Medical Research
$129 million funding raised from global venture firms and strategic investors including Horizons Ventures, I-MED Radiology and Sonic Healthcare in one of Australia’s largest Series B funding rounds ever. New pathology Joint...
Brian Shelton’s life was ruled by Type 1 diabetes. When his blood sugar plummeted, he would lose consciousness without warning. He crashed his motorcycle into a wall. He passed out in a customer’s yard while delivering mail. Following...
A research team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock led by Audrey H. Calderwood, MD, MS, director of the Comprehensive Gastroenterology Center, and associate professor of medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Institute for...
Robust Artificial Intelligence Tools to Predict Future Cancer
January 28, 2021 - Researchers created a risk-assessment algorithm that shows consistent performance across datasets from US, Europe, and Asia. To catch cancer earlier, we need to predict who is going to get it in the future. The complex...
A cheap and widely available drug used as an antidepressant now also appears to be a lifesaving covid-19 treatment. In a newly published, large-scale clinical trial, the drug fluvoxamine was shown to reduce the risk of prolonged...
Exclusive: combination of drugs causes tumours to vanish in some terminally ill patients, study finds A new cancer treatment can wipe out tumours in terminally ill head and neck cancer patients, scientists have discovered. In a landmark...