- Frontline services urged to follow vaginal swab guidelines
New guidance, produced by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) and NHS organisations across England and Wales, has been issued aimed at reducing the risk of retained swabs after a vaginal birth.
The publication of this...
(Issue date: 30 May 2010)
- Henry Ford Hospital: New left-side heart pump improves right-side heart function
A state-of-the-art heart pump, designed to maintain a continuous flow of blood in end-stage cardiac patients with damage to the left side of the heart, also improves function on the right side of the heart, according to...
(Issue date: 30 May 2010)
- Video game accessibility project to help blind children exercise
VI Fit, a project in the computer science and engineering department, is designed to help children who are blind become more physically active and healthy through video games. The human-computer interaction research team in the...
(Issue date: 30 May 2010)
- Robotic Assisted Vasectomy Reversal Offers Greater Chance of Fatherhood
In 1989 a 29-year-old Michael Schrader had it all: steady job, a wife, and two wonderful children—daughter Courtney and son Cameron. He couldn’t envision wanting more—that is, more children. Taking steps to keep his nuclear...
(Issue date: 30 May 2010)
- Cell-homing-based tooth regeneration
A technique pioneered in the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory of Dr. Jeremy Mao, the Edward V. Zegarelli Professor of Dental Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, can orchestrate stem cells to...
(Issue date: 25 May 2010)
- Fat injection aids paralyzed vocal cords
Fat injections can help restore normal speech and improve quality of life in patients with paralyzed vocal cords, new research shows.
(Issue date: 25 May 2010)
- A life after death for used pacemakers
Thousands of lives could be saved every year if used pacemakers were donated to developing countries instead of throwing them in the trash, doctors say.
(Issue date: 25 May 2010)
- Sound-blasting chips for on-the-spot forensics
By using sound to manipulate biological samples on a "lab-on-a-chip", the dream of rapid - even on-the-spot - chemical analysis and diagnosis of disease has moved closer to reality.
(Issue date: 25 May 2010)
- New invention regulates nerve cells electronically
A major step toward being able to regulate nerve cells externally with the help of electronics has been taken by researchers at Linköping University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The breakthrough is based on an ion...
(Issue date: 25 May 2010)
- IVAC Applauds the Adoption of the World Health Assembly Resolution Prioritizing the Prevention and Treatment of Pneumonia
On the heels of the release of new data that confirms pneumonia remains the world’s leading killer of children, the World Health Assembly passed an important and timely resolution to prioritize the prevention and treatment of...
(Issue date: 24 May 2010)
- Home monitoring, Web-based tool improves blood pressure control
A pharmacist-led home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) program supported by the American Heart Association's Heart 360 website dramatically improved blood pressure control for patients with uncontrolled hypertension, according to...
(Issue date: 24 May 2010)
- Nanotech breath sensor detects diabetes and potentially serious complication
Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of a sensor that can instantly tell whether someone has Type I diabetes. It could also be used by emergency room doctors to determine whether a patient has developed...
(Issue date: 24 May 2010)
- Prestigious design honour for student's sugar-coated medicine idea
Andrew Coghill, a third year undergraduate in Product Design at the University of Plymouth, received the Aircraft Medical Award for his innovative ideas on how to make the awkward process of taking tablets and medicine a little...
(Issue date: 24 May 2010)
- More support for patients to plan end of life care
Patients must be given the opportunity in advance to discuss what treatment and care they want towards the end of life, according to new guidance from the UK General Medical Council.
For the first time, the GMC has given doctors...
(Issue date: 24 May 2010)
- FDA approves SonarMed's Airway Monitoring System (AMS)
SonarMed, a developer and manufacturer of critical care respiratory monitoring technologies, has received Food and Drug Administration clearance for its patented SonarMed™ Airway Monitoring System (AMS), which monitors breathing...
(Issue date: 18 May 2010)
- Yale spins out medical device company
Yale University has spun out a medical device company to commercialize a new device for the rapidly growing field of minimally invasive abdominal surgery.
(Issue date: 18 May 2010)
- Sequenom restarts Down syndrome test, raises $51 million
Sequenom said it has raised about $51.6 million through a private placement, alleviating investor concerns about the genetic analysis products maker's ability to raise much-needed funding.
(Issue date: 18 May 2010)
- New method can tell active from latent TB
An emerging technique designed to quickly distinguish between people with active and dormant tuberculosis may help health professionals diagnose the disease sooner, thereby potentially limiting early exposure to the disease,...
(Issue date: 18 May 2010)
- Climate changes for medical devices
Health-care overhaul promotes testing of ways to give hospitals more clout over prices.
(Issue date: 18 May 2010)
- Muscle mass in elderly boosted by combining resistance exercise and blood flow restriction
For years, researchers have known that resistance exercise training –such as weightlifting, in which muscles work against gravity or another force — can be one of the most effective ways to fight the debilitating muscle loss...
(Issue date: 18 May 2010)
