Medical News
Innovation Not Just For Startup Companies
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jul 2018 20:35
Article In today's cut-throat technology environment, startup companies, fueled by investor funding, are commonly thought to be the incubators of cutting-edge technology development. Larger, more established companies ar...
Algorithm Identifies Hypertensive Patients Who Will Benefit From Intensive Treatment
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jul 2018 15:00
News Using data from large clinical trials, UT Southwestern researchers developed a way to predict which patients will benefit most from aggressive high blood pressure treatment... Contributed Author: UT Southwestern Med...
BRIDGE Device Helps With Opioid Withdrawal
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jul 2018 15:00
News Physicians place the BRIDGE device behind a patient's ear and micro-needle arrays send gentle electrical impulses to areas of the brain and branches of the nerves. Research study results show an 84.6 percent reducti...
Mapping The Brain With Data Science
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jul 2018 15:00
News A group of researchers at Purdue University are designing data-driven tools that will help clinicians better understand the progression of neurodegenerative diseases by identifying and tracking changes in the brain....
Versatile Ultrasound System Could Transform How Doctors Use Medical Imaging
Medical Design Technology - 3 Jul 2018 15:00
News A new ultrasound system that uses optical, instead of electronic components, could improve performance while giving doctors significantly more flexibility in how they use ultrasound to diagnose and treat medical pro...
Boosting testosterone makes men prefer higher-status products
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of Pennsylvania) Status symbols, like a luxury car or brand-name denim, may not function any better than their lower-status counterparts, but they do convey a message about the owner's position on the social ...
Breakthrough synthesis strategy could mean wave of new medicinal compounds
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(Florida State University) Florida State scientists have devised a new strategy for synthesizing notoriously difficult carbocyclic 5-8-5 fused ring systems, a molecular structure with broad therapeutic potential.
Commonly used preventive therapy for recurrent miscarriage proved ineffective in large trial
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) An immune response to pregnancy (in which the uterus rejects the embryo or foetus) is said to explain a large number of otherwise 'unexplained' miscarriages. Thus, ...
Consciousness is partly preserved during general anaesthesia
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of Turku) Finnish researchers have gained new information on brain activity during general anaesthesia by recording changes in the electrical activity of the brain. They discovered that changes in electroence...
Economic burden of fatty liver disease in US is $32 billion annually, new study finds
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(Intermountain Medical Center) Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, which affects roughly 100 million Americans, costs the United States healthcare system $32 billion annually, according to a first-of-its-kind stu...
Expecting a stressful day may lower cognitive abilities throughout the day
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(Penn State) There may be some truth to the saying 'getting up on the wrong side of the bed,' according to Penn State researchers who say starting your morning by focusing on how stressful your day will be may be harmful...
Feeling young could mean your brain is aging more slowly
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(Frontiers) While some people are young at heart, others feel older than their age -- and a recent study finds that this 'subjective age' may reflect brain aging. Researchers found that elderly people who feel younger th...
Highly refined mineral oils in cosmetics
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) The BfR's risk assessment relates to those mineral oil qualities which comply with the purity requirements for pharmaceuticals and for mineral oil authorized as food additives....
How our brains learn to control and remember walking
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Movement neuroscientist Julia Choi at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a five-year, $616,057 grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) faculty ea...
ICD placements not meeting medicare coverage decline after investigation
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(American College of Cardiology) Following the announcement of a US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into potential overuse of primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) that did not meet ...
Large population study fails to find causal link between assisted reproduction and ovarian cancer
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) Following concerns over many years that hormonal stimulation of the ovaries necessary for IVF may increase the risk of ovarian cancer, a nationwide cohort study fro...
More than 8 million babies born from IVF since the world's first in 1978
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) Forty years after the birth of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, an international committee monitoring progress in assisted reproduction reports today...
Neuroscientists uncover secret to intelligence in parrots
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of Alberta) University of Alberta neuroscientists have identified the neural circuit that may underlay intelligence in birds, according to a new study. The discovery is an example of convergent evolution betw...
New clues to sepsis may speed diagnosis
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have found a clue in understanding how an infection can spiral into sepsis by blunting the body's immune response. This...
Pelvic exams do not help diagnose STDs in adolescent girls, study says
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(American College of Emergency Physicians) New research shows that pelvic exams do not help diagnose certain STDs in adolescent females.
Personality pressure
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(Harvard University) In a recent study, Harvard scientists have demonstrated a link between individual variation in risk-taking behavior and survival of animals in changing environments.
RESOLUTE:13 academic & industry partners join forces to unlock SLCs for new therapies
EurekAlert! - 3 Jul 2018 06:00
(CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) RESOLUTE (Research empowerment on solute carriers), a public-private research partnership supported by the Innovative Medicines Initiative...