Medical News
Researchers Successfully Put Bioengineered Lungs Into Pigs
Discover - 1 Aug 2018 20:00
Ah, to live in a world where we can crank out custom-made organs to meet supply. No need for donors or years-long waiting lists. We're still a ways off from that organ utopia, but we're at least a little closer to bioeng...
Sauna Bathing May Have a Wide Range of Medical Benefits
Discover - 1 Aug 2018 19:00
In Finland, sauna bathing traditionally involves bathers not only immersing themselves in steam, but also slapping themselves with branches until their skin is red and tingling, then diving into cold water or rolling in ...
Sensors Address Critical Healthcare Needs
Medical Design Technology - 1 Aug 2018 17:45
Article A number of key trends in the healthcare business has increased the need for sensors to not only monitor patient conditions but also link to centralized data systems to help medical personnel better make informed...
Modulated Imaging Receives FDA Clearance For Clarifi Imaging System
Medical Design Technology - 1 Aug 2018 15:00
News Modulated Imaging, a company in optical imaging solutions for noninvasive assessment of tissue health, announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its new medical device, the Clarifi Imaging System... Co...
Six Proposals Receive Seed Funds To Develop Medical Devices For Children
Medical Design Technology - 1 Aug 2018 15:00
News Pediatric Medical Consortium is addressing cystic fibrosis, urinary flow disorders, kidney reflux, brain injury, skeletal defects and vision impairment. The six companies selected for seed grants are developing medi...
Trelleborg Supports Engineers Developing Drug-Eluting Devices
Medical Design Technology - 1 Aug 2018 15:00
News Trelleborg Sealing Solutions released two whitepapers focused on the combination of silicone with Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients that will support healthcare and medical device engineers and designers... Contribu...
Artificial Intelligence System Designs Drugs From Scratch
Medical Design Technology - 1 Aug 2018 15:00
News An artificial-intelligence approach can teach itself to design new drug molecules from scratch and has the potential to dramatically accelerate the design of new drug candidates... Contributed Author: University of ...
Can we predict the long-term outcome of boys with ADHD?
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(Elsevier) A study published in the August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP) reports on a group of boys diagnosed with ADHD in childhood (when they were, on aver...
Challenges around childbearing owe to dissatisfaction among surgical residents
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Refined mentorship programs, further education and understanding are cited as necessary to improve work-life balance
Distrust of power influences choice of medical procedures
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) Many individuals, also in Germany, prefer to resort to the techniques used in complementary and alternative medicine, even though they may have been expressly warned against these....
Drugs for heart failure are still under-prescribed, years after initial study
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) This study found that many people with heart failure do not receive the medications recommended for them under guidelines set by the American College of Cardiology...
Exenatide treatment alleviated symptoms of depression in patients
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(IOS Press) Non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), such as depression, apathy, cognitive impairment, sleep disorders, and sensory symptoms, can have a greater impact on health-related quality of life than motor ...
IADR announces 2018 Unilever Hatton Competition and Award Winners
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(International & American Associations for Dental Research) IADR announces the winners of the 2018 Unilever Hatton Competition and Awards which was held during the 96th General Session of the International Association fo...
Integrated sensor could monitor brain aneurysm treatment
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(Georgia Institute of Technology) Implantation of a stent-like flow diverter can offer one option for less invasive treatment of brain aneurysms - bulges in blood vessels -- but the procedure requires frequent monitoring...
Ketamine has potential therapeutic role in adolescents with treatment-resistant depression
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study has shown a significant average decrease in the Children's Depression Rating Scale (42.5 percent) among adolescents with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) ...
Lung cancer mortality rates among women projected to increase by over 40 percent by 2030
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(American Association for Cancer Research) The global age-standardized lung cancer mortality rate among women is projected to increase by 43 percent from 2015 to 2030, according to an analysis of data from 52 countries. ...
Measure of belly fat in older adults is linked with cognitive impairment
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(Trinity College Dublin) Data from over 5,000 adults over the age of 60 indicates that as waist:hip ratio increases, so does cognitive impairment. The findings have significant implications as the global prevalence of de...
Medical researchers from MSU suggested a new approach of targeted cancer therapy
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(Lomonosov Moscow State University) A team from the Faculty of Medicine, MSU has analysed a link between the p53 protein, tumor dissemination and 'cell suicide' and discussed possible approaches to predict metastases dev...
Multi-feature based brain network improves auto-diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(Elsevier) Researchers have developed a new method for constructing personal brain networks using multiple structural features to improve the accuracy of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment ...
NSF backs strategy to reconstruct cancer cells' evolution
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(Rice University) Rice University computational biologist Luay Nakhleh has received two National Science Foundation grants to expand big data techniques in the fight against cancer and to scale up methods that infer conn...
Nine out of 10 people caring for a family member with dementia don't get enough sleep
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(University at Buffalo) More than 90 percent of people caring for a family member with dementia experience poor sleep, according to new research by the University at Buffalo School of Nursing.
Nowhere to hide: Molecular probe illuminates elusive cancer stem cells in live mice
EurekAlert! - 1 Aug 2018 06:00
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) After a primary tumor is treated, cancer stem cells may still lurk in the body, ready to metastasize and cause a recurrence of the cancer in a form that's more aggressive and ...