French president Emmanuel Macron, and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today broke ground for the WHO Academy’s campus in the French city of Lyon. The event fulfils a commitment by the two leaders to establish a WHO Academy in Lyon’s bio-medical district to meet the needs of WHO Member States and a […]
Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a novel method for producing new antibiotics to combat resistant bacteria. Through an approach that would target bacteria with an antibiotic that is masked by a prodrug, which the bacteria would themselves remove, the researchers identified a method that would allow for development of new, effective […]
The Feinberg research group at Carnegie Mellon University, along with collaborators in the Netherlands, has developed a dynamic heart model comprised of engineered heart muscle tissue designed to mimic physiologic preloads and afterloads.
Customized, biomedically applicable materials based on tropoelastin are being developed in a joint project by Skinomics from Halle, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS. The material combines biocompatibility, durability, biodegradability and favourable mechanical properties similar to those of skin. Preclinical tests have confirmed that it is […]
A form of gene therapy protects optic nerve cells and preserves vision in mouse models of glaucoma, according to research supported by NIH’s National Eye Institute. The findings suggest a way forward for developing neuroprotective therapies for glaucoma, a leading cause of visual impairment and blindness. The report was published in Cell [1].
While body mass index (BMI) as a body composition assessment tool has long had its critics, recent research has highlighted a new potential drawback in that it could prevent people of certain ethnicities from having their risk for Type 2 diabetes assessed earlier. A psychologist and weight management specialist at Cleveland Clinic stresses the importance […]
Covid-19 vaccine inequity will have a lasting and profound impact on socio-economic recovery in low- and lower-middle income countries without urgent action to boost supply and assure equitable access for every country, including through dose sharing, according to new data released recently by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and […]
Abbott has recently launched in the US their Jot Dx, the company’s latest insertable cardiac monitor (ICM). The Jot Dx ICM gives clinicians and hospitals control of how they manage the flow of information through a unique feature to view either all abnormal heart rhythm data or to simplify which irregular heart rhythms are recorded […]
Intersect ENT, a global ear, nose and throat medical technology company, says their VenSure Balloon Sinus Dilation System and Cube 4D Navigation System with VirtuEye photo registration is now commercially available in the United States.
LifeSignals has received FDA Class II 510 (k) approval for the LifeSignals LX1550 Multiparameter Remote Monitoring Platform. This follows recent CE marking for the wireless platform for continuous collection of patient physiological data.
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