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The recent study saying full-fat dairy products such as cheese, butter, and milk don't increase the risk of heart disease was rapidly contested by some medical organizations. The cheese debate lays down the pros and cons...

The tunnel breach detected in Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the United States has triggered concerns about radiation hazards, and workers have been alerted. The facility is famous for having supplied plutonium for the b...

WHO has been informed of a cluster of illness and deaths including haemorrhagic symptoms in Likati Health Zone, Bas Uele Province in the north of DRC. On 11 May, the Ministry of Health informed WHO that of 5 laboratory s...

News The devices uses the charged particles or ions from the user's own bodily fluids to charge ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Implantables

Product Announcement The new module utilizes a slim LED backlight supported by optimized design of its backlight system ... Topics: STEM

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports of higher hepatitis C incidences due to the heroin epidemic. The report calls for state policies for HCV prevention, and testing for at risk individuals.

News He described the improved steps like culturing the derived cardiomyocytes in a Matrigel mattress and giving them a 14-day hormone treatment ... Contributed Author: University of Alabama at Birmingham Topics: Cardiov...

Doctors have seen an increase in injuries caused by slicing avocados. What is behind incidents of people lacerating their hands while preparing the green fruit for their guacamole?

News They found that the transplanted cells had diffused into the bloodstream of these mice ... Contributed Author: University of California- San Diego Topics: Orthopedics

Brazil has lifted its public health emergency over the mosquito-borne illness Zika virus. This occurs 18 months after its worst outbreak, which causes severe birth defects like microcephaly in newborns.

Experts are continuous in their warnings against using cotton swabs to clean the ears, though they remain to be household staples. Here is what the experts are saying about ear cleaning.

A study revealed that the use of new drugs to treat HIV-positive patients improves their life expectancy. The researchers discovered that fewer HIV-positive people who underwent antiretroviral therapy died in the first t...

A study indicated that drug resistant enterococci or Superbugs existed even before the dawn of the dinosaurs. The research conducted also isolated the genes responsible for the superior resistance in these bacterial stra...

(University of Surrey) Osteoarthritis can potentially be prevented with a good diet and regular exercise, a new expert review published in the Nature Reviews Rheumatology reports.

(Frontiers) New research, published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology, approaches this subject in a different way. It asked the children doing the rejecting, the 'rejecters,' for the reasons they dislike...

(Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions) Results from 'Interaction Effects of Race/Ethnicity and Sex on Outcomes after PCI: A Subanalysis of the PLATINUM Diversity study' were presented today as a late-...

(Boston Children's Hospital) New findings reported in Science could impact a whole slew of iron disorders, ranging from iron-deficiency anemia to iron-overload liver disease.

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A $38 million gift to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and a new $9.8 million partnership, will transform mental health care for military veterans and t...

(American College of Emergency Physicians) Chest pain patients in the emergency department whose attending emergency physicians received lab results delivered direct to their smartphones spent about 26 minutes less waiti...

(Children's National Health System) A $2.2 million, first-of-its kind randomized study found no differences between kids with asthma who received standard care based on National Institutes of Health guidelines compared w...

(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) The agenda for the TVT (Transcatheter Valve Therapies) is now available online: TVT 2017 is a practical three-day course featuring the latest research and state-of-the-art techniques...

(King's College London) An international study of more than 3.2 million people with severe mental illness reveals a substantially increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease compared to the general population.