MIT engineers have designed tissue-derived “smart” sutures, pictured here, that can not only hold tissue in place, but also detect inflammation and release drugs. the sutures are coated with hydrogels that can be embedded with sensors, drugs, or cells that release therapeutic molecules.
International Hospital speaks to Toon Overbeeke, CEO & co-founder, and Brian Joseph, commercial director & co-founder, of the start-up Vitestro about their automated blood drawing device for which they have recently received significant support from a Series A funding round.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has posted a draft recommendation statement on screening for breast cancer. The Task Force now recommends that all women get screened for breast cancer every two years starting at age 40.
Progression of DCIS to invasive breast cancer, which can take 10-20 years to observe in the clinic, can be studied in one year with new mouse models
An algorithm developed using artificial intelligence could soon be used by doctors to diagnose heart attacks with better speed and accuracy than ever before, according to new research from the University of Edinburgh, funded by the British Heart Foundation and the National Institute for Health and Care Research, and published in Nature Medicine [1].
A machine learning-based model that enables medical institutions to predict the mortality risk for individual cardiac surgery patients has been developed by a Mount Sinai research team, providing a significant performance advantage over current population-derived models.
Postmenopausal women with clogged arteries are at higher risk of heart attacks than men of similar age, according to research presented at EACVI 2023, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and published in European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging [1]. The study in nearly 25,000 adults used imaging techniques to examine […]
Women are more than twice as likely to die after a heart attack than men, according to research presented 22 May at Heart Failure 2023, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Researchers urge that any patient treated with loop diuretics should also be investigated for serious underlying heart disease
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