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Beckman Coulter launches DURA Innovations global flow cytometry business tools

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences expands services by placing DURA Innovations dry reagent solutions at the heart of enhanced external business resources for lab.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Flow Cytometry 30 Jul 2018

Beckman Coulter introduces expanded range of clinical flow cytometry solutions at AACC 2018

Beckman Coulter continues to expand portfolio of clinical flow cytometry solutions with its latest innovations.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Flow Cytometry 30 Jul 2018

Medicare reconsiders paying for seniors’ spine operations at surgery centers

Medicare is reviewing whether seniors should undergo spine surgeries at same-day surgery centers, the government-run health program announced Wednesday, five months after a USA Today Network-Kaiser Health News investigation revealed a spate of patient deaths following the procedures.

30 Jul 2018

New device uses single drop of blood to diagnose mild traumatic brain injury

Every year in Europe, three million people are admitted into hospitals for suspected mild traumatic brain injury cases. Yet 90% of these patients will be able to return home safely, as no trauma has been detected.

30 Jul 2018

1,400 nursing homes get lower Medicare ratings because of staffing concerns

Medicare has lowered its star ratings for staffing levels in 1 in 11 of the nation's nursing homes — almost 1,400 of them — because they either had inadequate numbers of registered nurses or failed to provide payroll data that proved they had the required nursing coverage, federal records released last week show.

30 Jul 2018

Study finds tick bite meat allergy as most common cause of anaphylaxis

An increase in the Lone Star tick population since 2006, and the ability to recognize the ticks as the source of "alpha gal" allergy to red meat has meant significantly more cases of anaphylaxis being properly identified.

30 Jul 2018

Football training helps improve bone health in 55-70-year-olds with prediabetes

Football scores from all angles for untrained middle-aged and elderly women and men with prediabetes. This is the conclusion from a study carried out in the Faroe Islands by football researchers and physiologists from the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of the Faroe Islands.

28 Jul 2018

Alcala Labs to use Neoteryx’s VAMS technology for monitoring patients in recovery centers

Today, Neoteryx LLC, announced that it will supply its Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling technology, in the form of the Mitra microsampling device, to Alcala Labs of San Diego for a more efficacious, streamlined approach to monitor patients in recovery centers throughout the United States.

28 Jul 2018

New study provides insight into how stimulant treatments for ADHD work

Stimulant medications are an effective treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. In the classroom, parents and teachers say that medications like methylphenidate can reduce symptoms and improve behavior.

28 Jul 2018

Janssen’s Darzalex receives positive CHMP opinion for treating multiple myeloma patients

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has recommended broadening the existing marketing authorization for Darzalex® for use as frontline therapy.

28 Jul 2018

QUT researchers conclude that men do suffer from Postcoital Dysphoria

A world-first study by QUT researchers concludes men can and do suffer from Postcoital Dysphoria which results in feelings of sadness, tearfulness or irritability following sex.

28 Jul 2018

Patients who underwent blood, marrow transplants may be at high risk of premature death

While blood and marrow transplants can save the life of a pediatric cancer patient, research out of the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that those patients may be at an increased risk of premature death even years or decades after the procedure as compared with the general population.

28 Jul 2018

NIFA offers grants to South Dakota food scientist to improve quality of oats

Food scientist Padu Krishnan, a professor in the South Dakota State University Department of Dairy and Food Science, has received a three-year, nearly $450,000 National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

28 Jul 2018

Major genome science study offers insights into cardiac electrical diseases

New knowledge about biological processes related to the heart's electrical activity has been gained through a major genome science study. The research had the largest sample size ever of a project of this type.

28 Jul 2018

$Researchers use magnetic surgical cement for spinal fractures and targeted drug delivery$

Researchers use magnetic surgical cement for spinal fractures and targeted drug delivery

Patients with spinal fractures caused by tumors or osteoporosis usually undergo a procedure called kyphoplasty, where the fracture is filled with surgical cement.

28 Jul 2018

Drug that treats diabetes found to exert powerful check on macrophages in controlling inflammation

When tissue is damaged, one of the body's first inflammatory immune-system responders are macrophages, cells which are commonly thought of as "construction workers" that clear away damaged tissue debris and initiate repair.

28 Jul 2018

Researchers develop new tool to calm down horses

How many ways can you think of to stress out a horse? Trailering, bathing, clipping, vet visits, hoof trims, bridling, saddling -- the possibilities are endless. Unfortunately, calming options are not.

28 Jul 2018

Open-source software creates powerful, accurate simulations for movement research

An open-source movement simulator that has already helped solve problems in medicine, paleontology, and animal locomotion has been expanded and improved, according to a new publication in the open-access journal PLOS Computational Biology.

27 Jul 2018

Discovery opens up new ways to tackle growing threat of untreatable gonorrhea

Good news in the battle against the growing threat of drug-resistant “super gonorrhea”: Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and their collaborators in the United Kingdom have discovered a new way that the bacteria that cause gonorrhea resist the body’s immune defenses.

27 Jul 2018

New study aims to develop nucleoside therapy as treatment for mitochondrial depletion syndromes

Hundreds of types of mitochondrial disease affect up to 38 million people worldwide, yet there are very few effective treatments, forcing patients and doctors to rely on symptom management to battle the serious and potentially fatal genetic disorder that starves the body’s cells of energy.

27 Jul 2018

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Beckman Coulter launches DURA Innovations global flow cytometry business tools

Beckman Coulter introduces expanded range of clinical flow cytometry solutions at AACC 2018

Medicare reconsiders paying for seniors’ spine operations at surgery centers

New device uses single drop of blood to diagnose mild traumatic brain injury

1,400 nursing homes get lower Medicare ratings because of staffing concerns

Study finds tick bite meat allergy as most common cause of anaphylaxis

Football training helps improve bone health in 55-70-year-olds with prediabetes

Alcala Labs to use Neoteryx’s VAMS technology for monitoring patients in recovery centers

New study provides insight into how stimulant treatments for ADHD work

Janssen’s Darzalex receives positive CHMP opinion for treating multiple myeloma patients

QUT researchers conclude that men do suffer from Postcoital Dysphoria

Patients who underwent blood, marrow transplants may be at high risk of premature death

NIFA offers grants to South Dakota food scientist to improve quality of oats

Major genome science study offers insights into cardiac electrical diseases

Researchers use magnetic surgical cement for spinal fractures and targeted drug delivery

Drug that treats diabetes found to exert powerful check on macrophages in controlling inflammation

Researchers develop new tool to calm down horses

Open-source software creates powerful, accurate simulations for movement research

Discovery opens up new ways to tackle growing threat of untreatable gonorrhea

New study aims to develop nucleoside therapy as treatment for mitochondrial depletion syndromes

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