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News Medical speaks with Dr. Sandor Kasas, a lead researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Here we discuss his recent development of a novel and highly efficient method for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing using optical microscopy. The new technique, known as Optical Nanomotion Detection (ONMD), is an extremely rapid, label-free, and single-cell […]

To be competitive as a brand, it’s essential to constantly offer value to your customers. Customer value is what makes the wheels of commerce go around. It’s what makes your customers buy from you, engage with you, follow your accounts, give you positive reviews, and recommend you to their friends. If you’re familiar with our […]

Imagine that you are covering for a colleague over the weekend, and you get a call from a patient. The patient is a 36-year-old woman who is 3 days postpartum after a spontaneous vaginal delivery. She has a headache and just arrived home after hospital discharge. She’s calling because after using the blood pressure cuff […]

Closed Loop Medicine Ltd, a leading TechBio company, developing combination prescription drug plus software therapy products that enable personalized dose optimization, and Pharmanovia, a global pharmaceutical company that commercializes novel medicines and revitalizes, extends and expands the lifecycle of established medicines, announced today that they have entered a global co-development partnership. The partnership will initially […]

There are two core metrics that should drive a lot of the decisions you have in your organization; churn & sales. A great agency is constantly studying these two numbers diagnosing them from every angle learning specific areas of opportunity. The more you are able to understand these numbers and what they are composed of […]

Lebrikizumab, an interleukin (IL)-13 inhibitor under investigation for adult and adolescents with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis (AD), was efficacious in improving facial and hand dermatitis in a secondary analysis of randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 trials of the drug, Jenny E. Murase, MD, reported at the annual Revolutionizing Atopic Dermatitis conference. At week 16 […]

More than 40 traumatic brain injury experts were surveyed on the use of prognostication and withdrawal of care decisions in severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The survey results are published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Neurotrauma. Gregory Hawryluk, MD, PhD, Akron General Hospital, and coauthors surveyed panelists from the Seattle International Severe Traumatic Brain Injury […]

The anti-amyloid agent lecanemab (Leqembi, Eisai) and associated ancillary services could add an estimated $2 to $5 billion annually to Medicare spending, with substantial out-of-pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries who don’t have supplemental coverage, a new cost analysis suggests. “These additional costs could strain the Medicare program and its beneficiaries, who may face rising premiums […]

Finding, cultivating, and bioengineering organisms that can digest plastic not only aids in the removal of pollution, but is now also big business. Several microorganisms that can do this have already been found, but when their enzymes that make this possible are applied at an industrial scale, they typically only work at temperatures above 30 […]

Statins have disease-modifying potential in people with non-cirrhotic chronic liver disease (CLD) by reducing the risk for progression to severe liver disease, new research shows. The Swedish population-based study found that adults with non-cirrhotic CLD who were on statin therapy had a statistically significant 40% lower risk of developing severe liver disease compared with matched […]