Medical News

News UTA has been awarded a patent for a revolutionary new technology that is able to scan a user's eye movements and enable them to navigate mobile platforms, such as electric wheelchairs, without the use of hands... Co...

News Using high energy ultrasound beams to destroy prostate cancer tumours may be as effective as surgery or radiotherapy, but with fewer side effects... Contributed Author: Imperial College London Topics: Orthopedics

Videos As part of a clinical trial, doctors are using a new, non-invasive approach to reshape nasal tissue. The Vivaer Nasal Airway Remodeling device delivers radiofrequency energy to the nasal valve area to treat nasal ...

Videos Using sound waves, researchers have developed a gentle, contact-free method for separating circulating tumor cells from blood samples that is fast and efficient enough for clinical use... Contributed Author: Duke ...

News Professor Ravinder Dahiya has plans to develop ultra-flexible, synthetic Brainy Skin that 'thinks for itself'. The hypersensitive skin may one day be used to make more responsive prosthetics for amputees, or to buil...

(Wiley) A new Respirology review and analysis of published studies reveals a link between fast food consumption and an increased likelihood of having asthma, wheeze, and several other allergic diseases such as pollen fev...

(University of Sydney) A pioneering study has found carers who turned to medicinal cannabis to treat children with epilepsy overwhelmingly (75 percent) considered the extracts as 'effective.' Contrary to parental expecta...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Population diversity and widespread immigration predispose physicians to encounter patients with a variety of backgrounds and cultural practices. While many of these practices are c...

(University of Texas at Arlington) Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington's College of Nursing and Health Innovation have developed a new nanoparticle-based platform for simultaneous imaging and treatment of...

(Oregon State University) Researchers have identified a protein that powers the virulence of the bacteria that causes gonorrhea, opening the possibility of a new target for antibiotics and, even better, a vaccine.

(Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute) Inferior vena cava (IVC) filter placement and retrieval procedures have markedly declined over the last decade from previous large growth in Medicare beneficiaries, according to...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Two students at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University have been selected to participate in the National Institutes of Health's Medical Research Scholars P...

(NRG Oncology) Further exploration into the endpoints of the NRGOncology/RTOG 0424 trial resulted in the discovery that MGMT promoter methylation is an independent prognostic biomarker of high-risk, low-grade glioma trea...

(University of Warwick) The University of Warwick has been awarded £2 million to tackle the spread of viruses in East Africa.

(Washington University School of Medicine) Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that inhibiting a receptor on immune cells called macrophages may help relieve pain in some patie...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) NIPD can reduce the number of invasive tests and hence the number of test-related miscarriages in women whose fetuses are at an increased risk of trisomy 21.

(Cardiff University) Derived from nature, a potential new drug to treat two life-threatening tropical diseases has been discovered as a result of collaboration between two Welsh universities.

(Mayo Clinic) Mayo Clinic researchers are using precision genomics to search for undiscovered, inheritable genetic mutations that cause accelerated aging. In a study recently published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researc...

(University of Pennsylvania) Both dogs and humans can suffer from ichthyosis, a disorder in which the skin becomes very dry, scaly, and prone to secondary infections. A team led by Penn's Elizabeth Mauldin uncovered new ...

(NRG Oncology) JAMA Oncology recently published data from NRG Oncology's RTOG 0618 trial, which shows that the utilization of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) as a treatment for medically operable lung cancer i...

(American Physiological Society) A drug used in stem cell therapy to treat certain cancers may also protect against cigarette smoke-induced lung injury. The study, published ahead of print in the American Journal of Phys...

(Brigham Young University) New research presents a technique that could help treat African sleeping sickness, which impacts millions in sub-Saharan Africa and -- in its late stages -- can be fatal.