Medical News
Collaboration aims to streamline UI-application development
Medical Design Technology - 20 Apr 2020 19:23
IAR Systems and The Qt Company, a provider of tools for creating graphical user interfaces, announced that they have established a partnership. The partnership will enable the companies' joint customers to more easily cr...
Artificial 'candy canes' block viruses
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf) Synthetic chains of molecules containing different sugars can inhibit viruses effectively. The extent to which such molecules could be used as antiviral drugs is illustrated by a t...
Basics of amplitude distortion
Medical Design Technology - 20 Apr 2020 20:14
Amplitude distortion is the unintended modification of a signal, typically while undergoing amplification. Amplitude modulation, in contrast, is the intended modification of a carrier wave in response to a varying audio,...
IoT devices get automated factory provisioning of security module certificates
Medical Design Technology - 20 Apr 2020 17:43
Sectigo announced a partnership with Infineon Technologies AG to provide automated certificate provisioning for Infineon's OPTIGA Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 using Sectigo IoT Identity Manager. The integration prov...
Internet Protocol: The workhorse becomes the bottleneck
Medical Design Technology - 20 Apr 2020 07:18
The Non-IP Networking group within ETSI seeks to reduce the packet overhead of Internet Protocol because it's become a bottleneck in today's high-speed mobile networks. Internet Protocol (IP) is one of the technologies t...
Unprecedented single-cell studies in virtual embryo
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and from the University of Padua School of Medicine have created the first complete description of e...
Extra payments motivate sobriety and employment among people recovering from addiction
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) After a yearlong study of people with opioid dependence, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report evidence that adding $8 an hour to their paychecks may help those in recovery stay drug free lon...
Green chemistry approaches to the synthesis of coumarin derivatives
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(Bentham Science Publishers) Coumarin derivatives (coumarins) are a class of compounds with a wide range of biological activities, which have found their application in medicine, pharmacology, cosmetics and food industry...
Lopinavir/ritonavir and Arbidol not effective for mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(Cell Press) An exploratory randomized, controlled study on the safety and efficacy of either lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) or Arbidol as treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, sug...
New tool helps predict risk of death, admission to long-term care for people with dementia
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(Canadian Medical Association Journal) A new tool that predicts risk of death and admission to a long-term care facility for patients with dementia may help conversations between health care providers, patients and their...
Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten: Award for outstanding achievements in science communication
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten, Director of Charité's Institute of Virology, has been awarded the 'Special Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Communication during the ...
Finding leukemia's weakness using genome-wide CRISPR technology
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used CRISPR technology to identify key regulators of aggressive chronic myeloid leukemi...
First official ATS practice guidelines for Sarcoidosis cover diagnosis and detection
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(American Thoracic Society) New guidance is available for physicians who must go through a number of steps to provide a probable diagnosis of sarcoidosis -- an inflammatory disease that affects the lungs, lymph glands, a...
Wind turbine noise affects dream sleep and perceived sleep restoration
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of Gothenburg) Wind turbine noise (WTN) influences people's perception of the restorative effects of sleep, and also has a small but significant effect on dream sleep, otherwise known as REM (rapid eye moveme...
How effective are cloth masks against coronavirus? (video)
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(American Chemical Society) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is recommending that the general public wear cloth face masks to help decrease everyone's chances of getting COVID-19. So how does the new coronavirus spre...
Age matters: Paternal age and the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(Tohoku University) It is no secret that genetic factors play a role in determining whether children have neurodevelopmental disorders. Maternal exposure to drugs and viral or bacterial illnesses can be detrimental too.
Lung injury in COVID-19 is not high altitude pulmonary edema
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A group of researchers with experience in treating high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) have written to correct the misconception in medical social media forums and elsew...
Making an important pediatric diagnostic test easier to swallow
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(Medical University of South Carolina) To diagnose swallowing problems, speech-language pathologists rely on a 'gold-standard' test that has the drawback of exposing children to ionizing radiation. Because the risks of e...
AZCERT opens access to Medsafety Scan® for safe prescribing during COVID-19 pandemic
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
((AZCERT) Arizona Center Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics) AZCERT is making MedSafety Scan®, a web-based decision support system, available free to medical professionals around the world treating COVID-...
Mental health preparedness among older youth in foster care
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(New York University) Researchers interviewed 17-year-olds in California foster care. The adolescents' use of mental health services is elevated, but not necessarily their confidence level.
New coronavirus test that is eight times faster can help locate asymptomatic carriers
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) The researchers determined that the key is to divide the samples into different pools. The planning and constructing of the pools and the way they mix the individ...
New decision model shapes strategies for dealing with public health emergencies
EurekAlert! - 20 Apr 2020 06:00
(Aalto University) The efficient allocation of medical resources can be modelled mathematically, as shown by Finnish researchers. The study, which started a few years before coronavirus appeared, offers timely insights f...