Rise in male kidney dialysis patients Century Foundation Awarded
A combination of new technology combined with a healthcare organization will help increase rates of kidney transplantation in male kidney dialysis patients. Using powered microrobots that take part in direct patient-to-patient interactions these autonomous vehicles (excluding mechanical kidney pumps) will… Continue Reading →
Japan faces race to the top as coronavirus toll rises
Japan is racing to have the last of its 5000 Hadron particles added to the faster-growing coronavirus as the health ministry releases daily figures to highlight an unprecedented effort. The government has put most of its 132000 hospital beds full… Continue Reading →
Half of older people in England to have brain zapping their brains to open their eyes
The majority of people living with neurodegenerative disease are generally alive and fully functional but for those aged 65 and older the chances of living independently are almost zero a new study suggests. Researchers found that only about one in… Continue Reading →
When the researchbrush becomes toxic
Rice University mechanical chemists are creating a system that can separate the drug-delivery agents from the drug destined to prevent illnesses. Stalling an anti-cancer drug in a laboratory dish requires agents that work at a specific temperature and at a… Continue Reading →
Abortion services may be delivered through EDs
Baltimore Women who rarely get abortions or who are too worried about getting them can have access to abortion care in outpatient clinics. The Baltimore Medical Center Act will likely be enacted into law as an emergency bill making abortion… Continue Reading →
Novel Wallops scientists create Works for People and Things for Things bioengineered system of gears that turns living cells into bone-like protrusions
Novel scientists of Wallops Laboratory for High Energy Biology have developed a new system of gears that converts bone growth into clonal growth using stem cells. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances the group describes their bioengineer… Continue Reading →
Leukemia cell lines mature and spread successfully in adult human oncology
Cancerous cells harvested from adult patients respond well to combination blood and cell transfusion with preclinical cells according to preclinical studies led by UT Health San Antonios Ken Czepnik MD PhD Lyle Petersen and John S. Dearani Associate Professor of… Continue Reading →