Medicine NewsA new automated vocal analysis technology could fundamentally change the study of language development as well as the screening for autism spectrum disorders and language delay, reports a study in the July 19 online Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
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Next week the city of Philadelphia will host the 52nd annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the premier organization in medical physics, a broadly-based scientific and professional discipline encompassing physics principles and applications in medicine and biology…
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American Medical Systems® (AMS) (Nasdaq: AMMD), a leading provider of world-class devices and therapies for both male and female pelvic health, announced results of a prospective, multi-center study on their market leading MiniArc Single-Incision Sling System for female stress urinary incontinence (SUI)…
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In computed tomography angiography (CTA), radiation dose now can be reduced most of the times to below one millisievert (mSv) for one scan even in clinical routine…
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Varian Medical Systems’ new TrueBeam™ system for image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery will be publicly exhibited for the first time next week at the 2010 meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) here…
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Hospitals still struggle to prevent avoidable healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), according to a survey of infection preventionists released today by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)…
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For centuries, “man-made fibers” meant the raw stuff of clothes and ropes; in the information age, it’s come to mean the filaments of glass that carry data in communications networks. But to Yoel Fink, an Associate professor of Materials Science and principal investigator at MIT’s Research Lab of Electronics, the threads used in textiles and [...]
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A Johns Hopkins review of nearly 150 randomized controlled trials on children – all published in well-regarded medical journals – reveals that 40 to 60 percent of the studies either failed to take steps to minimize risk for bias or to at least properly describe those measures…
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Bioject Medical Technologies Inc…
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A new system for the controlled delivery of pharmaceutical drugs has been developed by a team of University of Rhode Island chemical engineers using nanoparticles embedded in a liposome that can be triggered by non-invasive electromagnetic fields. The discovery by URI professors Geoffrey Bothun and Arijit Bose and graduate student Yanjing Chen was published in [...]
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