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News The technology includes optical hardware and a lens-free microscope, according to Meghan Steele Horan from Phys.org ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Medical Diagnostics

Article The latest generation of silicon probes, developed by Imec (Leuven, Belgium), use CMOS technology to fit 384 recording sites onto a shank that's thinner than a human hair ... Contributed Author: David Henderson, ...

News The industry that makes medical devices from artificial hips to miniature pumps for IV drips is looking for a fallback plan to repeal a widely reviled sales tax that almost met its end in GOP health care legislation...

News To power these new wearable devices, the energy storage system must have reasonable mechanical flexibility in addition to high energy and power density ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Wearables

News The coils can stretch and contract like a spring without breaking ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Wearables

The total number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen this year hit the half a million mark on Sunday, and nearly 2000 people have died since the outbreak began to spread rapidly at the end of April. The overall caseload ...

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Cardiac stem cell infusions could someday help reverse the aging process in the human heart, making older ones behave younger, according to a new study from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute.

(Baylor College of Medicine) A group of genes involved in calcium handling undergoes a highly-regulated process called alternative splicing that changes the type of protein the genes produce as muscles transition from ne...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Despite a decade-long call for simplification of clinical trials, the number of criteria excluding patients from participating in clinical trials for lung cancer research continues to ris...

(Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) Physicians trained at the United States' lowest-ranked medical schools write more opioid prescriptions than physicians trained at the high...

(University of Basel) The regulatory requirements for the approval of new drugs vary greatly internationally in regards to the resources allocated to the authorities, the evaluation periods for approval and the fees for ...

(Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) Being able to predict the resistance or sensitivity of a tumor cell to a drug is a key success-factor of cancer precision therapy. But such a prediction is made difficult by the fact t...

(University of New Hampshire) In humans, even the most minor dehydration can compromise the kidneys causing lifelong, irreparable issues or even death. However, some animals living in desert environments are able to surv...

(Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) Worldwide, people are eating far too much sugar. This has negative consequences for their teeth and for their purses: seen at the global level, the costs of dental treatment ...

(Oregon Research Institute) The study showed that adolescents are using e-cigarettes at high rates, and many are using e-cigarettes before trying regular cigarettes or chewing tobacco. In addition, e-cigarette users were...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) The Exscien Corporation of Louisville, Ky., in conjunction with LSU Health New Orleans Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, has been awarded an SBIR Fast-Track grant in...

(Elsevier) The latest estimates suggest that, by 2020, more than 1.9 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer each year. In a special supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, a noted group of exp...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Inflammatory processes in the liver lead to elevated cholesterol levels in people with diabetes, thus promoting subsequent vascular diseases....

(American College of Surgeons) Hospitals are not off limits to tragic shooting events, and with these incidents on the rise in public places, more than half of the general public expects that physicians and nurses will p...

(Elsevier) Stanford University scientists have described a new type of test that can detect genetic mutations in minute amounts of DNA released from cancer cells into the blood. The test, which is called single color dig...

(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) An assay that identifies a genetic change called gene fusions in solid tumors has been developed and validated. The assay is called OSU-SpARKFuse (Ohio State University-Spann...

(Portland State University) More research should be pursued about violence against transgender individuals, especially among young and Black or Latina transfeminine women, according to a recent study completed a research...