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Women may soon have more options when it comes to deciding how often they are screened for cervical cancer. But here's the thing ― age is important. Women ages 30 to 65 years can either get screened every three years w...

Were you born to have bad teeth, or did you break them? When it comes to allocating blame for tooth decay, one of the most common chronic childhood diseases worldwide, experts point fingers at both genes and dental hygie...

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News To solve these problems, the researchers developed algorithms that can be used with any thermal camera to compensate for ambient temperature changes ... Contributed Author: The Optical Society Topics: Home Healthcar...

News Through the Power of 10, One Drop is partnering with our customers and clinics nationwide to ensure every single person in America diagnosed with diabetes ... Contributed Author: One Drop Topics: Diabetes

News Called ATOMS, which is short for addressable transmitters operated as magnetic spins, the new silicon-chip devices ... Contributed Author: California Institute of Technology

News These products are made using a number of biomaterials including gelatin methacrylate (GelMA) ... Contributed Author: University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus Topics: Implantables

A study involving deceased individuals with tattoo revealed that pigments and toxic elements in the form of nanoparticles make their way into the body's lymph nodes. Tattooed corpses were also found to have higher levels...

Researchers aim to determine whether or not light drinking is safe for pregnant women, including how much is fine. However, the consensus is still to avoid alcohol completely during pregnancy.

(Thomas Jefferson University) A new meta-analysis shows that pregnant women with endometriosis are at greater risk for a host of complications during pregnancy and at delivery, including preterm birth and cesarean sectio...

(The Endocrine Society) The Endocrine Society today issued a Clinical Practice Guideline on the treatment for gender-dysphoric/gender-incongruent people, commonly referred to as transgender, to develop the physical chara...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A Massachusetts General Hospital research team has identified a potential strategy for improving the efficacy of angiogenesis inhibitors, drugs that help fight cancer by blocking the form...

(University of Oxford) Low-level radiation exposure poses less of a health risk than other lifestyle threats, such as smoking, obesity and air pollution, according to Oxford University research.Human populations have alw...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) The terrorist who killed 12 people and injured dozens more in the 2016 Berlin Christmas Market attack was removed from the country's surveillance list a month earlier, bu...

(Lund University) Physical aggression among people with dementia is not unusual. A study from Lund University in Sweden showed that one-third of patients with the diagnosis Alzheimer's disease or frontotemporal dementia ...

(American College of Physicians) ACP sent a letter today to Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, sharing ACP's opposition to their bill to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, premium a...

(Queen's University Belfast) Experts at Queen's University Belfast have designed a flexible and organic alternative to the rigid batteries that power up medical implants.

(Boston University School of Medicine) Research published today shows that light from RayVio's 293nm ultraviolet (UV) LED is more efficient than sunlight at producingvitamin D3 in skin samples.

(American Geriatrics Society) Four national medical societies and nine leading health systems announced today they have established a new national geriatric emergency department collaborative to help improve emergency ca...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have joined together as a single site within the Urinary St...

(Columbia University Medical Center) Marijuana may bring on temporary paranoia and other psychosis-related effects in individuals at high risk of developing a psychotic disorder, finds a preliminary study from researcher...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) The findings challenge the use of claims data for sepsis surveillance.