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Researchers at Stanford University have developed strategies on how medical trainees can deal with discrimination from patients and their families. One of these is putting the importance of the patient's health above all...

News Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine discovered how to use robotic and video game technology to help chronic stroke patients learn new motor skills. Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Neurology

A new study has confirmed the possibility for arm prosthetics to mimic the sensations patients have in their intact hands. The research connected the intensity of pressure with the electrical signals in the brain.

News A new bioceramic screw nail has the capacity of replacing the currently used metal components. It can be easily introduced into bone and does not have to be removed. Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Surgical

News Using this technology, researchers recreated and analyzed the effects of smoking at the molecular, cellular, and tissue level to understand the damage occurring in normal lung and in engineered lung tissues from pat...

News 3-D cultures are essentially small tumors, in which cells have limited supply of oxygen and nutrients. These models could be a useful tool in the hunt for new drugs that are toxic to dormant cancer cells. Contribute...

News Recent data suggest that even relatively low radiation doses, similar to those received from a few CT scans, could trigger molecular changes associated with cognitive dysfunction. Contributed Author: University of S...

News Using a cocktail of growth factors, scientists were able to grow mouse mammary cells into three-dimensional mammary tissue. Contributed Author: Cardiff University Topics: Medical Diagnostics

Some children were conceived as a result of a fertility treatment trial more than a decade ago, using DNA from three different people. According to research, these children have grown well and are healthy today.

News The enhancements, which are also available for Valencell's PerformTek licensing customers, enable a more seamless and flexible integration of Valencell sensor technology into wearable and hearable designs for a wide...

News Molex has completed its previously announced acquisition of Phillips-Medisize Corporation, a portfolio company of the San Francisco, CA -based private equity investment firm, Golden Gate Capital. Contributed Author:...

The Halloween spirit shouldn't change your healthy habits, not even for a day. We put together eight important guidelines for a healthy celebration of the year's most eccentric holiday.

The US Preventive Services Task Force suggests that appropriate intervention by healthcare providers could help promote rate and duration of breastfeeding. The recommendations also challenge WHO's advice on pacifier use.

Scientists have found a connection between people who are trying to quit smoking and vaping electronic cigarettes. According to the research, the latter could help control the weight gain associated with quitting the hab...

News Using genome-scale models, researchers were able to integrate multiple different data sets and discovered new biological patterns among different cellular processes. Contributed Author: University of California- San...

The new medicines have a cure rate of over 95%, fewer side effects than previously available therapies, and can completely cure the disease within three months. But at an initial estimated price of some US$85 000 they we...

News How Fitness and Medicine Wearables will revolutionize the future of medicine and the IoT Contributed Author: PR Newswire Topics: Wearables

Researchers used a gene editing system, CRISPR, to test on different series of mutations. The team looked into the differences that could be responsible for some immune cells resistant to HIV.

(Oregon State University) Methamphetamine users who described themselves as impulsive were more likely to have started taking the drug at an earlier age, a study of more than 150 users showed.

(University of British Columbia) The Pacific spiny dogfish shark is a master at recycling the ocean's toxic ammonia and converting it into useful urea, according to new research from University of British Columbia zoolog...

(Wellcome Trust) The Wellcome Trust is shifting the center of gravity of its funding for African science from the UK to the continent itself by handing over two major research programs to the African Academy of Sciences'...

(University at Buffalo) A study by University at Buffalo researchers has shown that physicians in pediatric intensive care units are not using the newest guidelines to diagnose acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill...