Breakthrough in Medical News

Los Angeles Cosmetic Dentist Sam Muslin's Breakthrough Procedure: Face Lift Dentistry

LOS ANGELES, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- If you're considering cosmetic dentistry or a surgical face lift, get the best possible results with Face Lift Dentistry, a breakthrough procedure that combines the ultimate dental technologies to ensure the complete health and optimal appearance...

Brooks Instrument Introduces New Liquid Vaporizer Solutions Breakthrough Vaporization Solutions for All Liquid-to-vapor Applications

Brooks Instrument, a world-leading provider of advanced flow measurement, control, and level solutions, is pleased to introduce a family of extremely high-performing direct liquid injection (DLI) vaporizer solutions. Designed for customers who require reliable liquid vaporization, the unique Broo...

Genetic Breakthrough Spells Hope for Lung Fibrosis Patients

Might help those with advanced disease buy time until transplant, study shows WEDNESDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) -- Genes that can help doctors predict when patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are becoming seriously ill have been identified by U.S. researchers, who said the fin...

Stemedica Discovers Significant Breakthrough in the Use of Stem Cells and Stem Cell Factors for the Treatment of Retinal Degeneration

Stemedica Cell Technologies, Inc., a leader in the manufacturing and development of clinical grade allogeneic adult stem cell technology, has discovered a significant breakthrough in the use of human stem cells and stem cell factors for the potential treatment of degenerations of the retina and r...

Veran Medical Enables Breakthrough 4D Navigation to Cancer Lesions at University of Virginia Hospital

ST. LOUIS, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Marc Sarti from the University of Virginia recently used the Veran IG4 Plug-N-Play Navigation System on multiple patients to target small cancerous lung lesions that were located in extremely challenging locations. Dr. Sarti's unique use of the 4D capabili...

UGA researchers achieve breakthrough in effort to develop tiny biological fuel cells

University of Georgia researchers have developed a successful way to grow molecular wire brushes that conduct electrical charges, a first step in developing biological fuel cells that could power pacemakers, cochlear implants and prosthetic limbs. The journal Chemical Science calls the technique...

Another McGill/JGH breakthrough opens door to early Alzheimer's diagnosis

A new diagnostic technique which may greatly simplify the detection of Alzheimer's disease has been discovered by researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital (JGH). Their results were published June 8 in the ...

A breakthrough in gastric carcinogenesis

Checkpoint with forkhead and ring finger (CHFR) is a mitotic stress checkpoint gene whose promoter is frequently methylated in various kinds of cancer. In gastric cancer, CHFR promoter hypermethylation has been reported to lead to chromosome instability (CIN) and genetic instability is one of the ...

Ovarian Cancer Breakthrough Heralds New Era of Treatment

Scientists identify cause of deadly tumors and predict life-saving developments could follow WEDNESDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News) -- Canadian researchers have zeroed in on the cause of a deadly type of ovarian cancer, a finding that could lead to successful treatment of the rare granulo...

Server Load PerformanceTest™ Breakthrough For AJAX Applications

Corporate IT or Web Performance Managers can rely on eValid's Fixed-Price PerformanceTest Services to validate the server capacity of their online applications with 100% realistic performance data, increase their ROI on limited testing bugets -- and learn the truth about the end-user experience -...

Clinical Topicals Makes Breakthrough Migraine Treatment Available Free to Soldiers

Soldiers Now Have New Weapon against Chronic Migraines from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder NEW YORK, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Clinical Topicals PHP announced today that it is making its new migraine treatment available free to military personnel returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...

Foundation for Hair Restoration Brings Breakthrough Surgical Technology to the U.S. and Announces Nationwide Expansion of Its Network of Top Doctors

MIAMI, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Miami and NY-based Jeffrey Epstein, M.D., FACS, one of the world's foremost surgical hair restoration experts, has recently established The Foundation for Hair Restoration and Plastic Surgery, Inc. (FHRPS), a nationwide group of top surgical hair restoration and pla...

Former U.S. Drug Czar, 4-Star General Barry McCaffrey, to Highlight Vanguard Breakfast Breakthrough Event 8 a.m. Friday, May 1, Washington Golf and Country Club, Arlington

ARLINGTON, Va., April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former White House Drug Czar, Four-Star General Barry McCaffrey (Ret), will highlight Vanguard Services Substance Abuse Treatment Centers' Breakthrough Breakfast with state, county, and local political and drug abuse treatment leaders and will sp...

