Pediatrics
Child car seat safety tip: Skip puffy winter coats
(HealthDay)—Puffy coats have their place, but it's not inside a car seat.
Jan 25, 2021
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Medical research
Fighting bacterial infection with drug-eluting medical devices
Medical practitioners routinely outfit patients with devices ranging from cardiovascular stents, pacemakers, catheters, and therapeutic lenses to orthopedic, breast, dental, and cochlear implants and prostheses. These accessories ...
Dec 5, 2019
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Pediatrics
It's cold. Put on a hat. Seriously.
It's a chorus repeated frequently by parents to their children during cold weather: "Where are your hat and gloves? Why don't you have your coat on and zipped up?"
Jan 30, 2019
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HIV & AIDS
Study discovers unique feature of HIV that helps to create antibodies
Wits researchers have played a pivotal role in an AIDS study published today in the journal, Nature Medicine, which describes how a unique change in the outer covering of the virus found in two HIV infected South African ...
Oct 22, 2012
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Cardiology
Battling myocardial infarction with drug-coated balloon catheters
In Germany, nearly 6 million people suffer from coronary heart disease. The disease is caused by calcium deposits which constrict the coronary arteries. Doctors generally use a stent to widen the narrow pathway. However, ...
Dec 1, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Time for docs to ditch the white coat?
(HealthDay)—Could a doctor's white coat or necktie help spread germs among patients?
Jan 21, 2014
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Health
The physician's white coat: Iconic and comforting or likely covered in germs?
A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has found that although the physicians' white coat is one of the most iconic symbols of the trade, whether or not ...
Aug 9, 2018
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Medical research
Biocompatible stents provide better protection against occluded blood vessels
Cardiovascular stents are special implants used to widen blood vessels that have become constricted as a result of calcium deposits. In some cases, the body's immune system can reject these implants in a process known as ...
Sep 2, 2019
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Biomedical technology
Innovative coating on medical devices fights bacterial infections
Georgios Sotiriou, principal researcher at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, and his colleagues have developed a durable coating for medical devices which is activated by light, providing on-demand disinfection.
Nov 2, 2022
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Medical research
Combined therapies increase treatment options for patients with chronic lung diseases
For tens of millions of patients who battle chronic lung diseases, present-day care options are mostly limited to short-term drug and oxygen therapy. Biomedical Engineering's Interim Department Head and Professor Keith Cook ...
Apr 21, 2021
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