Zika Virus Linked to Additional Brain Disorder

zika virus

The Zika virus may be associated with an autoimmune disorder that attacks the brain’s myelin similar to multiple sclerosis, according to a small study that is being released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 68th Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, April 15 to 21, 2016. “Though our study is small,…

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“Smart” Dressing Provides Doctors Warning of Wound Infections

Wound Infections

BiMedis has already featured a very interesting article about the clinical trials of the handheld autofluorescence imaging platform, PRODIGI. In recent times, several freshness indicators have been patented for food products which react to time and temperature, letting you know when something spoils. Now, researchers have developed a wound dressing that glows green when it detects…

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Misonix Launches New Vacuum Assisted Ultrasonic Wound Debridement Technology

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FARMINGDALE, N.Y., April 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Misonix, Inc. (MSON), an international ultrasonic surgical device company that designs, manufactures and markets innovative therapeutic ultrasonic instruments for spine surgery, neurosurgery and other surgical specialties, today announced the launch of its newest addition to the SonicOne® platform, SonicVac™. This is the first time that the removal of debris…

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Anxiety Disorders Could be Detected by Saliva Test

Anxiety Disorders

According to anxiety.org, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting an estimated 40 million American adults, yet only one-third of adults and one-fifth of teenagers actually receive treatment. TenseSense, a startup out of the University of Illinois, is hoping that a simple and quick way for detection may have…

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AdrenaCard, an Epinephrine Autoinjector The Size of a Credit Card

Epinephrine Autoinjector

EpiPens save lives in cases of anaphylactic shock by letting patients with severe allergies deliver epinephrine quickly and easily. Yet, a lot of people don’t carry them because they’re the size of highlighters and are easy to ignore or forget about. The AdrenaCard is a new easy to carry device from a startup company of the…

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Gene Identified that Helps Wound Healing

Wound Healing

Researchers at Ohio State University have pinpointed a human gene product that helps to regulate wound healing and may control scarring in people recovering from severe injuries and damage to certain internal organs. The protein, MG53, travels throughout the bloodstream and helps the body fix injuries to the skin, heart, lungs, kidneys and other organs…

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Israeli PolyPid Ready for Clinical Trials of Anti-Infective Surgical Products

PolyPid

PolyPid expects to use a $22 million cash infusion to get its surgical drug reservoir lead candidate into Phase III testing, while completing a trial for its doxycycline-loaded synthetic bone substitute. The latter, for BonyPid-1000, is expected to be sufficient to gain a CE mark by next year. BonyPid-1000 is expected to offer an alternative…

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Diabetes exacerbates loss of gray matter, cognitive function in Parkinson’s patients

Parkinson’s

  Diabetes seems to hasten the loss of gray matter in the brains of Parkinson’s patients, and the effect is readily observable in the frontal lobes, where higher mental processes such as decision-making take place, according to a small study published online Feb. 10 in  Academic Radiology. Myria Petrou, MD, University of Michigan, and colleagues…

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Johns Hopkins is first in US to offer HIV-positive to HIV-positive organ transplants

Johns Hopkins

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins is the first hospital in the United States to receive approval from the United Network for Organ Sharing to perform HIV-positive to HIV-positive organ transplants. With this approval, Johns Hopkins surgeons will be the first in the United States to perform an HIV-positive kidney transplant and first in the world to do…

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Why it took years for the FDA to warn about infections tied to medical scopes

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An outbreak at a Pennsylvania hospital in late 2012 should have been an early warning that a reusable medical scope was spreading deadly infections and nearly impossible to disinfect. But staff at the federal Food and Drug Administration lost the report, one of multiple missteps that allowed doctors and hospitals to continue using the scope…

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