Medical News
Protein Derived From Parasitic Worms Shows Potential Against Crippling Bladder Disease
Tech Times - 5 Apr 2018 05:48
Chemotherapy patients often develop hemorrhagic cystitis, a painful bladder disease that can lead to death. Existing treatments are limited but scientists recently discovered an alternative derived from a parasitic worm.
Off-the-Shelf and Custom Tubing Solutions
Medical Design Technology - 5 Apr 2018 16:19
Product Announcement Qosina offers a wide selection of in-stock tubing for prototyping and large-scale production requirements. The high-quality, medical-grade tubing is competitively priced, conveniently packaged in sma...
SCI Solutions Acquires DatStat to Lead Digital Patient Engagement
Medical Design Technology - 5 Apr 2018 23:55
News SCI Solutions (SCI), a patient access and care coordination software company, has acquired DatStat, a leading provider of patient engagement and digital health tools. The combination of SCI's market-leading patient ...
Scientists Develop Method To Repair Damaged Structures Deep Inside The Ear
Medical Design Technology - 5 Apr 2018 23:25
News Researchers at USC and Harvard have developed a new approach to repair cells deep inside the ear -- a potential remedy that could restore hearing for millions of elderly people and others who suffer hearing loss... ...
Video of the Day: New Camera Gives Surgeons A Butterfly's-Eye View Of Cancer
Medical Design Technology - 5 Apr 2018 23:10
News Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a surgical camera inspired by the eye of the morpho butterfly. The camera, connected to the goggles...
Pasta Now Being Linked To Weight Loss, Contradicting Various Diets That Name The Carbohydrate As An Enemy
Tech Times - 5 Apr 2018 22:20
Pasta can now be moved into the category of a weight loss food due to a new study. Various recent diets have made carbohydrates the enemy, but this could change opinions on the food.
CDC Warns Of 'Nightmare Bacteria' That Is Antibiotic Resistant Spreading Throughout The U.S.
Tech Times - 5 Apr 2018 21:50
CDC has released a new report detailing the spread of a nightmare bacteria that is antibiotic resistant. There have been more than 200 cases reported across the U.S.
Organoids Created From Patients' Bladder Cancers Could Guide Treatment
Medical Design Technology - 5 Apr 2018 20:20
News Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers have created patient-specific bladder cancer organoids that mimic many of the characteristics of actual tumors. The use of organ...
Missing CDC Scientist's Body Found In A River In Atlanta: What Are The Police Saying?
Tech Times - 5 Apr 2018 20:14
The body of a CDC scientist that has been missing since February has been found in a river in Atlanta. He vanished under mysterious circumstances --including that he was reported to be a whistleblower and that he passed ...
Denver Hospital Sterilization Malpractice Places Surgical Patients At Risk Of HIV, Hepatitis B, And Hepatitis C
Tech Times - 5 Apr 2018 13:49
A 'sterilization breach' in a Denver hospital has placed an unknown number of surgical patients at risk of HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C infection. There was apparently 'a gap in the pre-cleaning process' that lasted...
'Nightmare Bacteria' Is An Epidemic In At Least 27 US States: What Could Happen If It Continues To Spread?
Tech Times - 5 Apr 2018 13:16
Government officials and healthcare workers worked double time to prevent the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. These superbugs will cost the country billions of dollars in hospitalization and medications with no ...
WHO at 70 - working for better health for everyone, everywhere
WHO - 5 Apr 2018 11:00
On 7 April, World Health Day, the World Health Organization marks its 70th anniversary. Over the past 7 decades, WHO has spearheaded efforts to rid the world of killer diseases like smallpox and to fight against deadly h...
Columbia scientists build better way to decode the genome
EurekAlert! - 5 Apr 2018 06:00
(The Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University) Columbia University researchers have developed a computational tool that shines a light on the genome's most hard-to-translate segments. With this tool in hand, scientists...
Analysis challenges link between pain medications and inflammatory bowel disease
EurekAlert! - 5 Apr 2018 06:00
(Wiley) Contrary to generally accepted belief, a recent review and analysis of published studies did not reveal a consistent association between the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or acetaminophen a...
Charting an underexplored landscape: The genitourinary microbiome
EurekAlert! - 5 Apr 2018 06:00
(Children's National Health System) More sensitive cultivation methods and precise 16S rRNA gene sequencing techniques have revealed that the human bladder hosts a significant microbiome and those diverse bacteria inside...
Certain medications for chronic inflammatory diseases appear safe during pregnancy
EurekAlert! - 5 Apr 2018 06:00
(Wiley) Anti-tumor necrosis factor medications (anti-TNFs) are effective in controlling chronic inflammatory diseases, but some physicians recommend that their patients discontinue them during pregnancy.
Allina study shows patients with very small breast tumors may forgo lymph node biopsies
EurekAlert! - 5 Apr 2018 06:00
(Allina Health ) How to treat patients who have microinvasive breast cancer - tumors that are 1 mm or less in size (the thickness of a dime) -- is somewhat controversial. Can these tiny tumors affect the lymph nodes and ...
A heavy working memory load may sink brainwave 'synch'
EurekAlert! - 5 Apr 2018 06:00
(Picower Institute at MIT) When working memory load exceeds capacity, a new study finds, feedback coupling of the prefrontal cortex with other involved regions shuts down.
In Europe, CHMP missed an opportunity for osteoporosis patients at high risk of fracture
EurekAlert! - 5 Apr 2018 06:00
(International Osteoporosis Foundation) Experts from the International Osteoporosis Foundation and the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases regre...
Injecting gene cocktail into mouse pancreas leads to humanlike tumors
EurekAlert! - 5 Apr 2018 06:00
(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) A researcher at UT Health San Antonio (The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) has invented a unique method to generate, in mice, pancreati...
It's all about the (stem cell) neighborhood
EurekAlert! - 5 Apr 2018 06:00
(Duke-NUS Medical School) Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School have now identified how the stem cell neighbourhood, known as a niche, keeps stem cells in the gut alive. Their results provide new insights into the struc...
MRI analysis with machine learning predicts impairment after spinal injury, study shows
EurekAlert! - 5 Apr 2018 06:00
(American Roentgen Ray Society) A test of machine-learning algorithms shows promise for computer-aided prognosis of acute spinal cord injury, according to a study to be presented at the ARRS 2018 Annual Meeting, set for ...