This sort of'smart'container for medicines could carry out carefully planned drug therapy in a selected organ in the human body.
which represent a major milestone for designing materials with customized functions and structures for applications in medicine, optics, and energy.
and silver--one of the most widely used coating materials in medical applications. As a result of this damage the researchers believe the drug may not deliver the desired therapeutic effect in patients
Together with our collaborators and students, we are increasing our understanding of the critical interactions between drugs and medical coatings,
"This means the present method can be utilized as a prescreening test for point-of-care bacterial diagnosis for various applications including medicine and food hygiene.""
a process common to delivery of many species in biology and medicine-you could go to the doctor
"These type of things have never been done before, from both a fundamental neuroscience and medical perspective,
Hugh Macnaught, is now chair of the company board of directors. t was obvious from the outset that Maryam had identified an unmet medical need
Droplets of fat and water which can be produced on a large scaleliposomes have been used in several medical treatments.
#Scientists Demonstrate Intrinsic Chirality in Ordinary Nanocrystals By Stuart Milnethese findings have opened new possibilities in medicine,
which could be medical benefits, while the other form, which is its antipode, would be useless.
published online in the Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, was conducted by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the University of Pennsylvania, Wayne State university/Detroit Medical center
"says lead investigator Subroto Chatterjee, Ph d.,a professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine and a metabolism expert at its Heart and Vascular Institute."
"The doctor Juan carlos Altamirano Vallejo, medical director of the Medical and Surgical Center for Retina, mentions that the conditions that originate in the retina are caused mostly by chronic degenerative diseases such as diabetes (diabetic retinopathy
The idea is for the medicine to be distributed in state and private health institutions. So far
In that study, published in a 2012 issue of Science Translational Medicine, microchips were implanted into seven elderly women,
Multispectral Imaging Color and Data Combinemultispectral imaging is used for a variety of scientific and medical research applications.
Medical researchers are able to study these frequencies to learn about the composition and chemical processes that are taking place within a biological sample.
and observe and study the biological and medical significance of RNA misregulation. Details will be published the week of July 20 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS.
"Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is considered to be the most urgent and important challenge of all medical fields.
from environmental remediation to medical analysis. The polymers are synthesized at room temperature, and don need to be prepared specially to target specific compounds;
offering the example of a cheap testing kit for urine analysis of medical patients. The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,
including medicine, electronics and energy. Discovered only 11 years ago, graphene is one of the strongest materials in the world,
and compared with a medical grade handheld pulse oximter. Human trial testing results shows that the accuracy of the wrist-worn pulse oximetry device closely agreed with the medical grade specifications said Jyh-Chern Chen President of Taiwan Biophotonic Co
. This report has been submitted to the journal of Biomedical Optics Express in Nov. 2014 for publication.
Danehorn and Holmström formed the company, Neosense Technology, with Lars Åke Brodin, a professor of medical engineering at KTH, with the hope of bringing their technology to market by 2018."
he doesn see it as a medical diagnostic tool. t designed for exploration, he said. eing able to detect trace components, single molecules, autonomously and reliably, without the need for sample return or hardware consumables in a really tiny,
what our machine is all about. lthough there may be limited medical diagnostic applications, Youngbull envisions use of the device in homeland security, mass transit, public spaces, hospitals, schools, food production and combat theater analytics.
and are under medical treatment because it will be an effective tool to know how many hours of sleep the patient is getting."
#Researchers Report Completely Transparent Absorbers at Nonoperational Frequencies The manipulation of light has led to many applications that have revolutionized society through communications, medicine and entertainment.
real-time information about a patient, alerting medical professionals if there is a warning sign, for example high blood pressure or swelling.
raise promise for medicine but also concerns about"home-brewed"illegal drugs. Experts have called for tight control of organisms genetically modified to produce narcotics.
The broad concept of using microscopic organisms to make drugs is not new in medicine.
"But printed skin has more value in a medical scenario, he thinks.""It would be a great thing to have stores of spare skins for burn victims
so that the medical team could be sure that the visual information was coming via the camera on his glasses and the implant.
