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Article When traditional chemical adhesives fail to sufficiently bond dissimilar types of materials, engineers often turn to plasma treatments to solve complex adhesion problems. Its most common applications include prec...

It is difficult to uncover and understand the causes of autism and much more difficult to point to a single cause. A new research now shows how exposure to essential and toxic metals can be linked to autism.

News Doing so will help scientists to determine the number of tumor cells in blood ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Oncology

Product Announcement The PMP65 Series accepts an input voltage range of 85-265VAC for worldwide use and offers six single output voltages ... Contributed Author: Protek Power North America

Study finds that cold water is just as effective in removing bacteria as warm water when washing hands. The more important part is following proper handwashing methods.

Oak galls can cause burning and drying of women's private parts. An ob-gyn warned it can cause infection, but why do some women use these wasp nests as a vaginal product?

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Article explores unique ethical issues for children with differences of sex development on whether or not they should pursue fertility preservation.

(Baylor College of Medicine) Follistatin plays a key role in establishing receptivity of the uterus to embryo implantation in an animal model.

(American Geriatrics Society) In a new research paper published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Thomas E. Finucane, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, suggests ...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A new analysis finds that nearly three-quarters of 500 patients with advanced cancer could be referred to a potential targeted treatment based on the results of a comprehensiv...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago report that low levels tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main psychoactive compound in marijuana, doe...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Scientists have discovered that mice have metabolically active brown fat deposits similar to the largest depot found in people.

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) In a pair of studies, scientists at the National Institutes of Health explored how the human brain stores and retrieves memories. One study suggests that the ...

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) About one in three hospitalized patients shows symptoms of depression, potentially affecting their clinical outcomes, a new Cedars-Sinai study has found. The study appears in the Journal of ...

(Oregon State University) New research suggests patients nearing the end of their lives because of a 'life-limiting illness' such as cancer or heart disease may not feel medically abandoned if their doctor wants to take ...

(American College of Physicians) The United States withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement will greatly undermine the global effort to prevent and mitigate the devastating impact of climate change on human health, sa...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) The advantages of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for obtaining real-time blood glucose measurements and its ability to detect and even predict hypo- and hyperglycemi...

(JOSPT, Inc. d/b/a Movement Science Media) Recreational runners are less likely to experience knee and hip osteoarthritis compared to sedentary individuals and competitive runners, according to a new study published in t...

(Georgia State University) A Georgia State University researcher, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Florida State University, has received a five-year, $7.7 million federal grant to ...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) In some states, patients who test positive for chlamydia or gonorrhea leave the clinic with not only a prescription for themselves, but also one for their sexual partner -- wh...

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care) There were notably more remissions than under the comparator therapies. In future, the analysis of symptoms should not be limited to improvements at one time point.

(Brown University) With the goal of prevention, a new study of children and teens with autism spectrum disorders found five risk factors that are significantly associated with an increased likelihood of seeking inpatient...