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News MD&M East, NY, NY June 13, 2017 - Mack Molding, a Vermont-based custom plastics molder and contract manufacturing services provider, announced a series of strategic investments in its medical operations totaling ove...

NASA and the ISS astronauts are now growing crystals that could help with drug development on Earth. That is just one of the ways that these explorers have kept humans healthy.

Article One of the highlights of the MD&M show's jam-packed Tuesday program at is a session entitled "Designing the Perfect Surgical Instrument", given by Bryce Rutter, an expert in the research, human factors engineerin...

News Exhibiting at MD&M East Booth 1721, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions announced a new set of capabilities that augment its existing project and supply management services. Trelleborg, a contract manufacturer of custom fi...

Videos Will the next generation of surgical robots be able to compensate for patient movements, or avoid collisions with unexpected hands or other objects that block their anticipated path of motion? This demonstration o...

In an experiment conducted at a university cafeteria, psychologists found a way to nudge people to eat more healthy food. The clever trick involves giving vegetables fancy names.

Two health clubs in Orange County were suspected to be sources of Legionnaires' disease. The infection is a serious type of pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacteria.

The importance of family relationships to happiness is pretty much viewed as a given. Blood relationships come with a closeness not found elsewhere in social relationships. Geneticists and sociologists tell us through sc...

Invokana can significantly reduce heart events in type 2 diabetes patients but doubles risk for toe and lower foot amputations. How does Johnson & Johnson's Invokana fare compared with rival drug Jardiance?

WHO Director-General elect, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomes contributions and pledges of US$1.2 billion for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have made the first direct demonstration that fecal donor microbes remained in recipients for months or years after a transplant to tr...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) ESMO, the leading European professional organisation for medical oncology, has announced that the ESMO 2019 Annual Congress will take place in partnership with the European Associa...

(Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) The researchers demonstrated a better way to recruit the right participants for promising new anti-cancer drugs called FGFR (fibroblast growth factor receptor) inhibitors, which are bein...

(University of Cambridge) How difficult is it to conceive? According to a widely-held view, fewer than one in three embryos make it to term, but a new study from a researcher at the University of Cambridge suggests that ...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Moffitt researcherslaunched a large analysis of five major testicular cancer studies to investigate genetic risk factors linked to TGCT. Their results, which uncovered ...

(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) A huge study identified several new variants for lung cancer risk that will translate into improved understanding of the mechanisms involved in lung cancer risk

(Joslin Diabetes Center) JDRF award recognizes Aiello's research to determine the underlying biochemistry and molecular mechanisms of retinopathies, then develop and test novel therapeutic interventions through rigorous ...

(Washington University School of Medicine) In a study of predominantly African-American women -- who have a much higher rate of delivering babies early compared with other racial groups -- researchers at Washington Unive...

(University of Zurich) The University of Zurich is launching a new "WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Health": The Physical Activity and Health Unit and other groups of the Epidemiology, Biostatistics an...

(Elsevier) Identification of new pathogens requires a rapid response from industry to develop new tests and the FDA to assess test safety and efficacy. A report in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics evaluates the new O...

(FAIR Health) For this report, we took a regional approach, examining the data on opioid abuse and dependence, including cost information and respective treatment protocols, in five of the largest-populated cities and th...