Medical News
Viacom Networks Launching on fuboTV
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 23:53
News Viacom channels that will be offered as part of fuboTV's base package include BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Paramount Network, TV Land and VHI. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Video
California Approves Free Phones, Internet for Foster Youth
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 21:02
News The California Public Utilities Commission passed the $22 million pilot program that will provide smartphones to more than 30,000 current and former foster youth between 13 and 26. The phones come with an unlimited ...
T-Mobile Posts Strong Subscriber Gains, Prepping for 600 MHz 5G in 2H 2019
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 20:22
News T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray said the company will light up an "enormous footprint" on 600 MHz for 5G in the second half of 2019, as soon as compatible handsets hit the market. Staff Author: Bevin Fletcher Topics: Carri...
Researchers Use Shake-Table Testing to Improve Disaster Recovery
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 18:00
Videos A team of researchers is conducting research into how residential wood-framed buildings are damaged from strong earthquakes, providing new insight into how to best build and repair infrastructure so that residents...
Next-Generation NASA Instrument Advanced to Study Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 18:00
News Much has changed technologically since NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to investigate, among other things, the heat engine driving the gas giant's atmospheric circulation... Contribu...
Colossal Concrete Slabs are Easily Rocked and Rolled
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 18:00
Videos Moving elements twice our size is no easy feat. But now, the future of construction may be easier with "Walking Assembly." Normally, structures this size rely on cranes to guide them into place, but now these... S...
Takes a Licking and Keeps on Storing
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 18:00
News Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis made an energy storage device that can withstand a hammer striking it more than 40 times. The shatterproof supercapacitor is also nonflammable, unlike lithium-ion ba...
Study Shows the Potential of Carbon Nanotubes to Cool Electronic Circuits
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 18:00
News The use of solid-state refrigerators to cool appliances and electronic devices is a possible technological application for a theoretical study conducted at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo State, B...
Squishy Robots Can Drop From Helicopter and Land Safely
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 18:00
Videos Sometimes the toughest among us come in shapes that are round and just a little bit squishy. New soccer-ball-shaped robots have the remarkable ability to fall from a height of more than 600 feet and be no worse fo...
Reliable Position Feedback for Monitoring Flight Parameters of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 17:41
Product Announcement Unmanned drones require a variety of sensors to monitor different critical measurements to control flight and maintain aircraft stability. Miniature Linear Position Sensors from NewTek Sensor Solutio...
Infrared and Phosphorescent Markers for Satellites
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 17:04
News Aircraft light up the runway during takeoff and landing via their landing lights. The European Space Agency (ESA) is transitioning this idea to satellites with infrared and phosphorescent markers for satellites... S...
No Assembly Required: Researchers Automate Microrobotic Designs
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 17:00
News Assembling a microrobot used to require a pair of needle-nosed tweezers, a microscope, steady hands and at least eight hours. But now University of Toronto Engineering researchers have developed a method... Contribu...
Quality of Laser Beam Shaping Can Be Enhanced at No Extra Cost
Medical Design Technology - 26 Apr 2019 16:30
News Researchers from Osaka University have developed a technique for improving accuracy of laser beam shaping and wavefront obtained by conventional methods with no additional cost by optimizing virtual phase grating......
NeurExo Sciences and Henry Ford present preclinical data on exosomes at ISEV2019
EurekAlert! - 26 Apr 2019 08:00
(Henry Ford Health System) NeurExo Sciences, LLC and Henry Ford Health System today announced the presentation of new data on exosomes at the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) 2019 Annual Meeting be...
New Frontiers in Cardiovascular Pharmacology
EurekAlert! - 26 Apr 2019 08:00
(Bentham Science Publishers) Bentham Science's fourth volume of 'Frontiers in Cardiovascular Drug Discovery' was recently published in April.
Novel therapies slow CKD progression in patients with diabetes
EurekAlert! - 26 Apr 2019 08:00
(ERA-EDTA) The recently published CREDENCE study showed that SGLT2 inhibitors can slow progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in diabetes patients in addition to the effects seen with RAAS blockade. Canagliflozin wa...
Red-neck phalarope: a migratory divide towards the Pacific Ocean and the Arabian Sea
EurekAlert! - 26 Apr 2019 08:00
(University of Barcelona) When winter comes, populations of red-neck phalarope from the Western Palearctic migrate to two different destinations -the Pacific Ocean or the Arabian Sea- following an exceptional migratory d...
Some children find it harder to understand what strangers are saying
EurekAlert! - 26 Apr 2019 08:00
(New York University) New research by New York University Steinhardt Associate Professor Susannah Levi finds that children with poorer language skills are at a disadvantage when given tasks or being spoken to by stranger...
Study to examine impact of therapy animals on children with cancer
EurekAlert! - 26 Apr 2019 08:00
(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Mary Jo Gilmer studies the impact animals can have on children with life-threatening conditions. She recently received a grant from nonprofit Human Animal Bond Research Institute (H...
TET proteins regulate factors essential for normal antibody production
EurekAlert! - 26 Apr 2019 08:00
(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) A report by researchers at la Jolla Institute for Immunology found that genetic deletion, or mutation, of TET2 and TET3 in mouse B cells damps down the generation of functional IgG ant...
Unlocking the secrets of heart cells
EurekAlert! - 26 Apr 2019 08:00
(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) The human heart appears to be pure physics: valves open and close, blood flows through the heart's chambers, electrical impulses regulate the hea...
Mount Sinai researchers find significant delays in West Nile virus reporting
EurekAlert! - 26 Apr 2019 08:00
(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Mount Sinai researchers found significant delays in reporting human cases of West Nile virus, hampering real-time forecasting of the potentially deadly mosquito...