Gregoire Cosendai of Second sight Medical Products, described the AMD study as"totally groundbreaking research"."The trial is being held in the Manchester Clinical Research Facility-funded by the National Institute for Health Research and Wellcome Trust,
and analyse our genes/DNA hold the potential for new and personalised medical treatments. But copying the huge amounts of information involved backwards
which will surely contribute to medical applications, food production and advances in clock research. This has been a wonderful experience for
Their findings were published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Dr Good-Jacobson said plasma cells were created
who is co-senior author of the study with Dr. Bruce Conklin, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular disease and a professor of medical genetics and cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San francisco."
#Malaria's key to the liver uncovered Scientists uncover a port of liver entry for malaria parasites in a report published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.
ultimately, use a precision medicine-based approach to develop a therapeutic approach. Our study demonstrates that genetic screening alone is not enough."
Two major not-for-profit US organisations, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Institute of Medicine (Iom), are planning an international summit in the Autumn as part of an attempt to agree clinical and ethical standards
of which were published in the New england Journal of Medicine. Gliomas are tumours which develop from the glial cells of the brain and spine,
The professor told in-Pharmatechnologist. com the method can be used to help small and large molecule medicines hone in on their targets. ith all therapies that are used currently particularly cancer the major problem is very little of the drug makes it to the target site.
Besant and his team, including his supervisor Professor Shana Kelley of the Institute for Biomaterials & Biomedical engineering and the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine,
Most of South korea's cases have had connections to the first patient-either medical staff who treated him
The researchers used this algorithm to examine New york city medical databases and found 55 diseases that correlated with the season of birth.
600 associations and confirmed 39 links previously reported in the medical literature. The researchers also uncovered 16 new associations,
Medical experts have said the virus may have originated in bats, that cases have been linked to camels, and that it is communicable between people.
or proteins that could be targeted by drugs, eventually leading to new medicines to fight cancer.
Heather and Melanie Muss Endowed Chair and a principal investigator in the UCSF Brain tumor Research center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research. t may be unwelcome
In that study, published in a 2012 issue of Science Translational Medicine, microchips were implanted into seven elderly women,
Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, was led by Jeffrey Zink and Fuyu Tamanoi, both members of the California Nanosystems Institute and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA,
That means Anstie team will need to work with medical researchers to improve sampling techniques, and improve the analysis of data coming out of the device,
a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular disease and a professor of medical genetics and cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San francisco. his technology could help us quickly screen for drugs likely to generate cardiac birth defects,
The results appeared in a study published online in Nature Medicine. Patients received an infusion of altered immune cells known as T-cells roughly 2. 4 billion of them after undergoing a stem cell transplantation of their own stem cells.
the Gary Jobson Professor in Medical Oncology at the University of Maryland School of medicine. ur findings provide a strong foundation for further research in the field of cellular immunotherapy for myeloma to help achieve even better
vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and dean of the University of Maryland School of medicine. his trial is also an excellent example of significant
#Uncovering the Spread of Bacteria in Pneumonia Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the role a toxin produced by a pneumonia-causing bacterium plays in the spread of infection from the lungs to the bloodstream in hospitalized patients. rior to this study,
. professor in Microbiology-Immunology and Medicine-Infectious disease. hese findings lay the foundation for future studies to further understand the mechanisms for how the escape to the bloodstream occurs.
funded by the European commission and led by co-author Jean-Claude Dujardin, Ph d.,of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. n Peru,
#Software Turns Smartphones into Tools for Medical Research Jody Kearns doesn't like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson's disease.
Scientists overseeing the studies say the apps could transform medical research by helping them collect information more frequently and from more people, across larger and more diverse regions,
Google Inc. says it's developing a health-tracking wristband specifically designed for medical studies.
But if smartphones hold great promise for medical research experts say there are issues to consider
and helping to democratize medicine, "Williams said in an interview. Apple launched its Researchkit program in March with five apps to investigate Parkinson's, asthma, heart disease, diabetes and breast cancer.
are an obvious candidate for medical applications of the technology, as these cells not only stand at the center of many disease processes,
and medicine. t been great to be part of this exciting collaboration, and I look forward to seeing the insights from this work used to help patients in the future,
it requires medical personnel with technical skills and brings the risk of needle-related diseases and injuries.
