A physics professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology sees the use of terahertz rays as a critical technology in the defense against suicide bombers and other terrorist activities.

Cancer doctors have a hard time estimating how long their terminal cancer patients will live, which often leads to inappropriate use of palliative treatments in the waning days of life, hints a new study from Germany.

New research findings from Purdue University suggest that an experimental ultrasensitive medical imaging technique that uses a pulsed laser and tiny metallic "nanocages" might enable both the early detection and treatment of...

Nearly one in ten primary care physicians in the United States has experienced a conflict with a religiously-affiliated hospital or practice over religious policies for patient care, researchers from the University of Chicago...

Researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new assessment tool to measure the severity of symptoms that can complicate stem cell transplantation. The tool assesses symptoms resulting...

We are in need of a social security fund on a global scale. That is what scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM) argue. Such a ‘Global Fund for Health’ would make the use of international donor money a lot...

Researchers at Glyndŵr University have developed technology for producing a portable device for sterilising medical equipment – using a £40 microwave oven. The everyday kitchen device has been used to deliver a low cost,...

A new report from critical care experts at Johns Hopkins shows that use of prescription sedatives goes down by half so that mild exercise programs can be introduced to the care of critically ill patients in the intensive care...

How do we handle the ethical dilemmas of research on adults who can’t give their informed consent? In a recent article the ethicist Stefan Eriksson proposes a new approach to the dilemma of including dementia patients and others...

For every woman over-diagnosed by breast screening, two deaths will be prevented, according to scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. Following controversial debates in recent months over the risks and harms of screening...

A new technique for revealing images of hidden objects may one day allow pilots to peer through fog and doctors to see more precisely into the human body without surgery. Developed by Princeton engineers, the method relies on the...

Reduced or no "padding" during ECG-triggered coronary CT angiography (CTA) results in a substantial reduction in radiation dose without affecting image quality and interpretability, according to a study. ECG-triggered coronary...

For a patient with heart failure, checking whether the heart could benefit from bypass surgery or a stent is critical to ensuring survival. One imaging technique, positron emission tomography (PET) with the imaging agent...

For almost two years, molecular biologist Bénédicte Trouiller doused the drinking water of scores of lab mice with nano-titanium dioxide, the most common nanomaterial used in consumer products today.

The Food & Drug Administration declines to expedite its review of Boston Scientific Corp.'s implantable defibrillator manufacturing operations, after the firm was forced to pull all the products earlier this month.

As medical device manufacturers seek to fend off the implementation of a new tax contained in the national health reform law enacted Tuesday, advocates for the recycling of such devices say the new tax could give the reprocessing...

Urgent warnings by government experts about the risks of routinely using powerful CT scans to screen patients for colon cancer were brushed aside by the Food and Drug Administration, according to agency documents and interviews...

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to successful bone implants: how to grow new bones in the anatomical shape of the original.

X-rays fail to spot up to nearly a third of fractures in the bones of the hip and pelvis, research suggests. US doctors from Duke University warn that relying on standard X-rays alone to give a clean bill of health could lead to...

New research conducted by Big Brother Watch reveals that there are at least 100,000 non-medical personnel in UK’s NHS Trusts across the country with access to confidential medical records

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