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News The valve's design helps to reduce blood regurgitation ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Surgical

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News Yale University researchers have developed a way in which medical imaging could potentially be used to assess a patient's rupture risk for abdominal aortic aneurysm ... Contributed Author: Society of Nuclear Medicin...

News Traditionally, before the surgery, physicians study X-rays of the surgery site taken from different angles, which they use to plan the bone cuts ... Contributed Author: University of California - San Diego Topics: S...

News To help doctors deliver therapeutic sound waves into the brain, the team developed and tested a transparent, ceramic material ... Contributed Author: University of California - Riverside Topics: Implantables

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have found that cells of a deadly acute myeloid leukemia can be killed by blocking production of a molecular 'battery.'

(Lancaster University) Researchers investigating nutrients in runoff from agricultural land warn that phosphorus losses will increase, due to climate change, unless this is mitigated by making major changes to agricultur...

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) An experimental treatment derived from a potentially deadly microorganism may provide lifesaving help for kidney transplant patients, according to an international study led by investigators...

(Penn State) A technique called 'electrical grounding' may moderate preterm infants' electromagnetic exposure in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and improve their health outcomes, according to Penn State College ...

(University of Plymouth) A research team from Applied Genomics Limited, the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, the Benthic Solutions Ltd. and the University of Plymouth have secured funding from Innovate UK ...

(The University of Bergen) The risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) drastically increases with weight gain between pregnancies, according to a Norwegian study.

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Where are baseball batters looking during the fraction of a second when a pitched ball is in their air? Their visual tracking strategies differ depending on whether they're swinging at the pitch, ...

(University of Freiburg) Freiburg neuroscientists develop new forms of diagnosis and therapy for temporal lobe epilepsy.

(Mayo Clinic) Today, Mayo Clinic released a societal impact report demonstrating the powerful effect the organization has on medical practice, patients and the American economy. The report -- a first-of-its-kind study fo...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Researchers at Penn Medicine have discovered that a patient's awareness of a diagnosis of cognitive impairment may diminish their self-assessment of quality of life.

(LA BioMed) The NIH awarded a groundbreaking grant to a Southern California network of hospitals, ambulance agencies and LA BioMed to fund research to advance and improve emergency care.

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have developed a mouse model to study Zika virus transmitted sexually from males to females, as well as verticall...

(Stockholm University) The first new botulinum neurotoxin in almost half a century has been discovered by researchers at Stockholm University and Harvard Medical School. Botulinum toxins are widely used to treat a growin...

(University of California - Riverside) Scientists at the University of California, Riverside investigating the composition of particulate matter and its sources at the Salton Sea have found that this shrinking lake in So...

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Profs. Ruti Parvari and Mahmoud Huleihel of the Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics discovered the mutation in the gene, which normal...

(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) A new clinical trial concludes that intramuscular administration of antiretrovirals every 4 or 8 weeks gets results similar to daily pill intake Spacing drug intake would...

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines how to examine whether specific levels of nutrients or other food subst...