It is also easy to use without the need for trained medical personnel, making it ideal for use in developing countries,
The UCLA team included researchers from electrical engineering, physics and astronomy, bioengineering, pathology and laboratory medicine,
and received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use in March 2015.
Their findings are published in the New england Journal of Medicine. MEN1 is the acronym for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1,
Dr. Elsken van der Wall, a medical oncologist working for the UMC Utrecht Cancer Center e
#Uniting To Accelerate Pediatric Medicine Drug companies inherently absorb significant risk when developing compounds and biologics for clinical use.
As an industry, pediatric medicine faces many similar challenges. Addressing chronic and complex diseases in kids can improve health outcomes,
quality of life and reduce future medical spending when these children enter their adult lives. Surprisingly, the NIH only allocates five percent of it $30 billion budget to pediatric research
Other challenges I see include low commercial investment in pediatric medicine and devices, development of effective therapeutics for neurodevelopmental disorders,
Boston Children is interested in breaking down the barriers that remain in pediatric medicine. We can only do that if the innovation community
America innovative biopharmaceutical companies face increasing challenges, ranging from the cost and increased complexity of bringing new medicines to patients, the prospect of attracting
and sustaining the capital needed to develop tomorrow new treatments and cures, the increasing uncertainty related to coverage and payment of innovative medicines,
and it could revolutionize medicine TED Conference/Flickrmanu Prakash with the Foldscope, a microscope made almost entirely of paper.
For a whole lot of people, especially those in developing countries, science and with it, medicine isn readily available to the majority of citizens.
#Smartphones tested as tools for medical research Jody Kearns doesn't like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson's disease.
Smartphone Medicine Dr. Michael Mcconnell, a cardiologist who's using an app to study heart disease,
Scientists overseeing the studies say the apps could transform medical research by helping them collect information more frequently and from more people, across larger and more diverse regions,
Google Inc. says it's developing a health-tracking wristband specifically designed for medical studies.
But if smartphones hold great promise for medical research experts say there are issues to consider
Democratizes medicine Apple had created previously software called Healthkit for apps that track iphone owners'health statistics and exercise habits.
and helping to democratize medicine, "Williams said in an interview. Apple launched its Researchkit program in March with five apps to investigate Parkinson's, asthma, heart disease, diabetes and breast cancer.
and will travel all around town neighborhoods, shopping centers, medical complexes, recreation areas, etc. They can seat 16,
#Lab-grown human muscle is a medical breakthrough The new kind of lab-grown muscle will allow the study of disease
"One of our goals is to use this method to provide personalised medicine to patients,
the technology can also be used in real-world applications, such in medicine, education, virtual tourism and for conferences.
for use in medical research. he technology will leverage Organovo proprietary Novogen Bioprinting Platform and Lreal expertise in skin engineering to develop 3d printed skin tissue for product evaluation and other areas of advanced research,
since the 1970s a warning that has divided long the medical establishment. A growing number of experts have been arguing there is no link between high cholesterol in food and dangerous levels of the fatty substance in the blood.
Dr Daniel Weiss, an organ regeneration expert at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, said:'
#Medical cannabis DOESN'T ease pain, nausea, vomiting, sleep disorders or Tourette's By Lizzie Parry for Mailonline Published:
Medicinal cannabis has been legalised in 23 US states as a therapy to treat disease or alleviate symptoms,
500 volunteers, found the evidence supporting the use of medical cannabis is weak. It found moderate-quality evidence to support the use of cannabinoids-chemical compounds that are the active principles in marijuana-for the treatment of chronic pain.
and her team evaluated the evidence for benefits and adverse events, related to medicinal cannabis use.
