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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

MSHS introduces online patient experience star ratings for its physicians

Mount Sinai Health System today began posting patient experience ratings for its doctors, becoming the largest academic health system in New York City to do so.

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

Researchers develop MRI-based method that can track progression of genetically mutated gliomas

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have developed an MRI-based method that can track the state and progression of a common type of genetically mutated brain cancer.

17 Oct 2016

Researchers discover brain signature that may help identify fibromyalgia patients

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered a brain signature that identifies fibromyalgia sufferers with 93 percent accuracy, a potential breakthrough for future clinical diagnosis and treatment of the highly prevalent condition.

17 Oct 2016

Researchers develop new technique that measures speed of rotating semen

The maths of collective behaviour has provided a new technique for selecting the best semen for artificial insemination in livestock.

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

New imaging method helps observe activation of neural circuits in the brain

Watching millions of neurons in the brain interacting with each other is the ultimate dream of neuroscientists! A new imaging method now makes it possible to observe the activation of large neural circuits, currently up to the size of a small-animal brain, in real time and three dimensions.

14 Oct 2016

New global Human Cell Atlas initiative could revolutionise diagnosis and treatment

An ambitious global initiative to create a Human Cell Atlas - a description of every cell in the human body as a reference map to accelerate progress in biomedical science - is being discussed at an International meeting in London this week.

14 Oct 2016

UPV participates in Lumiblast project to develop novel treatments for hard-to-treat brain tumours

The Polytechnic University of Valencia is taking part in Lumiblast, a European project to develop an innovative approach to hard-to-treat brain tumours like glioblastomas.

14 Oct 2016

Swedish researchers develop new, low-cost method to examine individual leukemia cells

Leukemia is a disease in which each cell can exhibit different genetic traits, and now Swedish researchers have found a cheap way to examine the individual cells. Reported in Nature Communications, the breakthrough could transform leukemia treatment.

14 Oct 2016

CTA tests motivate people with suspected coronary artery disease to adopt healthier lifestyle practices

UCLA researchers have found that undergoing a computer tomographic angiography was a better motivator to get people with suspected coronary artery disease to adopt healthier lifestyle practices than an exercise electrocardiography and stress test.

14 Oct 2016

Mental health researchers make promising breakthrough in early detection of psychosis

Mental health researchers have made a promising breakthrough in the early detection of the risk of psychosis, with the eventual hope that patients could be given appropriate treatments earlier to prevent psychotic episodes from occurring.

14 Oct 2016

Negative pressure wound therapy effectively heals deep perivascular groin infections

Shorter wound healing time, fewer dressing changes and the opportunity for earlier discharge from the hospital.

14 Oct 2016

Clinical Genomics’ blood test detects twice the number of colorectal cancer recurrence cases than CEA testing

Clinical Genomics, a private company developing innovative diagnostic tools for colorectal cancer, today announced that data supporting its two-gene circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) blood test for post-surgical monitoring of colorectal cancer (CRC) recurrence have been published online by Cancer Medicine, and will appear in the October issue.

14 Oct 2016

Fortimedix Surgical completes €11M funding round to support launch of world’s first single-port surgery solution

Fortimedix Surgical today announced the completion of an €11M Series A funding round.

14 Oct 2016

Science Museum acquires first 3D printed models for new Medicine Galleries

The Science Museum has acquired the first 3D printed models used by surgeons to plan a complex paediatric kidney transplant.

14 Oct 2016

Device / Technology News

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

MSHS introduces online patient experience star ratings for its physicians

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

Researchers develop MRI-based method that can track progression of genetically mutated gliomas

Researchers discover brain signature that may help identify fibromyalgia patients

Researchers develop new technique that measures speed of rotating semen

Scientists develop software package to predict chemical properties of molecules

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

New imaging method helps observe activation of neural circuits in the brain

New global Human Cell Atlas initiative could revolutionise diagnosis and treatment

UPV participates in Lumiblast project to develop novel treatments for hard-to-treat brain tumours

Swedish researchers develop new, low-cost method to examine individual leukemia cells

CTA tests motivate people with suspected coronary artery disease to adopt healthier lifestyle practices

Mental health researchers make promising breakthrough in early detection of psychosis

Negative pressure wound therapy effectively heals deep perivascular groin infections

Clinical Genomics’ blood test detects twice the number of colorectal cancer recurrence cases than CEA testing

Fortimedix Surgical completes €11M funding round to support launch of world’s first single-port surgery solution

Science Museum acquires first 3D printed models for new Medicine Galleries

Exploring the nanoscale: How AFM is transforming cosmetic science

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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