Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Gene variant may protect against Alzheimer's; Miniature microscope used to study neural circuit activity in nonhuman primate model; Dopamine has epigenetic role in addiction; Depression’s structural problem.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: CEUS LI-RADS for diagnosing liver cancer; Variations in echocardiography recommendations for patients with S. aureus; Reusable bronchoscopes and COVID-19 patients.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in orthopedics, including: Researchers develop synthetic scaffolds to heal injured tendons, ligaments; Self-powered X-ray detector to revolutionize imaging for medicine, security and research; Opioid prescriptions linked to obesity.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Medical societies ink guidelines for breast cancer care for pandemic; Multiple drivers explained; Study points to new genetic associations for osteosarcoma.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: women can reduce stroke risk; Researchers see promise as stroke-damaged rat brains are repaired; Questions raised over blood pressure devices for home monitoring.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: NIH trial screening data links high amyloid levels with early stage Alzheimer's; Optical imaging technology developed for the brain; Using TMS to treat adults with autism and depression.
“Vaccines, obviously, are the ultimate solution for pandemics,” Rino Rappuoli told BioWorld. They have, he added, “already eliminated a lot of pandemic threats – smallpox, influenza, poliomyelitis.” And the road to normalcy from the current pandemic, or any pandemic, is likely to be open only once there is a vaccine.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Using smartphones to detect AF; A study of AI algorithms in mammography assessment; Stopping tau in its tracks.
Specific therapies against a new disease take time to develop. But there are methods that can speed up that development – and in the meantime, there are ways to make do with what’s already in the cupboard.
There will be lessons learned aplenty when the COVID-19 pandemic finally breaks, including how serological and molecular testing can be used to maximum effect to corral a future pandemic. Carmen Wiley, president of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry, told BioWorld that the existing instrument types are up to the job, but that surge capacity is needed, and that it is not clear how the cost of that capacity will be handled.
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