Category: Features
Psychologists look to virtual reality to diagnose, treat visual vertigo
A team of psychologists at the Cardiff University in the UK is working to develop virtual environments to help with diagnosis and rehabilitation of people suffering from visual vertigo. The psychologists believe using virtual reality has “real potential” to diagnose […]
US FDA finds toxic substances in certain homeopathic teething products
Consumers are being warned by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) against the use of certain homeopathic teething products after it has found high amounts of a toxic substance called belladonna in some of the products, posing potential risk […]
US CDC warns travelers to China against H7N9 bird flu
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a new warning for those who are traveling to China in the wake of the recent bird flu outbreaks in the country. The US CDC says the H7N9 strain […]
Lundbeck turns to shark antibodies to develop new brain drugs
Denmark-based international pharmaceutical company Lundbeck looks to shark antibodies for new possible ways of developing drugs to fight brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, after an early research with privately-owned US biotech firm Ossianix proved to be successful in getting drugs […]
Repurposed AI identifies skin cancer as accurately as trained specialists
Artificial intelligence (AI), repurposed from software developed by tech giant Google, is able to identify skin cancer through photographs as accurately as trained specialists, according to a study by a team of scientists in the Stanford University in the US. […]
Boston Scientific launches online training portal for interventional cardiology
Boston Scientific, a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices, has launched the EDUCARE Virtual Training Institute (VTI) for interventional cardiology, a non-commercial e-learning platform for procedural training of physicians, technicians and nurses from more than 100 countries. The […]
Brazil records sharp increase in yellow fever cases
There has been a sharp rise in the number of yellow fever cases in Brazil, the country’s health officials said, reporting 63 confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne illness so far this year, up from seven cases in the whole of […]
UK doctors are leading the way in the use of compact neonatal MRI scanners
Doctors at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital – located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in England – are paving the way for the use of a compact neonatal MRI scanner designed for imaging the brains of premature babies. The machine at the […]
New bird flu virus subtype confirmed after outbreak in German farm
A new subtype of the bird flu virus has been confirmed after an outbreak in a farm in north Germany. The new strain called H5N5 was found on a turkey farm in Germany in Steinburg in the northern state of […]
Egypt approves military’s entry into pharmaceutical industry
Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has approved the entry of country’s military into the pharmaceutical industry. Egypt’s military has obtained the required license they would need to form a pharmaceutical company, as decreed by Ismail. The country’s military has often […]
