Medical News
RCA & Color TV: A dominant company and standard, both now gone - Part 2
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2019 18:27
Part 1 of this article provided context for the critical role of David Sarnoff, development of color TV, and RCA's place in modern electronics; this part looks at the solution to the compatible color-TV challenge and the...
EV advances come from Formula E electric racing
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2019 23:01
You may thank Formula E electric racing technology for some of the advances that ultimately make electric vehicles practical on ordinary highways. Just as automakers have sponsored racing programs to help perfect advance...
Hand-held spectrum analyzer app streamlines in-building signal mapping
Medical Design Technology - 10 Dec 2019 17:12
A hand-held spectrum analyzer series (Spectrum Compact) coupled with NEON Signal Mapper software delivers real-time geo-referenced signal data that can be visualized both locally by the user and remotely on a 3D display....
Dr. Zanca recognized for contributions to rehabilitation research for spinal cord injury
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(Kessler Foundation) Dr. Zanca has contributed to a system for classifying rehabilitation interventions with support from NIDILRR and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. She is co-investigator for the NIDIL...
Lily and Yuh-Nung Jan named 20th Perl-UNC neuroscience prize recipients
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(University of North Carolina Health Care) The UNC School of Medicine has awarded the 20th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize to Lily Jan, Ph.D., and Yuh-Nung Jan, Ph.D., both at UC San Francisco, for the 'discovery and functio...
Video discharge instructions in ED associated with less AOM symptomatology
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Video discharge instructions in the emergency department are associated with less perceived acute otitis media (AOM) symptomatology compared to a paper handout.
€4 million grant to improve mental health of health professionals and patient safety
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) The largest initiative to improve hospital work environments to date has officially begun, with an award of €4 million from the European Union's Horizon 2020 program. The ...
Genetic brain disorder fixed in mice using precision epigenome editing
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Using a targeted gene epigenome editing approach in the developing mouse brain, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers reversed one gene mutation that leads to the genetic disorder WAGR syndrome, whi...
Alzheimer's drug candidates reverse broader aging, study shows
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(Salk Institute) In mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, the investigational drug candidates known as CMS121 and J147 improve memory and slow the degeneration of brain cells. Now, Salk researchers have shown how these co...
ERC awards EUR 600 million to Europe's top researchers
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(European Research Council) The European Research Council today announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition: 301 top scientists and scholars across Europe. Funding for these researchers, part of th...
Federal disability payments encourage more family caregiving, study finds
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(RAND Corporation) While it's well understood what sources of income and insurance support people who experience a disability, less is known about the mechanisms of how family support changes over the evolution of a disa...
George Mason receives NIJ grant to develop bruise identification protocol
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(George Mason University) George Mason University's Dr. Katherine Scafide and collaborators from Georgia State University and University of Nevada, forensic nursing units at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, and Inova Heal...
Gut feeling: A network approach towards understanding IBD
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(Earlham Institute) Scientists at the Earlham Institute (EI), Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) and the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, have pioneered how to get very detailed transcriptomics data from gut organoid...
Huntington's Disease patients need better understanding of risks
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(IOS Press) Amsterdam, NL, December 10, 2019 - For patients with Huntington's disease (HD), clinical trials can offer hope when there are no treatments available despite unknowns about whether the therapy will work or is...
Immunotherapy drug improves outcomes for some children with relapsed leukemia
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(NIH/National Cancer Institute) New findings from a clinical trial show that treatment with the immunotherapy drug blinatumomab is superior to standard chemotherapy for children and young adults with high- or intermediat...
Improvements needed for hepatitis C testing in youth
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(Boston Medical Center) A new study led by Boston Medical Center uncovered a need to improve testing rates for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in young people, specifically those with documented substance use history. In the nat...
LSU Health discovers role of 2 proteins in sight and preventing blinding eye diseases
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has discove...
Lyme disease claim lines increased 117% from 2007 to 2018
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(FAIR Health) From 2007 to 2018, claim lines with diagnoses of Lyme disease increased nationally 117%. The new FAIR Health Study Uncovers Geographic, Age and Gender Variation, among Other Notable Statistics. Comparing Ly...
Migraine prevention in children and adolescents
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(International Headache Society) Two medicines already used to prevent migraine in adults also showed efficacy in adolescents with migraine. Cinnarizine and Sodium Valproate were more efficacious than placebo, with large...
Modifier gene may explain why some with cystic fibrosis are less prone to infection
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(University of California - San Diego) People with cystic fibrosis who carry genetic variants that lower RNF5 gene expression have more mutant CFTR protein on cell surfaces. Even if the CFTR protein isn't fully functiona...
New grant will fund clinical trial of a novel approach to treating Alzheimer's
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(Brown University) A major grant from the Alzheimer's Association will enable researchers to test a drug that could reduce brain inflammation in Alzheimer's patients and possibly slow the progression of the disease.
New insights into the effect of aging on cardiovascular disease
EurekAlert! - 10 Dec 2019 07:00
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Aging adults are more likely to have - and die from - cardiovascular disease than their younger counterparts. New basic science research finds reason to link biological aging ...