Medical News
What Magnetic Fields Do to Your Brain and Body
Discover - 25 May 2018 18:39
There's no escaping magnetic fields--they're all around us. For starters, the Earth itself is like a giant magnet. A spinning ball of liquid iron in our planet's core generates the vast magnetic field that moves our comp...
EU Banking On AI As Healthcare Embraces Big Data
Medical Design Technology - 25 May 2018 16:56
News The European Union's recent $24 billion in artificial intelligence is indicative of Europe embracing the use of big data to bolster health care information systems and improve the level of care... Staff Author: Spen...
ZEISS Presents New Software Technology
Medical Design Technology - 25 May 2018 15:51
Product Announcement ZEISS introduces new software modules with enhanced imaging technology: ZEISS ZEN Connect is especially useful for, but not limited to, structural analysis, examination of cellular processes, localiz...
Painless Real-Time Proteomics May One Day Speed Up Cancer Surgery
Medical Design Technology - 25 May 2018 15:00
News Isabelle Fournier and her team are out to change surgical oncology. Her laboratory has worked for several years on a device they call the SpiderMass that will enable surgeons to look for markers of cancer in a livin...
Study Shows In-Home Therapy Effective For Stroke Rehabilitation
Medical Design Technology - 25 May 2018 15:00
News In-home rehabilitation, using a telehealth system and supervised by licensed occupational/physical therapists, is an effective means of improving arm motor status in stroke survivors... Contributed Author: Universit...
BioSensics Launches Sensor-Integrated Digital Platform For Clinical Trials
Medical Design Technology - 25 May 2018 15:00
News BioSensics has announced the launch of its Sensor-Integrated Digital Platform for measurement and remote monitoring of movement-based biomarkers in clinical trials. The platform combines clinical-grade wearable sens...
Infantilism as a norm
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Views on human age need to be revisited. The value of adulthood as a period of certainty has declined for many, which means that this period is being delayed. The...
Majority of premature infants still exposed to early antibiotics
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(JAMA Network) Most premature infants, who are at risk for sepsis but who may not have a culture confirmation of infection, continue to receive early antibiotics in the first few days of life, a finding that suggests neo...
Minneapolis Clinical Trials Program wins Innovative Healthcare Award
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(Be The Match) Program in honor of the late Jason Carter honored for increasing patient access to clinical trials.
NIH summit delivers recommendations to speed therapy development for Alzheimer's disease
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(NIH/National Institute on Aging) The National Institute on Aging today released recommendations providing a roadmap for an integrated, multidisciplinary research agenda to inform priorities for Alzheimer's disease and r...
New chromosome study can lead to personalised counselling of pregnant women
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) Foetuses with a specific, rare chromosomal aberration have a 20 per cent risk of a developmental disorder or another brain disorder, a new study condu...
New link found between alcohol, genes and heart failure
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(Imperial College London) Scientists have revealed a new link between alcohol, heart health and our genes. The researchers investigated faulty versions of a gene called titin which are carried by one in 100 people or 600...
OSU biologist advocates ecological approach to improving human health
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(Oregon State University) Chronic diseases like cancer, autoimmune disorders and obesity may ultimately vanquish the efforts of medical intervention unless people change their diet, a biologist argues in a paper publishe...
RIOCATH, a revolutionary type of catheter inspired by a snail's eye
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague)) A revolutionary type of catheter, RIOCATH® (Reversal Inside-Out CATHeterisation), greatly reduces the risk of introducing ...
Regulatory mutations missed in standard genetic screening lead to congenital diseases
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Researchers have identified a type of genetic aberration to be the cause of certain neurodevelopmental disorders and congenital diseases, such as autism and con...
Russian scientists developed a unique equipment for ultrasound examination
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University) Researchers of the laboratory 'Medical ultrasound equipment' of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) developed a high-tech device-transfo...
Scientific 'dream team' shed light on motor neuron death
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(The Francis Crick Institute) A group of clinical neurologists, molecular biologists and computer scientists have worked together to solve the mystery of why motor neurons die in patients with motor neuron disease, publi...
Study reveals gaps in follow-up care after concussion
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Being discharged from a hospital trauma center after receiving treatment for a traumatic brain injury (TBI) does not necessarily mean that a patient has fully...
UEA research could help fine-tune cancer treatment
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(University of East Anglia) Cancer therapies that cut off blood supply to a tumour could be more effective in combination with existing chemotherapeutic drugs -- according to new research from the University of East Angl...
UMD food scientist guides students towards revelatory findings in women's health
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(University of Maryland) In an effort to sustain and educate the next generation of food safety experts in the United States, Dr. Bob Buchanan of the University of Maryland has served as a scientific mentor to a pair of ...
USTC reveals the mechanism how moderate sunlight exposure improves learning and memory
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(University of Science and Technology of China) USTC researchers have shed new lights on the correlation between sunlight exposure and related neurobehaviors.
What is impact of permanent pacemaker implantation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement?
EurekAlert! - 25 May 2018 06:00
(JAMA Network) The need for a patient to have a permanent pacemaker implanted while hospitalized after undergoing a transcatheter aortic valve replacement is a complication associated with worse survival and increased ri...