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Lab-cultured cardiac cells
Three types of human heart cells have been grown from cultures derived from embryonic stem cells, by a team of Canadian, US and UK scientists. Read more …
GE’s portable ultrasound systems check USA’s Olympic athletes
As the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games nears, the US Olympic Committee (USOC) and the General Electric Company (a Worldwide Partner of the Olympic Games) are running two Read more …
From head to toe
The new Philips 256-slice Brilliance iCT came in to use recently at the University Hospital in Ulm. The system produces quick, high-res scans with 80% less radiation. Read more …
OPHTHALMOLOGY
Following 12 years of development, German surgeons and technicians have successfully implanted the world’s first vision prosthesis in six blind patients. Read more …
Image-guided radiation therapy
Artiste is a linear accelerator and CT scanner combined. At the German Cancer Research Centre, a team of scientists led by Professors Wolfgang Schlegel and Uwe Oelfke of the Read more …
Frost & Sullivan honours healthcare leaders at Berlin award banquet
Berlin, Feb. 2008 - Philips Speech Recognition Systems was among the 15 healthcare companies to receive Frost & Sullivan’s "Excellence in Healthcare Award" in Read more …
Aspirin “resistant” patients - increased risk of heart attack
According to a study that was recently published on bmj.com, researchers found evidence that a significant number of patients treated with low doses of aspirin for its Read more …
New technology enhances X-ray images
An innovative method to produce dark-field X-ray images was recently presented by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the EPFL in Switzerland. Dark-field images Read more …
World premiere at MEDICA
Over 15 million people are affected by strokes annually, and about five million of these (source: WHO 2004) are left with lasting damage. Read more …
Tracking TB bacterium from space
TB bacterium have a unique chemical coating and it is hoped that a tiny gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GC-MS) – a detection device* developed for the Beagle 2, on its Read more …
Osteoporosis screening at the dentist?
Researchers from the School of Dentistry at the University of Manchester developed a technique to identify osteoporosis from ordinary dental x-rays. The software-based method has Read more …
Stem Cell therapy repairs lungs in mice
At the Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), which took place in Stockholm, September 15-19, 2007, researchers from the Imperial College London, UK, presented Read more …
Effectiveness of multidrug combinations for chemotherapy
Professor Loennidis, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece, and a team of researchers examined 242 randomized trials, performed during the last fourty years and Read more …
ERS COPD Research Award 2007
Dr Morten Dahl, Herlev University Hospital Copenhagen, Denmark, and Simonetta Baraldo, Padova, Italy, won this year’s annual awards of The European Respiratoy Society (ERS), which Read more …
Development of potential Hepatitis C vaccine
The British Midlands’ University of Nottingham discovered a possible vaccine for use in the treatment of Hepatits C. At the 161st. meeting of the Society for General Microbiology Read more …
Digital mammography: Higher detection rate for DCIS
The Vestfold County Study, performed by Norwegian researchers, is the first large scale study comparing the results of a particular full-field digital mammography system (FFDM) Read more …
Insulin capsules – a promising alternative to injections
Researchers from the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, UK, presented a study at The British Pharmaceutical Conference, held from 10th to 12th September, 2007, at Manchester Read more …
PreventASe reduces acrylamide in baked foods
Several acrylamide scandals, especially in germany, lead to an increased awareness of the customers and to economical problems of manufacturers of e.g. potatoe crisps in the past. Read more …
Could a virtual game help pandemic studies?
USA – Online game worlds might prove useful for the study of a spread of human infectious diseases, according to scientists Eric Lofgren and Nina Fefferman, of Rutgers University Read more …
ESMO Lifetime Achievement Award
The Dutch Cancer Institute (NKI) has won the ESMO Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by The European Society for Medical Oncology, for its ‘excellent translational research Read more …
Long term research project of young children with asthma
Multiple-breath washout (MBW) is a new and sensitive lung function test qualified for use on very young children. In their study Asthma UK and the Institute of Child Health at the Read more …