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How to differentiate between a panic attack and heart attack

Your heart suddenly begins racing. You feel pain in your chest and you are short of breath.

3 Feb 2020

Preventing cardiac problems during pregnancy

Although cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, it has not been widely recognized that many types of heart disease can and do affect women of childbearing age. But that is rapidly changing.

3 Feb 2020

First responders need to take special precautions to protect themselves from coronavirus

Healthcare personnel working on the front lines to contain and prevent the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in China need to take special, yet common, precautions to keep themselves and others safe.

3 Feb 2020

BU study reveals how healthcare policy changes are affecting millions of Americans

Over the course of 2017, positive trends in insurance coverage and healthcare access from the Affordable Care Act reversed, particularly for low-income residents of states that did not expand Medicaid.

3 Feb 2020

Study provides neurobiological insight into how yoga may help to alleviate depression

The benefits of yoga have been widely documented by scientific research, but previously it was not clear as to how yoga exerts its physiologic effect.

3 Feb 2020

Measuring 'stickiness' of cancer cells could improve prognostic evaluation of tumors

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has created a device that measures how "sticky" cancer cells are, which could improve prognostic evaluation of patient tumors. The device is built with a microfluidic chamber that sorts cells by their physical ability to adhere to their environment.

3 Feb 2020

Scientists shed new light on neuronal circuits that acquire and update voluntary actions

Two types of neuronal circuit in the brain that acquire and update voluntary actions are much more intertwined than previously thought.

3 Feb 2020

UniSA experts highlight consequences of inappropriate management in sports sector

Over a quarter of Australians are obese, and more than a third are overweight, and while much focus of the current sports grant scandal has been on political interference, University of South Australia sports experts are calling attention to the potential health and fitness consequences arising from mismanagement of resources for sport.

3 Feb 2020

Reliable AnaTox AIQ-Tool software for qualification of chromatographic systems

With the AnaTox AIQ-Tool software all chromatographic systems that are approved according to USP/EP/JP can be easily and reliably qualified. The standardized procedure can be used for all systems of all manufacturers. The operation is very simple.

3 Feb 2020

Cross Party Group acknowledges need for early lung cancer screening in Scotland

The need to consider a formal recommendation on early screening for lung cancer was acknowledged by the Cross Party Group for Cancer, held at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on January 21st 2020.

3 Feb 2020

GlobalData reader’s poll: Brexit will be strongly negative for medtech industry

The UK leaving the European Union today will be a strongly negative development for the medtech industry, according to a poll of GlobalData’s Verdict Medical Devices readers.

3 Feb 2020

Many older people in Australia are missing out on shingles vaccination

Many older Australians are missing out on the chance to get vaccinated against shingles, according to the latest edition of Australian Prescriber.

3 Feb 2020

New deep learning model enables automatic sleep staging with high accuracy

A new deep learning model developed by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland can identify sleep stages as accurately as an experienced physician. This opens up new avenues for the diagnostics and treatment of sleep disorders, including obstructive sleep apnea.

3 Feb 2020

UniSA research focuses on supporting cancer survivors

On the eve of World Cancer Day, University of South Australia researchers are calling for more support for cancer survivors, who often feel the physical and mental impacts of their disease long after treatment has finished.

3 Feb 2020

Women’s Heart Fund announces launch of ‘Community Conversations with the CDI’

The Women's Heart Fund, a philanthropic arm of Hackensack Meridian Health Meridian Health Foundation, has announced that for its newest venture, the organization will sponsor 'Community Conversations with the CDI,' a women-focused, three-year lecture series featuring researchers from Hackensack Meridian Health's Center for Discovery and Innovation.

3 Feb 2020

Coronavirus could spread explosively, tight control needed

The coronavirus may be taking a higher toll of life than we thought, say scientists, in a new study published on January 30, 2020, in The Lancet. But another startling new study based on mathematical modeling, published in the same journal, predicts that almost 76,000 people may have acquired the infection in Wuhan city, and that multiple epidemics in major connected cities inside and outside China may already be brewing. Yet the death rate is markedly low, in this case.

3 Feb 2020