Tag Archives : medicine

The world of medicine and healthcare is full of miracles, that sometimes even defy the simple rules of evolution and the same can be said in the case of Tatiana and Krista Hogan, the twins from Vernon, British Columbia, who are only joined from birth and share the same cerebral activities but also have different personalities, despite sharing the same [...]

Thinking about the patients who use medical marijuana, U.S. company launches refrigerant at the base of the marijuana. The Dixie Elixirs sell their products only for people with income, the prescription of marijuana for medical practice is legal in 14 U.S. states The goal is to provide manufacturers of the effects associated with use of the plant without [...]

Engineers at the University of Florida create a system to prevent patients who circumvent medical treatment. A pill equipped with a small chip that sends an alert when it was ingested would be the solution for those who forget (or refuse) to take their medication. The action is quite simple: inside a white capsule, common, is the microchip. Around [...]

Before advocated as an important part of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, mouth to mouth affect the procedure and reduces the chances of survival of patients with heart failure. Studies show a survival rate three times higher in people subjected only to the continuous chest compressions until help arrives. Therefore, the Ilcor (International Alliance [...]

In the Urology field, recent studies with Botox are reaching good results for the patients’ treatment with prostatic hyperplasia (benign increase of the organ that can cause difficulty to urinate) that don’t answer well to the medication or that present important side effects. According to José Carlos Truzzi, urologist from Unifesp (Federal [...]

Multifuncionais Systems and instruments of last generation developed for surgeries increase the patient’s safety, they perfect the monitoring of the anesthetic action, and they point new technological tendencies in three dimensions. But not just the robotics stands out at the hospitals. In the group of the small apparatuses, fundamental for different [...]

In spite of the researches in the area be quite recent and still little conclusive, the problem of the addiction in internet is old and it worries the doctors more and more, especially in relation to the children and adolescents. Now, researchers of Taiwan identified a group of conditions of mental health that can increase a child’s risk to develop [...]

With the exponential growth of the Web, it became difficult to index the information. The HTML language, which popularized the Web and it is used by most of the sites, doesn’t possess resources to allow attributing “meaning” to the information. The HTML tags are very limited in that sense. They just describe as the page should be exhibited [...]

How does the idea of a Micromagnetic-Microfluidic Blood Filter that selectively rips out the microbes that are linked to your blood cells and are killing you from the inside sound? A wonderful fantasy at its optimistic best or a marketing lie, if you are not much of an upbeat guy. But that is exactly what a team of researchers at Ingber Lab at Harvard [...]

Stem Cell therapy using cells derived from human embryonic stem cells is going to be extraordinary milestone in the field of medicines. US government has finally cleared clinical trial of a treatment for spinal cord injury using stems cells from human embryo. What is intriguing though is the timing of the clearance which not only comes after a delay [...]