Medical Diagnostics Articles
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Oxygen for Patient Care and Manufacture of Covid-19 Vaccines
In the Focus: Inmatec Gasetechnologie Gmbh & Co.Kg Medical oxygen plays an important role in coping with the corona crisis. It is used worldwide to treat Covid patients and is now also used to manufacture life-saving vaccines. With self-sufficient O2 generation, hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers secure the supply and reduce their costs at the same time. Medical oxygen has been used ...
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8 Health Benefits of Taking Probiotics
Probiotics refer to a certain number of live microorganisms that can have a beneficial effect on the health of the host. At present, there are more than 20 kinds of probiotics used in China, mainly including Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, Clostridium butyricum, Saccharomyces boulardii, Enterococcus, Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus cereus. Probiotics have eight major functions. 1. Maintain ...
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Accurate Tracking of Pressor and Fluid Changes - Case Study
A head-to-head comparison undertaken during liver transplant in a 66 year-old woman demonstrates that the Retia Argos Monitor accurately tracks pressor and fluid changes where the leading competitor monitor fails. As shown, the Retia Monitor accurately tracks the discordant changes between mean blood pressure and CO measurements that result from the use of vasopressor medications. The leading ...
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New blood-based CRC test is more than 90% accurate, study says
A study of Universal Diagnostics' blood-based colorectal cancer test found it was more than 90 percent accurate, the company announced June 3. The blood test was found to detect colorectal cancer with 92 percent sensitivity and 97 percent specificity. It also was shown to have 89 percent sensitivity and 97 percent specificity detecting early-stage cancer. The test uses single target sequence ...
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New Breast Imaging Technology: The Koning Difference
Revolutionizing breast cancer detection Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in women in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer death in American women.1 It is also treatable if detected early enough. While there are various cancer detection modalities available, current breast imaging devices fail to expose as much as 35% of breast cancers and that number increases to ...
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A hybrid modeling approach for assessing mechanistic models of small molecule partitioning in vivo using a machine learning integrated modeling platform
Prediction of the first-in-human dosing regimens is a critical step in drug development and requires accurate quantitation of drug distribution. Traditional in vivo studies used to characterize clinical candidate’s volume of distribution are error-prone, time and cost intensive and lack reproducibility in clinical settings. The paper demonstrates how a computational platform integrating ...
By VeriSIM Life
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Q&A with Dr. Veronica Iatarola Antas, Research Scientist and Project Lead at Regeneus
Q. Tell us about your role as a Research Scientist and Project Lead at Regeneus? A. My role is extremely diverse and has evolved over my time at Regeneus. Initially, I was responsible for optimising our product manufacturing processes, including manufacturing products for our preclinical and clinical trials. For example, I provided the data to support preclinical studies that evaluated ...
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FluGen Awarded US Department of Defense Funding to Conduct Clinical Study Evaluating Investigational M2SR Flu Vaccine and Current Standard-of-Care High Dose Vaccine
Study is the Company’s first trial evaluating ability of M2SR and the current licensed standard of care to protect against drifted virus strains, and its second study in older adults, a population most vulnerable to mortality from flu – Safety and immunogenicity study expected to begin in Q2 2022 – MADISON, Wis., July 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — FluGen, Inc., a clinical-stage ...
By FluGen, Inc.
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On a Mission to ZERO False-Positive Blood Cultures
Improve sepsis testing accuracy. Enhance patient safety. These are the driving forces behind Magnolia Medical Technology’s Mission to ZERO. Mission to ZERO™ is a nationwide plan to create greater awareness of patient safety and antibiotic-associated risks caused by false-positive diagnostic test results for sepsis. The goal is to initiate change by improving national blood culture ...
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How to Manage Concept to Production for Medical Optics
The global market for medical optical devices is continuing its steady growth and now accounts for an increasingly large proportion of the worldwide $593 billion photonics market. Optical assemblies are widely used in many areas of medical devices for all stages of diagnosis and treatment and are the key to offering more precise surgery, more accurate diagnostics and minimally invasive ...
