Scientists are reporting development of a substance to enhance the visibility of skin cancer cells during scans with an advanced medical imaging system that combines ultrasound and light. The hybrid scanner could…
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Heat Shock Protein Can Restore Nerve Damage In Diabetic Mice
Researchers have been able to use a common chaperone protein, Hsp70, to reverse the loss of function in the nerves of mice with diabetes. Writing in ASN NEURO, Michael J. Urban and…
Robots To Help Children With Autism
Interbots, Inc., a high-tech spin-off company associated with the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center has teamed up with the Autism Center of Pittsburgh to provide innovative robot-based therapy for children with…
Cancer Biomarkers Missing in Action
Biomarkers for cancer — often reported with great publicity — routinely fail to be of clinical use, a Canadian researcher said. Despite large investments and investigation by competent researchers, no new major…
Change Promised for Hospital Quality Measures
Many of the metrics currently used to assess quality of hospital care fail to provide true and valuable accountability, according to leaders of a key organization that helped develop them. Quality measures…
Chronic pain can be ‘paralyzing’ for women
The sensation began in Melanie Thernstrom’s neck the same day she went for a long swim. It flowed down through her right shoulder to her hand, as if she had a blistering…
Mosquito dangers begin to resurface
Surviving summer amid buzzing, blood-sucking pests whose bites leave itchy blemishes is enough to make one want to head indoors until winter. Add to that the threat of disease – like the…
India rejects superbug links
India has rejected findings of British scientists about a new form of drug-resistant “superbug” infecting patients who have traveled to the South Asian nation for treatment. The Indian health ministry insisted in…
Drug-resistant ‘superbug’ found in hospitals in London and Nottingham
Two hospitals in London and Nottingham have confirmed they have treated patients with the new ‘superbug’, which is resistant to the most powerful antibiotics. There are fears that without vigilance the enzyme…
Sounds From The Heart Can Help Diagnose Heart Failure
For emergency department patients with shortness of breath and a risk of heart failure, physicians usually grab one thing first: a stethoscope. It allows them to hear the S3, an abnormal third…
New Laser Technology For Future Radiation Therapy
Currently, new treatment facilities for radiation therapy with ions are built all over the world. These particles destroy cancer cells and have a better ability to spare the surrounding healthy tissue than…
Long-Term Hormone Therapy Increases Breast Cancer Risk
Using postmenopausal hormone therapy for more than 15 years increases a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, particularly among leaner women according to research at the Keck School of Medicine of the…
Epson, Philips partner to offer printing solutions for ultrasound medical devices
Epson America and Royal Philips Electronics have agreed to integrate Epson ink jet printers and WorkForce all-in-ones with Philips ultrasound medical imaging systems in healthcare clinics and hospitals in the US and…
MRSA staph infections decline in Monroe County
Cases of aggressive, drug-resistant staph infections among Monroe County residents fell 22 percent from 2005 to 2009, suggesting efforts are working to stop the bacteria from spreading in hospitals, nursing homes and…
Stem cells may hold key for fatal skin disease
High-risk bone marrow transplants partially cured five children with a potentially deadly genetic defect in which proteins that hold layers of skin together are absent, U.S. researchers said Wednesday. But one other…