Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Cancer therapies show promise in combating tuberculosis
What could cancer teach us about tuberculosis? That's a question Meenal Datta has been chasing since she was a graduate student.
Mar 25, 2024
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News tagged with deliveries
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers find new techniques to repair lung tissue after damage from flu and COVID-19
In the human body, the lungs and their vasculature can be likened to a building with an intricate plumbing system. The lungs' blood vessels are the pipes essential for transporting blood and nutrients for oxygen delivery ...
Feb 1, 2024
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Biomedical technology
Wireless drug patch shows promise as chronic disease treatment delivery system
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists have created a new drug delivery system, called the Spatiotemporal On-Demand Patch (SOP), which can receive commands wirelessly from a smartphone or computer to schedule ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Overweight & Obesity
Study suggests link between higher prenatal PFAS exposures and offspring obesity risk in adolescence
A new Project Viva study demonstrates the impact of prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposures on children. The study, published in the December 6 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, observed a strong ...
Dec 8, 2023
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Neuroscience
Neurological research provides molecular insights into the blood–brain barrier
A team of researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Sun Yat-Sen University, and Stanford University, has revealed a comprehensive molecular atlas of the ...
Nov 30, 2023
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Cardiology
Drones enable the use of defibrillators before ambulance arrival, study shows
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have evaluated the possibility of alerting drones equipped with automated external defibrillators (AED) to patients with suspected cardiac arrest. In more than half of the cases, the drones ...
Nov 22, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Health care for millions of pregnant teenage girls is being neglected, reports study
The health care needs of pregnant adolescents will continue to be ignored in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) unless there are major changes to health care delivery and frameworks, according to a new study by UCL and ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Using focused ultrasound to treat Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
The Ultrasound and Elasticity Imaging Laboratory, led by Elisa Konofagou, Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering, develops novel, ultrasound-based techniques for both imaging and therapeutic applications.
Sep 13, 2023
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Biomedical technology
AI enabled soft robotic implant monitors scar tissue to self-adapt for personalized drug treatment
Researchers at University of Galway and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have pioneered a new, intelligent medical device which senses its environment and can adapt to release drugs as required, despite surrounding ...
Aug 30, 2023
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Medical economics
New study finds closing racial health disparity gap and addressing individual health are not mutually exclusive
Over the past decade, much of the U.S. health care industry has begun omitting race when predicting and diagnosing disease, thought of as a way of reducing health disparities and curbing systemic racism in health care.
Aug 22, 2023
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