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A new study revealed that nurses' scrubs help facilitate the spread of pathogens that cause hospital-acquired infections. The scrubs' pockets, midriff and sleeves have been found as the most contaminated.

Going all the way back to poor John Henry, robots have proven that they can outperform humans. And now, researchers have designed a robot that would leave Patty and Selma gasping for air. Researchers studying the effects...

News CAR T-cell treatments use genetic engineering to improve on the body's own defense mechanisms and specifically eliminate cancer. Contributed Author: University of Wisconsin- Madison Topics: Oncology

News The model could be useful to researchers as a fast and inexpensive way to predict how an organism might behave in a specific experiment. Contributed Author: University of California- Davis Topics: Medical Diagnostic...

News By combining STSG with a specially engineered sheet of stem cells, researchers from Michigan Tech and the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China demonstrate an improved skin graft pr...

News The mice that were injected with the pre-incubated syringe demonstrated no blood loss, while the bare syringe demonstrated the most blood loss. Contributed Author: Heather Zeiger, Phys.org Topics: Surgical

Product Announcement It is optimal for battery operated wearable devices and medical devices such as hearing aids, which require high density, low power consumption electronic components. Contributed Author: Fujitsu Topi...

News Acquisitions and desire for minimally invasive implant devices set to boost growth of textiles in medical implants, finds Frost & Sullivan's Visionary Science Team Contributed Author: PR Newswire Topics: Implantable...

Hormonal contraceptives were tested on men in an attempt to replace women's birth control. In a trial, male birth control shots were revealed to have a 96-percent success rate at preventing pregnancies.

Product Announcement These components are custom-designed to meet demanding design challenges in medical devices. Contributed Author: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Topics: STEM

News The simulations identify new "pockets" to reactivate p53 which would be a tremendous boost for future anti-cancer drug discovery. Contributed Author: University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center To...

News The scientists created the technique as a new and improved method for tracking the interactions within large neural networks in the brain. Contributed Author: Vanderbuilt University Topics: Neurology

High blood pressure and elevated resting heart rate in late teens might increase the risk of psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders in men later in their adulthood.

A novel immunotherapy technique reversed peanut and egg white allergies in experimental mice. The treatment reduced anaphylactic responses in mice by 90 percent with just a single treatment.

Cranberry products are not suitable for the treatment of urinary tract infections, a new research has proven. Findings suggest that the widely believed means to treat UTI is now a misconception, and should not be encoura...

(Dartmouth College) In Mary Shelley's novel, 'Frankenstein,' Victor Frankenstein saved humankind from the probability of extinction, according to a new study by Dartmouth-University of California, Merced, to be published...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) For patients with severe, chronic back and leg pain, a new high-frequency spinal cord stimulation (SCS) technique provides superior clinical outcomes, compared to conventional low-frequency SCS, r...

(Lund University) Researchers at Lund University, Sweden, are rapidly moving towards the first ever transplantations of embryonic stem cell derived dopamine neurons in persons with Parkinson's disease. New findings publi...

(Wiley) In a study of cancer patients considering whether they should participate in phase I clinical trials, a high percentage were willing to participate after discussions with clinical staff, but nearly half thought t...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) The distinct structures of toxic protein aggregates that form in degenerating brains determine which type of dementia will occur, which regions of brain will be affected, and how quickly ...

(Wiley) A recent review based on a research symposium sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease and the National Institutes of Health highlights the potentially damaging effects of herbal and d...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A new study shows that positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy for sleep apnea may have a positive impact on sleep-related functional outcomes among patients who also suffer from hyper...