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Fabrication Of In-Vitro Phenotypically Stable Engineered Articular Cartilage
Researchers from IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT) used their REGENHU bioprinters to fabricate an in vitro phenotypically stable engineered articular cartilage by embedding human bone marrow-derived stromal cells (hMSCs) in a cell-laden silk fibroin–gelatin (SF-G) bioink. The bioprinted constructs allowed the in vitro study of chondrogenic ...
By Regenhu
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How COVID-19 affected global air quality?
The years 2020-21 are some of the most challenging years experienced by humankind. While the people of Earth recover from the hard blow of COVID-19, they also witnessed several large-scale wildfires. As a result, we observed both the positive and negative impacts on the ambient air quality. The wildfire occurrences severely deteriorated the air quality. In contrast, country-wide complete and ...
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Should You Offer Multi-night Home Sleep Testing?
Newer technologies make studying patients for more than one night easier than ever. What are the pros and cons? Sleep is complicated, and many reasons could account for irregularities in sleep patterns from one night to another. From alcohol to sleeping position, even seemingly minor changes in a person’s nighttime routine can significantly impact the results of polysomnography. Recently, ...
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Why Cold Chain is Important to Vaccines
The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the world’s health system and organization. To control and prevent this virus and others of its kind, vaccination has been adopted as an effective way to protect public health. Vaccines are chemical and biological products, which means they are sensitive to both cold and heat and must be kept in cold storage throughout the vast cold ...
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FluGen Initiates NIH-Funded Trial of M2SR Flu Vaccine; First Study in Adults Up to Age 85
Study will measure immune responses to matched and drifted virus strains in older adults, a population that is most vulnerable to mortality from flu – Topline data expected in 1H 2022 – MADISON, Wis., May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — FluGen, Inc., a clinical-stage vaccine company transforming vaccine efficacy in infectious respiratory diseases, today announced the initiation of the ...
By FluGen, Inc.
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Optical vs EM tracking in Neuronavigation
Computer-aided surgery is used in a daily clinical workflow for safer surgical interventions. Navigation systems work based on a tracking model, which helps in the correlation of a patient’s coordinates to the preoperative or intraoperative digital medical imagery. There are two main types of navigation systems available in the market today. They are the infrared (optical) systems and ...
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Landmark study confirms that controlled blood pressure is key to prevent stroke, heart disease
Follow-up data from the landmark SPRINT study of the effect of high blood pressure on cardiovascular disease have confirmed that aggressive blood pressure management — lowering systolic blood pressure to less than 120 mm Hg — dramatically reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, and death from these diseases, as well as death from all causes, compared to lowering ...
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Trimmed for health from the roof to the basement – Germany’s first office Low-Infection Building® with UVENTIONS
Washing our hands, wearing mouth and nose protection and keeping our distance have become second nature to us since last year. A new milestone in infection control has now been set by a project initiated by the Markstein Group, which is setting up the first office building in Germany as a Low-Infection Building®. Our UVPANEL from UVENTIONS is part of this project and will ensure the ...
By UVENTIONS
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Philly Pharmacologists are Developing a Promising Pain-Relieving CBD Analog Drug
Scientists from Temple’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine and local biopharma company Neuropathix are testing their compound, KLS-13019, which is intended to target chemotherapy-induced pain in cancer patients. Sara Jane Ward, assistant professor of pharmacology at Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine, and Douglas Brenneman, chief pharmacologist at Neuropathix, discuss ...
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Mic and Myra Prove Flexible and Reliable in Regional Mobile Labs
Mic qpcr cycler and Myra liquid handler have been put through their paces in COVID-19-testing field trials in regional Western Australia and found to be noticeably robust, rapidly deployable and flexible. These results have been outlined in a recent paper, Development, deployment and in-field demonstration of mobile corona virus SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic acid amplification test, published by Paton, ...
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