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Product Announcement NFit is a brand of enteral feeding connectors that meet the ISO 80369-3 standard ... Contributed Author: Qosina Topics: STEM

(Children's National Health System) Children with bloodstream infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a common antibiotic-resistant bacteria, are less likely to die than adults with this ...

The U.S. Congress has approved the Republicans' Obamacare replacement bill. Check out the list of pre-existing health conditions under the GOP's American Health Care Act.

The world's heaviest woman, Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, has lost hundreds of pounds since her bariatric surgery and therapy. Learn her story and see her transformation through these videos.

News The images were simultaneously recorded using a multimodal optical imaging system ... Contributed Author: SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News Using this sensor, patients with diabetes and glaucoma may one day be able to self-monitor blood glucose levels and eye pressure ... Contributed Author: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) Top...

News Designed like a camera, the cells act as pixels, detecting and reacting to light to create a grey scale image ... Contributed Author: University of Oxford Topics: Implantables

News Recently, researchers have begun using CRISPR to generate cancer models. CRISPR, originally discovered by biologists studying the bacterial ... Contributed Author: Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Bacardi issues a nationwide recall for Bombay Sapphire in Canada after discovering incorrect alcohol content. The company urges consumers to throw out or return bottles from the affected batch.

Scientists used the CRISPR tool to replace cancer-causing fusion genes with cancer-fighting genes in mice. This experiment could pave the way for the gene-editing tool to be used against cancer in the future.

Minnesota state legislature announced a regulation that raised the minimum buying age for all tobacco products from 18 years to 21 years. The SF-2370 legislation could lead to a reduction in tobacco addiction in teens.

Managing speed, a new report from WHO, suggests that excessive or inappropriate speed contributes to 1 in 3 road traffic fatalities worldwide.

(Children's National Health System) Regions of the United States with the strictest gun laws also have the fewest emergency department visits for pediatric firearm-related injuries, according to a new study by Children's...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Much is known about flu viruses, but little is understood about how they reproduce inside human host cells, spreading infection. Now, a research team headed by ...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Researchers have identified a gene that plays a key role in the formation of neural tube defects, a problem commonly found in infants of pregnant women with diabetes. This is t...

(American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) Don't miss these American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) programs at Digestive Disease Week.

(Oxford University Press USA) A new paper published in the Journal of Gerontology suggests that the period around retirement may widen socio-economic inequalities in stress and health.

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Research shows for the first time an association between the gut microbiota and the brain regions involved in the processing of sensory information from their bodi...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) A late breaking subanalysis of the phase III CONVERT trial presented at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) shows that white blood cell boosting drugs are safe during concur...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) A discovery made at The University of Texas Health Science Center, now called UT Health San Antonio, increases the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin...

(German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ)) Lack of vitamin A in the body has a detrimental effect on the hematopoietic system in the bone marrow. The deficiency causes a loss of important bl...

(University of Notre Dame) Notre Dame Researchers have discovered a way to make influenza visible to the naked eye, by engineering dye molecules to target a specific enzyme of the virus.