In addition, Dr Whiting and her team found weak evidence to support the claim that medicinal cannabis has no effect on psychosis,
'says Dr. Barbara Sherman, a clinical professor of behavioural medicine. Much of the technology comes off the shelf
beating heart-and say it could revolutionise medicine. The new hearts will allow new drugs to be tested,
who is co-senior author of the study with Dr. Bruce Conklin, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular disease and a professor of medical genetics and cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San francisco.'
developed by US firm Second sight Medical Products, might be used for patients with other vision problems.
#Imec Milab medical game-changer Imec and John Hopkins University of Baltimore have delivered a ame-changer in healthcarewith a chip-based technology called Milab
and blood cells. ilab will bring a revolution in medical diagnostics, says Imec CEO Luc van den Hove,
It replaces expensive medical testing equipment which can take days to deliver results. The technology will be commercialised by a company called Midiagnostics backed by Flemish investors Marc Couke and Michel Akkermans, Flemish investment company PMV and Imec.
He believes cognitive technologies could eventually automate everything from reviewing medical X-rays to commodities trading. he potential goes way beyond automating repetitive tasks,
#This MIT Grad Is Changing Medicine With a Needle-Covered Pill While medical injections are unpleasant and inconvenient, theye also necessary for people with illnesses like diabetes.
But that might not be true for too much longer. Carl Schoellhammer, 28, has created a pill that would render syringes unnecessary.
freeing the needles to introduce the medicine. Once the drugs are delivered, the capsule can pass through the body safely.
a handheld device inserted suppository-style that uses ultrasound waves to push medicine into the tissues of the GI TRACT.
This allows the body to absorb the medicine faster. Schoellhammer sees this being helpful for the 1 million people in the United states who have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) as well as other conditions.
and his data is sent to his hospital and medical team, if there is any indication of a problem the doctors identify it
and at a faster speed, would make a big difference in medicine. Targeted treatments could come sooner
#21st-century medicine: Gauss guns, magic bullets, and magnetic millibot surgeons Sometime around the turn into the 20th century,
medical extraordinaire Paul Ehrlich coined the word zauberkugel or agic bulletto describe new drugs he was working on to cure syphilis and cancer.
#Terapio autonomous medical robot can assist nurses Japan has a rapidly aging population, along with the longest life expectancy in the world.
a medical robotic assistant that relieves nurses from some of the mundane tasks of collecting patient data and vital signs.
A camera would allow for remote viewing by the medical staff. Toyohashi University professor Ryosuke Tasaki says,
could make flu shot obsolete Influenza is no longer the scourge it once was thanks to modern medicine,
In medicine you talk of drug delivery-we do flavour delivery."."The sensory profile of Douxmatok is literally the same as sugar."
and added that it has found no evidence that that medical information such as insurance claims and test results was targeted
identity or medical and financial fraud, explained Rob Sadowski, director of technology solutions at security specialist RSA,
and observe and study the biological and medical significance of RNA misregulation. Previous technologies made it possible to attain static snapshots of RNA location
Mirkin is professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering.
#Bacteria build#coat#for medical implants Artificial implants, like pacemakers, can spark the body defenses and cause complications, even rejection.
or coat medical implants in 3d micro-structures, which can make the implants more biocompatible.
Until now, however, it hasn been possible to apply these surface structures to one of the most promising materials in the field of medicine:
donated tissues are stored within a medical-grade refrigeration unit in sealed bags filled with a standard preservation solution.
says medical entomologist Gregory Lanzaro, professor in the pathology, microbiology and immunology department at University of California,
The results from this study were published today in the Journal of Experimental Medicine within an article entitled I3-kinase activation is critical for host barrier permissiveness to Listeria monocytogenes Listeria relies on two surface proteins called
A committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) yesterday called for the sharing of supporting data for clinical trials results within six months after publication, with a full analyzable data set shared no later than 18 months
professor of medicine and leader of the YODA Project. e hope this action serves as a catalyst to others to join the momentum on open science.
The European Medicines Agency in October issued a more expansive data sharing policy last October, though not the full open-access sought by advocates.
