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Sitting for prolonged periods can be deadly. A new study involving nearly 8,000 adults suggests that even physical exercise cannot undo the harm associated with extended sitting time.

News This could be applied to medical devices, such as medical tubing ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

News The new technique is described in the research article, High resolution 3-Dimensional imaging of the human cardiac conduction system from microanatomy ... Contributed Author: Aarhus University Topics: Cardiovascular

News Nanoparticles could help create more effective medical treatments. The aim is to improve areas ranging from drug delivery to the detection of diseases ... Contributed Author: Mattias Björnmalm and Frank Caruso, The...

News TEM is a very powerful technique that can provide high-resolution views of objects just a few nanometers across ... Contributed Author: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Topics: Medical Diagnostics

Contact with puppies that were sold by the national pet store chain Petland has been linked to a multistate campylobacteriosis outbreak. What are the symptoms of this bacterial infection?

(American Academy of Family Physicians) This research is published in the September/October 2017 Annals of Family Medicine.

(Wiley) An International Journal of Cancer study found that female survivors of certain types of cancer have higher risks of poor outcomes in pregnancies conceived after diagnosis than women without cancer.

(Loyola University Health System) Loyola Medicine psychiatrist Angelos Halaris, M.D., is co-editor of a major new publication examining how psychiatric disorders progress over time, and how this progression can be stoppe...

(Association for Psychological Science) A technique that measures tiny movements of the eyes may help scientists better understand and perhaps eventually improve assessment of ADHD, according to research published in Psy...

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Steephead parrotfish (Chlorurus microrhinos) are picky eaters. In the central Pacific, however, they appear to have taken matters into their own hands -- er, fins.

(American Academy of Family Physicians) In at least 18 states around the United States, academic health science centers are partnering with cooperative extension systems to better address population health. This research...

(Loyola University Health System) Loyola Medicine psychiatrist Murali Rao, MD, has received the prestigious designation as distinguished fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (DFASAM).

(Children's National Health System) Children's Law Center and Improving Pediatric Asthma Care in the District of Columbia (IMPACT DC) have been selected by a coalition of 12 funding organizations to participate in the BU...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Randomized controlled trials with positive results are twice as likely to be reported by the lay press as those with negative trials, according to results from the Best Poster in P...

(Marine Biological Laboratory) Using a microscope invented at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), a collaborative team of biologists, instrument developers, and computational scientists has for the first time measure...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Poor oral health is an important indicator of overall health and has been linked to serious conditions like heart disease and diabetes.

(Tulane University) Tulane University researchers have developed a new drug that is effective against non-severe cases of malaria, according to results from an FDA-supervised clinical trial published in the latest issue ...

(Pharmamar) Up to today, there is only one approved therapy, topotecan, in relapsed disease, that offers a response rate of between 17 percent and 24 percent.

(Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen) Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and humanitarian organizations have conducted a large study in Burkina Faso in West Africa treating more than 1,600 children w...

(Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved about $18 million to fund two studies comparing different ways to manage the trans...