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(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) 'We found that hospitalizations up to the age of 18 involving endocrine and metabolic morbidity were found to be more common in the early-term group as compared w...

In Germany, treatments for disease may entail adding a vial of parasitic worms to a meal or beverage. The country's food and consumer safety organization is set to weigh in on the relative merits of parasitic worms as a ...

News What are the other possibilities for augmented reality technology ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Surgical

News Infections in surgically implanted heart valves are more common in patients who have been given a biological prosthetic valve ... Contributed Author: Karolinska Institutet Topics: Cardiovascular

News Minute fragments, known as gold nanoparticles, were encased in a chemical device ... Contributed Author: University of Edinburgh Topics: Oncology

News To give the siRNA more staying power, the researchers developed a drug delivery system in which polymer-based nanoparticles carry ... Contributed Author: William Weir, Phys.org Topics: Surgical

News Its main attraction is that graphene's unique electronic properties enable the tattoo to function as a wearable electronic device ... Contributed Author: Lisa Zyga, Phys.org Topics: Wearables

News Their device uses an advanced artificial intelligence algorithm to analyze the radio signals around the person and translate those measurements into sleep stages ... Contributed Author: Anne Trafton, MIT News Office...

A number of new studies have revealed that doing yoga may ease depression, and the practice could complement traditional therapies to lessen the symptoms. Find out more about its benefits for mental health.

(University of Leicester) University of Leicester research suggests that greater access to higher education can influence political outcomes.

(University of Chicago Medical Center) Computer analysis of oxygen levels in the blood during sleep could -- by itself -- provide an easy, relatively inexpensive and sufficiently reliable way to determine which children ...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) IBM's Watson beat real-life contestants on Jeopardy. Now researchers are hoping this icon of artificial intelligence will help people with cancer win as well by providin...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) In an animal model of obesity and breast cancer, tumor cells in obese animals but not lean animals had especially sensitive androgen receptors, allowing these cells to mag...

(University of Eastern Finland) The use of proton pump inhibitors does not increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, shows a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland. Proton pump inhibitors are a type of antiu...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Insurance companies end up covering proton therapy treatment for pediatric cancer patients in 97 percent of the cases they originally deny once those decisions are appealed...

(University of Bath) Sequencing the DNA of the MRSA superbug can accurately identify patients most at risk of death and could help medics develop new treatments as we move towards personalised medicine, say scientists pu...

(Wiley) New research published in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), suggests that an investigational neurological treatment derived from cannabis may alter the blood levels of comm...

(RTI International) A new study by RTI International found that low Medicaid payment rates for services in assisted living and similar settings discourage residential care providers from serving Medicaid beneficiaries, w...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Media portrayals of pregnant, postpartum women unrealistic, women said in a new study by University of Illinois researcher Toni Liechty. Exposure to unrealistic images and mes...

(Indiana University) Living near fast-food restaurants and supermarkets has little impact on an individual's body mass index, according to new Indiana University research. The researchers, including Coady Wing from IU's ...

(Springer) There has been a sharp increase in non-communicable diseases and mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Depression and an...

(Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) Suicide, homicide, and sexual assault are increasing much faster in the Eastern Mediterranean Region than any other region in the world, according to a new scientific study.T...