Medical News

If you've ever spent any time at a hospital, you know what it's like to be under constant supervision. Sensors and monitors keep track of your most basic bodily functions day and night, giving doctors and nurses to-the-s...

News Samsung technology has been integrated into the devices ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Wearables

News The use of 3D printed models for surgical planning has seen a significant reduction in costs at the institution when designing and fitting implants ... Contributed Author: Stratasys Ltd. Topics: Surgical

News The robots were manufactured by coating tiny algae with magnetic particles ... Contributed Author: University of Edinburgh Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News The rigid brace component is deployed via a needle into the heart's intraventricular septum, the wall of tissue between the heart's chambers ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Cardiovascular

News This LBR Med lightweight robot has a versatile range of capabilities including: ultrasound scanning, needle biopsy, suturing, etc ... Contributed Author: Business Wire

News The AB engineering team designed the electrode around the key goal of protecting the delicate structures of the cochlea during electrode insertion ... Contributed Author: BusinessWire Topics: Surgical

Madagascar's unprecedented outbreak of pneumonic plague is slowing down but the response must be sustained, WHO cautioned on Monday (November 27). "The worst of the outbreak is over, but we must stand ready to detect and...

Kelly Yeoman, a 34-year-old woman from the United Kingdom, is currently 'drowning in poo' after a surgeon accidentally damaged her bowel. Medical staff have been draining the toxic waste from her body daily to prevent he...

(New York University) Elevated pathogen colonization and a lack of bacterial diversity in the mouth were identified in people with precancerous lesions that could precede stomach cancer, finds a new study led by New York...

(American Osteopathic Association) Researchers examined the insurance claims and medical records of 681 patients with multiple sclerosis and found those who adhered to medication schedules had significantly better physic...

(University of California - Riverside) Jan Blacher, a distinguished professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside, found mothers of teenagers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Mount Sinai researchers have identified novel therapeutic targets for metastatic melanoma, according to a study published in Molecular Cell.

(St. Michael's Hospital) New Canadian guidelines recommend the use of new medications by HIV-negative people from high-risk populations both before and after exposure to the virus to prevent HIV infection.

(Scripps Research Institute) Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have invented a technique that overcomes a long-standing problem in organic chemistry and should streamline the process of discovery and deve...

(Elsevier) Atrial fibrillation (AF) is growing to epidemic proportions worldwide. Investigators, hypothesizing that patients who received comprehensive cardiovascular care had a greater likelihood of survival during the ...

(Imperial College London) An immunotherapy drug can be used to cure women of a rare type of cancer arising from pregnancy when existing treatments have failed.

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Findings published in Oncotarget offer new hope for children with highly aggressive brain tumors like atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) and medulloblastoma. P...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital present data at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) from a study that reveals new ways that radiologists c...

(The Hastings Center) New Hastings Center special report examines what 'just reproduction' looks like in light of increasingly complex and costly reproductive technologies and other factors.

(McMaster University) The study, published in the medical journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, found that monocytes, the white blood cells necessary to regulate immune responses, were more activated and pro-inflammatory...

(Saint Louis University) Researchers hope their findings may lead to improved chemotherapy drugs and shed light on why some cells develop chemotherapy resistance.