Researchers at King's College London have developed a new method for helping detect congenital heart disease of a baby in pregnant mothers using MRI. Existing in-utero approaches are compromised by fetal motion, but the novel ...
Oct 5, 2020
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Each year, approximately 2,000 people die annually of gallbladder cancer (GBC) in the U.S., with only one in five cases diagnosed at an early stage. With GBC rated as the first biliary tract cancer and the 17th most deadly ...
Mar 5, 2024
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Up to 40% of older surgery patients develop postoperative delirium, a syndrome of confusion that typically occurs in the first few days after surgery. Postoperative delirium is associated with longer hospitalizations, significant ...
Sep 28, 2023
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An estimated 295 million people suffer from visual impairment globally. Around 43 million of those people are living with blindness. While not every form of blindness can be cured, recent scientific breakthroughs have uncovered ...
May 12, 2023
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Today's telemedicine providers are only scratching the surface of what's possible in providing high-quality health care to people who need it most—and especially to older adults who benefit greatly from its accessibility, ...
Nov 7, 2022
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In the surgical treatment of cancer, distinguishing between tumors and healthy tissues is critical. Fluorescent markers can help to do this, by enhancing the contrast of tumors during surgery. Some markers show a phenomenon ...
Oct 11, 2022
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Academics in City's giCentre, Professor Jason Dykes, Professor Jo Wood, Dr. Aidan Slingby and Dr. Radu Jianu, have co-authored a research paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A revealing some ...
Sep 26, 2022
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Researchers from the Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGIN) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that while many child neurology visits can be effectively conducted through telemedicine, younger children ...
May 24, 2022
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Aled Edwards is of two minds about medicine's response to COVID-19.
Mar 11, 2022
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For the first time, a team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has integrated the dark-field X-ray method into a CT scanner suitable for clinical use. Dark-field imaging provides additional information ...
Feb 8, 2022
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