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(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the German Center for Lung Research, have discovered that the number of myeloid-deriv...

EpiPen's sporadic price hike evoked shock and outrage from the public. Now, regulatory filings reveal that the hike was triggered by executives who wanted to jack up earnings per share.

The risk of heart attack increases when the dinner time is later than 7 p.m. According to a study, having dinner within two hours before sleeping at night could elevate heart attack risk by two times.

News One client is located in Russia and is coating their Urinary Dilator catheters in Moscow using Hydromer's proprietary medical coating. The second client is located in India and is coating their polypropylene Intraoc...

Researchers estimate that as many as 2.6 billion people in Asian and African countries are at risk of Zika outbreaks. This is based on an analysis of travel, climate and mosquito patterns related to ongoing transmissions...

(University of Helsinki) Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive form of blood cancer. Cooperation between Finnish and Chinese research groups has now opened up new opportunities for developing treatments ...

(University of Würzburg) Inhibiting a protein called Sclerostin could probably help treating the bone-loss disease osteoporosis. New findings at the University of Würzburg could stimulate this research.

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) An ERC double for the MDC: Dr. Jan Philipp Junker and Dr. Gaetano Gargiulo have each been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth €1.5 million. Jun...

(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) Hibernation has long been considered the secret behind the relatively long lifespan of the edible dormouse. However, a team of researchers from Vetmeduni Vienna has now shown...

(University of York) A pioneering study led by researchers at the University of York's Social Policy Research Unit shows that life story work has the potential to help people with dementia.

News One client is located in Russia and is coating their Urinary Dilator catheters in Moscow using Hydromer's proprietary medical coating. The second client is located in India and is coating their polypropylene Intraoc...

News The biometric earbuds incorporate Valencell's patented PerformTek biometric measurement technology, which enables an end-user to monitor multiple personal biometrics. Contributed Author:  Valencell Topics:  Wearab...

Parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific region may be vulnerable to outbreaks of the Zika virus, including some of the world's most populous countries and many with limited resources to identify and respond to the mosquito-...

(Umea University) Dr. Anna Rieckmann at Umeå University in Sweden has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The awarded €1.5 million will allow her to spend five years researching the ne...

(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ) In 2014, the susceptibility of gonococci to two of the recommended antibiotics for gonorrhoea treatment has shown signs of improvement, according to results fr...

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Scientists say the more foreign languages we learn, the more effectively our brain reacts and processes the data accumulated in the course of learning.

It's official; store shelves will be scrubbed clean of antibacterial hand and body soaps that contain certain ingredients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued a final ruling that bans soaps that contai...

News A report released last month by the New Jersey Department of Health uncovered 15 patients who developed enterococcal endocarditis after undergoing oral surgery using intravenous sedation. Contributed Author:  David...

A research group under the leadership of Linköping University Professor Markus Heilig has identified an enzyme whose production is turned off in nerve cells of the frontal lobe when alcohol dependence develops. The defi...

A research group under the leadership of Linköping University Professor Markus Heilig has identified an enzyme whose production is turned off in nerve cells of the frontal lobe when alcohol dependence develops. The defi...

A major part of the largest emergency vaccination campaign against yellow fever ever attempted in Africa has been completed, with more than 7.7 million people vaccinated in record time in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic...

Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical is set to receive an initial $20 million funding from the U.S. government to develop a vaccine for Zika. If the vaccine proves successful, the company could receive up to $312 mil...