Medical News
A Bleary Unicorn: The Elusive Hangover Cure
Discover - 30 May 2018 22:00
From freezing showers to ingesting prickly pear to smoking joints, everyone has a home remedy for alcohol's notorious afterglow: the hangover. Mongolian men swear by pickled sheep eyes, ancient Egyptians wore necklaces o...
Universal Fume Hood
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2018 15:00
Product Announcement The Universal is perfect for laboratories where space is limited or when multiple hoods are needed. Hoods are designed for light to medium duty fume removal, and features sturdy dual wall constructio...
A Coating To Help Undermine Bacteria On Medical Devices
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2018 15:00
Article Researchers at the University of Georgia's College of Engineering have created a coating for medical devices that could help prevent infections. The technology is known as LINOREL, liquid-infusing nitric oxide-re...
Man Against Machine: AI Beats Doctors At Diagnosing Skin Cancer
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2018 15:00
News Researchers have shown for the first time that a form of artificial intelligence or machine learning known as a deep learning convolutional neural network (CNN) is better than experienced dermatologists at detecting...
Team Develops New Blood Test To Detect Liver Damage In Under an Hour
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2018 15:00
News Researchers announced that they have developed a "quick and robust" blood test that can detect liver damage before symptoms appear, offering what they hope is a significant advance in early detection of liver diseas...
TinkerENG: Reviewing Upcoming Projects In Their Design Stages
Medical Design Technology - 30 May 2018 15:00
Videos In this latest episode of TinkerEng, co-host Peter Ragonetti and ABM Editorial Director Joyceann Garippa review the five projects still in the design stages and two projects that haven't even been reviewed for our...
Goodbye 'stress granules': Study expands possibilities for treating neurological diseases
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(Tokyo Institute of Technology) Cell biologists have deepened understanding of proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases. The findings could open up new treatment approaches for disorders including Alzheimer's ...
Having an abortion does not lead to depression
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(University of Maryland) Having an abortion does not increase a woman's risk for depression, according to a new University of Maryland School of Public Health-led study of nearly 400,000 women. Previous research has foun...
High protein diet slightly increases heart failure risk in middle-aged men
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(University of Eastern Finland) For middle-aged men, eating higher amounts of protein was associated with a slightly elevated risk for heart failure than those who ate less protein, according to new research from the Uni...
Insomnia is a likely long-term side effect of stroke
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(University of Surrey) Stroke patients experience sustained problems with insomnia potentially reducing their ability to relearn key skills and putting them at increased risk of depression, a new study in the journal Sci...
NCI-MATCH precision medicine trial reaches milestone
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group) NCI-MATCH (Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice), the largest precision medicine trial of its kind, achieves a milestone with the release of results from three treatment arms of the tr...
NIH scientists show how tularemia bacteria trick cells to cause disease
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Francisella tularensis is the bacterium that causes tularemia, a life-threatening disease spread to humans via contact with an infected animal or through mosqui...
New Omega-3 trial for secondary liver cancer surgery
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(University of Leeds) A new clinical trial from the University of Leeds is testing omega-3 capsules in patients who have bowel cancer which has spread to the liver, to see if it can stop the cancer returning after surger...
New review highlights benefits of plant-based diets for heart health
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) A new review study published in Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases finds that vegetarian, especially vegan diets, are associated with better cardiovascular health.
Oil and gas wastewater as dust suppressant less than ideal
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(Penn State) At the least, wastewater from oil and gas drilling should be treated in a waste treatment facility before it is used on dirt roads to suppress dust or deice roads. At the best, affordable, nontoxic dust supp...
Pigs digest fiber efficiently even at high inclusion rates, study finds
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) The use of high-fiber feed ingredients in swine diets is on the rise due to their wide availability and relatively low cost. However, ...
Prevalence of eating disorders taken from largest sample in the United States
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(Elsevier) Biological Psychiatry has published a new study revising the outdated estimates of the prevalence of eating disorders in the United States. The new estimates were based on a nationally representative sample of...
Price competition for generic drugs linked to increase in manufacturing-related recalls
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(Indiana University) Researchers from three universities have found that extreme price competition in the generic pharmaceutical market -- designed to make medications more affordable -- may be putting more patients at s...
Promise of faster, more accessible schizophrenia diagnosis, Rutgers study shows
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(Rutgers University) A Rutgers study shows how the hand-held device RETeval may prove to be a more accessible way to diagnose schizophrenia, predict relapse and symptom severity, and assess treatment effectiveness.
Queen Mary research forecasting the evolution of cancer
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(Queen Mary University of London) Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a computer model that forecasts the changes that occur within tumors as they develop.
Researchers devise new way to discern what microbes eat
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(North Carolina State University) A new technique helps researchers determine food eaten by microbes.
Sniffing out real truffles
EurekAlert! - 30 May 2018 06:00
(American Chemical Society) At a cost of thousands of dollars per pound, truffles are an expensive food. The fungi are prized for their distinctive aroma, and many foods claim truffles or their aromas as ingredients. But...