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Study focuses on how older adults manage distress

A team of researchers from Keele University has found that it is uncommon for older adults to consult their GP during times of distress due to a lack of acceptable treatments.

26 May 2020

Researchers develop novel way of interpreting biological signals produced by skin conductance

Smart devices that measure electrical signals from your skin have the potential to tell you about your stress levels, help your sports performances and allow you to track your emotions.

26 May 2020

Study paves way to better understand the pathophysiology of schizophrenia

There is an extremely high probability that individuals with 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome - a rare genetic disorder - will develop schizophrenia together with one of its most common symptoms, auditory hallucinations.

26 May 2020

Methods to move precision medicine from evaluation into practice and policy

Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR - the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the publication of a series of articles focused on methods for moving from the evaluation of precision medicine into practice and policy.

26 May 2020

New AI tool could predict risk of lung cancer recurrence

Computer scientists working with pathologists have trained an artificial intelligence tool to determine which patients with lung cancer have a higher risk of their disease coming back after treatment, as part of Cancer Research UK’s landmark TRACERx study.

26 May 2020

New tool could help prevent and reduce the number of coronavirus cases

One of the most effective measures for containing the transmission of a virus is to identify who an infected person has been in contact and/or crossed paths with, mainly during incubation periods.

26 May 2020

HORIBA’s Microsemi CRP helps to keep vulnerable patients away from risk during COVID-19

HORIBA UK Ltd, Medical announces that the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust in partnership with the Cornwall Foundation NHS Trust have recently purchased and installed five new Microsemi CRP point-of-care hematology analyzers.

26 May 2020

Five important things to know about the new opt out organ donation law

From 20 May 2020, all adults in England are automatically considered potential organ donors following the introduction of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill.

26 May 2020

RCSI and LEO Pharma team up to investigate the role of blood clotting protein in breast cancer

RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and LEO Pharma have partnered to better understand the role of a blood clotting protein in the spread of breast cancer.

26 May 2020

GlobalData reveals 21.7% drop in US medical devices industry deals during April 2020

The US medical devices industry saw a drop of 21.7% in overall deal activity during April 2020, when compared with the last 12-month average, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

26 May 2020

Firetinas thermal scanner breaks the track record in measuring body temperature

Firetinas thermal scanner breaks the track record of infrared temperature measurement by 0.1 degree precision in third party laboratory report.

26 May 2020

New project uses SMART-TRIAL to gather data on Iceland's wellbeing during COVID-19 pandemic

A large COVID-19 research project uses SMART-TRIAL to gather data on Iceland's wellbeing during the Coronavirus pandemic

26 May 2020

‘We miss them all so much’: Grandparents ache as the COVID exile grinds on

Back home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Richard and Denise Victor would get to see their four grandchildren almost every day.

26 May 2020

Free app helps assess the risk of delaying cancer care during COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare systems across the country, doctors have postponed surgery and other treatments for thousands of patients with cancer.

26 May 2020

Higher spirituality linked to better quality of life for stroke survivors and their caregivers

Higher spirituality among stroke survivors was strongly linked to better quality of life for them and their caregivers who may also feel depressed, according to new research published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal.

26 May 2020

Bringing ‘Poogie’ home: Hospice in the time of COVID-19

After she landed in the hospital with a broken hip, Parkinson’s disease and the coronavirus, 84-year-old Dorothy “Poogie” Wyatt Shields made a request of her children: “Bring me home.”

26 May 2020

TissueGnostics achieves milestone in research community

TissueGnostics is pleased to announce achieving a new level of confidence within the international biomedical research community. As of May 2020, TissueGnostics has been referenced in over 1,500 individual research publications. High impact research made possible by TissueGnostics, emerging from 59 countries on 6 continents, results in a sum impact factor of 8,700.

From TissueGnostics 26 May 2020

EKF secures COVID-19 novel sample collection kit manufacturing and supply contracts

EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, announces it has secured new contracts for the manufacture and supply of a novel, patented sample collection device which allows COVID-19 samples to be rapidly inactivated in the collection tube, avoiding contamination and preserving RNA without need for refrigeration.

From EKF Diagnostics 26 May 2020

PRESTO W56 the model within the 1-stage, highly dynamic temperature control systems

The W56 power pack offers a cooling capacity of 25.8 kW at 20 °C and, at 27 kW, has the greatest heating capacity among the 1-stage, highly dynamic temperature control systems of the PRESTO series.

From JULABO GmbH 26 May 2020

Early surgery improves outcome and survival in patients with hydrocephalus

Early surgery improved both outcome and survival in patients with the neurological condition hydrocephalus, while mortality was higher in those who had to wait, according to a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

26 May 2020

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Study focuses on how older adults manage distress

Researchers develop novel way of interpreting biological signals produced by skin conductance

Study paves way to better understand the pathophysiology of schizophrenia

Methods to move precision medicine from evaluation into practice and policy

New AI tool could predict risk of lung cancer recurrence

New tool could help prevent and reduce the number of coronavirus cases

HORIBA’s Microsemi CRP helps to keep vulnerable patients away from risk during COVID-19

Five important things to know about the new opt out organ donation law

RCSI and LEO Pharma team up to investigate the role of blood clotting protein in breast cancer

GlobalData reveals 21.7% drop in US medical devices industry deals during April 2020

Firetinas thermal scanner breaks the track record in measuring body temperature

New project uses SMART-TRIAL to gather data on Iceland's wellbeing during COVID-19 pandemic

‘We miss them all so much’: Grandparents ache as the COVID exile grinds on

Free app helps assess the risk of delaying cancer care during COVID-19

Higher spirituality linked to better quality of life for stroke survivors and their caregivers

Bringing ‘Poogie’ home: Hospice in the time of COVID-19

TissueGnostics achieves milestone in research community

EKF secures COVID-19 novel sample collection kit manufacturing and supply contracts

PRESTO W56 the model within the 1-stage, highly dynamic temperature control systems

Early surgery improves outcome and survival in patients with hydrocephalus

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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