Medical News
Compact Ring Drive 250B with Built-in Brake
Medical Design Technology - 20 Nov 2017 16:55
Product Announcement The 250B includes a built-in zero backlash locking/brake design that delivers twice the nominal torque without increasing the CRD footprint ... Contributed Author: Nexen Group Inc.
Social Mobile Gaming Boosts Rehabilitation for Physically Impaired Patients
Medical Design Technology - 20 Nov 2017 16:48
News Balloon Buddies is designed to level the playing field by allowing healthy participants to support the less abled player ... Contributed Author: Imperial College London
Carefully Crafted Light Pulses Control Neuron Activity
Medical Design Technology - 20 Nov 2017 16:38
News Chemists have used such carefully crafted light beams, called coherent control, to regulate chemical reactions, but this study is the first demonstration of using them to control function in a living cell ... Contri...
Cell-Weighing Method Could Help Doctors Choose Cancer Drugs
Medical Design Technology - 20 Nov 2017 16:27
News This type of testing could help doctors predict drug responses based on measurements of cancer cell growth rates after drug exposure ... Contributed Author: Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topics...
Video of the Day: Robotic Hand to Grasp Objects
Medical Design Technology - 20 Nov 2017 16:23
Videos Researchers from Wyss Institute at Harvard University have developed a soft robotic glove for those who have lost their ability to grasp objects due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and other injures ... St...
Doctors Still Prescribe Codeine To Children After Tonsillectomy Despite FDA Black Box Warning
Tech Times - 20 Nov 2017 13:48
Despite a warning from the Food and Drug Administration about the safety risks of codeine, a new study found that 1 in 20 children was still getting the medication after undergoing tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.
Sugar, Not Fat, Causes Weight Gain: Professor Of Medicine
Tech Times - 20 Nov 2017 13:46
Weight gain and obesity are linked to the excess consumption of sugar. Eating fat does not make a person fat, a professor of medicine recently stated in his new book.
Pregnant Women Should Sleep On Side To Lower Stillbirth Risk
Tech Times - 20 Nov 2017 12:56
There's an easy way to decrease the risk of stillbirth, according to a new study. Apparently, women must sleep on their side instead of their backs to avoid increased risks of stillbirth.
Cerveau Technologies, Inc. and Enigma Biomedical Group, Inc., sign agreement with CAMH
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) Cerveau Technologies, Inc. and Enigma Biomedical Group, Inc., today announced an agreement with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Ontario to support mu...
Enterovirus vaccine prevents virus-induced diabetes in a T1D experimental model
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(University of Tampere) Scientists at the University of Tampere (Finland) and the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) have demonstrated that an enterovirus vaccine can protect against virus-induced diabetes in a mouse model f...
Five Mizzou faculty members named as Fellows of the AAAS
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(University of Missouri-Columbia) Five faculty members from the University of Missouri have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The MU faculty members elected as fellows ...
For adults younger than 78, risk for heart disease linked to risk for problems walking
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(American Geriatrics Society) A team of researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm examined the factors that put older adults at higher risk for developing physical limitations as they age. Findings pub...
Cell cycle proteins help immune cells trap microbes with nets made of DNA
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(Cell Press) In your bloodstream, there are immune cells called neutrophils that, when faced with a pathogenic threat, will expel their DNA like a net to contain it. These DNA snares are called neutrophil extracellular t...
Do women receive appropriate counseling when they freeze their eggs?
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Oocyte cryopreservation is on the rise, and whether a woman freezes her eggs before undergoing medical treatment that could leave her infertile or undergoes an elective p...
Most older adults prefer to participate in medical decisions
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(American Academy of Family Physicians) Although most older Americans prefer to actively participate in making health care decisions, those with four or more chronic conditions are less likely to prefer active decision m...
Many cancer survivors are living with PTSD
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(Wiley) A recent study showed approximately one-fifth of patients with cancer experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) several months after diagnosis, and many of these patients continued to live with PTSD years...
Digital pills successfully monitor opioid use after injury
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) BWH investigators report on the results from a pilot study of 15 individuals who received a prescription to take oxycodone digital pills as needed following treatment for acute fractures. T...
Motorcycle crashes cause 5 times as many deaths as car accidents, 6 times the health costs
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Motorcycle accidents are costly in terms of lives and health care costs. Compared with car accidents, motorcycle accidents cause three times the injuries, six times the medical cost...
National cooperative group trial seeks to cut in half early mortality rates for rare leukemia
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) A national cooperative group trial is making a handful of the country's experts in a rare leukemia available around the clock, with the goal of cutting by more than half...
Neurobiology: Fixated on food?
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Contrast has an impact on the optokinetic reflex, which enables us to clearly perceive the landscape from a moving train. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) ...
New catalyst controls activation of a carbon-hydrogen bond
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(Emory Health Sciences) Chemists have developed another catalyst that can selectively activate a carbon-hydrogen bond, part of an ongoing strategy to revolutionize the field of organic synthesis and open up new chemical ...
New framework for multimorbidity care identifies changes and gaps
EurekAlert! - 20 Nov 2017 07:00
(American Academy of Family Physicians) Researchers have developed a new framework for reporting and designing models of care for multimorbidity.