Fujifilm Europe supports World Cancer Day

Fujifilm Europe has announced its partnership with World Cancer Day, an initiative led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). The IUCC is the largest and oldest international cancer organisation dedicated to taking the lead in convening, capacity building and advocacy initiatives that unite the cancer community to reduce the global cancer burden, promote […]

GE HealthCare completes spin-off and begins trading on Nasdaq

GE HealthCare’s previously announced spin-off from GE was completed on 4 January this year and GE HealthCare began trading as an independent company on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol “GEHC”.

Charité and Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin merge cardiovascular services to create one of the largest cardiac centres in Europe

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin – Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts (DHZB) are merging their cardiovascular services to form the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC). The DHZC delivers care and undertakes research and teaching on three Charité campuses: Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Benjamin Franklin. It is structured around eight […]

Aseptika wins Innovate UK Smart Award to develop next generation of Smart Inhaler Tracker for patients with lung health conditions

People of all ages with asthma can halve the number of asthma attacks they suffer and become 15% better at taking their medication if they use a medical-grade App to manage their health.

CN Bio, FDA expand collaboration to evaluate the PhysioMimix multi-organ microphysiological system

CN Bio, a leading organ-on-a-chip company and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have expanded their collaboration for the second time, with new research aiming to evaluate multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPS) and their applications using the PhysioMimix Multi-organ System. Building on the success of prior studies, the system will initially be investigated for improving […]

Ten-minute scan enables detection and cure of the commonest cause of hypertension

Doctors at Queen Mary University of London and Barts Hospital, and Cambridge University Hospital, have led research using a new type of CT scan to light up tiny nodules in a hormone gland and cure high blood pressure by their removal. The nodules are discovered in one-in-twenty people with high blood pressure.

Engineers develop wearable sensor that uses ultrasound to provide cardiac imaging on the go

Engineers and physicians have developed a wearable ultrasound device that can assess both the structure and function of the human heart. The portable device, which is roughly the size of a postage stamp, can be worn for up to 24 hours and works even during strenuous exercise.

Differences in gut microbiome linked to risk of death in COVID-19 patients with respiratory failure

In early 2020, Bhakti Patel, MD, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at the University of Chicago Medicine, and Matthew Stutz, MD, who was a critical care fellow at the time, had an idea for a research project. They wanted to study the gut microbiome of patients admitted to the ICU to see if it […]

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Holding information in mind may mean storing it among synapses

Comparing models of working memory with real-world data, MIT researchers find information resides not in persistent neural activity, but in the pattern of its connections.

The New York Genome Center launches the MacMillan Center for the Study of the Non-Coding Cancer Genome

The New York Genome Center (NYGC) has launched of the MacMillan Center for the Study of the Non-Coding Cancer Genome (MCSNCG), a major new initiative in cancer research to study the role and function of the non-coding genome and epigenome in the evolution, progression, and treatment of multiple cancer types, including breast, ovary, pancreas, gastrointestinal, […]