by Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT researchers have designed a wearable ultrasound monitor, in the form of a patch, that can image organs within the body without the need for an ultrasound operator or application of gel. Credit: MIT MIT researchers have designed a wearable ultrasound monitor, in the form of a patch, that can image...
by Elana Gotkine For women with overactive bladder symptoms, supervised pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) does not provide additional improvement over bladder training, according to a study published online Sept. 18 in Neurourology Urodynamics. Sílvia Monteiro, from the School of Medical Sciences of the State University of Campinas in Brazil, and colleagues conducted a randomized...
by Sarah Avery, Duke University As many people know, bladder infections can be a painful and recurring condition, and those who are prone to the infections often report they have to “go” with greater frequency and urgency. These two related conditions are caused by an aberrant immune response that prioritizes repairing tissue in the bladder...
Anne Pelletier-Cameron, M.D., often jokes to her patients that she’s a female plumber of the lower urinary tract. On a more professional note, however, she’s a urologist in the Michigan Medicine Department of Urology. In this role, Pelletier-Cameron treats patients with a variety of lower urinary tract symptoms. Some of her patients have been diagnosed...
By ADAM FEUERSTEIN @adamfeuerstein MARCH 19, 2019 Vivek Ramaswamy, the hedge fund manager turned biotech entrepreneur, has raised billions of dollars to create a constellation of “Vant” companies that license and develop drugs from other firms. Five years and one spectacular Alzheimer’s drug blowup later, Ramaswamy finally notched a late-stage clinical trial win. It comes courtesy of Urovant, the urology-focused spinout from his Roivant...
Tests to detect urinary tract infections (UTI) often are performed routinely in hospitals, even when patients don’t have symptoms. Such testing “just to be safe” can return results that lead doctors to prescribe antibiotics when there’s little to no evidence to warrant such treatment. Now, new research indicates that making a simple change to the...
Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a test for urine, gathered during a routine procedure, to detect DNA mutations identified with urothelial cancers. IMAGE: The UroSEEK test looks for cancer mutations found in the urine from the ureter and bladder in samples taken during routine examinations. UroSEEK uses urine samples...
• Previously overlooked section of fusion found to worsen cancer cells • Scientists find section acts like a vacuum cleaner ‘hoovering up’ healthy parts of cell • Preventing’ signalling’ in cells may not stop cancer in studied gene fusion A study by the University of Warwick sheds new light on gene fusion in bladder and...
