Medical News
Ultra EC Brushless Motors With High Torque And Compact Package
Medical Design Technology - 20 Jun 2018 15:00
Product Announcement Portescap will be offering two more length sizes under its ECT range of Ultra EC Brushless Slotless motors: the 35mm 22ECT35 and the 48 mm 22ECT48. These new motors along with higher torque capacity ...
Surgeons Perform World's First Operation Inside The Eye Using A Robot
Medical Design Technology - 20 Jun 2018 15:00
News Researchers from the University of Oxford have completed the first successful trial of robot-assisted retinal surgery. Using the robot, the surgeon was able to perform the procedure with equal or better efficacy tha...
3D Printing Will Become Standard Part Of Healthcare Portfolio, Says GlobalData
Medical Design Technology - 20 Jun 2018 15:00
News A study conducted revealed that 3D printing can directly create 'clinical trial ready' devices, doing away the need for expensive tooling of computer numerically controlled (CNC) and computer-aided manufacturing (CA...
Children May Not Dread Shots With VR Headsets
Medical Design Technology - 20 Jun 2018 15:00
Videos Needles and shots are not something children are exceptionally excited to receive. In fact, needle phobia is one of the most common fears of children, but now a pediatrician has come up with an innovative distract...
Medical Runway: MDM's Fashion Show Of Health Wearables
Medical Design Technology - 20 Jun 2018 15:00
Blog Recently, I attended the MDM East Expo, and to my surprise they hosted a fashion show of health wearables. Although they did not necessarily have a runway, they did present different health monitoring devices that c...
Blood At A Crime Scene Can Reveal Age of Suspect or Victim
Discover - 20 Jun 2018 14:00
There's a significant gap between the information that real-world forensics teams can glean from a crime scene and what turns up in glamorized tv shows such as "CSI." Today, however, that gap gets a little smaller: Resea...
Can older adults safely donate kidneys?
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(Wiley) With increasing organ demand, living kidney donation from older donors has become more common.
Annual southeast Asia haze linked to increased respiratory problems
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(Wiley) For more than a decade, Southeast Asia has faced annual haze due to a combination of human activity, natural fires, and climatic factors.
A case of 'kiss and tell': Chromosomal kissing gets less elusive
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) Chromosomes occupy different territories in the nucleus; their arrangement and communication with each other is still poorly understood. Scientis...
Emergency department patients want to be invited to share in medical decision-making
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Most emergency department patients want to be involved in some aspects of medical decision-making, but they need to be invited.
Forgetting may help improve memory and learning
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(American Physiological Society) Forgetting names, skills or information learned in class is often thought of as purely negative. However unintuitive it may seem, research suggests that forgetting plays a positive role i...
Guidelines address self-management of hospitalized diabetes patients
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(Wiley) It is important that patients with diabetes be involved in decisions concerning the management of their condition while they are hospitalized.
Do circulating bone turnover markers indicate hip fracture risk?
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(Wiley) The evidence that circulating levels of markers of bone turnover correlate with hip fracture risk among postmenopausal women is limited.
Alcohol and marijuana use may increase risk of condomless sex in young adults
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(Wiley) Young persons who use alcohol and/or marijuana experience heightened likelihood of condomless sex, according to a new study published in The American Journal on Addictions.
Life-saving stroke educational program goes global
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) In an effort to improve stroke recognition and reduce life-threatening pre-hospital delays worldwide, researchers at Penn Medicine created a universal stroke awareness prog...
Lonely and prolonged struggle for people with severe obesity
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(University of Gothenburg) The majority of people with severe obesity have a lonely and prolonged struggle with their weight. In one study spanning more than 10 years, 83 percent report that they constantly strive to los...
Neonics are being ingested by free-ranging animals, U of G study finds
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(University of Guelph) University of Guelph researchers found residues of the insecticides in the livers of wild turkeys, providing evidence that this common agrochemical is being ingested by free-ranging animals.
New research shows why nutrition should be back on the table for surgical patients
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(GCI Health NY) Implementing a nutrition care program for malnourished surgical patients showed a nearly 50 percent reduction in readmission rates, according to new data from Advocate Health Care and Abbott. New guidelin...
New screening tool could help diagnose early cognitive decline in dementia from home
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(City University London) An international team of scientists have developed a new way to screen for age-related cognitive decline at home using a test which asks people to detect sounds and flashes on their laptop or pho...
New study sheds light on the growing phenomenon of radicalized European youths
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(Elsevier) A study published in European Psychiatry reports on factors underlying the current rise in radical conversions among European youth. Compared to previous groups such as Al-Qaïda, ETA, or Hamas, today's radica...
New theory deepens understanding of Turing patterns in biology
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) A team of researchers at EMBL have expanded Alan Turing's seminal theory on how patterns are created in biological systems. This work, which was partly done at the Centre for Genom...
New therapeutic opportunity for the treatment of resistant malignant melanoma
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2018 06:00
(University of Liege) Researchers have revealed that malignant melanoma can reprogram their protein synthesis machinery and become addicted to a new family of enzymes that modify transfer RNAs during acquired resistance....