Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have found the first bio-marker for multiple sclerosis (MS) that might predict which patients will respond to a standard therapy and which will not...
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Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have found the first bio-marker for multiple sclerosis (MS) that might predict which patients will respond to a standard therapy and which will not...
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Theranostics Paves The Way For Personalised Medicine In Europe, Says Frost & Sullivan
Theranostics is an emerging field in clinical diagnostics, focussing on developing specific analysis to predict the most suitable drug for a patient along with assessing the efficacy of the drug. It uses...
1. Excess Risk for Death Following Hip Fracture Persists Over Time, Especially for Men While almost all studies report an increased risk for death in the first three to six months following hip fracture, it is unclear whether this risk continues over the longer-term. Researchers identified and...
Johns Hopkins Medicine has become the latest academic medical center to acquire the Naviscan Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) scanner. The device will be utilized by Richard Wahl, M.D., F.A.C.R, Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...
Johns Hopkins Medicine has become the latest academic medical center to acquire the Naviscan Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) scanner. The device will be utilized by Richard Wahl, M.D., F.A.C.R, Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...
Commenting on the results of a survey from Pfizer released today (16.01.10) estimating that the counterfeit medicines market in Europe is worth more than ?10.5 billion per year, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPSGB) urged the public to be vigilant when buying online. RPSGB Head of...
Expert Panel Releases 2010 Adult Immunization Schedule, Stresses Importance of Vaccination Each year, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) reviews the recommended Adult Immunization Schedule to ensure that the schedule reflects the most current scientific knowledge of vaccines...
Expert Panel Releases 2010 Adult Immunization Schedule, Stresses Importance of Vaccination Each year, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) reviews the recommended Adult Immunization Schedule to ensure that the schedule reflects the most current scientific knowledge of vaccines...
Boston University School of Medicine's (BUSM) Pulmonary Center has received a two-year $1.4 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to derive stem cells and lung progenitors from patients with lung disease. Darrell Kotton, MD, associate professor of medicine and...
A University of Maryland School of Medicine researcher will lead the coordinating center for a consortium of our nation's most prominent scientists in the field of stem cell research. Michael L. Terrin, M.D.,C.M.,M.P.H., professor of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, was chosen by the...
After being shot by Booth's derringer, President Lincoln was carried to a boarding house across the street, where he died 9 hours later. He was unconscious the entire time. A doctor probably did more damage than good by probing inside his skull with a finger, and declared his case to be...
The Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute is to provide stem cells to a five-member National Institutes of Health consortium of researchers for development of potential therapies to treat Huntington's disease. As part of the $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health...
It makes me nervous too. I'm not so keen on the idea of circuits enveloped in a silk substrate, which melts into your body leaving just nanometers-thick layers of electronics. But it's for the best, trust me on this one.
Until now, body-embedded circuitry was very limited. The electronics were...