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Betty Gallaher, RN, Why Human Factors Matter
Ms. Betty Gallaher RN
“Miss Betty” Gallaher was an emergency department nurse at the Coosa Valley Medical Center in Alabama for [MORE]
“I Once Was Blind, but Now I See”
Synthetic cornea
Taking a line from “Amazing Grace,” “Eye surgeons at the Rabin Medical Center in Israel have successfully implanted the [MORE]
Nanoparticle Injection to Slow Cartilage Loss
Nanoparticles may slow cartilage loss in Arthritis
“[Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and collaborating hospitals] attached an EGFR ligand called [MORE]
Breath Analysis for Breast Cancer and Its Subtypes
Electronic nose for breath analysis
Exhaled breath has some 2,500 chemicals that are potential biomarkers for diseases. To discover biomarker profiles [MORE]
Blood Test Better than Tissue Biopsy in Predicting Transplant Rejection
Liquid biopsy to detect acute heart transplant rejection
From the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Laboratory of Applied Precision Omics: [MORE]
New Material for Soft Tissue Engineering
New thermoplastic biomaterials
Elasticity and biodegradability are to properties that are difficult to engineer together. In this piece, a collaboration of [MORE]
Total Laboratory Automation, an Update
Total laboratory automation
Many of our readers will be familiar with total laboratory automation; this piece is a nice catch-up. “While [MORE]
Regenerating Motor Neurons
Designer protein helps paralyzed mice walk again
“In a new study, German scientists have restored the ability to walk in mice [MORE]
Urine Test for Asthma
Urine testing for asthma
Using mass spectrometry, a research group headed at the Karolinska Institutet has been able to sort out [MORE]
Deep Learning (DL) vs. Standard Machine Learning (SML) in Psychiatric Imaging
Machine learning vs. deep learning
From researchers at Georgia State University: “We conduct[ed] a large-scale systematic comparison profiled in multiple classification [MORE]
Disinfecting Robots, Update
Ava Robotics UV disinfecting robot
Disinfecting robots for cleaning hospital rooms have been around for at least a decade, though they’ve [MORE]
Cortisol in Hair as a Biomarker for Diagnosis
Measuring stress levels by analyzing cortisol in hair
“In a new study out of Linkoping University in Sweden, a team examined [MORE]
Clot Blasters
Nanodroplets and US for hard-to-reach clots
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technology for using nanodroplets and an [MORE]
Wearables after COVID-19 Has Passed
Covid 19 – still a concern for the heart
While the death toll from COVID-19 keeps rising, this piece from last [MORE]