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KATOR, a start-up medical device company focused on advanced tissue-to-bone reattachment systems, announces that it begun a limited product launch of its KATOR Suture Anchor System and the completion of the first surgica...

Product Announcement DDL is now offering testing based on the recently published ISO 80369-7 standard that specifies requirements and test methods for Luer connectors. Contributed Author: DDL Testing Services Topics: STE...

News In initial testing, the device -- called the Senza system -- reduced leg and back pain scores by at least half in 80 percent of patients. Contributed Author: UPI Topics: Surgical

A new HIV test is as simple as plugging a USB drive into a computer. Scientists from London's Imperial College and a private genomics analysis company created a device that uses pH to test for the HIV-1 virus and communi...

An HIV test on a USB stick? Researchers have made the technology possible, making HIV tests more accessible without compromising the quality of test results.

Despite a 79% worldwide decrease in measles deaths between 2000 and 2015, nearly 400 children still die from the disease every day, leading health organizations said in a report.

News Radiation therapies can now be tailored to individual tumors and thus be more effective. Contributed Author: SINTEF Topics: Oncology

News The Wayvio technology can be retrofitted and integrated into almost any instrument, instantaneously turning it into a powerful wireless device. Contributed Author: PR Web Topics: Surgical

News The young scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University propose to resolve implant rejection problems by covering implants with biologically active compound, which is an analogue to the cytokine interleukin 4. Contribu...

According to new study, eating dinner earlier could benefit your attempts to lose weight. First human test of early time-restricted feeding showed promise to help people lose body fat.

News The time is ripe, the communication technology is available, for teams from different labs and different countries to join efforts and apply new forms of grassroots collaborative research in brain science. Contribut...

News Gold nanoparticles have proven to be well suited to being absorbed into cells, safely delivering drugs that could otherwise be blocked. Contributed Author: Cancer Research UK Topics: Oncology

News The work could help in developing a similar system designed for humans who have had spinal cord injuries. Contributed Author: Brown University Topics: Prosthetics

News The disposable test could be used for HIV patients to monitor their own treatment. Furthermore, the technology could enable patients with HIV to be managed more effectively in remote locations. Contributed Author: I...

Many women plan to get IUD and are urging others to do the same before the inauguration of Donald Trump. What would women's reproductive rights be like under a Trump presidency?

(American Chemical Society) The oceans are covered with a thin film of organic matter and bacteria, many of which launch out of the water and go airborne. But these little particles do more than just take flight -- these...

(The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice) In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the School of Public Health at UC Berkele...

(University of the Basque Country ) A new piece of research, which has been published in the online version of the journal Nature, has now gone a step further on discovering that the amnesia caused by cannabinoids needs ...

(Desert Research Institute) New research published this week reports that the aerosols produced by flavored e-cigarettes liquids contain dangerous levels of hazardous chemicals known to cause cancer in humans. Building o...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) By age 75, approximately half of all Americans will develop cloudy vision caused by cataracts, according to the National Eye Institute. The most common complication from cataract surgery...

(Duke University) North Carolina children who live in rural counties or attend higher poverty schools are more likely to be obese, a newly published study finds. Students living in a rural county were 1.25 times more lik...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Researchers are testing a heart failure treatment device at the Medical University of South Carolina. They hope it will ease the symptoms of heart failure with preserved ejection fr...