Medical News

(University of Illinois at Chicago) The University of Illinois at Chicago is participating in two clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments.

Initiated in March 2020, a group of engineers in Spain led by the Barcelona based company Protofy.xyz, developed OxyGEN, an open hardware ventilator design to address the COVID-19 shortage. Working with two hospitals in ...

Viruses must first blast through five or six barriers before they're able to infect us and unleash havoc.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. expanded its partnership with Microsoft to bring Microsoft Azure RTOS, an industry-leading comprehensive real-time operating system (RTOS), to a broader range of processing solutions from its Edge...

Around the world, physicians at overwhelmed hospitals may have to decide who will not get treated during the pandemic.

Harwin has confirmed that its Archer Kontrol 1.27-mm pitch board-to-board connectors support data rates of up to 3 Gbits/s. Compatible with Ethernet speeds up to 2.94 Gbits/sec, these connectors are optimized for modern ...

IQD's newest addition to its range of advanced oscillator modules is its IQCM-112 series of disciplined OCXOs. This new design incorporates an internal GNSS receiver with a 1PPS output which is compatible with an externa...

EPC announces its Phase Eleven Reliability Report, documenting the strategy used to achieve a remarkable field reliability record. This strategy relied upon tests forcing devices to fail under a variety of conditions to ...

CARLO GAVAZZI has announced the launch of its new Photoelectric Laser Sensors with Integrated IO-Link Communications. The LD30 Series are laser sensors featuring great background suppression based on the Time of Flight (...

Polio was nearly eradicated with the Salk vaccine in 1955. At the time, little was known about this mysterious disease that paralyzed and sometimes killed young children.

Löhnert Elektronik is integrating the R&S QAR imaging tester from Rohde & Schwarz into its new end-of-line test benches for automotive radomes. Now the test benches can reproducibly test the reflection and transmission ...

(University of Helsinki) Defects in the maintenance of the superficial tissue of the body, known as epithelial tissue, can help cancer cells achieve motility and metastasise.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) Stroke survivors who engage in a lot of light physical activity -- taking leisurely walks or attending to nonstrenuous household chores, for example -- also repor...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) You know that feeling in your gut? We think of it as an innate intuition that sparks deep in the belly and helps guide our actions, if...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) In the surgical treatment of lung carcinoma, the more frequent performance of such interventions has a positive effect on treatment results -- the survival probabilit...

(Scripps Research Institute) A prevalent heart protein known as cardiac myosin, which is released into the body when a person suffers a heart attack, can cause blood to thicken or clot--worsening damage to heart tissue, ...

(Princeton University) Princeton researchers have been awarded a National Science Foundation RAPID grant to study how anxiety about COVID-19 influences how we learn and share information about the pandemic.

(University of Queensland) Genetic variations in the skin can create a natural sunscreen, according to University of Queensland researchers investigating the genes linked with vitamin D.

(University of Liverpool) A new study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, has found that clean cooking with liquified petroleum gas (LPG) could avert 28,000 premature deaths and reduce global temperatures th...

(Elsevier) A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, , reports that an entirely parent-based treatment, SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), is as efficaci...

(Rutgers University) Eastern oysters and three species of clams can be farmed together and flourish, potentially boosting profits of shellfish growers, according to a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study. Though divers...

(University of Cologne) CECAD-researchers find a molecular repair pathway for cellular energy production, publication in 'Nature Communications'