40+ min ago   (559+ words) Tissue microarrays have quietly become one of the workhorses of modern cancer research, allowing hundreds of tissue cores from different patients to be packed onto a single microscope slide and scanned in one pass....

1+ hour, 16+ min ago   (55+ words) Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies on the planet, striking roughly 17 million people each year, yet doctors still miss the mark often enough to matter. In about 13 percent of appendectomies, the removed appendix turns out to…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (596+ words) Medical implants save millions of lives every year, yet they remain vulnerable to two stubborn enemies: corrosion and infection....

11+ hour, 42+ min ago   (87+ words) Modern medicine produces an extraordinary torrent of information. Electronic health records, medical imaging archives, wearable sensors and biomedical research databases now generate data on a scale that no single clinician, hospital or even national health system can meaningfully digest. A…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (81+ words) The human digestive tract remains one of the most challenging environments in medicine to inspect thoroughly. Capsule endoscopy, in which patients swallow a camera-equipped pill that transmits images as it travels passively through the gut, has transformed diagnosis of the…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (743+ words) Bioengineer.org...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (109+ words) In a development that could reshape how hospitals catch one of their most silent and deadly complications, researchers in Taiwan have unveiled and validated an automated electronic alert system that detects advanced acute kidney injury in hospitalized patients with remarkable…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (141+ words) Lung cancer remains the deadliest malignancy worldwide, and the artificial intelligence systems designed to help radiologists detect it have long been constrained by the same stubborn problem: a shortage of high-quality training images, particularly for rare tumor types and subtle…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (682+ words) Wireless body area networks—the webs of tiny wearable and implantable sensors that track heart rhythms, glucose levels and blood oxygen in real time—have become the sensory backbone of modern digital healthcare. But the same open wireless links that…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (761+ words) In a development that could reshape how clinicians monitor lung development before birth, researchers in China have demonstrated that an advanced magnetic resonance imaging technique called diffusion tensor imaging can track the microscopic maturation of the fetal lung non-invasively....