Posts Tagged ‘medical diagnostics’
Health & Medicine - Dec 28, 2010 17:27 - 0 Comments
Why medicine hearts math
EMORY (US) — “The love between math and medicine goes back a long time,” says mathematician Alessandro Veneziani. Recent advances in computer imaging have brought the two even closer. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 4, 2010 10:48 - 1 Comment
Check breath for signs of sickness
STONY BROOK (US) — A new nanomedicine tool could make it possible to instantly detect and monitor disease by simply exhaling into a handheld device. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 2, 2010 22:50 - 0 Comments
Tool gauges bone’s fracture risk
UC SANTA BARBARA (US)—Physicists have developed a new tool to measure the strength and quality of bone. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 24, 2010 14:00 - 7 Comments
Consumer-grade camera detects cancer cells
RICE (US)—Using an off-the-shelf digital camera, researchers have created an inexpensive device that is powerful enough to let doctors easily distinguish cancerous cells from healthy cells simply by viewing the LCD monitor on the back of the camera. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 27, 2010 13:24 - 0 Comments
Glass slivers conduct current at the nanoscale
U. MICHIGAN (US)—On a very small scale, physics can get a little peculiar. Biomedical engineers have discovered such a nanoscale phenomenon and think it could lead to faster, less expensive portable diagnostic devices. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 29, 2010 16:25 - 0 Comments
Fluorescent compounds make tumors glow
VANDERBILT (US)—A series of novel imaging agents could light up tumors as they begin to form—before they turn deadly—and signal their transition to aggressive cancers. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 16, 2010 10:46 - 1 Comment
Blacks skip tests, despite high cancer risk
U. BUFFALO (US)—Blacks feel less at risk of getting cancer than do whites, but have the highest cancer incidence and mortality of all racial and ethnic groups. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 19, 2010 12:34 - 3 Comments
Poverty raises risk of postpartum depression
U. ROCHESTER (US)—More than half of low-income urban mothers show signs of depression at some point between two weeks and 14 months after giving birth, according to a new study. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 3, 2010 0:52 - 2 Comments
Super sensitive—and simple—heart scanner
U. LEEDS (UK)—A cardiac scanner being developed at the University of Leeds is expected to dramatically improve the process of diagnosing heart conditions. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 10, 2009 14:59 - 2 Comments
Optics may speed breast cancer diagnosis
U. ILLINOIS (US)—Waiting for laboratory results is often one of the most stressful aspects of a breast cancer diagnosis. A new optical imaging system aims to ease that stress by giving doctors performing lumpectomies real-time information on breast cancer tissue margins while still in the operating room. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 9, 2009 12:33 - 0 Comments
Speedier way to diagnose pneumonia
UC DAVIS (US)—Doctors may soon be able to diagnose the cause of pneumonia-like symptoms by examining the chemicals found in a patient’s urine. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 20, 2009 12:34 - 1 Comment
Infrared scanners scope out early cancer
U. FLORIDA (US)—Traditional endoscopes provide a peek inside patients’ bodies. Now, an engineering researcher is designing ones capable of “seeing” beneath the surface of tissues. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 23, 2009 4:22 - 2 Comments
Molecules star in holographic 3-D movies
NYU (US)–A new technique for recording three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video has the potential to improve medical diagnostics and drug discovery. (more…)
