https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. An international team has created the first comprehensive reference measurements for blood vessel stiffness in healthy young people, a step that could give pediatric and adolescent clinics a multi-decade head start in spotting and treating cardiovascular disease risk. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-artery-stiffness-flag-heart-symptoms.html Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:40:28 EDT news676050024 While Blu-ray discs may not have found success supplanting DVDs in the home entertainment field, Blu-ray technology is an engineering feat enabling advances in medical imaging technologies at UConn. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-blood-cell-lens-enables-high-quality-imaging.html Wed, 25 May 2022 09:51:37 EDT news572691091 The diagnosis and treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting plasma cells, traditionally forces patients to suffer through a painful bone biopsy. During that procedure, doctors insert a bone-biopsy needle through an incision to get a bone marrow sample—or make a larger incision and remove a section of bone via surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-04-chip-based-blood-multiple-myeloma-bone.html Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:07:08 EDT news443362016 The federal government announced sweeping new rules Thursday for electronic cigarettes that will for the first time require the devices and their ingredients to be reviewed, a mandate that could offer protection for consumers and upend a multibillion dollar industry that has gone largely unregulated. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-05-fda-require-e-cigarettes-contents.html Fri, 06 May 2016 02:39:21 EDT news381721152 Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Dimitris Anastassiou, Charles Batchelor Professor in Electrical Engineering and member of the Columbia Initiative in Systems Biology, have developed a new computational model that is highly predictive of breast cancer survival. The team, who won the Sage Bionetworks / DREAM Breast Cancer Prognosis Challenge for this work, published their results—"Development of a Prognostic Model for Breast Cancer Survival in an Open Challenge Environment"—in the April 17 issue of Science Translational Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-breast-cancer-survival.html Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:00:09 EDT news285415459 Scientists at the University of Glasgow are working to harness the regenerative power of stem cells to improve orthopaedic implant surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-stem-cell-powered-implant-revolutionize-orthopedic.html Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:51:32 EDT news265877485 Scientists at the Universities of Glasgow and Southampton have uncovered a new method for culturing adult stem cells which could lead to the creation of revolutionary stem cell therapies for conditions such as arthritis, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-stem-cell-breakthrough-heralds-era.html Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:39:47 EDT news230200611