RightSignature Announces Beta Launch of Breakthrough Online Document Signing Service

Users Sign Documents with a Mouse Significant Time and Cost Savings Over Fax and Overnight Envelopes First Public Demonstration Today at Amazon Web Services Start-Up 2009 in London SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- RightSignature Inc. announced today the beta launch of...

AcelRx Announces Initiation of Phase 2 Cancer Breakthrough Pain Program

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has initiated a Phase 2 clinical trial of ARX-02, a proprietary sublingual sufentanil NanoTab(TM) product candidate for cancer breakthrough pain control. The primary objective of this multicenter, r...

Pioneering medical nanotechnology offers new cancer breakthrough hope

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists from the University of Leicester could be potentially paving the way for the development of a powerful new strategy for both the early diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. The research is to use cutting edge nanotechnology to identify a pioneering...

AAI honors Chen Dong for breakthrough T lymphocyte research

HOUSTON - Back when scientists viewed immune response as an either-or process strictly divided between two pathways, each driven by a separate T helper cell, Chen Dong, Ph.D., and colleagues at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center helped uncover a surprising and pivotal third path ...

Ex-White House Drug Czar McCaffrey, U.S. Congress Drug Caucus Chair Cummings, CRC Health CEO Karlin Join Hopkins Researchers at News Conference April 17 on Breakthrough Study: Internet Video Drug Treatment as Effective as Traditional Counseling

BALTIMORE , FRI., APRIL 17, 10AM , INSTITUTES FOR BEHAVIOR RESOURCES, 2104 MARYLAND AVE. Demonstration During Event ; Major New Tool to Reach Additional Victims BALTIMORE, April 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four-Star General Barry McCaffrey, the former W...

Stem Cell Breakthrough May Lead to MS Treatments

Efforts produce human cells that might someday help repair damaged nerves THURSDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists say they've coaxed human embryonic stem cells into generating cells that might someday be used to repair nerves damaged by multiple sclerosis. The researc...

Revolutionary Breakthrough in Lip Augmentation: Valencia Plastic Surgeon offers Permanent Lip Implants as Injectible Alternative

No longer is a woman forced to suffer through painful and irreversible lip augmentation procedures for a poutier smile. Thanks to a revolutionary breakthrough in lip augmentation, Valencia plastic surgeon, Dr. Marc Lussier, is now offering the Perma Facial Implant™—a permanent (yet...

Saving Vaccines with SensoTech's Breakthrough in Vaccine Temperature Monitoring

Finally, there is a practical and affordable solution to meet the temperature monitoring requirements for vaccine temperature monitoring. SensoTech, the pioneers of embedded web-based wireless temperature monitoring, now offers a Vaccine Monitoring module. Simi Valley,...

Blue Highway Selects Invention Machine Goldfire to Fuel Product Pipeline and Sustain Breakthrough Innovation

BOSTON, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Invention Machine , a leading provider of innovation software, today announced that it has been selected by Blue Highway LLC to help transform ideas into commercial products that will drive radical innovation in medical diagnostics. A Welch Allyn company, Blue...

Aesthera Announces Breakthrough Innovations at 2009 American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Meeting

AAD Launches include New Technologies, Innovative Applications and New Clinical Data SAN FRANCISCO, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Aesthera today announced several new launches at the upcoming 67th annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology in San Francisco, CA. Aligned with the company's...

TB breakthrough could lead to stronger vaccine

A breakthrough strategy to improve the effectiveness of the only tuberculosis vaccine approved for humans provided superior protection against the deadly disease in a pre-clinical test, report scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in Nature Medicine 's Advance Onl...

Prosthetic Center of Excellence to Provide Breakthrough Technology to Rehabilitation Patients

Imagine technology so advanced that it may help stroke and other neurological patients to regain lost mobility and also may enable them to achieve greater independence than they believed to be possible. This highly sophisticated technology is now a reality at Prosthetic Center of Excellence (PCE...

Neurologist to Announce Breakthrough Headache Treatment

New Discovery Provides Migraine Relief in Minutes Without Side Effects or Pills PHOENIX and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Board-certified neurologist and migraine specialist Morton I. Hyson, M.D., will announce a revolutionary new treatment for migraines and chronic headaches, acc...

