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(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Type 1 diabetes patients with elevated albumin in their urine had three times the risk of life-threatening kidney and cardiac disease as those with normal levels, accordin...

News Their approach combines nanophotonics and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in an implantable, ultra-narrow, silicon-based photonic probe to deliver light deep within brain tissues. Contributed Author: SPIE--Int...

News When the researchers took several variables into account, radiotherapy was associated with more than double the odds of developing complications in patients who received implants, but it was not associated with comp...

News Researchers have used the wonder material graphene to make the novelty children's material silly putty® (polysilicone) conduct electricity, creating extremely sensitive sensors. Contributed Author: Amber Centre Top...

News Researchers developed an Internet-enabled biological laboratory that allows students to truly interact with living cells in real-time, potentially reshaping how students learn about biology. Contributed Author: Stan...

The oldest genetic sample of smallpox ever studied could rewrite the timeline for this deadly disease, which ravaged Europe and much of the world beginning in the eighteenth century. Using tissue samples taken from the m...

News Surgeons are able to hold and rotate the model to get a better sense of how they will need to position the patient on the table, where they can make cuts, or whether they can make different cuts that they hadn't tho...

MIT researchers have devised a unique flashing light therapy that holds a lot of potential as a treatment option for Alzheimer's disease patients, utilizing a strip of LED lights to induce certain brain changes.

Only 25 percent of beauty and personal care products sold to black women are low in potentially harmful chemical ingredients, reports a recent study. About 15 hair relaxers and dyes scored 8.1 in the Skin Deep scale, whi...

News Today, the FDA is announcing its commitment to consider creating a category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids that could deliver new, innovative and lower-cost products to millions of consumers. Contributed Aut...

A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Edinburgh suggested that a common chemotherapy treatment could actually increase the number of immature eggs in women's ovaries.

News The device is small enough to fit the wrist of a newborn baby- specifically, the area that best measures vital signs. Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Wearables

More than a dozen high school kids attending Naperville North High School fell ill after eating gummy bears that may be laced with a still unknown substance, possibly marijuana or marijuana oil. How do you identify candi...

Article The idea for the treatment is the magnetic purification of blood. Contributed Author: Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) Topics: STEM

News This type of electron microscope will fill the imaging gap between thin-sectioned transmission electron microscopy and large-scale medical image, such as CT scans and MRI. Contributed Author: Mayo Clinic Topics: Med...

Craving for sugary and fatty foods could be influenced by rapid eye movement sleep loss, reports a recent study. Blocking medial prefrontal cortex neural activity reduces the craving for sugary foods in mice, researchers...

Sedentary lifestyles make people more prone to develop environmentally induced asthma. A new study analyzed the effects of being sedentary in rats exposed to different ozone levels.

The brain consolidates existing memories in sleep, but this process is disrupted if a new experience occurs. Researchers have found that the brain blocks new stimuli a person experiences upon waking up in to form long-te...

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority slapped pharmaceutical company Pfizer with a fine equivalent to about $107 million for hiking the price of phenytoin sodium capsules. The epilepsy drug is used by about 48,000 ...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) As many as a quarter of all older adults discharged from an acute hospitalization will return within thirty days. Readmissions like these result in increased healthcare cost...

(American College of Chest Physicians) A team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh has found that insomnia is highly prevalent in adults with asthma and is also associated with worse asthma control, depressio...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Report in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics describes a biomarker, PITX2 DNA methylation, which is capable of distinguishing cancerous tissue from non-cancerous tissue and predicting the ris...