Thousands of times thinner than the average human hair, nanofibers are used by medical researchers to create advanced wound dressings and for tissue regeneration
"says Geoff Woods, M d, from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge,
Genentech provided its medicines to more than 180,000 people last year for free or reduced cost. Willson noted that the Genentech Access to Care Foundation recently changed its financial criteria with the goal of helping more people, n recognition of the changing healthcare environment and the increasing number of people with high out
e understand that the cost of medicines can be challenging for some patients, Novartis said. he majority of CML patients in the U s. pay less than $100 out of pocket per month for our CML treatments,
and we are committed to ensuring that patients have access to their medicines. To that end, Novartis said,
its patient assistance program provides the company medicines for free or at a reduced cost to those who can afford them,
The company CML medicines have been provided free to an average of 5 000 uninsured or underinsured patients in the U s. annually for the past six-and-a-half yearsore than $1 billion in free medicine. ecause the cost of drugs is one of the few transparent healthcare costs,
drugs get much public attention, yet are only a small percentage of spending and demonstrate remarkable rewards,
yet developers can win payer approval for a costlier medicine by agreeing to allow limited-time use,
said Adam Perriman, Ph d.,from the University of Bristol school of cellular and molecular medicine."
said Adam Perriman, Ph d.,from the University of Bristol school of cellular and molecular medicine."
or sensory recovery, said Hua-Zi Xu, M d.,department of spinal surgery, the second affiliated hospital of Wenzhou Medical University.'
"Our study has great biological and medical significance, particularly in light of the huge disease burden of malaria,"explained senior author Manoj Duraisingh, Ph d.,professor of Immunology and Infectious diseases at the T. H. Chan School of Public health."
#Depersonalized Medicine Shows Promising Results Against Cancer Researchers at St louis University (SLU) say they have,
even though the American Society for Reproductive Medicine holds that infertility is due in equal measure to male and female factors.
The scientific team presented their results July 8 in Science Translational Medicine, in an article entitled,
noted the authors of the Science Translational Medicine article. According to Dr. Krawetz, the diagnostic potential of next-generation sequencing of sperm RNA indicates this method is suited"better to the task"of analyzing the male's role in infertility,
and is a step toward personalized precision reproductive medicine that may help guide the couple to their successful treatment.
The technique could become part of a routine examination as"we move toward personalized and precision medicine,"Dr. Krawetz asserted.
it requires medical personnel with technical skills and brings the risk of needle-related diseases and injuries.
It is also easy to use without the need for trained medical personnel, making it ideal for use in developing countries,
The Sierra leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola (STRIVE) Phase III study being conducted by the Sierra leone College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, Sierra leone Ministry of Health,
The drug has been submitted to both the US Federal Drug and Food administration and the European Medicines Agency for consideration, with the scientists hopeful of winning approval later this year.
paving the way for these materials to be used for biodegradable sensors and medical implants. But the applications of a highly-conductive graphene ink could be
the hardware inside is starting to show huge promise in the world of medical diagnostics,
and a Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council award, was published in the Science Translational Medicine journal in April.
and it Will be Not-for-Profit The world first malaria vaccine has been given approval by a European medical agency for future use in Sub-saharan africa, where more than a quarter million children under the age of five die every year from the disease.
With this approval from the European Medicines Agency Friday, the vaccine next will be considered by the World health organizations,
and Response is aimed at 1. 6 million Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries whose medical and assistive equipment oxygen concentrators, ventilators,
and EMS teams prepare for surges in medical services. Emergency planners could also use the map to anticipate
This according to new peer-reviewed research published today in the journal Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
chief of pediatric critical care medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, said in a news release announcing the finding."
#Spoken sentences can be reconstructed from brain activity patterns It is now possible to reconstruct spoken sentences from activity patterns of the human brain surface. rain to Textcombines knowledge from neuroscience, medicine and informatics.
our recent results indicate that both single units in terms of speech sounds as well as continuously spoken sentences can be recognized from brain activity. hese results were obtained by an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers of informatics, neuroscience, and medicine.
and this has got applications in chemistry, engineering, biology, medicine, so there's a lot of potential there and that's just for research purposes,
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