Archive: 18/12/2017
Radiosurgery or whole-brain radiation in patients with multiple brain metastases?
Although targeted therapies have produced dramatic advances in our ability to control some types of advanced lung cancer, growth of the disease in the brain remains a major problem. Radiation is often used to treat deposits ...
Dec 18, 2017
Making heart transplants obsolete with small removable pump
On this 50th anniversary of the first heart transplant, which occurred in December 1967, a University of Houston biomedical engineer is creating a next-generation heart pump for patients suffering with heart failure. Results ...
Dec 18, 2017
Tiny bilirubin-filled capsules could improve survival of transplanted pancreatic cells
By encapsulating bilirubin within tiny nanoparticles, researchers from North Carolina State University and the Ohio State University have improved the survival rates of pancreatic islet cells in vitro in a low-oxygen environment. ...
Dec 18, 2017