Medical News
Amazon's Echo Mod Helps Alexa Understand Sign Language
Medical Design Technology - 3 Aug 2018 15:00
Videos Voice interfaces like Alexa have become an integral part of technology, but what about people who don't communicate using speech? This is what inspired Abhishek Signh to create a mod that allows Alexa to understan...
Helping Amazon's Echo Mod Let Alexa Understand Sign Language
Medical Design Technology - 3 Aug 2018 15:00
Videos Voice interfaces like Alexa have become an integral part of technology, but what about people who don't communicate using speech? This is what inspired Abhishek Signh to create a mod that allows Alexa to understan...
Laird's SuperCool Thermoelectric Assembly Increases Cooling Performance
Medical Design Technology - 3 Aug 2018 15:00
Product Announcement Global technology leader Laird has launched a high performance thermoelectric assembly (TEA) series for indoor lab environments that offers a higher cooling performance per unit volume... Contributed...
New Gas Sensing Gut Pill
Medical Design Technology - 3 Aug 2018 15:00
News New trials of a breakthrough swallowable sensor have revealed the device is 3,000 times more accurate than current technology used to diagnose many gut disorders... Contributed Author: RMIT University Topics: Implan...
QED Environmental Systems Offers VIASENSOR Gas Analyzers For Medical Facilities
Medical Design Technology - 3 Aug 2018 15:00
News Q.E.D. Environmental Systems now offers a range of VIASENSOR gas analyzers for medical and dental facility applications, including operating room background nitrous oxide (N2O) levels, piped hospital gas levels, N2O...
Wearable Devices: Useful Medical Insights Or Just More Data?
Medical Design Technology - 3 Aug 2018 15:00
Article A new review looks at the industry of measuring 'every breath you take and every move you make.' Wearable devices are increasingly bought to track and measure health, but the truth is we know very little about ho...
Housing for health
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(Nationwide Children's Hospital) In a novel approach to improving outcomes for children, a pediatric hospital worked with community partners to address neighborhood effect syndrome as a target for pediatric health care -...
How Africans developed scientific knowledge of the deadly tsetse fly
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) New book explores how Africans developed scientific knowledge of the deadly tsetse fly.
Lead or follow: What sets leaders apart?
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(University of Zurich) Leaders are more willing to take responsibility for making decisions that affect the welfare of others. In a new study, researchers at the University of Zurich identified the cognitive and neurobio...
Low plasma levels of omega-3 fatty acids associated with preterm birth
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) Pregnant women who had low plasma levels of long chain n-3 fatty acids in their first and second trimesters were at a significantly higher risk of early preterm birth when comp...
Monash scientists show that highly lethal viruses hijack cellular defences against cancer
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(Monash University) Henipaviruses are among the deadliest known viruses and have no effective treatments. They include Hendra, lethal to humans and horses, and the Nipah virus, a serious threat in parts of Asia. Research...
New UK research links even low levels of air pollution with serious changes in the heart
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(British Heart Foundation) Research from the UK has found that people exposed to even low levels of air pollution have heart remodelling, similar to that seen in the early stages of heart failure.
New research opens door to expanding stem cells available for transplants
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(Stowers Institute for Medical Research) Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and collaborators have identified a way to expand blood-forming, adult stem cells from human umbilical cord blood (hUCB...
Reading the motor intention from brain activity within 100ms
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(Tokyo Institute of Technology) A study by Tokyo Tech researchers has developed a new technique to decode motor intention of humans from Electroencephalography. This technique is motivated by the well documented ability ...
A deeper look at severe asthma yields NET results
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(Brigham and Women's Hospital) A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital published this week in Science Immunology models allergic lung inflammation and provides new insights into how asthma develops...
Research shows that cystic fibrosis impacts growth in the womb
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(University of Liverpool) New research, published in Thorax, funded by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust has shown that babies with cystic fibrosis (CF) are born weighing less than babies without the condition, even allowing tha...
Study examines how age and ethnicity impact HIV testing
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(University of California - Riverside) Brandon Brown, an HIV researcher at the University of California, Riverside's School of Medicine, is the lead author on a study published today in the journal Medicine, in which he ...
Study: Older people less apt to recognize they've made a mistake
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(University of Iowa) University of Iowa researchers have found that older people are less likely than younger people to realize when they've made a mistake. The finding offers new insight into how aging adults perceive t...
The best of both worlds: Basic-to-acidic flash switching for organic synthesis
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(Tokyo Institute of Technology) Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology developed a fast and practical technique using a micro-flow reactor for the synthesis of pure N-carboxy anhydrides (NCAs). They exploited the ad...
Transgender individuals likely have higher risk for heart disease
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(George Washington University) Transgender individuals may be at higher risk for heart disease, according to a review article published by Michael S. Irwig, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the George Washington ...
Twin study highlights importance of both genetics and environment on gene activity
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(University of Exeter) A study in PLOS Genetics used a unique cohort of over 700 pairs of twins to identify the factors influencing chemical modifications to DNA across the genome. The study compared found that epigeneti...
UC Davis researchers find quiet viruses alter body's response to vaccines, pathogens
EurekAlert! - 3 Aug 2018 06:00
(University of California - Davis Health System) UC Davis researchers have shown that low levels of cytomegalovirus (CMV) have a significant impact on microbe and immune cell populations and how the immune system respond...