Medical News

News Ionic silver is highly successful at killing bacteria and preventing colonization ... Contributed Author: Foster Corporation Topics: STEM

Article This article will explore the fundamentals of authentication and how PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), a highly-secure credentials-based ... Contributed Author: Alan Grau and Dave West, Icon Labs

News The da Vinci X System offers surgeons and hospitals access to Intuitive's portfolio of robotic-assisted surgical technologies ... Contributed Author: Intuitive Surgical Topics: Surgical

Researchers suggest the U.S. opioid epidemic may have started with a 100-word letter, published in 1980 in a medical journal. The brief note tackled the addiction risk of opioid painkillers in certain conditions and was ...

A 9-year-old girl was hospitalized following accidental ingestion of an e-cigarette liquid. The girl mistook the purple-colored tube with a Unicorn picture to be candy and consumed it.

Article Sweating, shedding and constantly changing surface topography are just a few of the many challenges engineers face when choosing adhesives for their wearables ... Contributed Author: Diana Eitzman, Ph.D. and Kris...

Product Announcement Measuring just 139.7mm by 68.9mm (5.5in by 2.7in), the compact design of the Pro Capture SDI 4K Plus enables ... Contributed Author: Magewell Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News This technique requires the user's prosthetic limb, nerves, and muscle grafts ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Prosthetics

News If widely adopted, women might even use the device to self-screen, transforming screening and cure rates in low-income countries ... Contributed Author: Duke University Topics: Oncology

News The 2017 ECN IMPACT Awards are the culmination of a Product Technology Awards history stretching back 60 years ... Contributed Author: ECN IMPACT Awards Team Topics: STEM

News The Pisa/IIT SoftHand uses a control synergy just like people do in everyday life ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Prosthetics

(American Association for Cancer Research) The first analysis of nearly 19,000 de-identified genomic records from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) international data-sharing initiative known as AACR Pr...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Mount Sinai study uses a unique source -- baby teeth -- to reveal that both the timing and amount of exposure can affect diagnosis.

(McMaster University) This study looked at the microbial population in the gastrointestinal tract of infants at a formative stage of life when metabolic set points are being established. The study analyzed the stool samp...

(Association for Psychological Science) Fear of death is a fundamental part of the human experience -- we dread the possibility of pain and suffering and we worry that we'll face the end alone. Although thinking about dy...

(NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) Baby teeth from children with autism contain more toxic lead and less of the essential nutrients zinc and manganese, compared to teeth from children without autis...

(University of Edinburgh) Imaging tools to identify abnormalities that cause heart attacks are to be developed in a £1.8m research initiative.

(Michigan State University) Giving birth at home is the most significant risk factor for neonatal deaths in major sections of Africa -- a continent that continues to be plagued by the highest neonatal mortality rates in ...

(American Chemical Society) Nerve agents are arguably the most brutal chemical weapons. These infamous compounds, which include sarin gas and VX, originated in Nazi Germany when a chemist was trying to develop a more eff...

(Jackson Laboratory) Disrupting the AID/RAD51 axis protects nonobese diabetic mice from type 1 diabetes.

(Weill Cornell Medicine) A technique to treat an irregular heartbeat that limits or eliminates patients' exposure to radiation should be more widely adopted by physicians, NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine ...

(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) The critical component of an experimental vaccine led to an escalating immune response in patients with sarcoma, an indicator of its potential anti-cancer effects.This is accordin...