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Adding higher frequencies to standard protocol improves detection of hearing loss in adolescents

Adding higher frequencies to the American Academy of Pediatrics hearing test protocol helps detect adolescent hearing loss, according to a team of pediatricians and audiologists.

21 Nov 2016

Study finds way to increase liver cancer screening rates among at-risk cirrhosis patients

Proactive outreach to cirrhosis patients in a safety net health system successfully doubled their screening rates for liver cancer, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found.

18 Nov 2016

Increased sensitivity to uncertain threat common to several anxiety disorders

Several anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and specific phobias, share a common underlying trait: increased sensitivity to uncertain threat, or fear of the unknown, report researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

18 Nov 2016

Novel technology could speed up diagnosis and improve monitoring of COPD

This technology is now being taken forward commercially through the recently formed spin-out company PulmonIR Ltd.

17 Nov 2016

Getting drugs to bugs in NTM lung infections: an interview with Dr Jakko van Ingen

The first thing that is important to stress is that this is an area that we actually know very little about. What we generally think, rather than know, is that NTM has a lot in common with pulmonary tuberculosis.

17 Nov 2016

Teen stalking victims more likely to engage in risky behaviors, study finds

Stalking is a widely recognized public health concern, yet little information is available about stalking behaviors among teenage victims.

17 Nov 2016

How toxic is your stress?

The term “stress” originates not in our minds or bodies, but from physics. It is the internal forces generated in an object in response to an external load. In the 1950s, Hans Selye adopted the term to characterize how living organisms change...

16 Nov 2016

Consuming violent and sexual media before sleep may highly influence dreams at night

The violent and sexual media you consume during the day may infiltrate your dreams at night, new research suggests.

15 Nov 2016

Richard Wolf to showcase new system solutions for minimally invasive human medicine at MEDICA 2016

Richard Wolf GmbH is presenting its new system solutions for minimally invasive human medicine at the International Trade Fair for Medical Technology – MEDICA 2016, November 14-17, 2016 – at the newly designed exhibition booth under the motto “feel the spirit of excellence”.

14 Nov 2016

New guidelines recommend use of antiplatelet therapy and exercise program for treatment of PAD

New guidelines for the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD), include recommendations on the use of antiplatelet therapy to reduce the risk of blood clots and statin drugs to lower cholesterol and advise PAD patients to participate in a structured exercise program.

13 Nov 2016

New wearable medical device may reduce visceral fat, improve blood glucose in diabetes patients

Although effective for the treatment of diabetes, exercise is sometimes difficult for overweight or elderly people.

11 Nov 2016

Researchers compare how neuronal activity differs in conscious and anesthetized mice

Establishing how the brain produces consciousness is one of the most challenging research questions in the field of neuroscience.

11 Nov 2016

New guidelines offer way for parents to introduce peanut-containing foods to reduce allergy risk

Parents may be confused with how and when to introduce peanut-containing foods to their infants.

11 Nov 2016

Smartphones have potential to transform data collection in rural areas, study shows

The use of smartphones enhances self-reporting of weather incidents, school attendance, illness, and other aspects of daily life in rural areas, a team of researchers has found.

10 Nov 2016

Six pioneering French companies to exhibit in innovation zone at Medica 2016

In a global market worth almost €200 billion (around £173 billion) a year, the medical devices and in vitro diagnostics sector is particularly innovative in France. Across the Channel, the sector is comprised of over a thousand companies, employing almost 65,000 people with expertise encompassing medicine, mechanics, material physics and digital technologies.

10 Nov 2016

Study shows many indoor tanning facilities comply with Texas under-18 ban

When female employees of a mystery shopping firm called posing as 17-year-olds interested in tanning, 81 percent of indoor tanning facilities complied with the Texas ban on indoor tanning for those under the age of 18 in a study conducted by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

10 Nov 2016

TTUHSC El Paso investigators receive $1.8 million grant to support digestive disorder research

Co-principal investigators Richard McCallum, M.D., and Irene Sarosiek, M.D., have received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

10 Nov 2016

Higher sugar-sweetened beverage intake, not diet soda linked to risk of developing prediabetes

Adult Americans who regularly consumed sugar-sweetened beverages (roughly one can of soda per day) had a 46 percent higher risk of developing prediabetes compared to low- or non-consumers over a 14-year period, according to a new epidemiological analysis led by scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University.

9 Nov 2016

Single gene therapy for lipoprotein lipase deficiency reduces severity and frequency of pancreatitis

Over a 6-year period, patients with the genetic disease lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD) who received a single gene therapy treatment of alipogene tiparvovec had a marked reduction in the severity and frequency of pancreatitis.

8 Nov 2016

Study examines link between vaping and subsequent heavy cigarette smoking among adolescents

In a study appearing in the November 8 issue of JAMA, Adam M. Leventhal, Ph.D., of the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, and colleagues examined associations of e-cigarette vaping with subsequent smoking frequency and heavy smoking among adolescents.

8 Nov 2016

Frequency News and Research

Adding higher frequencies to standard protocol improves detection of hearing loss in adolescents

Study finds way to increase liver cancer screening rates among at-risk cirrhosis patients

Increased sensitivity to uncertain threat common to several anxiety disorders

Novel technology could speed up diagnosis and improve monitoring of COPD

Getting drugs to bugs in NTM lung infections: an interview with Dr Jakko van Ingen

Teen stalking victims more likely to engage in risky behaviors, study finds

How toxic is your stress?

Consuming violent and sexual media before sleep may highly influence dreams at night

Richard Wolf to showcase new system solutions for minimally invasive human medicine at MEDICA 2016

New guidelines recommend use of antiplatelet therapy and exercise program for treatment of PAD

New wearable medical device may reduce visceral fat, improve blood glucose in diabetes patients

Researchers compare how neuronal activity differs in conscious and anesthetized mice

New guidelines offer way for parents to introduce peanut-containing foods to reduce allergy risk

Smartphones have potential to transform data collection in rural areas, study shows

Six pioneering French companies to exhibit in innovation zone at Medica 2016

Study shows many indoor tanning facilities comply with Texas under-18 ban

TTUHSC El Paso investigators receive $1.8 million grant to support digestive disorder research

Higher sugar-sweetened beverage intake, not diet soda linked to risk of developing prediabetes

Single gene therapy for lipoprotein lipase deficiency reduces severity and frequency of pancreatitis

Study examines link between vaping and subsequent heavy cigarette smoking among adolescents

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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