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Wayne State receives U.S. patent allowance for vision restoration technology

Technology to restore vision through the use of a component of green algae developed by Dr. Zhou-Han Pan, professor and scientific director of the Ligon Research Center of Vision at the Kresge Eye Institute at Wayne State University, and licensed to RetroSense Therapeutics, a biotechnology company dedicated to developing gene therapy approaches to vision restoration, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S. patent application (No. 12/299,574).

6 Mar 2013

Survey reveals user satisfaction ratings for electronic health records decreased since 2010

Survey results released today indicate that satisfaction and usability ratings for certified electronic health records have decreased since 2010 among clinicians across a range of indicators.

6 Mar 2013

Human Connectome Project releases brain imaging and behavioral data to scientific community

The Human Connectome Project, a five-year endeavor to link brain connectivity to human behavior, has released a set of high-quality imaging and behavioral data to the scientific community. The project has two major goals: to collect vast amounts of data using advanced brain imaging methods on a large population of healthy adults, and to make the data freely available so that scientists worldwide can make further discoveries about brain circuitry.

6 Mar 2013

Screening healthy adults could potentially prevent rare genetic disorders

Millions of people unknowingly carry rare gene mutations that put them at high risk of developing preventable diseases such as colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and several catastrophic blood vessel disorders.

6 Mar 2013

New tool can help determine senior citizens' 10-year survivability rates

A UC San Francisco team has developed a tool that can help determine - and perhaps influence - senior citizens' 10-year survivability rates.

6 Mar 2013

New NIH collaborative initiative aims to accelerate search for biomarkers in Parkinson's

Last month, the National Institutes of Health announced a new collaborative initiative that aims to accelerate the search for biomarkers -- changes in the body that can be used to predict, diagnose or monitor a disease -- in Parkinson's disease, in part by improving collaboration among researchers and helping patients get involved in clinical studies.

6 Mar 2013

Metamaterial would enable ultrasound to produce high-quality images

Ultrasound technology could soon experience a significant upgrade that would enable it to produce high-quality, high-resolution images, thanks to the development of a new key material by a team of researchers that includes a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University.

6 Mar 2013

Inventors from 3 leading universities receive $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Nikolai Begg grew up in a box of LEGO- bricks and hasn't stopped tinkering since. Today he is an accomplished inventor with a portfolio of novel medical devices. Begg is the recipient of the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his inventions that are making surgical procedures less invasive.

6 Mar 2013

Two novel radiolabeled small molecules can help detect prostate cancer

Two novel radiolabeled small molecules targeting prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) have excellent potential for further development as diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, according to research published this month in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

6 Mar 2013

Study distinguishes MRI from other techniques to assess myocardial viability

Researchers using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) discovered that thinned non-contracting heart muscle caused by a heart attack can potentially improve in function and be reversed after cardiac bypass surgery.

6 Mar 2013

Two asthma medications combined in one inhaler more effective than recommended treatment

Two large randomised trials published to coincide with the launch of The Lancet Respiratory Medicine provide compelling new evidence that using two types of common asthma medications combined in one inhaler for both preventive and rescue treatment (Single inhaler Maintenance and Reliever Therapy; SMART) is more effective at reducing attacks than guideline-based treatment in adults whose asthma is not well controlled, and is safe and well tolerated.

5 Mar 2013

Continuous dyskinesia monitoring technology for Parkinson’s to be developed by Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies

Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies (GLNT) announced today that they are launching commercialization and clinical studies to validate a system for objective, continuous monitoring of dyskinesias associated with Parkinson’s disease.

5 Mar 2013

Study confirms rapid effectiveness of temporary, nonsurgical alternative to LASIK

A contact lens technique called overnight orthokeratology (OK) brings rapid improvement in vision for nearsighted patients. Now a new study shows that OK treatment works mainly by flattening the front of the cornea, reports a recent study, "Posterior Corneal Shape Changes in Myopic Overnight Orthokeratology", appearing in the March issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

5 Mar 2013

Much anticipation surrounds push to bring more transparency to medicine

After years of anticipation, all of the nation's drug and medical device makers must soon begin publicly reporting payments they make to U.S. physicians, according to final regulations announced this afternoon by the federal government.

5 Mar 2013

New initiative aims to increase access to Jadelle reversible contraceptive

Writing in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, Gary Darmstadt, head of the Family Health Division of the foundation, examines the Jadelle Access Program, announced last week, which aims to "reduce the price of Jadelle and make this effective, long-acting, reversible contraceptive more available to more than 27 million women in the world's poorest countries."

5 Mar 2013

FES cycling associated with improvements in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury

A new study by Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury finds that long-term lower extremity functional electrical stimulation (FES) cycling, as part of a rehabilitation regimen, is associated with substantial improvements in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI).

5 Mar 2013

Eisai, DSM sign 3 year master supply agreement for production of sterile products

DSM Pharmaceutical Products, the custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, today announced the signing of a 3 year master supply agreement with Eisai Inc., based in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA, for the production of sterile products.

5 Mar 2013

AAP, ACMG release guidelines on best practices for genetic testing and screening of children

For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) spoke with one voice and released a set of recommendations and guidelines on best practices for genetic testing and screening of children.

5 Mar 2013

New tool can accurately forecast malaria epidemics in northwestern India

Sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean can be used to accurately forecast, by up to four months, malaria epidemics thousands of miles away in northwestern India, a University of Michigan theoretical ecologist and her colleagues have found.

5 Mar 2013

Scientists discover how to detect abnormal brain rhythms associated with Parkinson's

A team of scientists and clinicians at UC San Francisco has discovered how to detect abnormal brain rhythms associated with Parkinson's by implanting electrodes within the brains of people with the disease.

5 Mar 2013

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Wayne State receives U.S. patent allowance for vision restoration technology

Survey reveals user satisfaction ratings for electronic health records decreased since 2010

Human Connectome Project releases brain imaging and behavioral data to scientific community

Screening healthy adults could potentially prevent rare genetic disorders

New tool can help determine senior citizens' 10-year survivability rates

New NIH collaborative initiative aims to accelerate search for biomarkers in Parkinson's

Metamaterial would enable ultrasound to produce high-quality images

Inventors from 3 leading universities receive $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Two novel radiolabeled small molecules can help detect prostate cancer

Study distinguishes MRI from other techniques to assess myocardial viability

Two asthma medications combined in one inhaler more effective than recommended treatment

Continuous dyskinesia monitoring technology for Parkinson’s to be developed by Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies

Study confirms rapid effectiveness of temporary, nonsurgical alternative to LASIK

Much anticipation surrounds push to bring more transparency to medicine

New initiative aims to increase access to Jadelle reversible contraceptive

FES cycling associated with improvements in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury

Eisai, DSM sign 3 year master supply agreement for production of sterile products

AAP, ACMG release guidelines on best practices for genetic testing and screening of children

New tool can accurately forecast malaria epidemics in northwestern India

Scientists discover how to detect abnormal brain rhythms associated with Parkinson's

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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