Medical News
Small form factor connectors designed to enable 5G mmWave apps
Medical Design Technology - 14 Jan 2020 23:23
The new NOVASTACK 35-HDN Connector is designed for 5G mmWave and sub-6 applications (i.e. mobile phones, hotspots, AR/VR devices, etc.). Designed for high-frequency applications, this board-to-board form factor is also s...
Software framework for STM32 MCUs streamlinines UI development for appliances, home automation, controls, medical devices
Medical Design Technology - 14 Jan 2020 18:15
STMicroelectronics has added new features to the TouchGFX software framework for STM32 microcontrollers (MCUs), streamlining creation of attention-grabbing user interfaces for domestic appliances, home automation, indust...
Worried About Your Foul Mouth? Swearing Could Actually Be Good For You, Science Says
Discover - 14 Jan 2020 16:00
People who swear like a sailor are more honest and more intelligent, studies show.
Embedded basics Part 1: IEC 61508 functional safety for MCUs
Medical Design Technology - 14 Jan 2020 12:58
Functional safety is becoming one of the most important features in embedded systems, especially in the automotive and industrial markets, where safety and reliability are critical design attributes. It encompasses the d...
Electric locomotives and catenary power systems - Part 2: power needs
Medical Design Technology - 14 Jan 2020 12:00
The high-speed all-electric railroad locomotive uses a catenary-wire system and pantograph power-transfer arrangement, which appears to violate good engineering practice and should not work. Still, it does, transferring ...
CMAJ removes paywall to expand public access to evidence-based health information
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Effective immediately, all new content in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) is now freely available, and previously published material will be available March 1, 2020....
Cannabinoids improve symptoms in mice with endometriosis
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(eLife ) Initial results from treating endometriosis in mice with cannabinoids suggest they can alleviate some symptoms of the disease, according to a new study in the open-access journal eLife.
Chronic inflammation may turn skin-protecting antibody into a tumor promoter
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(eLife ) One of the skin's defenses against environmental assault can help tumors to grow when skin is exposed to chronic inflammation, finds a study in mice published today in eLife.
Conversational difficulties with father affect adolescent health
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(The University of Bergen) Conversational difficulties with father after a divorce affects the children's health negatively.
Elevated leukemia incidence is found in World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Responders who worked at the World Trade Center site after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have an increased overall cancer incidence compared to the general pop...
Endocrine Society awards Baxter Prize to diabetes treatment entrepreneur
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(The Endocrine Society) Researcher Daniel J. Drucker has been awarded the Endocrine Society's John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for his contributions to diabetes treatment, the Society announced today.
Exosomes promote remarkable recovery in stroke
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(University of Georgia) Scientists present brain-imaging data for a new stroke treatment that supported full recovery in swine, modeled with the same pattern of neurodegeneration as seen in humans with severe stroke.
Getting to the heart of epinephrine use in pediatric cardiac arrest patients
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(Osaka University) The effectiveness of epinephrine treatment during resuscitation of adult patients with cardiac arrest is generally promising, but little is known about its effects in pediatric patients. Researchers le...
Healthier school meals are evidence of the success of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity) In this editorial, concerns used to support the rollbacks of nutrition standards set forth in the 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act are analyzed, with researchers finding n...
Hyperactive immune system gene causes schizophrenia-like changes in mice
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(PLOS) Excessive activity of an immune system gene previously linked to schizophrenia reproduces neural and behavioral aspects of the disease in mice, according to a new study publishing on January 14 in the open-access ...
In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(University of California - San Diego) Using novel imaging technologies, researchers produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction and abstinence remodel neural physiology and...
Journal of Parkinson's Disease welcomes new Co-Editor-in-Chief Bastiaan R. Bloem
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(IOS Press) The Journal of Parkinson's Disease (JPD) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Bastiaan (Bas) R. Bloem, MD, PhD, as the journal's new Co-Editor-in-Chief. Bas joins Patrik Brundin, MD, PhD, who along...
Large study of genetic differences reveals several new targets for variety of diseases
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) A large, multicenter study led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) compared the genomic data of more than 100,000 people of European ancestry and discovered ...
Media advisory: Register for STS Annual Meeting and Press Conference
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(The Society of Thoracic Surgeons) Credentialed press representatives are invited to attend The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 56th Annual Meeting in New Orleans. This is the preeminent event in cardiothoracic surgery, off...
More federal funding needed to increase Americans' active transportation habits
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(Virginia Tech) 'In general, women will only cycle if they think the entire ride will be safe,' said Buehler. 'If they perceive that there will be any danger at all along the way they will resist.'
New discovery on the activity and function of MAIT cells during acute HIV infection
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(Karolinska Institutet) In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers at Karolinska Institutet show that MAIT cells (mucosa-associated invariant T cells), part of the human immune system, respond with dy...
New study finds evidence for reduced brain connections in schizophrenia
EurekAlert! - 14 Jan 2020 07:00
(UK Research and Innovation) Advances in scanning have allowed researchers for the first time to show lower levels of a protein found in the connections between neurons in the living brains of people with schizophrenia.T...