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UAB investigators receive BRAIN Initiative award to study new DBS technology for Parkinson's disease

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a BRAIN Initiative grant of $7.3 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to study new technology that could improve outcomes from deep brain stimulation, an increasingly important treatment for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.

18 Oct 2016

Home non-invasive ventilation for COPD: an interview with Dr Holger Woehrle

The key symptom of COPD is breathlessness, especially during daily activity, and the breathlessness is in addition to cough and chest tightness. The difficulty in managing this disease is that it's a disease that progresses with age.

From ResMed Corp 18 Oct 2016

USAID funds partnership effort to locate and assess Zika cold spots in Guatemala

The Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, software company Dimagi, and Guatemalan NGO TulaSalud announced today that their partnership to locate and assess vulnerable areas in Guatemala to determine their level of risk for a Zika epidemic is being funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

18 Oct 2016

Porous acupuncture needles use nanotechnology to offer improved therapeutic properties

A DGIST research team led by Professor Su-Il In, who developed acupuncture needles combined with nanotechnology, was recognized as the world's first application of this technology.

18 Oct 2016

Technology motivates older people in nursing homes to exercise

Virtual Reality can get the elderly in nursing homes to be happier about exercising. A new research project from Aalborg University shows that the technology motivates older people in nursing homes to get moving.

18 Oct 2016

Wearable tattoo-based biosensor detects alcohol levels in perspiration

Engineers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering have developed a small monitoring device, worn on the skin, that detects alcohol levels in perspiration.

18 Oct 2016

New wearable device may help visually impaired patients to read and recognize faces

A unique wearable artificial vision device may help people who are legally blind "read" and recognize faces.

18 Oct 2016

Bluetooth technology improves adherence to cystic fibrosis medication, new study shows

According to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry, more than 70,000 people worldwide are suffering from the disease, with approximately 1,000 new cases diagnosed each year in the United States alone.

18 Oct 2016

New OU photothermal therapy may eliminate tumors without affecting healthy cells in the body

A staggering 1.7 million persons in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer in 2016, with 600,000 cases ending in death. University of Oklahoma researchers have collaborated to design a novel, non-invasive cancer therapy that could eliminate tumors without affecting the healthy cells in the body.

18 Oct 2016

Wireless activity tracker could help monitor patients' postoperative functional recovery

A new way for surgeons to know how well their patients are regaining physical function after a major abdominal operation could be as simple as patients wearing a fitness wristband to count their steps.

17 Oct 2016

Medovex announces successful demo of DenerveX System during EuroSpine 2016 in Berlin

Medovex Corp., a developer of medical technology products, today announced that the Company successfully exhibited its' DenerveX System during EuroSpine 2016 Tradeshow last week in Berlin, Germany.

17 Oct 2016

MILabs launches EXIRAD-3D quantitative autoradiography for fast imaging of tissue samples

EXIRAD-3D, MILabs’ new micron-resolution Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) technology, dedicated for imaging ex-vivo tissue samples is being launched by MILabs at the EANM congress in Barcelona.

17 Oct 2016

Cambridge Cognition announces new contracts for CANTAB Connect for HAL testing of investigational drugs

Cambridge Cognition today announced a series of new contracts for its cloud-based CANTAB Connect software platform for the Human Abuse Liability (HAL) testing of investigational drugs.

17 Oct 2016

How could emerging technologies impact cancer care?

The major innovations in cancer diagnosis, therapy/palliative care and surgical intervention are too numerous to list here. But enormous strides have taken place in stem cell therapy, monoclonal antibody therapy and genetic screening.

17 Oct 2016

Innovative new digital pathology network to benefit millions of patients

A pioneering digital histopathology partnership between Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals and Philips offering a groundbreaking solution to the growing demand for specialist histopathology services at a time when fewer pathologists are entering the profession has been launched.

17 Oct 2016

Hospital room design may be linked to patient safety, length of hospital stay

How a hospital room is designed may keep patients safer and healthier and shorten their hospital stay, a design researcher at Texas Tech University has found.

17 Oct 2016

Urgent Matters announces recipients of Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award

Urgent Matters, Philips Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Clinical Partners are pleased to announce the winners of the Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.

17 Oct 2016

Research shows how mitochondrial targeting antioxidants could help treat osteoarthritis

High cholesterol might harm more than our cardiovascular systems. New research using animal models, published online in The FASEB Journal, suggests that high cholesterol levels trigger mitochondrial oxidative stress on cartilage cells, causing them to die, and ultimately leading to the development of osteoarthritis.

17 Oct 2016

Scientists develop software package to predict chemical properties of molecules

Scientists from MIPT's Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases together with Inria research center, Grenoble, France have developed a software package called Knodle to determine an atom's hybridization, bond orders and functional groups' annotation in molecules.

17 Oct 2016

Mount Sinai researchers use OCT angiography to identify early stages of glaucoma

In a first of its kind study, Mount Sinai researchers are using optimal coherence tomography (OCT) angiography to look at the earliest stages of glaucoma and identify characteristic patterns of different forms of glaucoma based on their vascular patterns.

15 Oct 2016

Technology News and Research

UAB investigators receive BRAIN Initiative award to study new DBS technology for Parkinson's disease

Home non-invasive ventilation for COPD: an interview with Dr Holger Woehrle

USAID funds partnership effort to locate and assess Zika cold spots in Guatemala

Porous acupuncture needles use nanotechnology to offer improved therapeutic properties

Technology motivates older people in nursing homes to exercise

Wearable tattoo-based biosensor detects alcohol levels in perspiration

New wearable device may help visually impaired patients to read and recognize faces

Bluetooth technology improves adherence to cystic fibrosis medication, new study shows

New OU photothermal therapy may eliminate tumors without affecting healthy cells in the body

Wireless activity tracker could help monitor patients' postoperative functional recovery

Medovex announces successful demo of DenerveX System during EuroSpine 2016 in Berlin

MILabs launches EXIRAD-3D quantitative autoradiography for fast imaging of tissue samples

Cambridge Cognition announces new contracts for CANTAB Connect for HAL testing of investigational drugs

How could emerging technologies impact cancer care?

Innovative new digital pathology network to benefit millions of patients

Hospital room design may be linked to patient safety, length of hospital stay

Urgent Matters announces recipients of Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award

Research shows how mitochondrial targeting antioxidants could help treat osteoarthritis

Scientists develop software package to predict chemical properties of molecules

Mount Sinai researchers use OCT angiography to identify early stages of glaucoma

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