Overweight and obesity in adolescents have increased substantially in recent decades, and currently affect a third of the adolescent population in some developed countries. This is an important public health concern because obesity early in life is considered to be a risk factor for death from cardiovascular disease and from all causes in adulthood. Some […]
Aortic stenosis (AS), the narrowing of the aortic valve in the heart which causes restricted blood flow, is one of the most common and serious valve disease problems. For patients with one type of AS – low flow – transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a minimally invasive procedure which corrects the damaged aortic valve, is […]
Patients with a combination of left ventricular dysfunction and low aortic valve gradient, or reduced force of blood flow through the aortic valve, have higher mortality rates and a greater risk of recurrent heart failure after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), with low aortic valve gradient the driving force behind their poor outcomes. Patients with […]
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new marker substance for positron emission tomography (PET) that will allow them to monitor the progression of the degenerative muscle disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a patient’s brain. Many people will remember the Ice Bucket Challenge back in the summer of 2014. This social media campaign helped […]
Titanium is the leading material for artificial knee and hip joints because it’s strong, wear-resistant and nontoxic, but an unexpected discovery by Rice University physicists shows that the gold standard for artifi cial joints can be improved with the addition of some actual gold. ‘It is about 3-4 times harder than most steels,’ said Emilia […]
Cardiac arrhythmia is a common complication following lung transplantation, and one that has a significant negative impact on long-term patient survival, reports a team of UPMC researchers in the largest study of its kind to date. The results provide critical information that will hopefully lead to better care of transplant recipients. Arrhythmia, a rapid and […]
Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have learned the signal that tumour cells display on their surfaces to protect themselves from being devoured by the immune system also plays a role in enabling atherosclerosis, the process underlying heart attacks and strokes. A biological drug capable of blocking this so-called "don’t eat me" signal […]
A Yale-led team of researchers developed a new approach to scanning the brain for changes in synapses that are associated with common brain disorders. The technique may provide insights into the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of disorders, including epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, depression and Parkinson’s disease. Certain changes in synapses – the […]
University of Missouri College of Engineering Dean and Bioengineering Professor Elizabeth Loboa and a team of colleagues recently discovered a way to slow and, in some cases, prevent the spread of MRSA while also regenerating new bone. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infections are a critical problem in the medical world, including the area […]
In the operating room of the future, robots will be an integral part of the surgical team, working alongside human surgeons to make surgeries safer, faster and more precise. Engineers in Michael Yip’s lab at UC San Diego are developing advanced robotic systems to help make that vision a reality. From intelligent algorithms that can […]
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