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Dual breast exam using MRI and NIRST more accurate than MRI alone

By combining two modalities of imaging, investigators from Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth, led by Keith Paulsen, PhD with first author Michael Mastanduno and collaborators from Xijing Hospital in Xian, China, demonstrated that a dual breast exam using MRI and Near Infrared Spectral Tomography (NIRST) is feasible and more accurate than MRI alone.

10 Jul 2015

Connexient, RWJUH announce public launch of MediNav Navigator Edition 2.0

Connexient and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital announced this week the public launch of MediNav Navigator Edition 2.0. This makes RWJUH the first hospital in North America to deliver for its patients, visitors and staff the world's first true turn-by-turn indoor navigation smartphone application, with reliable indoor positioning accuracy of one to two meters.

10 Jul 2015

Virginia Tech researchers develop new scoring method for assessing overall beverage intake quality

Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new scoring method for assessing beverage intake, the Healthy Beverage Index (HBI). In a report published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics they describe how this tool can be used to more accurately evaluate dietary consumption of all types of fluids.

10 Jul 2015

High-frequency tympanometry testing can help identify middle-ear problems in newborn babies

Screening newborn babies who are in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) using a testing process called high-frequency tympanometry can help identify middle-ear problems earlier, according to newly published research from a local team of researchers.

10 Jul 2015

Derby Teaching Hospitals implements Welch Allyn’s FlexiPort blood pressure cuff system

Caring staff at Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, currently featuring in a new ITV hospital documentary ‘Superhospital’ have been demonstrating their star qualities to an audience of millions.

10 Jul 2015

UA researchers awarded NIH grant to develop software that lets doctors analyze digitized biomedical data

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.3 million grant to researchers at the University of Arizona to develop open-source software that will enable health care professionals and scientists to manage biomedical big data in digital form.

10 Jul 2015

New screening program using CT scan technology can help better detect lung cancer in smokers

Long-time smokers and past smokers now have a more accurate way of detecting whether or not they have lung cancer thanks to a comprehensive lung cancer screening program that uses CT scan technology at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City.

10 Jul 2015

Elsevier, NCI implement two-way linking between research articles on ScienceDirect and datasets in caNanoLab

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the US National Cancer Institute, a world-leading institute for cancer research, today announced that they have implemented two-way linking between research articles on ScienceDirect and datasets stored in NCI's cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory (caNanoLab) data portal.

9 Jul 2015

Silicone ankle sleeves and lace-up ankle braces can improve neuromuscular control among athletes

An athlete's use of silicone ankle sleeves (SAS) and lace-up ankle braces (LAB) during sports participation can improve neuromuscular control, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.

9 Jul 2015

Design4Health conference to demonstrate innovative approaches to global healthcare issues

A 3D-printable prosthetic foot, a low cost tool to help prevent the spread of Ebola and tartan designed by people with Alzheimer’s disease are just some of the projects on show at a conference looking at innovative new approaches to global healthcare issues.

From Sheffield Hallam University 9 Jul 2015

Graphene coating can help boost chemotherapy treatment

Silver is often used as a coating on medical equipment used for chemotherapy. The problem is that this silver coating can break down drugs. Now, researchers have found a graphene coating that will help boost chemotherapy's effects.

9 Jul 2015

New nanometer catalyst filter removes 100% of particle substances of cigarette smoke

The research team led by Dr. Jongsoo Jurng and Dr. Gwi-Nam at KIST stated that, "In cooperation with KT&G, KIST has developed a nano-catalyst filter coated with a manganese oxide-based nano-catalyst, which can be used in a smoking room to reduce and purify major harmful substances of cigarette smoke.

9 Jul 2015

OMNOVA Solutions Increases prices on all styrene butadiene latex products marketed in Americas

In a continuing effort to build a more sustainable business, OMNOVA Solutions today announced a price increase of up to $0.05/wet lb. ($0.10/dry lb.) on all styrene butadiene latex products to all served markets in the Americas.

