Medical News
nTIDE Mar 2020: COVID-19 effects not yet seen in jobs data for Americans with disabilities
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(Kessler Foundation) 'We actually have positive news this month for people with disability, but today's job numbers don't reflect the devastating losses of the last three weeks of March. We have yet to see the impact of ...
Wearing surgical masks in public could help slow COVID-19 pandemic's advance
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of Maryland) Surgical masks may help prevent infected people from making others sick with seasonal viruses, including coronaviruses, according to new research.In laboratory experiments, the masks significantl...
Overview of electrical measuring instruments - Part 2
Medical Design Technology - 3 Apr 2020 23:38
In a recent column, we gave a quick review of some basic instrumentation common to most engineering work benches. Here are a few more instruments found in many engineering labs. Curve Tracer The curve tracer is a member ...
Spectrum analyzers for mmWave engineers use oscilloscope front ends
Medical Design Technology - 3 Apr 2020 20:52
Keysight Technologies has created a slim version of its high-bandwidth oscilloscopes for analyzing wireless signals, including 5G NR. When you think of high-bandwidth oscilloscopes, you may think that their sole use is f...
No, IoT RF radiation won't cause a pandemic
Medical Design Technology - 3 Apr 2020 19:23
leland teschler | executive editor I once had a lengthy exchange with a guy who claimed RF from WiFi was making him sick. After numerous emails back and forth in which I tried to correct his misconceptions about WiFi sig...
Disgust Evolved To Protect Us From Disease. Is It Working?
Discover - 3 Apr 2020 17:00
During this modern coronavirus pandemic, our ancient instincts for avoiding disease may misfire.
Researchers map mechanism to explain role of gene mutations in kidney disease
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Researchers from the Center for Precision Disease Modeling at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have uncovered a mechanism that appears to explain how certa...
New study identifies characteristics of patients with fatal COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(American Thoracic Society) In a new study, researchers identified the most common characteristics of 85 COVID-19 patients who died in Wuhan, China in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. The study reports on co...
POssible coronavirus drug identified by Australian scientists
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(Monash University) Australian Scientists have shown that an anti-parasitic drug already available around the world can kill the virus -- effectively eradicating all genetic material of the virus within 48 hours. Scienti...
COVID-19 pandemic may exacerbate childhood obesity
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Public health scientists predict that school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States. Andrew Ru...
Indigenous American ancestry may be associated with HER2-positive breast cancer
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(American Association for Cancer Research) An increased proportion of Indigenous American (IA) ancestry was associated with a greater incidence of HER2-positive breast cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Res...
New family of molecules to join altered receptors in neurodegenerative diseases
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of Barcelona) An article published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry shows a new family of molecules with high affinity to join imidazoline receptors, which are altered in the brain of those patients with...
New molecular mechanism that regulates the sentinel cells of the immune system
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)) CNIC scientists have uncovered a new molecular mechanism that determines the identity and expansion of one of the cell types that work as immune s...
Patients with Parkinson's disease face unique 'hidden sorrows' related to the COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(IOS Press) While much attention has focused on the potential for severe respiratory complications and unfavorable outcomes from the COVID-19 pandemic among patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), the impact extends beyo...
Study of rare genetic disorder that effects the eyes
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(Shinshu University) Small gauge vitrectomy for vitreous amyloidosis and subsequent management of secondary glaucoma in patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis.
Suffering from skin damage from face masks?
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of Huddersfield) DOCTORS and nurses on the COVID-19 frontline are spending many hours a day wearing face masks, and many members of the general public are doing the same. But although the devices offer invalu...
The Lancet Public Health: US modelling study estimates impact of school closures for COVID-19 on US health-care workforce and associated mortality
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(The Lancet) US policymakers considering physical distancing measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 face a difficult trade-off between closing schools to reduce transmission and new cases, and potential health-care work...
Tissue dynamics provide clues to human disease
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Scientists in EMBL Barcelona's Ebisuya group, with collaborators from RIKEN, Kyoto University, and Meijo Hospital in Nagoya, Japan, have studied oscillating patterns of gene expres...
Trial for potential coronavirus treatment is underway at Montefiore and Einstein
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine has joined a clinical trial to evaluate the experimental drug remdesivir to treat people who are hospitalized with se...
UMass Amherst engineers, nurses design low-cost face shield PPE for health care
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of Massachusetts Amherst) In just under two weeks, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with engineers, nurses and other health care professionals, have developed a design informed by clini...
Using sponges to wipe out cancer
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(Medical University of South Carolina) Manzamine A, a natural product derived from certain groups of sponges, can block the growth of cervical cancer cells, report Medical University of South Carolina researchers, workin...
What pediatric health care clinicians need to know
EurekAlert! - 3 Apr 2020 06:00
(JAMA Network) Information on the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic that is useful for pediatric clinicians is in this article.