Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 23, 2013

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Doctors save boy’s life by ‘laser-printing’ airway tube

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Bioresorbable Airway Splint Created with a Three-Dimensional Printer

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 22, 2013

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‘Bed-of-needles’ super-grip plaster for surgical wounds

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 18, 2013

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Frog-like robot will help surgeons

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 20, 2013

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FDA approves first bionic eye

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 18, 2013

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A ‘Needleless’ Vaccination Even Mothers Will Love!

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 10, 2012

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Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do

Will Technology Replace Doctors? Not So Soon!

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 9, 2012

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What Your Breath Reveals

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 31, 2012

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Bionic Eye Restores Sight For Australian Woman Who Was Blind For 30 Years

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Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 21, 2012

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Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 22, 2012

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Meet the first organism to be entirely modeled on a computer

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First self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 28, 2012

Source: Speech Algorithms To Detect Parkinson’s Disease Reference: “Novel Speech Signal Processing Algorithms for High-Accuracy Classification of Parkinson’s Disease”; Tsanas, A.; Little, M.A.; McSharry, P.E.; Spielman, J.; Ramig, L.O; IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, published 2012, Volume 59, Issue 5, Pages 1264 – 1271; DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2183367; Link to [...]

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 15, 2012

 

 

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Vein grown from girl’s own stem cells transplanted

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Successful transplantation of tissue-engineered vein, The Lancet

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 14, 2012

 

 

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Cold virus holds promise as cancer therapy: study

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Cell Carriage, Delivery, and Selective Replication of an Oncolytic Virus in Tumor in Patients

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 17, 2012

 

 

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New Zealand firm to trial pig cells to treat Parkinson’s

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 16, 2012  

  Source: Under-the-skin microchip delivers doses of medicine  

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 16, 2011

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Light-activated cancer drugs tested

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National Cancer Institute

Cancer cell–selective in vivo near infrared photoimmunotherapy targeting specific membrane molecules

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 9, 2011

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Microchip implant monitors tumour growth

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 20, 2011

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Electrostimulation helps paralyzed man stand up

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 12, 2011

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Medtronic Receives Health Canada Approval for First and Only Cryoballoon Ablation Treatment in Canada for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 14, 2011

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Researchers Create Better Ways to Spot Cancer Cells

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 26, 2011

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Novel Effort To Fight Cancer With Cancer Cells

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Hydrophilic Agarose Macrobead Cultures Select for Outgrowth of Carcinoma Cell Populations That Can Restrict Tumor Growth

Three-Dimensional Culture of Mouse Renal Carcinoma Cells in Agarose Macrobeads Selects for a Subpopulation of Cells with Cancer Stem Cell or Cancer Progenitor Properties

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 4, 2011

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New blood test helps spot migrating cancer cells

A Blood Test for Cancer

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 29, 2010

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Experiments test if implant can block sleep apnea

New device proves more effective than defibrillators alone

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 14, 2010

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Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy for Mild-to-Moderate Heart Failure

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 4 , 2010

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Eye implant restores some sight to blind patients

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Subretinal electronic chips allow blind patients to read letters and combine them to words

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October  25, 2010

Source: ‘Superglue’ helps heart patients recover faster: study

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 26, 2010

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Lab made cornea offers new hope for restored vision

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A Biosynthetic Alternative to Human Donor Tissue for Inducing Corneal Regeneration: 24-Month Follow-Up of a Phase 1 Clinical Study

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 23 , 2010

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Scientists make cartilage transplants easier

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 22, 2010

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Study: Insulin Pump Better Than Injections

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Effectiveness of Sensor-Augmented Insulin-Pump Therapy in Type 1 Diabetes

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 12, 2010

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GE Is Latest to Make Handheld Ultrasound

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 5, 2010

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Artificial pancreas hope for children with diabetes

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Manual closed-loop insulin delivery in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: a phase 2 randomised crossover trial

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 21, 2009

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CyberKnife revolutionizes brain surgery

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CyberKnife background information

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 2, 2009

Source: New technique could revolutionize stem-cell transplants

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 27, 2009

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Vaccine implant destroys cancer tumours in mice

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 9, 2009

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Scientists Devise Early Treatment for Spine Injury

Effective repair of traumatically injured spinal cord by nanoscale block copolymer micelles

 

The challenge: offer to undergraduate students at John Hopkins University to design a better way to reconnect the breastbone or sternum after open heart surgery. The reason: a half-century-old technique of using steel wires that pierced the bone and pulled the halves together poses some risks to both the surgeon and the patient. The 11-member [...]