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News By adding a synthetic ceramide analogue, LCL-461, the researchers were able to reactivate mitophagy and kill drug-resistant AML cells in a dish. Contributed Author:  Medical University of South Carolina Topics:  M...

News Ultrasound is one of the most widely used technologies in medicine today, with a broad range of applications that include imaging, blood flow measurement, cancerous lesion detection, bone densitometry and catheter g...

News Orbita is designed to help patients feel more connected and in control of their health. Staff Author:  Lexie Metzler Topics:  Home Healthcare

News The method can be used for purposes such as closely studying the effect of medical treatment using cancer inhibitors. Contributed Author:  Aarhus University Topics:  Oncology

Product Announcement Designed to withstand severe environments, the compact system is ideal for a wide array of industrial, medical and harsh applications requiring high speed image inspection, analysis and measurement. ...

Exposure to media is potentially damaging for children, especially toddlers. Aside from setting some 'ground rules', the conference of the American Association of Pediatrics did not impose a strict interval for the time ...

A location-aware mobile app saved a man's life after he entered cardiac arrest. The lifesaving app notifies people in the network who are nearby to intervene, in case of emergencies, before the paramedics arrive.

CDC updated its travel and testing guidance on Oct. 19 to apply recommendations to all of Miami-Dade County. The region is labeled as yellow, not red, which makes it a cautionary region.

News To discover biomarkers useful in detecting pancreatic cancer, the researchers decided to analyze the genes of proteins which were reported to have higher expression in pancreatic cancer tissues, as candidates. Contr...

News This evolving discipline has the potential to dramatically change medical science and is already having an impact in a number of clinically used therapies and diagnostics worldwide. Contributed Author:  University ...

Product Announcement The new IR thin-film coating enhances performance and improves efficiency of infrared sensors; in many applications the coating also seals and protects the device, eliminating the need for glass enca...

News MRI could potentially measure the concentration of different chemicals in the placenta and in fetal organs, which may have more diagnostic value. Contributed Author:  Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office Topics:  Medic...

News Our search for materials we might use led us to a surprising candidate - threads, just like what our clothes are made of. Contributed Author:  Sameer Sonkusale, The Conversation, Phys.org Topics:  Implantables

(American Association for Cancer Research) Among Japanese patients with esophageal cancer, those whose cancer tested positive for DNA from the bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum had shorter cancer-specific survival compar...

(University of Michigan Health System) Researchers conducted a cross-sectional chart review of 1,085 patients older than 18 who presented to the KATH emergency department within eight hours of an injury and found 382 sub...

(Baylor College of Medicine) A new mechanism in the mouse brain that regulates obesity.

(Wiley) A new article suggests that an enzyme deficiency seen in the lysosomal storage disorder Krabbe's disease may point to new and contributing mechanisms underlying certain late-onset neurodegenerative diseases such ...

(University of Liverpool) New research from the University of Liverpool highlights problems impacting on the cognitive development of children in sub-Saharan Africa.

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) A study in the current journal Oncotarget provides the first evidence linking a disturbance of the most common protein in the body with a poor outcome in pancreatic cancer.

(Baylor College of Medicine) Sunduing early disease events and the subsequent development of brain pathology in experimental animal models prevents Alzhemer's disease.

(Springer) Two new papers published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) reveal the importance of both the amount and timing of physical activity in reducing the risk...

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) Why do more women than men get Alzheimer's disease? In their quest to find the answer, neuroscientist Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D., and her colleagues in the Center for Innovation i...