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Product Announcement Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. () introduced its MonarchTM Airway Clearance System, a mobile device that provides high-frequency chest wall oscillation (HFCWO) therapy. The device is encased in a mobile ves...

Non-O blood type people have been found to have higher risk for heart attack and stroke. Those who belong to blood group type AO, BO, or AB, though have ways to reduce their cardiovascular disease risks.

News Led by biomedical engineers at Newcastle University, UK, and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the bionic hand is fitted with a camera which instantaneously takes a picture of...

Researchers developed a new chemical dubbed GW that replicated beneficial effects of exercise in a sedentary mouse. It can be used to increase endurance without exercising, but it is not clear if the chemical compound wo...

News Sunnybrook scientists have made history as they used focused ultrasound to safely and non-invasively breach the blood-brain barrier (BBB) temporarily in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a clinical trial... ...

Newly confirmed agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue has announced a rule eliminating certain nutritional standards in place in school cafeterias. His office seeks to relax guidelines on sodium, whole grain, and milk set d...

Product Announcement A new automated, high-performance cell washer from Thermo Scientific was designed to enable precise, thorough, reproducible, and rapid blood cell washing. It can wash up to 24 tubes of blood in a thr...

News The Food and Drug Administration issued Class II medical device clearance to Coapt, LLC for the Complete Control System, a myoelectric pattern recognition system... Contributed Author: Megan Crouse Topics: Prostheti...

A new CDC study stated that the life expectancy of black Americans improved significantly during a 17-year period. However, their life expectancy still lags behind the white population by four years.

A new research suggested that consumption of low doses of aspirin lowered breast cancer risk in women. The study focused specifically on baby aspirin due to its cheap price and easy availability in pharmaceutical stores.

Medical marijuana manufacturers filed a lawsuit against the New York State Health Department. This lawsuit challenged the health department's plan of expanding registered marijuana manufacturers in the state from 5 to 10...

Research found that over a billion people in the world suffered from vitamin D deficiency. Scientists claimed that the rate of deficiency increased due to people's propensity to use sunscreen lotion and fear of exposure ...

Save yourself from disease-causing ticks. Know more about the first symptoms of Lyme disease to watch out for and tick-prone areas in the country you should avoid for now.

(Columbia University Medical Center) Detailed images of chemical signaling in the brain may shed light on neurodegenerative disease processes.

(University of Turku) A Finnish study coordinated by the Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Turku shows that exposure to cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Atrial fibrillation and flutter (also known as AFF) is associated with serious health problems and is a significant contributor to death rates. Investigators have identified differences in outc...

(North Carolina State University) A recent study finds that even small, day-to-day stressors can cause an increase in illegal drug use among people on probation or parole who have a history of substance use.

(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares) CNIC scientists show that when macrophages ingest these expired cells they acquire protective properties.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Like the father in 'Finding Nemo,' anemonefish dads will do almost anything to support their offspring. Their parenting instincts are so strong that if you give a bachelor ane...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A large randomized controlled, pragmatic trial involving 1445 patients with allergic asthma found that an integrative medicine approach in which acupuncture is added to r...

(Microbicide Trials Network) Researchers hoping for a single product to protect against both HIV and unintended pregnancy took an important step toward realizing their goal with the start of a trial of a vaginal ring con...

(Mayo Clinic) It's not often that a fall saves someone's life. Helen Powell, 74, says that was the case for her. A computerized tomography scan that followed her fall revealed a cancerous brain tumor that led her to Mayo...