Medical News
Giving Mice -- Male and Female -- Hot Flashes Reveals Possible Path to Treatment
Discover - 11 Jul 2018 20:52
Hot flashes -- sudden rushes of overwhelming warmth that heat up the body like a roaring furnace - plague millions of women, and some men. Now scientists find a single type of brain cell is responsible for setting off th...
TinkerENG: Manufacturing Steps For Ladder Alert
Medical Design Technology - 11 Jul 2018 15:53
Videos In this episode of TinkerEng, Don Kralik, a mechanical engineer with Mars International, take a look at Rob Haviland's ladder alert system and provides feedback on the prototype, as well as next steps in productio...
Mobile Health Devices Diagnose Hidden Heart Condition
Medical Design Technology - 11 Jul 2018 15:00
News Wearable mobile health devices improved the rate of diagnosis of a dangerous and often hidden heart condition called atrial fibrillation (AFib), according to a first of its kind, home-based clinical study conducted ...
Helping People Reach Emergency Services More Quickly And Efficiently
Medical Design Technology - 11 Jul 2018 15:00
Article Many emergency services, who need access to a broad range of internet-based communications services the most, are still using old-fashioned, telecommunications technology. This is the gap the EMYNOS project sough...
AI Helps Researchers Predict Drug Combinations' Side Effects
Medical Design Technology - 11 Jul 2018 15:00
News Researchers have laid out an AI system for predicting potential side effects from drug combinations. The system, called Decagon, could help doctors make better decisions about which drugs to describe and find better...
Biosensor Chip Detects Genetic Mutation And Sends Results To Smartphone
Medical Design Technology - 11 Jul 2018 15:00
News A team led of researchers has developed a chip that can detect a type of genetic mutation known as a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and send the results in real time to a smartphone, computer, or other electro...
CRISPR's growing pains
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(American Chemical Society) In the six years since its inception, CRISPR gene editing has experienced ups and downs, from giddy excitement over the technology's potential to cure genetic diseases to patent disputes, ethi...
Allergic reactions to foods are milder in infants
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Majority of infants with food-induced anaphylaxis present with hives and vomiting, suggesting there is less concern for life-threatening response to early food intro...
A study points to new therapeutic targets for tumors associated with chronic inflammation
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) Scientists headed by ICREA researcher Angel R. Nebreda at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) report a new mechanism that contributes to the d...
Healthier hearts equal healthier guts
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(San Francisco State University) Heart health and gut health may be linked. A new study by San Francisco State University researchers finds that people with better cardiovascular fitness have more of a certain type of ba...
Here's why it's important to support your breastfeeding co-workers
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(Michigan State University) Support from female co-workers may be even more important to new moms who are breastfeeding than getting encouragement from their significant others, close friends and relatives, says a new st...
High prevalence of restrictive lung disease in people with type 2 diabetes
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD) Breathlessness and conditions of restrictive lung disease (RLD), such as pulmonary fibrosis, may be a late complication of type 2 diabetes. These are the key findings of a j...
Fifteen minutes of exercise creates optimal brain state for mastering new motor skills
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(McGill University) A recent study in NeuroImage demonstrates that exercise performed immediately after practicing a new motor skill improves its long-term retention. More specifically, the research shows, for the first ...
ACP says genetic testing to reunite separated families should meet ethical principles
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(American College of Physicians) In a new policy issued today, the American College of Physicians (ACP) stated that immigrant families who have been separated at the border should be reunited as expeditiously as possible...
Ludwig Cancer Research and Cancer Research Institute launch cancer clinical trial
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) Ludwig Cancer Research and the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) announce the initiation of a clinical trial to evaluate the combination of ONCOS-102, an experimental anti-tumor virot...
Measuring the effects of drugs on cancer cells
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(University of Zurich) A new approach established at the University of Zurich sheds light on the effects of anti-cancer drugs and the defense mechanisms of cancer cells. The method makes it possible to quickly test vario...
Men who sexually harass subordinates fear being judged as incompetent
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(Springer) The numerous high-profile men who have recently been accused of sexual harassment may not have been simply exercising their power. Instead their behavior could be related to feeling insecure and believing that...
Most US lawmakers don't look to universities for behavioral health research
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(Drexel University) A study designed to demystify the way research gets into legislators' hands found that the majority don't look to universities to inform their behavioral health policies.
Most black adults have high blood pressure before age 55
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(American Heart Association) Approximately 75 percent of black men and women develop high blood pressure by age 55 compared to 55 percent of white men and 40 percent of white women of the same age. Both black and white s...
NEJM publishes final results from phase two study showing vaccines can reduce rate of sustained TB infections
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(Burness) Aeras, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing vaccines against tuberculosis (TB), today announced the publication of the full results from a Phase 2, randomized, controlled clinical trial of two TB va...
NIAID dcientists create 3D structure of 1918 influenza virus-like particles
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Virus-like particles (VLPs) are protein-based structures that mimic viruses and bind to antibodies. Because VLPs aren't infectious, they show promise as vaccine...
New gears in your sleep clock
EurekAlert! - 11 Jul 2018 06:00
(Kyoto University) Researchers find that a key circadian clock controlling kinase, CK1D -- controlling the stability of PER2 -- has two forms, one that stabilizes PER2 and one that destabilizes it.