Medical News

(Institute for Basic Science) How thyroid and its vascular system coordinate themselves and remodel during thyroid disease.

News Massachusetts Institue of Technology (MIT) researchers have now demonstrated that making these electrodes much smaller can essentially eliminate ... Contributed Author: Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Techn...

News According to Jane Draycott, a reporter for The Conversation, prosthetics trace back to the Egyptian days ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Prosthetics

News Products from the identified lots may exhibit difficulty in removing the protective balloon sheath, which could cause problems with inflating or deflating the balloon ... Contributed Author: U.S. Food and Drug Admin...

News Augmented reality paves the way for the future of surgery ... Contributed Author: Cambridge Consultants Topics: Surgical

A mouse infused with a 3D-printed ovary gave birth to healthy pups. This led scientists to wonder whether this technology can be used on humans in the future to cure infertility.

News Developers are asked to create a device that measures alcohol concentration in the blood or in the interstitial fluid that surrounds the body's cells ... Contributed Author: NIAAA Topics: Wearables

Last month, 16-year-old Davis Allen Cripe collapsed in class because of caffeine overdose leading to probable arrhythmia. How much caffeine is enough to result in caffeine intoxication, and how does one stay in the safe ...

Dr. Bradley Bastow's osteopathic license was suspended after authorities determined he performed liposuction procedures in his unfinished pole barn. The Michigan doctor also stored the excess fat in plastic bags.

News Dubbed the Active Pelvis Orthosis or APO, the new device could also help disabled people and amputees ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Prosthetics

News To make the material biodegradable and cut the risk of rejection, "we resorted to a by-product of collagen, a gelatin that is produced when collagen ... Contributed Author: University of the Basque Country Topics: R...

News Every individual droplet is used as a test tube for biological experiments ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: STEM

News Essential tremor (ET) is a movement disorder characterized by uncontrollable shaking mostly in the hands or legs ... Contributed Author: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Topics: Oncology

WHO is concerned by the chronic shortage of funding for life-saving work in Somalia in response to the ongoing drought that has plunged the country further towards famine, disease, and health insecurity.

A new study deemed online Telemedicine service a safe and effective method for non-invasive abortion. Post an online consultation, these services provided drugs for abortion in countries that have strict abortion laws.

A parasitic infection that affected a 32-year old man after consuming sushi alarmed people and made them wary of the dangers of eating raw fish or seafood. However, doctors claim that fish certified in the United States ...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) BPA is a chemical that is used in a variety of consumer products, such as food storage containers and water bottles. In previous studies, researchers at the University of Missouri, Westm...

(Case Western Reserve University) A diagnostic MRI followed by one of three MRI-guided biopsy strategies is a cost-effective method to detect prostate cancer, according to a new study out of Case Western Reserve Universi...

(University of Guelph) Prof. Jeremy Simpson has linked shortness of breath in heart failure to a hormonal imbalance in the brain using mice. Based on this finding, Simpson has also discovered an effective treatment using...

(Entertainment Industry Foundation) One hundred high school students from 29 states are winners in the second year of PBS LearningMedia's and Stand Up To Cancer's Emperor Science Award program, an initiative designed to ...

(University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center) Results from the DAWN stroke trial provide compelling evidence that selected patients suffering a major ischemic stroke recovered significantly better with mechanical retri...

(Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) A study led by Dr. YUE Xu from CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics provides the first systematic assessment of the effects of ozone and aerosol haze pollut...