Medical News
UMMS scientists identify gene associated with metastatic melanoma
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(University of Massachusetts Medical School) A study by Craig J. Ceol, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has revealed a protein active during early embryo...
If You Stuck Your Head in a Particle Accelerator...
Discover - 4 Dec 2017 23:38
What happens when you stick your head inside a particle accelerator and get hit with a beam of trillions of protons? Well, if you're Anatoli Bugorski, you go on to finish your PhD. Bugorski is the only person known to ha...
If Your Pet Has This Tapeworm, It Could Kill You
Discover - 4 Dec 2017 20:35
Dogs are sending us an early warning signal about the spread of a potentially deadly tapeworm in North America. The tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis, is normally found in rodents and other wild animals, including co...
Meller Optics Stock 2018 Parts
Medical Design Technology - 4 Dec 2017 17:09
Product Announcement All overrun parts in the Meller Optics 2018 Stock Parts List meet OEM quality requirements ... Contributed Author: Meller Optics
Virtual Reality for Bacteria
Medical Design Technology - 4 Dec 2017 17:04
News The researchers demonstrated the feasibility of bio-digital hybrids with a bio-digital oscillator ... Contributed Author: Institute of Science and Technology Austria
3-D-Printed Prosthetic Implants Could Improve Treatment for Hearing Loss
Medical Design Technology - 4 Dec 2017 16:44
News The researchers removed the middle linking bone in the ossicular chain from three human cadavers and imaged the structures with CT ... Contributed Author: Radiological Society of North America Topics: Implantables
Ultrasound Imaging Needle to Transform Heart Surgery
Medical Design Technology - 4 Dec 2017 16:20
News The team developed the all-optical ultrasound imaging technology for use in a clinical setting over four years ... Contributed Author: University College London Topics: Cardiovascular
Under Pressure: Novel Technology to Model Pressure-Induced Cellular Injuries in the Brain
Medical Design Technology - 4 Dec 2017 16:17
News The model, developed to study pediatric hydrocephalus, could prove useful in elucidating mechanisms that are relevant to other types of brain injury ... Contributed Author: Medical University of South Carolina Topic...
Dengvaxia: Philippines Probes Immunization Program Involving Sanofi's Dengue Vaccine That May Pose Health Risks
Tech Times - 4 Dec 2017 15:35
Earlier recommendations greenlighted administration of Sanofi's Dengvaxia in healthy individuals to prevent dengue fever. Findings of a new long-term study, however, found the dengue vaccine could pose risk to certain in...
Smartphone Addiction May Lead To Brain Imbalance: Here's How To Address The Problem
Tech Times - 4 Dec 2017 12:58
Researchers discovered that smartphone addiction may lead to chemical imbalances in the brain, resulting in anxiety and depression, among others. For people who do not think therapy is for them, here are some things to t...
Woman Could Lose Eyeball After Botched Eye Tattoo: Other Risky Body Modifications
Tech Times - 4 Dec 2017 08:14
A woman could lose her eyeball because of her botched eyeball tattoo. Here are some body modification prodecures that are as risky as a scleral tattoo.
Durotomy: A common complication of spinal surgery -- and an important factor in some malpractice cases
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(Wolters Kluwer Health) Incidental durotomy -- small tears of the outer membrane of the spinal cord -- are a common occurrence in spinal surgery, and may lead to litigation. Most malpractice cases associated with dural t...
Discovery of key molecules involved in severe malaria
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(Osaka University) A research group led by Osaka University found that proteins called RIFIN expressed on erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium falciparum help the parasite to suppress the host immune response, causing s...
Discovery of a mechanism for determining the direction of collective cell migration
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) The phenomenon of collective cell migration has been observed in the process of animal development, the healing of wounds, and cancer cell invasion. Professors Kazuhiro Aoki et a...
Medicare shift to quality over quantity presents challenges
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(Washington University School of Medicine) A new study hints that even large physician practices may have trouble moving to a payment system that rewards quality of health care over quantity of services delivered. The an...
Community health center funding cliff could cause more than 100,000 jobs to be lost
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(George Washington University) If the Community Health Center Fund is not restored, millions of patients served by community health centers may lose access to crucial health care and up to 161,000 jobs could be lost in c...
AGS troubled by Senate tax reform bill and its impact on older Americans
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(American Geriatrics Society) Disappointed by Senate passage of a tax reform proposal that could curtail critical supports for older Americans and threaten important gains securing health coverage for more Americans, exp...
Marijuana use may not aid patients in opioid addiction treatment
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(Washington State University) New research finds that frequent marijuana use seems to strengthen the relationship between pain and depression and anxiety, not ease it.
Kent scientists find new cultivation system to battle parasite causing diarrhoea
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(University of Kent) Kent scientists find new cultivation system to battle parasite causing diarrhoeaA research team at the University of Kent has established the first long-term cultivation system at a laboratory scale ...
Chance record of an annual mass emergence of enigmatic mantis-flies
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(Pensoft Publishers) Being neither mantids nor flies, the peculiar mantis-flies are in fact predatory lacewings which use their mantis-like forelegs to catch prey. While most mantis-flies are known to feed on spider eggs...
New approach to predict respiratory allergy in early childhood
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(Karolinska Institutet) A new study in EBioMedicine by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, suggests that immune response in early childhood to a handful of allerg...
New easy-to-use tool can help determine Alzheimer's risk, similar to pediatric growth curves
EurekAlert! - 4 Dec 2017 07:00
(Canadian Medical Association Journal) A simple new tool that tracks cognitive performance in adults aims to help physicians identify people who may be on the path to Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia. The ...