Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Rapid POC test for respiratory infections may reduce antibiotic use; Risk-stratification tools help conserve ventilator, ICU bed use; Diverse populations, long reads give genome insights; Neurons contribute to their own lack of regeneration.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Treating rheumatoid arthritis with micromotors; Bioengineered hybrid muscle fiber for regenerative medicine; Immunosuppressive cell and cytokine response linked to bone nonunion.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Imaging studies offer clarity on impact of combo therapy in metastatic breast cancer; Antidiarrheal drug fights AML; Peering past gastrointestinal mucosa to find tumors; Nanosac to the rescue for solid tumor therapy.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Single troponin test may suffice for ED discharge of patients with angina; Scar patterns a stronger predictor of recurrent AF post-ablation; Paclitaxel hypothesis takes another beating; Out-of-hospital transfemoral TAVR mortality draws scrutiny.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Preventing seizures after brain injury could slow or stop the onset of dementia, Researchers find new signaling pathway in neurons, Developing a cost effective, less invasive method to diagnose potential for Alzheimer’s disease.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Atherosclerosis precedes clonal hematopoiesis; AI-driven tool to assess kidney function; Deep learning-powered classification of lung cancer types.
The National Institutes of Health selected Pixcell Medical Ltd.’s Hemoscreen hematology analyzer as part of the six-year Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal (RURAL) research study, aiming to gain insight into the specific health-related concerns of the rural southeastern United States' population. The RURAL study is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and aims to understand health concerns specific to rural communities in the South, particularly related to increased rates of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders.
PERTH, Australia – The fight against diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma may finally see some progress, after experiments using 3D models of the tumor in animal studies showed that a combination therapy of the polyamine inhibitor AMXT-1501 (Aminex Therapeutics Inc.) and the ornithine decarboxylase 1 inhibitor difluoromethylornithine could eradicate cancer cells.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Scientists repair injured spinal cord using patients' own stem cells; ALS neuron damage reversed with new compound; Nexus Spine reports availability of implants for spine surgery.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: MR touted as potential screening modality for prostate cancer; Classifying variants of unknown significance; Tumor neoantigens can inhibit immune response; MEK perhaps a useful target in some bladder cancers.