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Prashant Mahajan awarded $5.76 million grant to study how febrile infants can avoid invasive procedures

Prashant Mahajan, M.D., professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Wayne State University and Children's Hospital of Michigan, has been awarded a five-year, $5.76 million grant (1R01HD085233) by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health.

23 Sep 2015

Donor and patient age more important in determining kidney transplant success

Infection by virus cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common and major complication following kidney transplantation. Previous studies have related CMV infection with increased kidney transplant failure and reduced patient survival. However, a new study published in the American Journal of Physiology—Renal Physiology reports that the age of the donor and the recipient, not CMV infection, are more important factors in determining transplant success.

22 Sep 2015

Codman Neuro develops new MRI-resistant programmable valve for treatment of hydrocephalus

Codman Neuro* has developed a new MRI-resistant programmable valve with eight different pressure settings, including a ‘virtual off’ setting, for the treatment of hydrocephalus, a neurological condition that affects more than one million children and adults in the United States.

22 Sep 2015

Novel study provides new information on acute effects of TBI on cognition

Researchers published results of a novel study of the functional activation patterns of working memory after mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study, the first to enroll subjects during their initial evaluation in the emergency room, provides new information on the acute effects of TBI on cognition.

22 Sep 2015

Researchers develop biophysical treatment method for dialysis patients

Researchers at Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin have developed a biophysical treatment method that allows up to 50 percent more toxins to be removed from the blood of dialysis patients. Use of this technology may result in patients with kidney disease seeing a considerable reduction in the length of dialysis sessions. An initial patent application for this technology was filed in 2011.

21 Sep 2015

Researchers developing dynamic spine brace for children with scoliosis

Some six million people in the U.S. suffer from scoliosis, a sideways curvature of the spine. These include approximately 2 to 3% of adolescents who are diagnosed each year with idiopathic scoliosis, which is usually identified during puberty and progresses until skeletal maturity.

18 Sep 2015

Obese patients with type 2 diabetes should be prioritised for obesity surgery over those without diabetes

New research published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology suggests that, when considering overall costs of healthcare, obese patients with type 2 diabetes, especially those with recent disease onset, should be prioritised for obesity surgery over those without type 2 diabetes, since many patients see a reversal of diabetes after surgery and thus need fewer expensive diabetes medications or treatment for complications in future.

18 Sep 2015

New optimising ChIP sequencing library preparation guide

Chromatrap®, a business unit of Porvair Sciences, has produced an informative new guide entitled ‘Top 10 Tips for ChIP-seq Library Preparation'.

From Chromatrap® - Porvair Sciences Ltd 18 Sep 2015

Specific biomarker predicts which HER2-negative breast cancer patients respond to targeted therapy

A multicenter team led by Case Western Reserve has demonstrated that brief exposure to a targeted therapy can tell doctors which HER2-negative patients will respond — and which should switch to another kind of treatment.

18 Sep 2015

Technology enabling fewer invasive cardiac procedures benefits Glasgow children

Clinicians at Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children are now able to scan patients’ hearts in just one heartbeat thanks to the installation of GE Healthcare’s Revolution* CT. The technology’s ability to freeze the heart’s motion helps to produce high quality diagnostic images, even for patients with erratic or high heart rates which may have led to poor quality images in the past. This helps reduce the need for invasive examination procedures and allows for quick and confident diagnoses of heart disease.

17 Sep 2015

Sphere Medical publishes white paper on blood conservation in critical care

Sphere Medical, innovator in critical care monitoring and diagnostics equipment, has published a white paper exploring the issues in critical care around anaemia, transfusions and blood conservation. Entitled ‘Blood conservation with a patient dedicated arterial blood gas analyser’, the new white paper is available for download from Sphere’s online clinical resource centre.

16 Sep 2015

$Hip fracture patients have worse outcomes compared to hip replacement patients$

Hip fracture patients have worse outcomes compared to hip replacement patients

Many surgeons and physicians have assumed that patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture have a higher risk of death and major complications compared to patients undergoing an elective total hip replacement because patients having surgery for a hip fracture are older and have more chronic diseases than patients having an elective hip surgery.

