In this second installment of Intel’s Jam Session, a panel of experts discuss the current trends, burgeoning innovations, and future trajectory of digital solutions for clinical practice and…
For their 2021 Future of Healthcare & Medicine conference, the MIT Club of Northern California invited founders, technologists, investors, and industry leaders who are working to build the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High-dose atorvastatin does not protect against contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients with kidney disease, Italian researchers report. “Statins have recently been proposed for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms 3 mm or smaller in diameter is difficult and risky — but it’s successful in over 90% of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Repeat cardiac catheterizations and use of vascular closure devices do not reduce femoral artery size at the puncture site or promote progression of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A substantial proportion of women with cervical cancer who receive curative-intent radiotherapy will soon develop pelvic fractures, clinicians from the University of Texas…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Magnetic guidewire navigation is feasible in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to results of a noninferiority trial performed in the Netherlands. Moreover,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nearly all patients have complications from chemoradiation for head and neck cancer, a study in the Archives of Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stent-assisted coiling of intracranial aneurysms significantly reduces angiographic recurrence, new research shows. But using stents also increases the risk of permanent neurologic complications…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Full assessment of carotid artery plaques requires more than one imaging modality, say researchers from the Netherlands. “Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging allows…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For diagnosing pulmonary embolism, single-photon emission CT (SPECT) lung scintigraphy is a viable alternative to CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA), and it offers advantages…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Core needle biopsies seem almost as accurate as open biopsy in detecting breast cancer, and less prone to complications, a meta-analysis has found.…
