Medical News
911 Video Calling Poses Design Challenges
Medical Design Technology - 6 Jul 2018 15:00
News Implementing 911 video calling may not be far off, with the CRTC asking for new 911 infrastructure to be in place by 2020. But a team of researchers suggests that there may also be technical and social challenges to...
Experimental Drug Stops Parkinson's Disease Progression In Mice
Medical Design Technology - 6 Jul 2018 15:00
News Johns Hopkins researchers say they have developed an experimental drug, similar to compounds used to treat diabetes, that slows the progression of Parkinson's disease itself -- as well as its symptoms -- in mice... ...
High Performance Sensorless Control
Medical Design Technology - 6 Jul 2018 15:00
Product Announcement Maxon motor has developed a sensorless speed and torque control solution called HPSC. This HPSC uses a sophisticated signal injection algorithm which precisely determines the rotor position for a smo...
In patients with heart failure, anxiety and depression linked to worse outcomes
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(Wolters Kluwer Health) Symptoms of depression and anxiety are present in about one-third of patients with heart failure - and these patients are at higher risk of progressive heart disease and other adverse outcomes, ac...
It's official -- spending time outside is good for you
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of East Anglia) Living close to nature and spending time outside has significant and wide-ranging health benefits -- according to new research from the University of East Anglia.A new report published today r...
Lifejackets could save 180 or more lives a year
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of Portsmouth) About 180 people died because they weren't wearing a lifejacket in UK waters in the last decade, according to new research.
Listeria monocytogenes multi-country outbreak: 47 cases including 9 deaths
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ) Frozen corn and possibly other frozen vegetables produced in a company in Hungary are the likely source of an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes that has been ...
Natural lipid acts as potent anti-inflammatory
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a naturally occurring lipid -- a waxy, fatty acid -- used by a disease-causing bacterium to impair the...
New hope for patients with incurable and disabling hand condition, Dupuytren's disease
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of Oxford) Oxford scientists show anti-TNF inhibits the cells responsible for Dupuytren's disease.
Research points to potential shortcoming of antibiotic lab tests
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) To determine which antibiotics reliably treat which bacterial infections, diagnostic laboratories that focus on clinical microbiology test pathogens isolated from patients. However,...
A gene linked to job-related exhaustion in shift workers increases the risk of Alzheimer's
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of Helsinki) A new study shows that a variation in the melatonin receptor 1A gene is linked to the risk of Alzheimer's disease in the elderly. The same research team has previously demonstrated that the same ...
Savory foods may promote healthy eating through effects on the brain
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have found that consuming a broth rich in umami -- or savory taste -- can cause subtle changes in the brain that promote healthy ...
Scientists identify a protein complex that shapes the destiny of T cells
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) The protein complex is mTORC1, which regulates cell growth and metabolism. St. Jude immunologists found mTORC1 acts in response to cues from in and around developing T cells and in...
UMN researchers develop algorithm to improve care delivery to seriously ill patients
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of Minnesota Medical School) The level of communication between patient and physician can make a monumental difference, specifically in the case of seriously ill hospitalized patients. Researchers at the Univ...
UTSW scientists identify body's microreactors for innate immunity
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A DNA-sensing enzyme forms droplets that act as tiny bioreactors creating molecules to stimulate innate immunity -- the body's first response to infection, UT Southwestern researchers rep...
UVA develops way to create medicines without side effects
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of Virginia Health System) A new technique for precisely targeting molecules within cells is paving the way for safer medicines that are free of side effects. Big benefits are expected in the battle against c...
WSU researchers map DNA damage links to onset of skin cancer, melanoma
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(Washington State University) A critical link in mapping recurrent mutations of melanoma -- the most serious form of skin cancer in humans -- has been discovered by researchers at Washington State University School of Mo...
nTIDE June 2018 jobs report: downturn in jobs ends trend for americans with disabilities
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(Kessler Foundation) A modest downturn for June indicated the end of 26 consecutive months of job gains for American with disabilities, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment -- Monthly Update (nTI...
Research suggests new vaccine candidates for malaria
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(American Society for Microbiology) Researchers have shown that higher levels of Plasmodium falciparum antibodies are protective against severe malaria in children living in Papua New Guinea. Children who have higher lev...
Biomarker discovered for pathogen that can blind or kill healthy young people
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(University at Buffalo) UB researchers have have discovered several biomarkers that can accurately identify hypervirulent K. pneumoniae, a pathogen that infects completely healthy people and can cause blindness in one da...
How is opioid use associated with health, other substance use, involvement in criminal justice system?
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(JAMA Network) A public health approach to address the opioid epidemic in the United States needs to understand the populations of people affected, including their health, other substance use and any involvement they may...
Impact Factor leap for Psychiatry Karger journal -- home of innovation
EurekAlert! - 6 Jul 2018 06:00
(Karger Publishers) The Impact Factor 2017 of the Karger Journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics made a big leap to 13.122. The journal now ranks fourth among the psychology journals listed in the Science Citation Index...