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.
The largest study to date on hypermutated gliomas has delivered new insights into their origin, as well as their response to several different treatments. Specifically, even though they are hypermutated, such tumors are unlikely to respond to PD-1 blockers.
“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.”
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.
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.
BioWorld looks at translational medicine, including: Exosomes deliver sepsis treatment; Dopamine has epigenetic role in addiction; Rejuvenating inflammation’s end; Gut repair with an iron will; Multiple drivers explained.