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A woman from Mississippi contracted a flesh-eating bacteria after her hand was pricked by a live shrimp in a bait bucket during a fishing trip in Alabama. Her doctors describe her ordeal and survival as a miracle.

News This new diagnostic tool developed by the EU's Horizon 2020 collaboration 'CARDIS' ... Contributed Author: Photonics21 Topics: Cardiovascular

(Wiley) Investigators have revealed that the Gram-positive, anaerobic bacterium Clostridium difficile is widely distributed in soil samples from children's and dogs' sandboxes located within the metropolitan area of Madr...

Pretty Woman Inc. is making noise because of its product, which is essentially a vaginal glitter bomb. Doctors are quick to express their concerns over the possible hazards involved in using the product.

News To achieve atomic-level resolution, the researchers must be able to distinguish between the frequency signals they receive from the individual atoms ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: STEM

Opioid prescriptions in the United States have dropped 18 percent from 2010 to 2015 but they remain high overall, according to a new CDC report. Learn the opioid prescription trends that fuel a drug overdose epidemic in ...

Article A team of researchers from Imperial College London, are working towards using modern computational tools to develop novel AVF configurations ... Contributed Author: Dr. Peter Vincent - Imperial College, London, P...

News Using space age technology in the Sports Ready clinic at Medway Park, Gillingham, Dr. Karen Hambly, an international expert on knee rehabilitation ... Contributed Author: University of Kent Topics: STEM

News Enabling machines to understand human behavior also could enable new approaches to behavioral diagnosis and rehabilitation for conditions such as autism, dyslexia and depression ... Contributed Author: Carnegie Mell...

Red Cross is holding several blood donation drives to manage blood shortage this summer. The organization is in dire need of volunteers to donate blood.

(American Geriatrics Society) We don't have much information about how people select skilled nursing facilities or what information they're given to make informed choices. So a team of researchers recently studied how ho...

(Uppsala University) Specialized beta cells in the pancreas release the hormone insulin to control our blood glucose levels, and failure of this mechanism is central to the development of type-2 diabetes. How much and wh...

(Wiley) Investigators have found a new marker that might be used for diagnosing a common form of lung cancer, especially at late stages.

(New York University) Utilizing metabolomics research techniques, NYU Dentistry researchers investigated the underlying biochemical activity and signaling within the bone marrow of hyperglycemic mice with hopes of reduci...

(New York University) Dr. Nicole N. Scheff Receives $120,000-Plus NIDCR F32 Grant to investigate whether immune cells in the oral cancer environment contribute to sex differences in oral cancer pain.

(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) The invention of the EPICUP epigenetic test and its impact in the clinical management of Cancer of Unknown Primary is discussed in Dr.Esteller's latest review.

(SAGE) A study funded by Marie Curie and Dimbleby Cancer Care published today shows the potential benefits of a new nurse-led intervention in supporting carers to manage pain medication in people with terminal cancer.

(Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena) Hypnosis can help people stop smoking, sleep better and even undergo dental treatment without pain. But what exactly is hypnosis and what precisely happens in the brain of a hypnoti...

(Kessler Foundation) Americans with disabilities continued to engage in the labor market, reaching 15 months of job gains, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment. Both the employment to population ...

(Cancer Research UK) Scientists have devised a simple test for an earlier and more accurate warning of returning bladder cancer than existing methods, according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer toda...

(Wiley) Delayed-onset post-traumatic symptoms in the elderly may be misdiagnosed as falling under the umbrella of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), according to a recent review.

(Wiley) New research reveals that a treatment called Stem Cell Educator therapy is safe and effective for treating type 1 and type 2 diabetes.