Medical News
Controversy swirls around adipose-derived cell therapies for reparative medicine
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Challenging the US Food and Drug Administration's current approach to evaluating and approving adipose-based cell therapies used in reparative medicine, a group of resear...
A randomized, double-blind trial of F14512, a polyamine-vectorized anticancer drug, compared...
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(Impact Journals LLC) The objective of this study was to compare the safety and antitumor activity of F14512 and etoposide phosphate in dogs with spontaneous non-Hodgkin lymphoma and to investigate the potential benefit ...
Ethic of Canadian Nursing Practice
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(Bentham Science Publishers) This book is an inspiration for nurses to be the leaders of tomorrow.
First mate/last break spring-loaded connectors for sequential connections
Medical Design Technology - 19 Feb 2020 23:24
Mill-Max Manufacturing Corp. Inc. expands its line of spring-loaded products with single and double row First Mate/Last Break (FMLB) connectors. These connectors support applications where electrical signals must be made...
The therapeutic uses of RF energy
Medical Design Technology - 19 Feb 2020 22:54
Discussions of the upcoming 5G technology sometimes focus on whether or not the millimeter-wave frequencies involved can damage human life. What gets less press is that radio frequency energy in other bands can be therap...
X60 Modem aggregates mmWave and sub-6 GHz carriers
Medical Design Technology - 19 Feb 2020 17:53
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X60 5G modem builds on its two 5G predecessors--the X50 and X55--by adding sub-6 GHz and mmWave carrier aggregation, plus other features. According to Qualcomm, the 5 nm process used to fabricate th...
Zigbee SoCs optimized for ultra-low power consumption
Medical Design Technology - 19 Feb 2020 17:09Economical 2MP image sensors target entry-level/mainstream mobile camera apps
Medical Design Technology - 19 Feb 2020 16:00
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. announced the latest member of its 2-megapixel (MP) image sensor family -- the OV02B. OmniVision is using 12'' wafers to produce this sensor, instead of the 8" wafers that are in tight suppl...
IoT ecosystem security strengthened with GSMA's IoT SAFE implementation
Medical Design Technology - 19 Feb 2020 14:03
u-blox will strengthen the security of IoT ecosystems built upon its dedicated LTE-M and NB-IoT chipset by implementing a key set of security features endorsed by the GSMA. Support for the IoT SAFE (IoT SIM applet for se...
The Lancet: Egypt, Algeria and South Africa estimated to be at highest risk of new coronavirus cases in Africa
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(The Lancet) Increased resources, surveillance, and capacity building should be urgently prioritised in African countries with moderate risk of importing cases of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as these count...
AGS: Trump Administration's 2021 budget 'deeply troubling' for older americans
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(American Geriatrics Society) Experts at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) raised grave concerns with President Trump's 2021 budget proposal, which remains 'deeply troubling for older Americans, families, and health ...
Antidote to pain and negativity? Let it be
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(Yale University) Merely a brief introduction to mindfulness helps people deal with physical pain and negative emotions, a new study by researchers at Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth shows. The effect of mindfulness was so...
Brain measurements can reveal success of alcohol risk messages
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(University of Konstanz) By studying how our brains 'synchronise' during shared experiences, social neuroscientists at the University of Konstanz show if alcohol risk messages catch on in an audience and lead to a reduct...
Fetal balloon treatment for lung-damaging birth defect works best when fetal and maternal care are highly coordinated
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Researchers from The Johns Hopkins Center for Fetal Therapy report new evidence that fetuses with severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a rare but life-threatening, lung-damaging conditio...
From obesity to liver cancer: Can we prevent the worst?
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(Université de Genève) Hepatocellular carcinoma, a liver cancer linked to the presence of fat in the liver, is one of the leading causes of cancer death worldwide. Scientists (UNIGE) have discovered a protein involved ...
People who eat a big breakfast may burn twice as many calories
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(The Endocrine Society) Eating a big breakfast rather than a large dinner may prevent obesity and high blood sugar, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metab...
Study points to better medical diagnosis through levitating human blood
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(University of British Columbia Okanagan campus) New research from the UBC's Okanagan campus, Harvard Medical School and Michigan State University suggests that levitating human plasma may lead to faster, more reliable, ...
A new way to assess male fertility
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(American Chemical Society) Current tests for male fertility include measuring the concentration and motility of spermatozoa. However, other characteristics of sperm, such as their ability to follow a chemical trail to t...
The potentially deadly paradox of diabetes management
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(Mayo Clinic) Diabetes affects nearly 1 in 10 adults in the US, of these millions, more than 90% have Type 2 diabetes. Controlling blood sugar and glycosylated hemoglobin levels -- or HbA1c, which is sometimes referred t...
Thousands of uninsured kidney disease patients strain Texas emergency departments
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) More than 10,000 uninsured patients sought care at Texas emergency departments for lifesaving kidney dialysis in 2017, incurring more than $21.8 million in hospital ...
Veggie-loving fish could be the new white meat
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(University of California - Irvine) A secret to survival amid rising global temperatures could be dwelling in the tidepools of the US West Coast. Findings by University of California, Irvine biologists studying the genom...
Maternal obesity linked to ADHD and behavioral problems in children, NIH study suggests
EurekAlert! - 19 Feb 2020 07:00
(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Maternal obesity may increase a child's risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to an analysis by research...