‘As with a poem, each patient is unique’: the cancer surgeon using poetry to help train doctors
Jo ão Luís Barreto Guimarães, a breast cancer specialist and prizewinning poet, is pioneering the teaching of poetry alongside medicine to help trainee doctors empathise with their patientsIn an unremarkable lecture hall on a rainy Monday afternoon, C ândida Pereira is expounding passionately on the intricacies of a poem by the Portuguese politician-poetVasco Gra ça Moura. Her classmates listen closely as the second-year university student enthuses about lyric form, poetic voice and Moura ’s use of “perceptual imagery” and “sensual tone”. Nothing unusual for a standard poetry module, perhaps. Yet once the be...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Oliver Balch Tags: Medical research Health Science Portugal Source Type: news
Deepc acquires Osimis
Deepc GmbH has acquired the Osimis Platform.
The Belgium-based company Osimis was created following the success of Orthanc, an open-source DICOM server for healthcare and medical research, according to its website. Osimis has since become a vendor-neutral AI integration platform for radiology departments.
Last year, Osimis announced platform additions that included contextflow for chest CT, Lunit for mammography and chest x-ray, Milvue for scheduled and emergency radiographs, Pixyl for neuroimaging, and Therapixel MammoScreen for mammography screening. In April 2023, Osimis announced an AI in medical imaging (AIMI) ranki...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 16, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Lockdown diagnosis delays caused jump in skin cancer deaths, study suggests
Research finds greater proportion of people diagnosed with more advanced melanoma since Covid restrictionsDelays in diagnosis and treatment of a dangerous type of skin cancer because of Covid lockdowns resulted in more than 100,000 years of life lost across Europe and cost the economy more than £6bn, research has suggested.While lockdowns saved lives from Covid, ramifications of the restrictionsare apparent in many areas of healthcare, from lengthy waiting lists for surgery todelays in cancer diagnoses and treatment.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 16, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Skin cancer Coronavirus Health Medical research Doctors Source Type: news
Plan for US ‘mini-city’ of 30,000 monkeys for medical research faces backlash
Georgia residents and animal rights activists unhappy at proposal to house long-tailed macaques in sprawling complexA plan to establish the largest monkey-breeding facility in the US, which would allow 30,000 macaques to roam within outfitted warehouses in Georgia, is facing a furious backlash from animal rights groups and some local residents.The sprawling, 200-acre complex would house an unusually large number of monkeys, which will then be sent out to universities and pharmaceutical companies for medical research. Over the next 20 years, the facility will assemble a mega-troop of about 30,000 long-tailed macaques, a spe...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 16, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Oliver Milman Tags: Georgia US news Medical research Science Animals Source Type: news
Drug offers ‘wonderful’ breakthrough in treatment of asbestos-linked cancer
Medicine used alongside chemotherapy in trials quadrupled three-year survival rates for mesotheliomaScientists have developed a drug to treat mesothelioma, a notoriously hard-to-treat cancer linked to asbestos, in the biggest breakthrough in two decades.Thousands of people are diagnosed with the disease globally every year, which tends to develop in the lungs and ismainly caused by exposure to asbestos at work. It is aggressive and deadly, and has one of the world ’s worst cancer survival rates.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 15, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Cancer research Health Medical research Science Society Queen Mary, University of London UK news Source Type: news
Genetics may help explain Black men ’s high prostate cancer risk, say scientists
Exclusive: Researchers find mutations that are more common in men with African ancestry after DNA analysisScientists have discovered genetic mutations that could help explain why Black men are at higher risk of developing prostate cancer than those of other ethnicities. The findings could lead toa test to identify those at greatest risk of developing the disease, enhancing survival rates.Prostate cancer isthe most common cancer among British men, with about 52,300 new cases and 12,000 deaths recorded in the UK each year. Black men are twice as likely to be diagnosed and 2.5 times more likely to die from the disease compare...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 15, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Linda Geddes Science correspondent Tags: Prostate cancer Cancer research Medical research Science Genetics Race Society Health UK news Source Type: news
Adam Sillito obituary
Visual neuroscientist who transformed the Institute of Ophthalmology in London into a world-class centre of excellenceAdam Sillito, emeritus professor of visual science at the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, who has died aged 79, described one of his recreations in Who ’s Who as “dreaming of better things”. A lateral thinker who grasped the bigger picture, he carried out research into the mechanics of visual perception that yielded vital knowledge for future treatments. As director of the institute from 1991 until 2006, he transformed it from a backwater on the verge of closure to a world-class centre of excell...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Penny Warren Tags: Medical research Bridget Riley Science Neuroscience Baltimore Birmingham Source Type: news
Trial offers hope for millions that jab could prevent rheumatoid arthritis
