• Axes of a revolution: challenges and promises of big data in healthcare

  AbstractHealth data are increasingly being generated at a massive scale, at various levels of phenotyping and from different types of resources. Concurrent with recent technological advances in both d

  2020-01-22

• Microsoft Aims to Connect Patient Health Records in the Cloud

  Health-care push also includes new uses for chatbots linked to research trials and drug therapies, and team chat to better coordinate patient care.

  2019-02-12

• China’s Potential HIV Contamination Revives Drug Safety Fears

  Concerns about potentially HIV-tainted blood products produced by a state-backed company, followed by conflicting information from regulators, is undermining confidence in China’s drug indus

  2019-02-12

• Merck Drug Found to Extend Lives of Brain-Cancer Patients

  Patients with the same aggressive brain cancer that killed U.S. Senator John McCain saw survival time double after being treated with Merck & Co.’s blockbuster immunotherapy drug Keytruda before s

  2019-02-12

• Surge protector: A novel approach to suppressing therapy-induced tumor growth and recurrence

  Dead and dying cancer cells killed by conventional cancer treatments paradoxically trigger inflammation that promotes tumor growth and metastasis. Researchers now describe a novel approach to suppressing chemotherapy-induced tumor growth in an ovarian cancer model.

  2019-01-16

• Sugary stent eases suturing of blood vessels

  A team has concocted a sugar-heavy stent to reduce the margin of error in a delicate surgical procedure.

  2019-01-16

• Safer and cheaper 3D medical imaging

  A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a promising way to significantly lower doses of X-rays that has the potential to revolutionise 3D medical imaging and make sc

  2019-01-04

• Tool for speedy diagnosis of bacterial infections

  Inexpensive biosensor provides instant and accurate resultsUsing a small and inexpensive biosensor, researchers at UBC Okanagan, in collaboration with the University of Calgary, have built a diagnosti

  2018-12-10