
Reducing disparities in cancer precision medicine
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) The National Cancer Institute has awarded LSU Health New Orleans and Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center in Tampa a $2 million grant over four years to study cancer pre...
Researchers from KAIST and NTU Singapore unlock Parkinson's disease
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2017 06:00
(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) A KAIST research team has identified a new mechanism that causes the hallmark symptoms of Parkinson's disease, namely tremors, rigidity, and loss of volunt...