An existing drug for the chronic disease could slow or stop its progression, researchers sayScientists have discovered a jab that could prevent rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a development experts say could offer hope to millions at risk of the disease.RA is a chronic disease that causes inflammation in the body and triggers pain in the joints. About 18 million people globally are affected by the condition, which can lead to heart, lung or nervous system problems, according to the World Health Organization.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 13, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Health Science Medical research Society UK news World news Source Type: news
Early blood test to predict dementia is step closer as biological markers identified
Scientists have found patterns of four proteins that predict onset of dementia more than a decade before formal diagnosisResearchers have taken a major step towards a blood test that can predict the risk of dementia more than a decade before the condition is formally diagnosed in patients.Hopes for the test were raised after scientists discovered biological markers for the condition in blood samples collected from more than 50,000 healthy volunteers enrolled in the UK Biobank project.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 12, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Alzheimer's Health Medical research Science UK news Source Type: news
Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karik ó review – real-life lessons in chemistry
This vivid account of the Hungarian biochemist who endured decades of derision before pioneering Pfizer ’s Covid vaccine is a tribute to her tenacity and self-beliefIn May 2013, Katalin Karik ó turned up for work at her laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and found her belongings piled in the hallway. “There were my binders, my posters, my boxes of test tubes,” she recalls. Nearby a lab technician was shoving things into a trash bin. “My things!” Karikó realised.Despite having worked at the tiny lab for years, the scientist – then in her 50s – was cast out, without notice, for failing to bring in ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 11, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie Tags: Science and nature books Vaccines and immunisation Culture Coronavirus Immunology Infectious diseases Medical research Society Health Microbiology Biochemistry and molecular biology Source Type: news
Power tools at the ready! The life-changing science behind hip and knee replacements
Thousands of people are given new joints each year in the UK. But can robots and smart tech soon make it a smoother procedure?Ian Doncaster is remarkably chipper for a man about to undergo major surgery. “I have a busy life. So it’s nice to have a break,” he jokes. It is 8.30am on a chilly December morning and here at Warwick hospital he is about to receive a new knee – or part of one.At 62, Doncaster has always been active: he played rugby when young, until a knee injury and subsequent operation meant he had to trade that in for a host of other sports. But now the knee is causing problems again. As a self-employed...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 11, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Health Doctors Human biology NHS Medical research Osteoarthritis Life and style Society Science Source Type: news
Asthma of the oesophagus: the alarming rise of a rare inflammatory condition
The little-known digestive disease is hard to diagnose but can affect swallowing and require emergency treatmentLisa Thornton was heavily pregnant and in her early 30s when she noticed the feeling of a blockage in her oesophagus, the muscular food pipe that connects the mouth to the stomach. “At the time, I just thought it was just the pregnancy,” says Thornton, now 50, who lives in the New Forest in Hampshire. “I thought it was everything pushing up. But a few years later, things started to get worse.”During a Sunday roast with her family, a chunk of broccoli suddenly lodged in her throat, causing spasms that pers...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 10, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Cox Tags: Science Medical research Diets and dieting Life and style Health Allergies NHS GPs Doctors Society Source Type: news
Prosthetic limb device enables users to ‘sense’ temperature difference
Swiss-Italian study finds MiniTouch can help people with amputations feel whether objects are hot, cold or in betweenWhether it is a simple handshake or a full-body hug, the warmth of another person adds a human touch to social interactions. Now researchers have created a device that allows people with amputations to experience such natural temperature sensations using their prostheses.The team say the innovation is a first and paves the way for integrating a host of sensations into artificial limbs.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Medical research Science Switzerland World news Health Society Source Type: news
Why are we still waiting for a male contraceptive pill? | podcast
Despite research into a male contraceptive pill starting around the same time as its female counterpart, no product has ever made it to market. But that could soon change, with a new non-hormonal male pill entering human trials in the UK late last year. Ian Sample speaks to bioethicist Prof Lisa Campo-Engelstein of the University of Texas and Prof Chris Barratt from the University of Dundee about why male contraceptives have been so difficult to develop, and what kind of options are in the pipelineContinue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Ian Sample, produced by Madeleine Finlay and Eli Block sound design by Tony Onuchukwu, the executive producer is Ellie Bury Tags: Science Medical research Contraception and family planning Health Men's health Women's health Society Reproduction Biology Source Type: news
Viagra may help to lower the risk of Alzheimer ’s disease, study finds
Research by UCL, which examined medical records of 260,000 men with erectile dysfunction, has provided ‘food for thought’After a decades-long and largely fruitless hunt for drugs to combat Alzheimer ’s disease, an unlikely candidate has raised its head: the erectile dysfunction pill Viagra.Researchers found that men who were prescribed Viagra and similar medications were 18% less likely to develop the most common form of dementia years later than those who went without the drugs.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Health Alzheimer's Viagra Medical research Science Source Type: news
