Medical News
Native Americans and higher cigarette use: Stereotype goes up in smoke
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(University of Arizona Health Sciences) University of Arizona Health Sciences study finds when whites and Native Americans in comparable income and education levels are compared, whites consume more cigarettes and are mo...
Preventing spread of SARS coronavirus-2 in humans
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Deutsches Primatenzentrum (DPZ)/German Primate Center) Viruses must enter cells of the human body to cause disease. Infection biologists from the German Primate Center, together with colleagues at Charité - Universitä...
IC design software handles 22-nm ultra-low-power process technology
Medical Design Technology - 5 Mar 2020 16:37
Mentor, a Siemens business, announced that multiple Mentor product lines are now certified for United Microelectronic Corporation's (UMC's) 22uLP (ultra Low Power) process technology, including Mentor's Calibre platform,...
Gate drivers handle 4.5 kV press-pack IGBT modules
Medical Design Technology - 5 Mar 2020 16:26
Power Integrations introduced the 1SP0351 SCALE-2 single-channel, +15/-10 V, plug-and-play gate-driver, developed specifically for new 4500 V press-pack IGBT (PPI) modules from manufacturers such as Toshiba, Westcode and...
New sleep method strengthens brain's ability to retain memories
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new joint study by Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute of Science researchers has yielded an innovative method for bolstering memory processes in the brain during sleep.
Study: Tuberculosis bacteria trigger cough, facilitating spread
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) The bacteria that cause the deadly lung disease tuberculosis appear to facilitate their own spread by producing a molecule that triggers cough.
Trojan horse for tumor cells
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Can phagocytes act like a Trojan horse, transporting tumor cells within themselves and thereby causing metastases in cancer patients? PD Dr. Heiko Bruns at Universitätsklinikum Erlange...
Engineered bone marrow cells slow growth of prostate and pancreatic cancer cells
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In experiments with mice, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have slowed the growth of transplanted human prostate and pancreatic cancer cells by introducing bone marr...
Neurofibromatosis gene provides new insight into breast cancer resistance to hormone therapy
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Baylor College of Medicine) Neurofibromin (NF1), a protein involved in cancer growth, helps estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer develop resistance to hormone therapy by two independent mechanisms, not one as ...
Chlamydia build their own entrance into human cells
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf) Chlamydia, a type of pathogenic bacteria, need to penetrate human cells in order to multiply. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf (HHU) have now identified the b...
Using artificial intelligence to assess ulcerative colitis
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Tokyo Medical and Dental University) Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have developed an artificial intelligence system with a deep neural network that can effectively evaluate endoscopic data ...
Veterinarians: Dogs, too, can experience hearing loss
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) Just like humans, dogs are sometimes born with impaired hearing or experience hearing loss as a result of disease, inflammation, aging or exposure to noise. Dog o...
Wuhan CT scans reliable for coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnosis, limited for differentiation
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(American Roentgen Ray Society) An American Journal of Roentgenology open-access article by radiologists from Wuhan, China concluded that chest CT had a low rate of misdiagnosis of COVID-19 (3.9%, 2/51) and could help st...
GI symptoms and potential fecal transmission in coronavirus patients
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(American Gastroenterological Association) In two new papers published online in Gastroenterology, investigators from China describe the impact of coronavirus on the digestive tract. Here are the key findings.
Many lyme disease cases go unreported; A new model could help change that
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Columbia University) A new model based on 17 years of data can help predict the trajectory of where Lyme disease will spread. Identifying high-risk areas can lead to surveillance in counties and areas where infections a...
Scientists develop new method to distinguish freshly made transcripts from old transcripts
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Hubrecht Institute) Researchers from the group of Alexander van Oudenaarden at the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) developed a new method to assess how production and degradation of gene transcripts are regulated. In this stu...
Study finds that Community Treatment Orders do not reduce hospital readmission rates or stays
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(King's College London) CTOs are a legal order for compulsory community monitoring and treatment of people discharged from psychiatric hospitals and were introduced in the Mental Health Act amendment in 2007. This resear...
Two-faced bacteria
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Texas A&M University) The gut microbiome, which is a collection of numerous beneficial bacteria species, is key to our overall well-being and good health. Recent studies have linked the gut microbiome with several benef...
UConn researchers discover new stem cells that can generate new bone
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(University of Connecticut) A population of stem cells with the ability to generate new bone has been newly discovered by a group of researchers at the UConn School of Dental Medicine.
Ultra-wide field retinal imaging techniques cannot be used interchangeably
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Joslin Diabetes Center) For the evaluation and treatment of diabetic eye disease, research from the Joslin Diabetes Center's Beetham Eye Institute has now shown that one technique, UFW fluorescein angiography, detects o...
Understanding how the brain predicts could make treating autism easier
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Purdue University) Our brains make our lives easier by predicting what will happen next based on previous experiences. But what happens when those predictive powers don't work like they should?
Your back pain may be due to evolution and spine shape
EurekAlert! - 5 Mar 2020 07:00
(Simon Fraser University) The cause of back pain can be linked to humanity's evolutionary past, according to new research from a team of bioarchaeologists at Simon Fraser University, the University of Liverpool, and the ...