Nutrition 21 Launches Breakthrough Weight Management Product: Iceland Health(R) 'Appetite Control Formula'

Clinical evidence supports potential to reduce cravings, hunger levels, appetite, and food intake by as much as 25% PURCHASE, N.Y., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutrition 21, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXXI ), the developer and marketer of nutritional supplements under the Iceland Health(R) brand launched a p...

Oklahoma State University researchers make breakthrough against poxviruses

Stillwater, Okla. Smallpox has a nasty history throughout the world. Caused by poxviruses, smallpox is one of the few disease-causing agents against which the human body's immune system is ineffective in its defense. A major breakthrough by Junpeng Deng, a structural biologist in the Division ...

DHA Hailed as Breakthrough Treatment for Lowering Risk of Developmental Disorders in Premature Infants; Animi-3(R) Prescribed to Women Who Are Not Eating Fish

GORDONSVILLE, Va., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) have demonstrated high doses of DHA-dominant omega-3 fatty acids administered to premature infants via their mother's breast milk can reduce the risk of developmental disorde...

American Asthma Foundation Announces Breakthrough Discovery

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Asthma Foundation announced a research breakthrough that explains why tiny, household pests called dust mites are a major source of airborne allergens for patients with allergic asthma. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/2009...

A breakthrough in diagnosis of enteric lesions

Capsule endoscopy (CE), which is virtually a micro-camera, is a revolutionary diagnostic tool in diagnosing small bowel diseases, and CE can obtain 40-60 thousand images of the GI tract, though the number of the images for the lesions is smaller than 500 in most of the patients. The CE reader stil...

DR. MIRACLE'S Wins 2008 WWD Beauty Biz Award: Breakthrough Product of the Year!!!

My Goodbye Acne System NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ --Often called "the fashion bible," Women's Wear Daily (WWD) has recognized Dr. Miracle's for their significant contribution to today's beauty industry with its coveted Breakthrough Product of the Year Award in the mass skin care ...

50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology Will Feature Breakthrough Research in Blood Diseases

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society of Hematology (ASH), the world's largest professional association of blood specialists, expects more than 20,000 attendees at the 50th ASH Annual Meeting from December 6-9, 2008, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. The m...

Major North American breakthrough for dialysis patients

Montreal, Canada, November 27, 2008 Suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD), a growing number of patients at the Centre hospitalier de l'Universit de Montral (CHUM), have become the beneficiaries of a North American breakthrough: high efficacy hemodiafiltration (HDF). An extracorporeal...

Canadian cold/flu breakthrough remedy undergoes NCI-sponsored trial in leukemia patients

Cancer patients with their weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable when the cold and flu season hits. To help, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) is sponsoring a landmark trial to see whether a unique Canadian cold remedy COLD-FX can help. The trial will examine whether u...

BiomagScience Introduces Breakthrough Health Therapy Kits

Regenerating nerves, waking people from a coma, 6 year chronic sciatica back pain, 15- and 25-year chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia, whiplash, carpel tunnel, and rotator pain -- all these conditions were overcome using advanced magnetic therapy techniques developed by BiomagScience. ...

Global Scientific Research Collaboration Leads to Breakthrough in Culturing HEK 293 Cells in Animal-free Media

Joint study between leading researchers in academia and industry from US, Australian and European Researchers leads to discovery of method for promoting HEK 293 cell growth and productivity using protein derived from colostrum. Fort Collins, CO (PRWEB) October 28, 2008 ...

Science Fiction Has Become Reality with Remarkable Anti-Aging Treatment Breakthrough - Turning Back the Biological Clock in Aging

ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- This may sound like science fiction, but it is truly cutting-edge reality. Internationally acclaimed anti-aging Doctor, Al Sears MD, has become the first U.S. doctor licensed to provide TA-65 to the public through his private practice based in Roy...

A breakthrough in contrast-enhanced intraoperative ultrasonography

The present brief clinical report showed that Contrast-enhanced intraoperative ultrasonography (CE-IOUS) using a new microbubble agent, Sonazoid, can allow surgeons to investigate the whole liver with enough time and to find new metastases intraoperatively. Contrast-enhanced intraoperative ult...

A new breakthrough in timing of urgent endoscopy for gastrointestinal bleeding patients

It is widely accepted that urgent endoscopy for UGIB should be performed within 24 hour from the admission. However, within this period of time, it is still unclear whether it should be performed either very early i.e. within 2 hour or in a more delayed interval, such as after 6, 12 or 24 hour. ...