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News The compact, sterile single-use Compass devices provide precise, quantitative pressure measurements while removing fluid during thoracentesis as well as when monitoring for intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal...

News One Drop is designed by people with diabetes for people with diabetes. Contributed Author: PR Newswire Topics: Diabetes

News This resource will be the first of its kind catering to the unique patient-specific modeling requirements of clinicians at Mount Sinai. Contributed Author: PR Web Topics: Surgical

News The GeroScope model was used to analyze the tissues of young and old patients, as well as cell lines. Contributed Author: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Topics: STEM

News The panel recommends the use of prostate MRI and MRI targeted biopsy for any patient in whom prostate cancer is suspected. Contributed Author: Elsevier Health Sciences Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News Insulia® provides patients with recommendations for their insulin doses. It also provides coaching depending on blood glucose levels and other data. Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Diabetes

There are differences in the way men and women observe visual information, reported a team of researchers from Queen Mary University of London. From the way the people scan the faces, it is possible to tell if the partic...

News Compact devices, operating at terahertz range, have applications in medicine and biology for tumor visualization and in the aerospace industry for high-speed communication systems. Contributed Author: Phys.org Topic...

News The new device will allow for more accurate medical procedures that involve the use of ultrasound to kill tumours, loosen blood clots and deliver drugs into targeted cells. Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Medic...

News With the help of a mobile application called Pulsara, which runs on the smartphones or other smart devices of first responders, emergency department personnel, and medical specialists, those problems are in the past...

News To demonstrate the potential of 3D printing techniques for quantitative SPECT/CT imaging, kidneys--as organs-at-risk in many radionuclide therapies--were selected for the study. Contributed Author: Society of Nuclea...

Saturated fat could increase HDL cholesterol levels in blood, reports a recent study conducted at KG Jebsen center for diabetes research. The concept of healthy diet doesn't lie in the quantity of fat or carbohydrate tak...

National Steak and Poultry announced it is recalling nearly 2 million pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products that may have been undercooked. What products are affected by the recall?

Analysis of teeth samples from skeletal remains dating back to the era of the Roman Empire unveiled mitochondrial genomic evidence of Plasmodium falciparum, the mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria. What did the d...

A bacteria carrying a gene resistant to carbapenem antibiotics has been discovered in a pig farm in the United States. How did the mutant gene get into the animal farm?

(Monash University) Researchers have seen, for the very first time, how the human immune system recognizes tuberculosis (TB). These findings are the crucial step in developing better diagnostics and perhaps even vaccines...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine examined the effectiveness of peer support interventions and found that the interventions were effective at improving the blo...

(American Society of Hematology) A late-breaking abstract being presented today during the 58th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego shows patients who experience graft-versus-h...

(University of California - Davis Health System) Greater weight increases the likelihood of night sweats and hot flashes during early stages of the menopause transition but reduces those symptoms throughout menopause and...

(University of Plymouth) The impact of soil erosion on both the environmental and social well-being of communities in East Africa is to be explored in new research led by the University of Plymouth.

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Using state-of-the-art brain imaging technology, scientists at the National Institutes of Health filmed what happens in the brains of mice that developed cere...

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Today's press briefing at the IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) focused on active prevention, with researchers sharing results of clinical drug tri...