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News With both devices, clinicians have first-breath detection of respiratory rate and end-tidal CO2 (EtCO2). Contributed Author:  Nonin Medical Inc. Topics:  Surgical

News For 28 days, patients used a Bluetooth-enabled medication delivery and monitoring tool called eRapid™. Contributed Author:  American College of Chest Physicians Topics:  Home Healthcare

Article "Foundry" is the newest 3-D printing software that allows designers to custom design products with several materials all at once. Staff Author:  Lexie Metzler Topics:  STEM

Japanese researchers announced Monday that they used stem cells to create viable mouse egg cells entirely in the lab. Scientists from the University of Kyoto coaxed skin cells into egg cells, which they then fertilized a...

News Results of a new study show that monitoring patients' postoperative functional recovery using a commercially available, wireless activity tracker is feasible, and strongly correlates with patients' reported postoper...

News The smart textile, which is easily scalable for the fabrication of industrial quantities, generates a mechanical work capacity and a power output which higher than that produced by human muscles. Contributed Author:...

Walking has long been considered as a great form of physcal activity. If you're having trouble meeting the 10,000-step requirement, researchers want you to keep this in mind: less can be more.

The launch of 'Stall Catchers' has revolutionized Alzheimer's research. The online game invokes the support of the public by watching videos in order to spot dysfunctional blood vessels of infected mice.

New research found a link between increased body mass index and type 2 diabetes, suggesting that being less in shape doubles the risks of developing liver cancer later in life.

Product Announcement The device is constructed using a multi-wire braided catheter that is designed to enable the healthcare professional to rotate the device in small, controlled movements in both clockwise and counterc...

News This prospective, multi-center study enrolled 19 patients at three institutions, who underwent a CT scan 12 and 24 months after receiving minimally invasive SI joint fusion with decortication and bone grafting. Cont...

News The researchers say the fiber may serve as a long-lasting implant that would bend and twist with the body without breaking down. Contributed Author:  Jennifer Chu, MIT News Topics:  Implantables

News The technique involves using a standard endoscopy system with a novel set of camera filters, increasing the number of colours that can be visualised during endoscopy. Contributed Author:  EurekAlert! Topics:  Medi...

(American College of Chest Physicians) At the CHEST Annual Meeting 2016 in Los Angeles, results from an online questionnaire sent to members of the American College of Chest Physicians earlier this year revealed that per...

(University of Adelaide) Babies born to women aged 40 and over from assisted reproduction have fewer birth defects compared with those from women who conceive naturally at the same age, according to new research from the...

(Boston University Medical Center) Boston Medical Center (BMC), in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) and the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), has launched a new opioid urgent c...

(American College of Chest Physicians) A study from St. Barnabas Hospital (SBH Health System Bronx) analyzed the perceptions and attitudes of the health care team about family presence during resuscitation. These attitud...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Jeffrey P. Kahn, PhD, MPH, the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

(Weill Cornell Medicine) Chemotherapy is indicated as the first line of treatment for advanced bladder cancer. New research by Weill Cornell Medicine and University of Trento scientists shows that while chemotherapy kill...

(American College of Chest Physicians) Adherence to inhaled and oral therapies for cystic fibrosis patients is discouragingly low, ranging 31-35 percent for inhaled antibiotics. Programs to enhance adherence have had mix...

(American College of Chest Physicians) Two studies will be presented during the CHEST Annual Meeting 2016 in Los Angeles that illustrate how something as simple as a patient's resting heart rate or handgrip strength can ...

(American College of Chest Physicians) A study from Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois, studied the relation of death from sepsis by geographic region with the location of critical care fellowship train...