9 Jul 2015

Researchers develop new approach for better integrating medical devices with biological systems

Researchers have developed a new approach for better integrating medical devices with biological systems. The researchers, led by Bozhi Tian, assistant professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago, have developed the first skeleton-like silicon spicules ever prepared via chemical processes.

9 Jul 2015

Scientists detail how stereomicroscopy can help in assessing issues within gastrointestinal tract

A technology whose roots date to the 1800s has the potential to offer an extraordinary new advantage to modern-day medicine.

9 Jul 2015

Simple blood test could detect early stages of type 1 diabetes

Scientists at the MRC's Clinical Sciences Centre in West London are the first to show that a small molecule circulates in the blood of people who are in the early stages of type 1 diabetes. A simple blood test could detect this biological marker years, maybe decades, before symptoms develop.

9 Jul 2015

U-M researchers develop first-ever 3D model to help study treatment for pelvic organ prolapse

It's a mysterious condition often linked to childbirth that causes distress and discomfort and requires surgery for more than 200,000 women a year - but there's no good way to study it. Now, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed the first-ever 3D complete computer model to help study treatment for pelvic organ prolapse, a weakening of muscles and ligaments that causes organs like the bladder to drop from their normal place. For many women, the condition causes urinary problems, painful intercourse and uncomfortable pressure.

9 Jul 2015

ImmunID announces publication of clinical study data on ImmunTraCkeR assay in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

ImmunID today announced the publication of a short report in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer showing that the analysis of peripheral T cell receptor diversity using the company's ImmunTraCkeR assay is associated with clinical outcomes following Ipilimumab treatment in metastatic melanoma.

8 Jul 2015

Amedica receives FDA feedback on proposed wear testing femoral head protocols

Amedica Corporation, a company that develops and commercializes silicon nitride ceramics as a biomaterial platform, today announced that responses to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration inquiries regarding the Company’s cervical composite silicon nitride interbody device were submitted to the FDA on June 30, 2015.

8 Jul 2015

Avita Medical donates ReCell devices, sends experienced personnel to help treat burn victims in Taiwan

Avita Medical Ltd., a regenerative medicine company specializing in the treatment of wounds and skin defects, has donated a number of free ReCell devices and sent personnel experienced in burn treatment to provide any support requested by authorities in Taiwan, where hundreds of people have been left seriously burned in a mass casualty event at a waterpark.

8 Jul 2015

Device / Technology News

Dual breast exam using MRI and NIRST more accurate than MRI alone

Connexient, RWJUH announce public launch of MediNav Navigator Edition 2.0

Virginia Tech researchers develop new scoring method for assessing overall beverage intake quality

High-frequency tympanometry testing can help identify middle-ear problems in newborn babies

Derby Teaching Hospitals implements Welch Allyn’s FlexiPort blood pressure cuff system

UA researchers awarded NIH grant to develop software that lets doctors analyze digitized biomedical data

New screening program using CT scan technology can help better detect lung cancer in smokers

Elsevier, NCI implement two-way linking between research articles on ScienceDirect and datasets in caNanoLab

Silicone ankle sleeves and lace-up ankle braces can improve neuromuscular control among athletes

Design4Health conference to demonstrate innovative approaches to global healthcare issues

Graphene coating can help boost chemotherapy treatment

New nanometer catalyst filter removes 100% of particle substances of cigarette smoke

OMNOVA Solutions Increases prices on all styrene butadiene latex products marketed in Americas

Researchers develop new approach for better integrating medical devices with biological systems

Scientists detail how stereomicroscopy can help in assessing issues within gastrointestinal tract

Simple blood test could detect early stages of type 1 diabetes

U-M researchers develop first-ever 3D model to help study treatment for pelvic organ prolapse

ImmunID announces publication of clinical study data on ImmunTraCkeR assay in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Amedica receives FDA feedback on proposed wear testing femoral head protocols

Avita Medical donates ReCell devices, sends experienced personnel to help treat burn victims in Taiwan

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