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(University of Illinois at Chicago) An old pharmaceutical product may be a new treatment for obstructive sleep apnea, according to new research presented today by University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern Univer...

Article Zhang Feng shared several real-world examples of how modern MCUs' enhanced processing capabilities can be used to process the sensor's noisy, unreliable signals ... Staff Author: Lee Goldberg Topics: Wearables

When you hear someone laugh behind you, you probably picture them on the phone or with a friend - smiling and experiencing a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Chances are just the sound of the laughter could make you smile or ...

New advice on which antibiotics to use for common infections and which to preserve for the most serious circumstances is among the additions to the WHO Model list of essential medicines for 2017.

We all know that feeling: the burning sensation as we slice into a fresh onion, eyes watering and wincing to relieve the stinging. There are claims that home remedies can solve this problem, including burning a candle, p...

Eli Thompson, the two-year-old Alabama boy born without a nose, passed away on June 3. His father Jeremy Finch revealed the news through a Facebook post and also started a fundraising campaign for Eli's funeral.

Roche's new combination therapy achieved modest positive results compared with the company's standard Herceptin treatment. The combo therapy targets an aggressive form of breast cancer called HER2-positive, and involves ...

News Nanoparticles can be engineered and designed to package and transport drugs directly to where they're needed ... Contributed Author: Maria Kavallaris, Joshua Mccarroll And Thomas P Davis, The Conversation Topics: On...

News George and his teammates created a robotic elbow device used to help those who have experienced a stroke and need help moving and strengthening their arms ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Prosthetics

News The team tested two different "assistance profiles," or patterns of wire-pulling: one based on human biology ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: STEM

News According to Cesare Tanassi, Managing Director at NIDEK Technologies, the adoption of multi-material 3D printing is transforming the division's prototyping process ... Contributed Author: Stratasys Topics: STEM

News The universal device for neonatal equipment will be securely attached to European Ambulance Loading Stretchers ... Contributed Author: Birmingham City University Topics: STEM

Manhattan based 81-year old Dr. Martin Tesher was arrested on charges of unnecessary distribution of painkillers. The police stated that Dr. Tesher prescribed more than 14,000 oxycodone pain pills to his patients.

CAR T-cell therapy had some multiple myeloma patients see significant reduction in their cancer and even enter full remission. How does this gene-based therapy work and what are its side effects?

(Rush University Medical Center) Results of an international, randomized controlled research study show that mechanical thrombectomy, which is an endovascular treatment to remove a stroke-causing blood clot in the brain,...

(American Chemical Society) Reactions is back with another round of chemistry life hacks. Our latest episode brings chemistry to the kitchen, and features science-backed tips to cook rice with fewer calories, get extra j...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Results of a 303-patient, multi-national phase III clinical trial known as ALEX published today in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented concurrently at the Am...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that cancer cells appear to communicate to other cancer cells, activating an internal mechanism that boos...

(Santa Fe Institute) When many individual neurons collect data, how do they reach a unanimous decision? New research from the Santa Fe Institute's collective computation group suggests a two-phase process.

(Springer) Although influenza vaccines are currently the best forms of protection to safeguard people against the flu, they are not effective in all cases. A study from Melinda Beck's research team at the University of N...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed an innovative but easily implemented approach that uses 'spheroids' to mimic the blood-brain barrier more accurately, and appear...

(University of California - Davis) Two new, UC Davis-led studies of neurodegenerative diseases linked to mitochondrial defects offer hope for developing a new biomarker for research and diagnostics, and a drug for treati...