Medical News
Voltage-clamping diodes handle 3-kW transients
Medical Design Technology - 10 Jun 2020 16:43
To ensure critical operations, aviation and space systems rely on digital and logic functionality and circuitry in engine control units, environmental controls, instruments, and actuators. Data centers, the 5G infrastruc...
COVID-19 mouse model will speed search for drugs, vaccines
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(Washington University School of Medicine) Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a mouse model of COVID-19 that is expected to speed up the search for drugs and vaccines for ...
Multi-channel LoRa-specific 1U rackmount tester handles transmitter/receiver signal evaluation
Medical Design Technology - 10 Jun 2020 22:50
The GWInstek C-1200 LoRa Tester is a one-box tester that incorporates a multitude of LoRa transmit and receive tests. The C-1200 provides transmitter tests that include spectrum analysis, time domain, FEI (Frequency Erro...
Add Wi-Fi 6 connectivity to your IoT device
Medical Design Technology - 10 Jun 2020 18:07
iEW400 IP from Imagination Technologies lets you add the latest Wi-Fi connectivity to an FPGA, SoC, or ASIC, with focus on minimizing power consumption and increasing battery life. The post Add Wi-Fi 6 connectivity to yo...
High-power current shunt modules feature 1.5-kV isolation
Medical Design Technology - 10 Jun 2020 16:51
Riedon has introduced the SSA Smart Shunt series next-generation current sensing modules that combine the attributes of conventional passive shunt resistors with those normally associated with considerably more expensive...
Software platform speeds development of time-critical/resource-constrained apps at the IoT edge.
Medical Design Technology - 10 Jun 2020 16:11
IOTech announced the general availability of Edge XRT, a new software platform for time-critical and resource-constrained applications at the IoT Edge. Edge XRT greatly simplifies the development of time-critical IoT sys...
License for 3D stacked image sensor technology supports ToF, advanced sensor manufacturing
Medical Design Technology - 10 Jun 2020 16:01Configurable mixed-signal IC includes four high-drive outputs for 12-V motor apps
Medical Design Technology - 10 Jun 2020 07:30
The SLG47105 motor drive CMIC delivers the benefits of both configurable logic and configurable analog with high-voltage outputs, all encapsulated within a tiny 2×3-mm QFN package. The SLG47105 joins Dialog's widely ado...
COVID-19 false negative results if used too early
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a new study, Johns Hopkins researchers found that testing people for SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- too early in the course of infection is likely to result in a false negativ...
Gaps in data on marijuana use limit public health response
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(University of Massachusetts Amherst) Better data on marijuana use in the US is needed to support critical public health research, according to a review of relevant surveys conducted by University of Massachusetts Amhers...
HKUST scientists develop world's first spherical artificial eye with 3D retina
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) An international team led by HKUST scientists has developed the world's first 3D artificial eye with capabilities better than existing bionic eyes and in some cases, even ...
Healthcare professional revenue falls nearly 50% across nation during COVID-19 pandemic
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(FAIR Health) In April 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare professional services declined 68 percent in utilization and 48% in revenue based on total estimated in-network amounts compared to April 201...
Breast cancer treatment costs highest among young women with metastic cancer
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) In a fight for their lives, young women, age 18-44, spend double the amount of older women to survive metastatic breast cancer, according to a large statewide study by the Un...
Different hormone therapies affect brain function differently
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) Sex hormones influence the structure and function of the brain, but little is known about the effect of hormone therapies (HT) on changes in the brain during menopause. A new...
Mental, physical health of people with obesity affected during COVID-19 pandemic
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on people with obesity as they struggle to manage their weight and mental health during shelter-in-place orders,...
Marijuana concentrates spike THC levels but don't boost impairment
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(University of Colorado at Boulder) A study of 121 regular users of legal market cannabis found that higher potency does not necessarily mean greater intoxication. It also found that while balance and memory are impaired...
Decisions made for incapacitated patients often not what families want
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(Regenstrief Institute) Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University report in a study published in JAMA Network Open that nearly half of the time medical treatments and orders received for incapacitated...
Mozart may reduce seizure frequency in people with epilepsy
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(University Health Network) A new clinical research study by Dr. Marjan Rafiee and Dr. Taufik Valiante of the Krembil Brain Institute at Toronto Western Hospital, part of University Health Network, has found that a Mozar...
NIH awards Cleveland Clinic $7.2 million to study new diagnostic biomarker in MS
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(Cleveland Clinic) The National Institutes of Health has awarded $7.2 million to a Cleveland Clinic-led research team to improve accuracy of multiple sclerosis diagnoses. The grant will support a multi-center study to ev...
NIH study links cigarette smoking to higher stroke risk in African Americans
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) African Americans who smoke are nearly 2.5 times more likely to have a stroke than those who never smoked, while former smokers show a similarly lower risk as never smokers,...
NIH-funded study to evaluate drugs prescribed to children with COVID-19
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have launched an effort to evaluate drugs prescribed to treat COVID-19 in infa...
New in Ethics and Human Research
EurekAlert! - 10 Jun 2020 06:00
(The Hastings Center) Covid-19: Why Challenge Trials of Vaccines Could be Ethical, Despite Severe Risks, Equitably Sharing the Benefits and Burdens of Research. Early-view articles and the May-June 2020 issue.