By Marilynn LarkinNEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Clinicians should not rely on fluorodeoxyglucose F18?labeled positron emission tomography (FDG-PET)/computed tomography (CT) imaging alone to evaluate lung nodules suspicious for cancer, researchers say.“Our study adds to growing evidence that (these) scans should be interpreted with caution and the results individualized to each patient,” Dr. Amelia M
By Will Boggs MDNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fecal-microbiota transplant (FMT) significantly improves symptom scores in patients with moderate-to-severe irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), researchers from Norway report."This is still an experimental treatment,” Dr. Peter Holger Johnsen from the University Hospital of North Norway Harstad told Reuters Health by email. “We know too little about what ch
By Kate KellandLONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.The investment - a personal one and not part of Gates' philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - will be followed by another $50 m
* Investment to be split 50-50 between fund and start-ups* Gates says some family members have suffered dementia* Alzheimer's and dementia affect 50 million people* Billionaire also plans grant for global data platform (Adds comment from Alzheimer's Society)By Kate Kelland, Health and Science CorrespondentLONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $
* Investment to be split 50-50 between fund and start-ups* Gates says some family members have suffered dementia* Alzheimer's and dementia affect 50 million people* Billionaire also plans grant for global data platformBy Kate Kelland, Health and Science CorrespondentLONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a
By Elisabeth O'LearyEDINBURGH (Reuters) - An imposing 19th Century building with elegant manicured lawns and sweeping views of the Edinburgh skyline seems an unlikely place to have earned the nickname "Dottyville" from one of Britain's most revered poets. But Craiglockhart War Hospital, now part of a Heriot Watt University campus on the outskirts of the Scottish capital, was where trauma
By Barbara GoldbergNEW YORK (Reuters) - Opioid drug abuse has killed more Americans than the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam wars combined, and U.S. veterans and advocates this Veteran's Day are focusing on how to help victims of the crisis.Veterans are twice as likely as non-veterans to die from accidental overdoses of the highly addictive painkillers, a rate that reflects high levels of chroni
By Nellie PeytonDAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Focused for decades on ending hunger, African countries have largely failed to address a rising obesity epidemic that could soon become the greater public health crisis, experts said as new data was released.A quarter of the world's 41 million overweight children under five live in Africa, a figure that has nearly doubled on the continent in
국토교통부는 오는 7일 인천 그랜드 하얏트 호텔에서 4차 산업기반 항행안전시설 세미나를 연다고 6일 밝혔다.항행안전시설은 항공기 운항에 필요한 거리·방위각·착륙 각도, 활주로 중심선, 공항 위치정보 등을 제공해 항공기가 안전하게 목적지까지 비행하도록 지원하는 필수 시설이다.이번 세미나는 위성기반 위치보정 시스템(SBAS) 인증기술과 유럽 항공교통 관리체계, 국내 항행안전시스템의 현재와 미래, 4차 산업혁명과 항행안전 미래전략 등의 주제로 진행될 예정이다.특히 유럽항공안전청(EASA)과 지멘스(Siemens)의 항행시설분야 전문가를 초청해 유럽 위성기반 위치보정 시스템(SBAS) 인증 노하우와 공항통신시스템 표준화·동향, 글로벌 적용사례등을 분석하고, 전문가들이 열띈 토론을 펼칠 것으로 예상된다.이 세미나는
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) - First-time mothers who have an epidural are more likely to have a vaginal birth without forceps or other interventions if they’re lying down rather than upright during labor, a UK study suggests.Researchers examined data on 3,093 women who had babies at 41 hospitals from 2010 to 2014. Women were randomly assigned to labor either lying down or upright.Overall, 41%
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) - First-time mothers who have an epidural are more likely to have a vaginal birth without forceps or other interventions if they’re lying down rather than upright during labor, a UK study suggests.Researchers examined data on 3,093 women who had babies at 41 hospitals from 2010 to 2014. Women were randomly assigned to labor either lying down or upright.Overall, 41