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New WHO data from 28 countries - representing approximately 70% of the global hepatitis burden - indicate that efforts to eliminate hepatitis are gaining momentum. Published to coincide with World Hepatitis Day, the data...

News In previous studies performed in healthy people, the team demonstrated that their exosuit technology can deliver assistive forces during walking and jogging ... Contributed Author: Wyss Institute Topics: Prosthetics

News Both new camera models as well as the already introduced ZEISS Axiocam 503 and ZEISS Axiocam 506 feature high-speed USB 3.0 connections and active thermoelectric cooling ... Contributed Author: ZEISS Topics: Medical...

News The MRI approach using different modalities may have several applications ... Contributed Author: Radiological Society of North America Topics: Medical Diagnostics

Videos Using black phosphorus, the device generates electricity when bent or pressed ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Wearables

News This is the first time that an ionic current-generating battery has been invented ... Contributed Author: University of Maryland Topics: Implantables

(University of Kent) Researchers have identified a new cell mechanism that could lead to a fundamental change in the diagnosis and treatment of leukaemia.

(Case Western Reserve University) Alex Huang has been awarded a $150,000 St. Baldrick's Foundation Innovation Award.

(Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs) After years of increasing rates of binge drinking, alcohol-impaired driving, and alcohol-related mortality among emerging adults ages 18 to 24, the numbers are finally starting t...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Surgeons were able to identify and remove a greater number of cancerous nodules from lung cancer patients when combining intraoperative molecular imaging (IMI) -- through t...

(University of Exeter) Like humans, some birds can spend years learning and exploring before developing more settled habits. A study of northern gannets has shown adults return to the same patch of sea over and over agai...

(Swansea University) A newly developed filter, which removes more than 99 percent of heavy metal toxins from water, shows potential for water remediation in developing nations around the world.The project, developed in c...

(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ) The European Food Safety Authority, the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control are concerned about the impact of ...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) A natural healing mechanism of the body may be reducing the efficiency of radiotherapy in breast cancer patients, according to a new study. Research led by scientis...

(Henry Ford Health System) A Henry Ford Hospital study has shown that skin transplant surgery has long-term benefit for restoring skin pigmentation caused by the skin disease vitiligo.In a retrospective study, researcher...

(University of Zurich) Malaria was already widesp

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Manmade peptides that directly disrupt the inner workings of a gene known to support cancer's spread significantly reduce metastasis in a mouse model of breast cancer, s...

(University of Würzburg) Studying the immune system: That is the goal of a new Max Planck Research Group at the University of Würzburg which is currently being set up in a new collaboration with the Max Planck Society.

(Joslin Diabetes Center) Findings of the latest study of the Joslin 50-Year Medalists, who have had type 1 diabetes for at least 50 years, re-emphasize the importance of good blood glucose control and exercise in reducin...

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) This study, conducted in mice, found that exposure to air pollution during the equivalent of the first or second trimester in humans was linked to more negative birth outcome...

(University of California - San Diego) A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies describe development and application of new electron...

(American Association for Cancer Research) Stand Up To Cancer is supporting a new translational research team to explore how a type of immunotherapy that has been very successful in blood cancers can be applied to pancre...