The new Microsoft HoloLenspromises to make losing items a thing of the past Users can hold an object up to the glasses and say ‘track this object’ When they say, for example, ‘where are my keys?’ a screen will pop up saying where it last saw them It can also flash up an alert if...
Year: <span>2017</span>
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Efficacy and safety of non-immersive virtual reality exercising in stroke rehabilitation (EVREST): a randomised, multicentre, single-blind, controlled trial
Summary Background Non-immersive virtual reality is an emerging strategy to enhance motor performance for stroke rehabilitation. There has been rapid adoption of non-immersive virtual reality as a rehabilitation strategy despite the limited evidence about its safety and effectiveness. Our aim was to compare the safety and efficacy of virtual reality with recreational therapy on motor...
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Clinical usefulness of augmented reality using infrared camera based real-time feedback on gait function in cerebral palsy: a case study
Abstract [Purpose] This study investigated the effects of real-time feedback using infrared camera recognition technology-based augmented reality in gait training for children with cerebral palsy. [Subjects] Two subjects with cerebral palsy were recruited. [Methods] In this study, augmented reality based real-time feedback training was conducted for the subjects in two 30-minute sessions per week for...
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Could this medical breakthrough help cure Alzheimer’s? Scientists identify rogue proteins behind disease
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have identified how the neurological conditions develop differently between patients The finding could revolutionise medical treatment and even lead to new drugs About 850,000 people are living with Alzheimer’s in the UK, a figure expected to to rise to a million by 2025 The treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease...
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Apnea app spares the sensors
An experimental new app is designed to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea(Credit:monkeybusiness/Depositphotos) When doctors are trying to determine if someone has obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), they often get that person to sleep overnight in a lab while wired up to a variety of sensors. Known as polysomnography (PSG), this process records the patient’s brain waves,...
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Vaccine Shows Promising Results for Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients
TAMPA, Fla. – Immunotherapy is a fast growing area of cancer research. It involves developing therapies that use a patient’s own immune system to fight and kill cancer. Moffitt Cancer Center is working on a new vaccine that would help early-stage breast cancer patients who have HER2 positive disease. The HER2 protein is overexpressed in nearly 25 percent...
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Immunotherapy, gene therapy combination shows promise against glioblastoma
“Devastating” and “dismal.” That’s how leading researchers describe the present outlook for malignant brain tumors. The median survival rate for patients with glioblastoma multiforme, or GBM, is a mere 14.2 months. New research out of the University of Michigan supports combining two approaches to fight back against gliomas: attacking the tumor with gene therapy while...
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FDA To Speed Up Review Of Roche Tecentriq As Immunotherapy Treatment For Bladder Cancer
Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has announced that U.S. health regulators have agreed to grant priority review to its Tecentriq immunotherapy treatment for a type of bladder cancer. In a statement, the drug company said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted its Biologics License Application, or BLA, and agreed to priority-review the treatment. Tecentriq Tecentriq (atezolizumab)...
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Cancers Evade Immunotherapy By ‘Discarding the Evidence’ of Tumor-Specific Mutations
Discovery could explain widespread acquired resistance among patients treated with immune checkpoint blockade drugs. T-cells attacking a cancer cell. Results of an initial study of tumors from patients with lung cancer or head and neck cancer suggest that the widespread acquired resistance to immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors may be due to the elimination...
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Autoimmunity and infections: When the body fights itself
Basel-based doctors are on the trail of a possible connection between autoimmune diseases and infections: errors can occur when immune cells absorb certain proteins from pathogen cells. These findings were reported in the journal PNAS by researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, as well as colleagues in the...