Medical News

(Singapore University of Technology and Design) SUTD-led research enables more accurate patient-specific analysis of spinal fractures in a non-invasive manner, providing timely opportunities for early treatment.

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) More than 20% of pregnant women beginning anti-HIV treatment were prescribed an antiretroviral treatment that did not meet federal gui...

(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ) The first virus detections for the 2019/2020 season indicate co-circulation of influenza types A (71%) and B (29%) viruses in the WHO European Region. This is ...

Segger announces the release of SystemView V3.10, a major update to its system verification tool for embedded systems. The most significant enhancement is the addition of real-time data acquisition via UAR¬T or TCP/IP. ...

GaN Systems and ON Semiconductor announced the availability of the world's highest power density 300 watt AC Adapter Reference Design using GaN Systems' 650 V, 15 A GaN E-HEMTs and multiple ON Semiconductor controller an...

Silicon Labs and the Z-Wave Alliance announce plans to open the Z-Wave Specification as a ratified, multi-source wireless standard available to all silicon and stack vendors for development. With this change, semiconduct...

The Xen Project, an open source hypervisor hosted at the Linux Foundation, today announced the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.13, which improves security, hardware support, added new options for embedded use cases a...

Infineon Technologies AG has introduced the TRENCHSTOP IGBT7 1200 V module which provides a leading nominal current of 900 A enabling a 30 percent higher inverter output current for the same frame size compared with the ...

By 2022, more than two-thirds of new cars on American roads will have online connections to their safety-critical system, putting them at risk of deadly hacks (Consumer Watchdog report, July 2019) to vehicles' "head" sys...

(Oregon Health & Science University) Scientists have discovered the molecular mechanism behind how the common cytomegalovirus can wreak havoc on bone marrow and organ transplant patients, according to a paper published i...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) In a study of rats, University of Illinois scientists found that caffeine limited weight gain and cholesterol production, despite a diet that was high in fat and ...

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a digestive disorder that causes hearburn and other uncomfortable symptoms, may affect nearly a third of US adults each week, and most of those who ta...

(Elsevier) Between 30 to 50 percent of youth in the United States diagnosed with an anxiety disorder fail to respond to cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT). A new study in JAACAP, published by Elsevier, reports that compute...

(American Society of Hematology) ASH today announced the 39 recipients of its 2020 Scholar Awards. One of ASH's most prestigious research award programs, the ASH Scholar Awards financially support fellows to junior facul...

(University of Pennsylvania) A team led by Rumela Chakrabarti of the University of Pennsylvania has made new discoveries into how a key protein involved in triple-negative breast cancer functions in puberty.

(Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences) The same technology that powers facial recognition and self-driving cars may soon help Maine's shellfish industry protect people from the dangerous effects of harmful algal blooms....

(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) A new study by the UAB, the CIBER-BBN, and the Hospital de Sant Pau describes the development of a new biomaterial with sustained drug release. The results were recently published in A...

(Imperial Brands) Following a new literature review of the harm reduction potential of snus, Imperial Brands -- owners of leading snus brand Skruf -- has urged the European Union (EU) to re-examine its position on the pr...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers identified significant differences at the epigenetic level -- the chemical tags in DNA that help regulate gene expression -- between two clinically distinct forms of acute childho...

(Boston Medical Center) Physicians from Boston Medical Center and the University of Montreal have developed a set of recommendations that provide important insights about how clinicians can best screen, counsel and treat...

(University of Queensland) 'Whoopi' the manta ray -- a regular visitor to Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef -- has helped University of Queensland and Murdoch University scientists study rays' impressive ability to heal.

(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) A team led by INRS Professor Patrick Labonté has identified the role of a key process in the replication cycle of the hepatitis D virus, an infection that is still...