Un bucureștean de 39 de ani, aflat de doi ani pe lista de așteptare, a primit o inimă nouă, de la un tânăr de 17 ani, din Suceava, aflat în moarte cerebrală. Alte trei vieți au fost salvate de același tânăr sucevean, de la care alți pacienți aflațo pe listele Leggi tutto…
Mike Hunkapiller helped invent the DNA-sequencing machines that read the human genome. Now his company’s tools are decoding everything from insects to cancer cells. The biological code of mankind—three billion pairs of chemical “bases,” twisted clockwise into DNA’s iconic double-helix—was declared fully transcribed, at long last, 15 years ago. On Leggi tutto…
To me, modern healthcare should be about improving patient outcomes and offering patients as much choice as possible. All of us are patients at certain times in our lives. Shouldn’t we have greater input into how and where we are treated? When it comes to kidney disease, not all patients Leggi tutto…
Many websites, mobile applications, software solutions and similar solutions are offered for “free.” The services are free from the perspective that there is no cost to acquire or use the service. However, as the famous saying used commonly by the author Robert Heinlein goes “there ain’t no such thing as Leggi tutto…
Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. denture-wearing population suffer frequent fungal infections that cause inflammation, redness and swelling in the mouth. To better treat these infections, called denture-related stomatitis, University at Buffalo researchers have turned to 3-D printers, using the machines to build dentures filled with microscopic capsules that periodically release Leggi tutto…
Louvain-la-Neuve, 25 April, 2018 – IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.), the world’s leading provider of proton therapy solutions for the treatment of cancer, and UZ Leuven, today announce the installation of the first proton therapy units at the University Hospitals Leuven (UZ Leuven). This is the first phase of installation of Leggi tutto…
Mysterious new form of DNA seen inside human cells for the first time looks like a ‘twisted knot’ instead of a double helix Discovery of the ‘i-motif’ form of DNA was made by researchers in Sydney It is unclear what the function is but it could be for ‘reading’ DNA Leggi tutto…
The miniaturized ventricular assist device (VAD) was developed with funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and is ready for clinical trials. This is only the second surgery of this kind in the world, both times in the same Vatican-owned hospital. A team of cardiac surgeons at the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Leggi tutto…
La Centrele Ares, un pacient de 80 de ani a fost salvat printr-o intervenție maraton în care i-au fost montate trei dispozitive cardiace Mitraclip. Vârsta înaintată nu trebuie să însemne renunțarea la speranță, iar pacienții cu afecțiuni cardiovasculare grave, care au trecut de 80 de ani, pot avea în continuare Leggi tutto…
EchoStation Radiation free bone densitometry for the early diagnosis of Osteoporosis. Breakthrough echographic approach for bone characterization and micro-architecture assessment enables the scanning of the axial reference sites: Lumbar Vertebrae and Proximal Femur. The next generation device. EchoStation is based on the proprietary method R.E.M.S. (Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry), an innovative approach Leggi tutto…