Medical News
Not Everyone Is Interested In Tracking Their Health
Medical Design Technology - 12 Mar 2018 23:20
Article A study from IMEC concluded that contrary to popular belief, not everyone is interesting is using a wearable device or app to monitor their health -- in fact, only 32 percent of those surveyed use such tools to k...
Applied Plastics' PTFE NaturalĀ® Grey Catheter Forming Mandrels
Medical Design Technology - 12 Mar 2018 22:21
Product Announcement TeflonĀ® coated forming mandrels for thin-wall catheter fuse welding and tipping operations that are up to 10X more durable than green PTFE are available from Applied Plastics Co., Inc. of Norwood, M...
Calcium Testing In Coronary Arteries Better Way to Predict Heart Attacks Than Stress Testing Alone
Medical Design Technology - 12 Mar 2018 22:10
News Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City have found that incorporating underused, but available, imaging technologies more precisely predicts who's at risk for heart attacks ...
A Revolutionary Technique Allows To Image All the Cells In A Region Of The Brain
Medical Design Technology - 12 Mar 2018 19:59
News Research published by the scientific journal CELL describes a new microscopy technique known as SUSHI designed to improve the imaging of cells in living brain tissue ... Contributed Author: UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE ...
6 Ways To Lower High Blood Pressure
Tech Times - 12 Mar 2018 18:56
From genetics to being overweight, and eating too much salty food, there are plenty of risk factors that are the underlying cause of high blood pressure. Here are six ways to lower high blood pressure.
Working together for the health and welfare of humankind
WHO - 12 Mar 2018 18:50
1. We, the Heads of the International Narcotics Control Board, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Health Organization are committed to support our Member States to effectively address and counter ...
New Research Shows Why Babies Need To Move In the Womb
Medical Design Technology - 12 Mar 2018 17:08
News Scientists have just discovered why babies need to move in the womb to develop strong bones and joints. It turns out there are some key molecular interactions that are stimulated by movement and which guide the cell...
LABORIE Medical Technologies To Acquire Cogentix Medical For $214 Million
Medical Design Technology - 12 Mar 2018 15:47
News LABORIE Medical Technologies, a global developer and manufacturer of medical diagnostics and devices in the pelvic health and gastroenterology market, has agreed to acquire Cogentix Medical Inc. in a stock transacti...
Blood thinner significantly reduces the risk of death after non-cardiac surgery
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(McMaster University) The study enrolled 1,754 patients in 19 countries, 51 percent of whom were male, with an average age of 70 years. After an average follow-up of 16 months, 11 percent of patients treated with dabigat...
Critical limb ischemia treatment shows no improvement at three months
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(American College of Cardiology) Patients with foot ulcers or gangrene who received the experimental drug JVS-100 did not show evidence of faster wound healing, compared with those receiving a placebo, in a study present...
Extracellular vesicles could be personalized drug delivery vehicles
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(Penn State) Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting the cells through a sieve, according to an international team of researchers who used mouse autologou...
Female researchers publish childcare recommendations for conference organizers
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(Chapman University) Many women in science are raising concerns over the fact that parents with young children are often excluded from fully participating in academic conference activities.
Barbershop-based healthcare study successfully lowers high blood pressure in African-American men
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) African-American men successfully lowered their high blood pressure to healthy levels when aided by a pharmacist and their local barber, according to a new study from the Smidt Heart Institu...
Children's Colorado experts find surgery promising option for severely obese adolescents
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(Children's Hospital Colorado) When a bariatric surgeon and an endocrinologist specializing in diabetes examined the effectiveness of medical versus surgical management of type 2 diabetes in adolescents, the results of t...
It's mostly luck, not pluck, that determines lifetime reproductive success
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(Cornell University) Can one seedling, or one female bird, be so superior to the rest that it will inevitably become the 'lucky' one to grow to the sky, or help perpetuate the species? The short answer: No.
Heat shock system helps bug come back to life after drying up
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(Kazan Federal University) Researchers from an international collaboration including Oleg Gusev of the RIKEN Innovation Center and collaborators from NARO, Kazan Federal University (Russia) and Skoltech University (Russi...
Childhood trauma link offers treatment hope for people with schizophrenia
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health) Researchers from Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence for Youth Mental Health; the University of Melbourne; Port Phillip Prison and University Hospi...
Large-scale genetic study provides new insight into the causes of stroke
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(University of Virginia Health System) The largest genetic study of stroke so far has identified 22 new genetic risk factors, tripling the number of gene regions known to affect stroke risk.
Life in the fast flow: Tadpoles of new species rely on 'suction cups' to keep up
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(Pensoft Publishers) The young of two new species and a genus of frog found to inhabit Sumatra's rainforests have developed a unique ability to latch onto rocks in the fast-flowing rivers, using bellies crafted by evolut...
Low-dose 'triple pill' lowers blood pressure more than usual care
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(American College of Cardiology) A pill combining low doses of three blood pressure-lowering medications significantly increased the number of patients reaching blood pressure targets compared with usual care, researcher...
Managing blood pressure in barbershops yields substantial improvements
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(American College of Cardiology) African-American men who received medical intervention aimed at controlling their high blood pressure while at the barber saw a marked drop in blood pressure in just six months, according...
Mexico well ahead of US in LGBT rights
EurekAlert! - 12 Mar 2018 06:00
(University of Vermont) Caroline Beer has spent her career researching comparative data between Latin American countries and the United States that often debunks false stereotypes. Her latest study showing Mexico as more...