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Diabetes rates in the United States paint a picture of low awareness and increasing statistics, a new CDC report has showed. Experts continue to call for optimal nutrition as key in diabetes treatment and prevention.

News The implant, MyCardia, is designed to be placed on human hearts suffering from heart failure ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Cardiovascular

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News The hydrogel coating can be embedded with compounds to sense, for example, inflammatory molecules ... Contributed Author: Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Topics: Surgical

News The purpose of the CoPilot is to provide a simple and practical program that is so easy to use that technicians of all experience levels can consistently keep a process on template ... Contributed Author: RJG

(The City University of New York) CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health awarded $2.4 M NIH grant.

(University of Colorado at Boulder) A new study involving CU Boulder shows why some cells treated with radiation therapy for cancer leak chemical signals and damage unexposed healthy cells, findings that could lead to ne...

(University of Leeds) An evaluation of efforts designed to reduce how many sugary drinks we consume shows some success in changing younger people's habits but warns they cannot be the only way to cut consumption.

(Children's National Health System) A study that includes William D. Gaillard, M.D., among its authors indicates that US doctors appear to have reached an unexpected consensus about which anti-seizure medicine to prescri...

(American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine) Douglas W. Brown will be inducted into the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Hall of Fame on Friday, July 21st, during the Society's Annual Meet...

(Wiley) Physical activity has strong anti-inflammatory properties, according to a recent review.

(The Gerontological Society of America) The program of the upcoming World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics will feature four exclusive sessions designed to aid reporters in their coverage of aging issues. The Geron...

(Cornell University) A new theoretical study examines for the first time the limits of geckos' gripping ability in natural contexts.

(The Gerontological Society of America) The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) -- the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging -- has chosen Tamara Harris, MD, FGSA, of the Natio...

(University of Delaware) A team of University of Delaware researchers has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, which will be used to peer deep into the lives of microbes and find out how their g...

(Harvard University) Harvard scientists have gained new insights into how the brain networks important for thought and remembering are organized in individual people, bringing the notion of using brain scans to help pers...

(Wiley) A new study indicates that bone strength may be inherited and that its genetic determinants are to some extent shared with bone mineral density.

(Thomas Jefferson University) Discovery of a phosphorylation event outside of the cell offers a new avenue for targeting chronic and pathologic pain, a new study reports.

(Kent State University) The center of a public health debate is whether parents should have their children vaccinated. Tara Smith, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at Kent State University's College of Public Health, cha...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers have developed a novel mouse model that for the first time selectively identifies neural stem cells, the progenitors of new adult brain cells. In these mice, researchers have foun...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found serious gaps in communication between physicians and home health care agencies responsible for...

(Wiley) A review of the published literature indicates that erectile dysfunction is common in males with diabetes, affecting more than half of men with the condition and with a prevalence of approximately 3.6 times highe...