Medical News
Expensive Meds Can Hurt...Literally
Discover - 5 Oct 2017 21:46
Paying a higher price for something is typically associated with positive benefits. When you shell out more for a thing, you feel it's faster, stronger, softer or cleaner. You know that premium you paid was worth it. But...
Photo of the Day: Device for Polio Vaccination
Medical Design Technology - 5 Oct 2017 15:49
Researchers from the University of Queensland have developed a device used to deliver vaccines ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler
Self-Clinching Stainless Steel Flush Nuts for Thin Metal Sheets
Medical Design Technology - 5 Oct 2017 15:32
Product Announcement The product line includes PEMSERT F 300 Series stainless steel types for installation into steel or aluminum sheets ... Contributed Author: PennEngineering
A Super-Elastic Surgical Glue That Sticks and Seals in Vivo, Even When Tissues Are Moving
Medical Design Technology - 5 Oct 2017 15:13
News By varying the concentrations of the crosslinking reagent and tropoelastin, the team generated a range of MeTro hydrogels with different elasticities ... Contributed Author: Benjamin Boettner, Wyss Institute Topics:...
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: High Sensitivity On Smallest Space
Medical Design Technology - 5 Oct 2017 15:08
News Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is used to study molecular properties of matter ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Medical Diagnostics
Fitbit-Style Prosthetics? Navy Developing 'Smart' Artificial Limbs
Medical Design Technology - 5 Oct 2017 15:02
News This includes a critical bio-compatible sensor array embedded within an amputee's residual limb--coupled with additional sensors on the osseointegrated prosthetic itself ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Pros...
Mother Who Was Ordered To Vaccinate Her Child Didn't Comply, And Now She's Going To Jail
Tech Times - 5 Oct 2017 13:40
The court has ordered a Michigan mother to be sentenced to seven days in jail after failing to vaccinate her child. She was given until Oct. 4 to get her son vaccinated, but she failed to comply.
Anti-RAS antibodies show poor reliability in recognizing RAS proteins
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) Researchers from the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio co-authored a paper published Sept. 26 in Science Signaling that looks...
CHOP and UAE Ministry of Health partner on visiting specialty consultant program
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) The Ministry of Health and Prevention of the United Arab Emirates (MOHAP) and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) today entered into a memorandum of understanding regarding a ...
CRI study challenges long-standing concept in cancer metabolism
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that lactate provides a fuel for growing tumors, challenging a nearly century-old o...
Coming a step closer to understanding how gastric bypass works
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(Massachusetts General Hospital) A study by a team of researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) and Shriners Hospital for Children has made a technological advancement...
Completing the drug design jigsaw
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(University of East Anglia) A powerful new way of analysing how drugs interact with molecules in the body could aid the design of better treatments with fewer side-effects.
'Smart' immune cells: Emerging cancer therapy research boosted with NIH award
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(University of California - Davis) Assistant Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, has received a $1.5 million award from the National I...
Found in translation
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(University of Southern California) New brain research by USC scientists shows that reading stories generates activity in the same regions of the brain for speakers of three different languages
Bariatric surgery lowers cancer risk for severely obese patients
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center) Bariatric surgery lowers the risk of cancer for severely obese patients. The risks drop most for postmenopausal breast cancer, endometrial cancer, pancreatic cancer and c...
A novel textile material that keeps itself germ-free
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(University of Leeds) Scientists have developed a novel weapon in the battle against deadly hospital-acquired infections -- a textile that disinfects itself.And independent tests show it can reduce bacteria levels by mor...
GW researcher receives more than $2.3 million to study cocaine's influence on HIV
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(George Washington University) Following studies showing that cocaine influences the transcription and replication of HIV, Mudit Tyagi, PhD, at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will lead a team researching the ...
Genomic screening helps doctors target girl's cancer
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(Medical University of South Carolina) Two-year-old Victoria Thompson is part of the national precision medicine trial Peds PLAN through MUSC Children's Health for children with high-risk neuroblastoma. She's also receiv...
Germs in the kitchen: Salmonella better known than Campylobacter
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) What health risks are consumers aware of? What are they concerned about? The answers to these questions are provided by the BfR Consumer Monitor, a representative population su...
Good-guy bacteria may help cancer immunotherapies do their job
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Individuals with certain types of bacteria in their gut may be more likely to respond well to cancer immunotherapy, researchers at the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center found ...
Harvard Medical School scientists receive NIH Director's Awards
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(Harvard Medical School) Four Harvard Medical School scientists are among 86 recipients nationwide honored by the National Institutes of Health High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program.
IUPUI microbiologists uncover clues to clustering of lethal bacteria in CF patients' lungs
EurekAlert! - 5 Oct 2017 06:00
(Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis School of Science) In a new study IUPUI microbiologists are adding to body of knowledge of biofilm formation with the ultimate goal of finding better ways to disrupt tha...