Medical News

A new CDC study suggests that more American teenagers are now using contraceptives during sex than in previous years. Many even choose to use some form of contraception when they have intercourse for the first time.

News The key to this new method is the creation of nanoparticle aggregates (NPAs) ... Contributed Author: Lindsay Brownell, Wyss Institute Topics: Oncology

News Interson's new linear and convex array probes enable medical professionals to use Windows tablets and laptops to display real-time ultrasound ... Contributed Author: Interson Topics: Medical Diagnostics

Product Announcement Nine different color codes and six different key options are available to identify the connectors and prevent mating errors ... Contributed Author: Souriau Topics: STEM

News One motor rotates the toothbrush to the left, the other turns it 90 degrees to clean the front and sides of the user's teeth ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: STEM

(Queensland University of Technology) Brisbane Airport was named Australia's first dementia-friendly airport by Alzheimer's Australia at the launch today in the International Terminal of a new guide to the airport for tr...

(Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) A newly published article in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry reports that pyrethroids, a common household pesticide known to cause skin irritation, headache, diz...

(Wiley) Latest health evidence shows that making changes to diet, physical activity and behavior may reduce obesity in children and adolescents.

(University of Edinburgh) Specialist antenatal clinics for severely obese mums-to-be can help cut rates of pregnancy complications, research has found. Women who received the specialist care were eight times less likely ...

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Working with colleagues from Harvard Medical School and Würzburg, researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been examining the use of deep brain stimulation in...

(Uppsala University) Some insulin is still produced in almost half of the patients that have had type 1 diabetes for more than ten years. Patients with remaining insulin production had much higher levels in blood of inte...

(Comprehensive Cancer Centre Gustave Roussy) A team of young French researchers has discovered a new mechanism which facilitates cell migration. On the surface of its membrane, the cell develops multiple small hooks whic...

(Springer) About half of all pet owners share their beds or bedrooms with their pets. Studies about co-sleeping are limited to the bedtime arrangements of adults, or parents and their children. In an article in Springer'...

(University of California - San Francisco) Around one in five children with Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary movements and vocalizations, met criteria for autism in a study headed b...

(Florida Atlantic University) Is it possible to prevent dementia from happening in the first place? That's what a leading FAU neuroscientist plans to prove using an innovative approach that defies the idea that 'one-size...

(Georgia State University) Georgia State University will host the First International Triple Negative Breast Cancer Conference from Sept. 18 to 20.

(Case Western Reserve University) Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have shown a high fat diet may lead to specific changes in gut bacteria that could fight harmful inflammation -- a major...

(University of Rochester) In a study published in Current Biology on June 22, the lab of Professor John Werren at the University of Rochester describes how four closely related species of parasitic wasps change their ven...

(University of Tokyo) A study by a group of Japanese scientists showed how a male pheromone in mice enhances sexual behaviors in females -- and how it may enhance a different behavior, aggression, in males -- by identify...

(SAGE) A new study finds that college students with disabilities binge drink more often than their non-disabled student peers. The study, providing the first picture of alcohol use and binge drinking by US college studen...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Impairments using information that help with decision-making and planning simple tasks are linked with one's frequency of alcohol or drug use. A new study shows tha...

(Elsevier) In a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers determined that there has been a shift towards more lethal weapons that appear to be designed primarily for self-defense, rather than ...