Harvard Wyss Institute’s nasal swab and toehold switch technologies licensed to Agile Biodetection
The two technologies function at different points of the diagnostic process and could help detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the ...
Tag: Medicine/Health
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher receives award to study pediatric brain cancer
Prestigious $300,000 Rally Foundation grant supports exploration of a subgroup of pediatric brain tumors that tend to be particularly deadlyCredit: ...
80-year-old antibiotic redesigned for new medical uses
Synthetic strategy to enhance natural chemistryCredit: Image by Hiroaki Itoh, first published in Nature Communications, CC-BY. Physicians and scientists have ...
NIH intramural researcher Dr. Harvey Alter wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Credit: NIH National Institutes of Health intramural researcher Harvey J. Alter, M.D., has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
Potential drug treatment for particular type of lung-cancer
Credit: Kanazawa University The effectiveness of cancer treatment is often hampered by cancer cells being heterogeneous. This is the case ...
New tools improve care for cancers that spread to the brain
Credit: UVA Health Ambitious efforts at UVA Cancer Center to improve care delivered to patients with cancer that has spread ...
Statistical model improves analysis of skin conductance
Credit: Sandya Subramanian/MIT Picower Institute Electrodermal activity - the sweat-induced fluctuations of skin conductance made famous in TV dramatizations of ...
Reducing the high social cost of death
Researchers investigate far-reaching ramifications of bereavement and their mitigationCredit: Kyoto University Japan - How will you cope with the death ...
Promising breath-test for cancer
Potential for early warning of head, neck cancerCredit: Flinders University The global quest to use a person's breath analysis for ...
Diagnosing COVID-19 in just 30 minutes
Credit: POSTECH The year 2020 can be summarized simply by one word - COVID-19 - as it was the culprit ...
Underreported and overlooked: Study shows severity of childhood obesity in Guam
University of Guam research fills gap in Pacific Islander health collection dataCredit: University of Guam More than 27 percent of ...
Pitt trauma experts aim to reduce deaths by providing blood-clotting agent
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Oct. 5, 2020 - Severely injured trauma patients who received a blood-clotting drug before arriving at the ...
Virtual follow-up care is more convenient and just as beneficial to surgical patients
Surgeons find that shifting to virtual visits could be a way to improve patient-centered care, satisfy busy patientsCredit: American College ...
New artificial intelligence models show potential for predicting outcomes
Machine learning streamlines massive amounts of data to support provider decision-making at the point of care for motor vehicle crash ...
Horwitz Prize awarded to scientists who showed how the ear and brain process sound
Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center Columbia University will award the 2020 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to three scientists: Robert ...
DECT in the ED: better diagnoses, less follow-up, more savings
Dual-energy CT adds value to routine interpretation of emergency department imaging studies by increasing radiologists' diagnostic confidence, leading to a ...
New COVID test doesn’t use scarce reagents, catches all but the least infectious
Addresses major testing need in developing world; also in US, where reagent supplies are again dwindlingCredit: Brian Jenkins A major ...
New osteosarcoma treatment receives rare pediatric disease designation from the FDA
Developed by Innova Therapeutics, IVT-8086 is the first potential new treatment for osteosarcoma in over 30 yearsCredit: Medical University of ...
Personalized cancer therapy improves outcomes in advanced disease, says study
Credit: University of California San Diego Patients receiving care for advanced cancer at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego ...
Biomedical sciences researchers find new way to prevent and cure rotavirus, other viral infections
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--A combination of two substances secreted by the immune system can cure and prevent rotavirus infection, ...
