Medical News

News Presentation includes latest developments in additive manufacturing of spinal devices ... Contributed Author: PR Web Topics: Implantables

Product Announcement The Stafford 3-D Prototype Development Service lets users create a 3D printed part from a print ... Contributed Author: Stafford Manufacturing Corp. Topics: STEM

News The three-dimensional device is placed during lumpectomy surgery, which removes the cancer and preserves the breast ... Contributed Author: PR Web Topics: Oncology

News Researchers have demonstrated that photo luminescent carbon nanoparticles can exhibit reversible switching of their optical properties in cancer cells ... Contributed Author: University of Illinois College of Engine...

News Bashir's group has been a pioneer in designing and building bio-bots, less than a centimeter in size ... Contributed Author: Rick Kubetz, Phys.org Topics: Prosthetics

News Counting and visualizing different molecular species in biological samples with high accuracy and precision at low cost ... Contributed Author: Wyss Institute Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News This is the first time that an Osmium-based compound - which is fifty times more active than the current cancer drug cisplatin - has been seen to target the disease ... Contributed Author: University of Warwick Topi...

News This new device has the potential to help many patients who suffer from PFO and stroke ... Contributed Author: University of Alabama at Birmingham Topics: Implantables

According to a study by Ohio State University researchers, the bodies of pregnant women react differently when carrying a male and when carrying a female fetus. The study says high inflammation was noticeable in the preg...

Physicist Peter Mansfield, who won the Nobel Prize for helping to invent MRI scanners, has died at the age of 83. The University of Nottingham released a statement from Mansfield's family on Thursday confirming his death...

The twelfth meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) regarding the international spread of poliovirus was convened via teleconference by the Director General on 7 Fe...

Rice and beans with flesh-eating screwworms? A woman from San Antonio is going after Popeyes for allegedly serving her the popular side dish with an extra ingredient.

A grandmother in Maryland has been charged with child abuse and other raps when her 1-year-old grandson was rushed to the hospital for signs of poisoning. The incident was deemed a case of methadone overdose.

FDA approved an old muscular dystrophy drug sold overseas at $1,200 per year. The drug deflazacort will be sold in the U.S. for $89,000.

(Carnegie Mellon University) Studies have suggested that married people are healthier than those who are single, divorced or widowed. A new Carnegie Mellon University study provides the first biological evidence to expla...

(Boston University Medical Center) Patients undergoing shoulder replacement surgery who have Medicaid, Medicare or no health insurance, had higher complication rates as compared to patients who had private insurance. The...

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) A new study of songbird dehydration and survival risk during heat waves in the desert Southwest suggests that some birds are at risk of lethal dehydration and mass die-offs when w...

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) It is now possible to reprogram cells from the liver into the precursor cells that give rise to the pancreas by altering the activity of a single...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Tracking sepsis rates and outcomes is challenging because it is a heterogeneous syndrome without a definitive 'gold standard' test. In the February issue of CHEST, investigators compared the ef...

(Emory Health Sciences) Emory Vaccine Center researchers have identified gene expression signatures in the blood of RTS,S-vaccinated volunteers, which predict the likelihood of infection after exposure to parasite-carryi...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Casting one of the largest genomic nets to date for the rare tumors of the autonomic nervous system known as pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PCC/PGL) captured several n...

(Oxford University Press USA) Findings published in the journal Behavioral Ecology reveal that skin with yellow and red pigments is perceived as more attractive in Caucasian males, but this skin coloring does not necessa...