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News Understanding how these proteins come together to form capsids may help researchers to make similar nanocontainers for a variety of uses, including targeted drug delivery. Contributed Author:  Carnegie Mellon Unive...

News The study tested how medical device plastics reacted to hospital disinfectants-- incompatibility could lead to infection. Staff Author:  Lexie Metzler Topics:  Surgical

News The study demonstrates that ABPs targeting the cysteine cathepsins offer a rapid, non-invasive way to image atherosclerotic disease progression and plaque vulnerability. Contributed Author:  Society of Nuclear Medi...

News Researchers show the results of simulations depicting various laser wavelengths aimed at virtual bacterial colonies buried in gum tissue. Contributed Author:  New York Institute of Technology Topics:  Surgical

Product Announcement The New 100 Series couplings offer 1/16" flow capacity and are available in a durable natural Acetal (POM) thermoplastic or a medical grade, gamma sterilizable Polypropylene. Contributed Author:  Li...

News Gollakota and his grad students built their Wi-Fi contact lens to demonstrate the potential for their technology, known as backscatter, to improve medical devices. Contributed Author:  Tom Simonite, MIT Technology ...

Product Announcement This pin is ideal for applications where greater compliancy is desired. It can compensate for problematic tolerance stack ups in assemblies featuring board-to-board or device-to-board connections. Co...

For children in their pre-teen years, the CDC is recommending a different dosage schedule for the HPV vaccine, simplifying the vaccination process touted to protect against certain types of cancers.

News It is envisioned that the devices could be implanted in the human body, including the brain, Contributed Author:  Sputnik News Topics:  Medical Diagnostics

News The device is known to fail without any warning, leading to patients becoming unconscious. Staff Author:  Lexie Metzler Topics:  Home Healthcare

Mental Health America's annual report revealed better access to mental health care in the country. However, more than half of adults with mental illness are still not getting the treatment they need.

News Although the water in the circuits does not come into direct contact with the patient, there is the potential for contaminated water to enter other parts of the device. Contributed Author:  U.S. Food & Drug Adminis...

News This new system utilizes Industry 4.0 concepts for exceptional flexibility and gives medical device manufacturers positive control of secondary packaging. Contributed Author:  PR Web Topics:  STEM

(Scripps Research Institute) In a discovery that advances the understanding of how marijuana works in the human body, an international group of scientists, including those from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research ...

(Clemson University) The Clemson family has gained a new namesake: Legionella clemsonensis, a novel strain of the Legionella bacteria, the most common cause of waterborne bacterial outbreaks in the United States.

(Emory Health Sciences) In the first genome-wide association study of genetic risk factors for inflammatory bowel disease in African Americans, a research team has identified two regions of the genome (loci) associated w...

(New York University) Researchers from New York University show why fast-food menu calorie counts do not help consumers make healthy choices in a new study published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.

(Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health) Since 2011 the Syrian Civil War has led to one of the most complex humanitarian emergencies in history. In a study conducted by pediatricians from Belgium, Egypt, Qatar a...

(Allina Health ) Allina Health researchers find that late life care can be sustainable and improve quality of life for patients, families and caregivers.

(Henry Ford Health System) Most patients don't think an orthopedic surgeon is overpaid but they greatly exaggerate how much a surgeon is reimbursed by Medicare for performing knee surgery, according to a study of patient...

(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) A study by researchers from the Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles reveals a promising therapeutic target for improving lung function in infants. Their study, no...

(Griffith University) Griffith University researchers have discovered a potential way to create an antimicrobial drug that would stop one of the world's most prevalent foodborne bugs causing gastroenteritis in humans.