16 Sep 2015

Fetuses with enlarged ventricles are not ideal candidates for fetal spina bifida surgery

Fetuses with enlarged ventricles--the fluid-filled cavities inside the brain--may be less likely than other fetuses to benefit from surgery in the womb to treat spina bifida, according to a study co-authored by researchers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco.

16 Sep 2015

Hitachi receives FDA 510(k) clearance to deliver new PROBEAT-V system to Rochester-based Mayo Clinic

Hitachi, Ltd. has announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for commercial supply of the new PROBEAT-V system, which it designed and developed for Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Treatments began in late June and the first patient treatment was completed in August 2015.

16 Sep 2015

Using integrated molecular pathology to manage incidental pancreatic cysts: an interview with Dr Ananya Das

Pancreatic cystic neoplasms, or PCNs, are a subset of all pancreatic cysts that are found on the pancreas. PCNs are neoplastic cysts that span a biological spectrum from benign to malignant.

15 Sep 2015

Experts present first comprehensive guide to using IV devices

More than a billion times a year, doctors and nurses insert tiny tubes into the veins of American hospital patients, so they can deliver lifesaving medicines, give fluids and nutrition, monitor key vital signs, and help patients with conditions ranging from cancer and pain to kidney failure and serious infections.

15 Sep 2015

Prenatal repair of myelomeningocele reduces need for CSF shunt within 12 months of life, shows MOMS data

Management of Myelomeningocele Study (MOMS) investigators analyzed updated data on the effects of prenatal myelomeningocele closure on the need for placement of a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt within the first 12 months of life.

15 Sep 2015

Findings suggest link between cancer drug resistance and reactive oxygen species found in mitochondria

Increased levels of certain chemically reactive, oxygen-containing molecules in the body can cause patients to become resistant to cancer drugs such as chemotherapy, according to researchers at Georgia State University.

15 Sep 2015

Mitral valve disease patients enrolled in Harpoon’s Early Feasibility Study with 100% procedural success

Harpoon Medical, a medical device company focused on minimally-invasive, beating-heart, mitral valve repair, announced today that ten patients with severe degenerative mitral valve disease are now enrolled in its ongoing Early Feasibility Study at two clinical study sites in Europe.

15 Sep 2015

Ex-vivo lung perfusion technique can reduce risk of transplant rejection

University of Manchester researchers have used a new technique to recondition poorly functioning lungs and remove donor white blood cells in an attempt to increase the number of lungs available for transplant, and at the same time reduce the risk of acute rejection.

15 Sep 2015

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Prashant Mahajan awarded $5.76 million grant to study how febrile infants can avoid invasive procedures

Donor and patient age more important in determining kidney transplant success

Codman Neuro develops new MRI-resistant programmable valve for treatment of hydrocephalus

Novel study provides new information on acute effects of TBI on cognition

Researchers develop biophysical treatment method for dialysis patients

Researchers developing dynamic spine brace for children with scoliosis

Obese patients with type 2 diabetes should be prioritised for obesity surgery over those without diabetes

New optimising ChIP sequencing library preparation guide

Specific biomarker predicts which HER2-negative breast cancer patients respond to targeted therapy

Technology enabling fewer invasive cardiac procedures benefits Glasgow children

Sphere Medical publishes white paper on blood conservation in critical care

Hip fracture patients have worse outcomes compared to hip replacement patients

Fetuses with enlarged ventricles are not ideal candidates for fetal spina bifida surgery

Hitachi receives FDA 510(k) clearance to deliver new PROBEAT-V system to Rochester-based Mayo Clinic

Using integrated molecular pathology to manage incidental pancreatic cysts: an interview with Dr Ananya Das

Experts present first comprehensive guide to using IV devices

Prenatal repair of myelomeningocele reduces need for CSF shunt within 12 months of life, shows MOMS data

Findings suggest link between cancer drug resistance and reactive oxygen species found in mitochondria

Mitral valve disease patients enrolled in Harpoon’s Early Feasibility Study with 100% procedural success

Ex-vivo lung perfusion technique can reduce risk of transplant rejection

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