Medical News
Feeling burned out? The contributors could be more related to depression than you think
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(Medical University of South Carolina) According to an article published by a team of researchers from the Medical College of South Carolina, Harvard Medical School and the University of Michigan in the Journal of Genera...
Resistive touchpads target medical, rugged environments
Medical Design Technology - 29 Apr 2020 15:09
Interlink Electronics announced the availability of its VersaPad Plus resistive touchpad. The newest member of the VersaPad family of touchpads for rugged environments, the VersaPad Plus can be operated with gloved finge...
High-rel IMU sensor accurate to 1.3°/hr
Medical Design Technology - 29 Apr 2020 15:05
Aceinna announced high volume availability of the new ACEINNA IMU383ZA, which integrates triple-redundant, 3-axis MEMS accelerometer and gyroscope sensors. This miniature module is factory-calibrated over the -40C to +85...
When it comes to UV-C LED lights, buyer beware
Medical Design Technology - 29 Apr 2020 18:30
During the coronavirus pandemic, there’s been a lot of interest in using germicidal lamps to disinfect surfaces rather than hosing everything down with bleach or disinfectant. Lamps are a little easier to work with whe...
MIM/MOM capacitor extraction boosts analog and RF designs
Medical Design Technology - 29 Apr 2020 18:00
Metal-insulator-metal and metal-oxide-metal capacitors popular in analog/RF designs because of their desirable characteristics. By extracting parasitics from your models that are important in your design, you'll get a ro...
Billions of reasons to build a trusted safe and secure IoT world
Medical Design Technology - 29 Apr 2020 17:30
by Marc Vauclair, Senior Security System Architect, NXP Semiconductors The IoT (Internet of Things) devices we use in our homes, cars, mobile communication devices, and payment systems are also becoming increasingly acce...
Chip-design compiler keys on 2.5, 3D multi-die system-in-a-package developments
Medical Design Technology - 29 Apr 2020 15:13
Synopsys introduced its 3DIC Compiler platform to transform the design and integration of complex 2.5 and 3D multi-die system in a package. It provides an unprecedented fully integrated, high-performance, and easy-to-use...
Test instrumentation handles PCIe RAS error injection
Medical Design Technology - 29 Apr 2020 15:13
A PCIe 4.0 RAS (Reliability, Accessibility and Serviceability) test solution runs on the Summit M5x PCIe Protocol Analyzer/Jammer, the world’s first platform to support PCIe RAS Error Injection. With its PCIe 4.0-compl...
One-Watt SIP-packaged dc-dc converters provide 1,500 Vdc or 4,000 Vdc isolation
Medical Design Technology - 29 Apr 2020 14:58
TRACO Power's new TEA series consists of three unregulated 1 Watt DC/DC converter models in SIP packages which are specifically designed to offer a low-cost solution while keeping a high-quality standard. These converter...
COVID-19 study shows that men have over double the death rate of women
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(Frontiers) COVID-19 has drastically different effects on the infected, with some people displaying no symptoms, while others can die. It is still not completely understood why some people are more severely affected than...
COVID-19 vaccine with patch delivery technology enters preclinical testing at UC Davis
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of California - Davis) Verndari Inc., a stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it will begin preclinical testing this week at UC Davis' Mouse Biology Program to evaluate a potential vaccine and...
COVID-19: A wake-up call to rebalance the drug supply chain?
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(American Chemical Society) Over 80% of chemicals used to make pharmaceuticals sold in Europe originate from China or India, according to the European Fine Chemicals Group. When COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan and spread acros...
COVID-19 simulator reveals how social distancing measures will affect states
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(Massachusetts General Hospital) The tool, which was developed by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Georgia Tech, uses the most recent data for each state and infectious disease modeling as recommended by...
A diet of high-iron beans improves health of anemic women in Rwanda
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)) A new study involving women of reproductive age in Rwanda, where 19% of that demographic is anemic, showed that a diet including high-iron beans can improve iron sta...
Bone proteomics could reveal how long a corpse has been underwater
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(American Chemical Society) When a dead body is found, one of the first things a forensic pathologist tries to do is estimate the time of death. There are several ways to do this, including measuring body temperature or ...
Data-based COVID-19 transmission model suggests social distancing worked in Wuhan and Shanghai
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A new COVID-19 transmission model, based on contact survey data from nearly 1200 people in the cities of Wuhan and Shanghai, China, suggests that strict social distan...
Computational techniques explore 'the dark side of amyloid aggregation in the brain'
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of Massachusetts Amherst) As physicians and families know too well, though Alzheimer's disease has been intensely studied for decades, too much is still not known about molecular processes in the brain that c...
Drug reduces the risk of child sexual abuse
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(Karolinska Institutet) A drug that lowers levels of the male hormone testosterone in the body reduces the risk of men with pedophilic disorder sexually abusing children, a study from Karolinska Institutet published toda...
E-cigarette users experience vascular damage similar to that of smokers of combustible cigarettes
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(American Heart Association) Young adults using e-cigarettes experienced arterial stiffness and blood vessel damage similar to those who smoke traditional cigarettes.There was no evidence that using e-cigarettes reduced ...
E1912 trial leads to FDA approval of ibrutinib-rituximab combo for untreated CLL
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group) Patients aged 70 or younger with untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma have a new treatment option -- a combination of the targeted agent ibrutinib ...
Evidence of Late Pleistocene human colonization of isolated islands beyond Wallace's Line
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) What makes our species unique compared to other hominins? High profile genetic, fossil and material culture discoveries present scientists working in the Late Pleis...
Arthritis drug presents promise as treatment for COVID-19 pneumonia
EurekAlert! - 29 Apr 2020 06:00
(University of California - San Diego) UC San Diego Health has launched a Phase III clinical trial to assess whether a medication used to treat rheumatoid might also have therapeutic value for patient with COVID-19 who h...