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(McGill University) Simple odor identification tests may help track the progression of Alzheimer's disease before symptoms actually appear, particularly among those at risk.

Tiny robots powered by bubbles have successfully treated an infection in mice. The achievement is another step forward in a field that has long shown promise, and is only now beginning to deliver. The therapeutic robots ...

Social media has been a boon to social science. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and other platforms serve as online laboratories that reveal all kinds of stuff about the users, researchers say. The rise of these platforms h...

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Article The two biometric sensor modalities primarily used in medical-grade consumer wearables are based on mature technologies ... Contributed Author: Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President & Co-Founder, Valencell Inc Topics: We...

News The FDA defines high-risk devices as those that "that support or sustain human life, are of substantial importance in preventing impairment of human health ... Contributed Author: University of California - San Fran...

News The App takes patients through 10 sessions over a period of approximately three months, covering topics such as stress vulnerability and illness ... Contributed Author: Elsevier Topics: Home Healthcare

News The researchers hope that, with further development, the materials could have a wide impact on healthcare worldwide ... Contributed Author: University of Oxford

(New York Genome Center) Novel insights into the genetic contribution to varying immune responses.

(Frontiers) Patients at risk for type 2 diabetes are often asked to exercise, but exercise doesn't help each patient equally. To investigate this variability, a sample of women were divided by their levels of insulin res...

(Lifespan) The Hasbro Children's Hospital pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) nursing staff has attained a Silver Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). The distinction...

(University of California - Berkeley) New study finds that elemental sulfur is linked to reduced lung function, more asthma-related symptoms and higher asthma medication use in children living about a half-mile or less f...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study has shown that following brain ischemia caused by cerebral blockage in mice both immediate and delayed reduction in body temperature helped limit cell death a...

(Carnegie Mellon University) With countries around the world struggling to deliver quality health care and contain costs, a team of behavioral economists led by Carnegie Mellon University's George Loewenstein believes it...

(Jackson Laboratory) A five-year federal research grant totaling $1,887,049 to Jackson Laboratory research scientist Yanjiao Zhou, M.D., Ph.D., will fund studies exploring the therapeutic potential of the gut microbiome ...

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) Even with a growing body of research on microorganisms and humans in indoor environments, many of their interconnections remain unknown, says a new report by th...

(Elsevier) Hemodialysis requires repeated access to the blood. Failure to maintain adequate access to the vasculature is a major cause of medical complications and, potentially, death for these patients. A new study in T...

(St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center) Research conducted by a team of Norton Thoracic Institute scientists on a novel therapeutic avenue for an aggressive and difficult to treat subgroup of lung cancer was published...

(University of Ottawa) Expectant mothers may want to consider adopting today's trend towards stress management, in light of new research pointing to its ability to lower the risk of problematic behaviour in their offspri...

(Université libre de Bruxelles) One of the key questions in stem cell and cancer biology is to understand the cellular hierarchy governing tissue development and maintenance and the cancer cell of origin. In a study pub...

(Lund University) The most aggressive variant of brain tumor -- glioblastoma -- has an average survival rate of 15 months. There is therefore an urgent need for new treatment strategies for this group of patients. A rese...

(University of Texas at Austin) Chemists have discovered a powerful pain reliever that acts on a previously unknown pain pathway. The compound is as effective at relieving neuropathic pain in injured mice as a drug widel...