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Ultrasound for children with abdominal trauma

Despite evidence showing that the routine use of sonography in hospital emergency departments can safely improve care for adults when evaluating for possible abdominal trauma injuries, researchers at UC Davis Medical Center could not identify any significant improvements in care for pediatric trauma patients. The findings, which resulted from a randomized clinical study involving 925 […]

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New method helps rule out heart valve infection

A risk assessment system developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows which patients, with a certain type of streptococcal bacteria in the blood, need to be examined for a heart valve infection – a serious condition requiring prolonged medical treatment. “Our assessment system can help reduce unnecessary examinations of low-risk patients”, says Torgny […]

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New smell test could aid early detection of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Nisha Pradhan was seven when she began to suspect she was missing out on something. Her sister seemed to have an uncanny knack for predicting what their mother was making for dinner. Pradhan, meanwhile, never had a clue. “I would just stare at her,” Pradhan says. “She’s younger than me—how does she know more than […]

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Adding radiation treatments to inoperable lung cancer increases survival by up to one year

Patients with unresectable, or inoperable, lung cancer are often given a dismal prognosis, with low rates of survival beyond a few years.  Researchers exploring combination therapies have recently discovered improved survival rates by up to one year when patients treated with a newly formulated chemotherapy regimen are also given radiation therapy. A group of patients […]

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Siemens Healthineers and Braunschweig Municipal Hospital enter into strategic technology partnership

Braunschweig Municipal Hospital and Siemens Healthineers are breaking new ground through an innovative medical technology partnership. Together, they have entered into a long-term Asset Management Services (AMS) contract. Braunschweig Municipal Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in northern Germany, with 1,499 beds and 38 clinics and institutes. Siemens Healthineers will assume responsibility for supplying […]

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Self-powered paper-based ‘SPEDs’ may lead to new medical-diagnostic tools

A new medical-diagnostic device made out of paper detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses – powered only by the user’s touch – and reads out the color-coded test results, making it easy for non-experts to understand. “You could consider this a portable laboratory that is just completely made out of paper, is […]

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New method for organ transplant monitoring promises better care for patients

Using a combination of DNA sequencing and computer science techniques, a team of researchers has developed a new method for monitoring the health of organ transplant patients – one that promises to provide life-saving clues to diagnose organ rejection at an early stage. More than 180,000 people live with organ transplants in the U.S., and […]

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Hormone therapy in the menopause transition did not increase stroke risk

Postmenopausal hormone therapy is not associated with increased risk of stroke, provided that it is started early, according to a report from Karolinska Institutet.Roughly three in ten women in the menopause transition are afflicted by symptoms that seriously affect their wellbeing, such as hot flushes, dry mucosa and insomnia. However, although the symptoms can be […]

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Expanding point-of-care disease diagnostics with ultrasound

Fast, accurate and inexpensive medical tests in a doctor’s office are only possible for some conditions. To create new in-office diagnostics for additional diseases, researchers report a new technique that uses ultrasound to concentrate fluorescently-labelled disease biomarkers otherwise impossible to detect with current equipment in an office setting. The markers’ signal could someday be analysed […]

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New imaging technique aims to ensure surgeons completely remove cancer

Of the quarter- million women diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the United States, about 180,000 undergo surgery to remove the cancerous tissue while preserving as much healthy breast tissue as possible. However, there’s no accurate method to tell during surgery whether all of the cancerous tissue has been successfully removed. The gold-standard analysis […]