http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new listening device, developed by scientists from the University of Southampton, is being used to monitor the effectiveness of the treatment of kidney stones - saving patients unnecessary repeat therapy and x-ray monitoring. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-smart-stethoscope-advance-treatment-kidney.html Medical research Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:44:20 EST news274531445 Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) provides a quantitative basis for predicting the pulmonary airflow patterns that carry inhaled materials inside the body. This is not only potentially useful for establishing safer exposure limits to airborne pollutants but also for improving targeted drug delivery in patients with pulmonary disease. One prerequisite is that simulated predictions be thoroughly tested in a living organism, where respiratory airflows depend not only on airway shape and curvature but also on local lung mechanics and associated differences between health and disease.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-lung-imaging.html Medical research Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:20:01 EST news267875504 Among patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease, use of a method that applies computational fluid dynamics to derive certain data from computed tomographic (CT) angiography demonstrated improved diagnostic accuracy vs. CT angiography alone for the diagnosis of ischemia, according to a study being published online by JAMA. The study is being released early to coincide with its presentation at the European Society of Cardiology Congress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-diagnostic-potential-noninvasively-significant-coronary.html Cardiology Sun, 26 Aug 2012 04:30:01 EST news265172909 RMIT University researchers have developed computer models to design more effective nasal sprays to provide alternate drug delivery to needles or pills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-aids-nasal-drug-delivery.html Medications Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:52:32 EST news248691146 A preliminary report suggests that virtual nasal surgery has the potential to be a productive tool that may enable surgeons to perform personalized nasal surgery using computer simulation techniques, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the September print issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-virtual-surgery-personalized-treatment-nasal.html Other Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:25:09 EST news222362696