For people with severe lung diseases, a transplant of a healthy organ is often their only chance of survival. However, donor lungs are in short supply. A new artificial lung could provide a solution.
A protective layer that is extremely picky about not letting harmful substances in can sometimes also keep useful things from entering the very space it is meant to protect. The body’s blood-brain barrier (BBB) is one such case. Designed to keep harmful toxins and pathogens in the bloodstream from making their way into the brain while still allowing essential nutrients to pass through, the BBB has become a formidable foe for drugs that need to be delivered to the brain.
High blood pressure affects nearly 1 in 8 people worldwide, and its impact goes far beyond a number on a blood pressure monitor. It can quietly damage the heart, kidneys and brain, making it one of the world’s biggest preventable health threats.
Parasites that contaminate food pose a major threat around the world, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries.
Shannon Knight, a brain and cognitive sciences PhD candidate and McGovern Institute researcher, focuses on developing a novel gene therapy.
The device utilises non-invasive ultrasound technology to track blood flow through the access point used by dialysis patients.
ANS-858 is being developed to reduce pathological craving associated with alcohol and other substance use disorders.
Animal trials show cartilage repair within four weeks following a single injection of chondrocyte spheroids
Filing targets TPN, propofol and other IV therapies where undetected infiltration
and extravasation can cause severe injury
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — GT Medical Technologies, Inc., a medical device company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with brain tumors, announced today that new data from a multi-institutional feasibility clinical trial across 15 institutions nationwide presented by Clark Chen, M.D., Ph.D., professor and director of the Brain Tumor Program at Brown University Health, suggest that a novel radiation therapy device may help improve outcomes for patients newly diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer.