Medical News
When is the next Hilton Head Sensor Conference?
Medical Design Technology - 8 Dec 2019 15:39
The Hilton Head Workshop 2020: A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop will be held May 31 – June 4, 2020 at the Sonesta Resort on Hilton Head Island, SC. Occurring biennially since 1984, the Hilton ...
Probiotics and prebiotics work differently in girls and boys according to piglet study
EurekAlert! - 8 Dec 2019 07:00
(University of Bristol) Baby boy's and girl's immune systems respond differently to prebiotics and probiotics, according to new research. The paper published in Frontiers in Immunology today [9 December] suggests that di...
Harry Lesmana of St. Jude receives a 2019 ASH Research Training Award
EurekAlert! - 8 Dec 2019 07:00
(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is pleased to announce that Harry 'Adrian' Lesmana, MD, has been selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) as one of 16 outstanding...
Corals survive to tell the tale of Earth's newest island eruption
EurekAlert! - 8 Dec 2019 07:00
(ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies) Coral reefs on a tiny island in the South Pacific have shown incredible resilience and recovery from a recent but very severe disturbance: a volcanic eruption that create...
Virtual reality illuminates the power of opioid-associated memories
EurekAlert! - 8 Dec 2019 07:00
(American College of Neuropsychopharmacology) The brain acts differently when remembering environments associated with drug use.
Too few hospitals have clinical decision support tools to calculate nutrition in NICU
EurekAlert! - 8 Dec 2019 07:00
(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Most neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) participating in the Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium are unable to reliably and consistently monitor caloric inta...
Study finds decrease in eye exposures from household cleaners; eEperts urge proper storage
EurekAlert! - 8 Dec 2019 07:00
(Nationwide Children's Hospital) A new study conducted by the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital analyzed data regarding eye exposures associated wi...
Follicular lymphoma remission for 2+ years indicates disease-free status could be lifelong
EurekAlert! - 8 Dec 2019 07:00
(Georgetown University Medical Center) People with follicular lymphoma, a slow-growing lymphatic-system cancer, who have been treated and are in remission for at least two years, may no longer have what has been consider...