The Living Lab Structural Biology Center was formed through a cooperative research and development agreement between the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Md., and FEI, in Hillsboro, Ore., a scientific instruments company, to help accelerate medical discoveries relating to global health challenges, such as cancer and HIV/AIDS. The lab will utilize near-atomic resolution microscopy and other structural biology technologies.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with several association and industry partners, has launched Million Hearts, an initiative that aims to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes in the U.S. over the next five years. Currently, cardiovascular disease (CVD) costs $444 billion every year in medical costs and lost productivity for people living in the U.S.
The patient history and clinical examination often sufficed for patients presenting to the emergency department, according to a study published as a research letter online Aug. 8 in
Archives of Internal Medicine. The authors suggested that the decision to order advanced imaging studies, such as CT, be based on clinical data for this population.
Combining two imaging agents with dual isotope SPECT/CT provides diabetic patients an excellent infection screening method that has already spared a number of patients from aggressive amputation of infected feet, according to an ongoing study presented at SNM's 58th annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
In diabetic patients, fatty acid metabolism or perfusion mismatch obtained from dual SPECT using I-123 beta-methyl iodophenyl pentadecanoic acid (BMIPP)-TL, a medical isotope bound with an agent that is metabolized by the heart to image the fatty acid uptake of heart muscle cells, is a useful prognostic tool for adverse cardiac events, according to a study presented this week at the SNM’s annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
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