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It's not news that tattoos are hitting the mainstream, but a new study reported in the journal Scientific Reports reveals that tattoo inks' nanoparticles are adding color to other parts of your body. As the tattooed popu...

Hormone therapy might be safe after all. A new study has found that hormone replacement therapy, which is linked to premature death, did not significantly affect death rates of women who participated in the Women's Healt...

News Examples include sensing hot and cold. This development could be integreated into a variety of medical devices ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Prosthetics

News The plasma flows through a handheld, pen-sized instrument and exits as a high-speed jet ... Contributed Author: Phys.org

News Each day will include engaging, highly interactive breakout sessions that explore hot topics of critical importance ... Contributed Author: UL Compliance

News The twins were conjoined from the naval and below, making them share a colon and half of their uterus on each side ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Surgical

News The team successfully demonstrated a very compact inexpensive system that performs optical spectroscopy in a form factor that can fit inside the body of a phone ... Contributed Author: University of Illinois College...

San Diego has started washing its streets with bleach to fight back against the Hepatitis A outbreak that has already taken the lives of 16 people. For people in San Diego, here are ways to protect yourself from being in...

(Wiley) In a recent study, screening rates for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among baby boomers increased fivefold in the year following implementation of an electronic health record (EHR)-based prompt for primary ca...

(The Endocrine Society) The Endocrine Society today announced it has selected 14 leaders in the endocrinology field as winners of its prestigious 2018 Laureate Awards.

(Frontiers) A new study demonstrates the potential of wearable technology as a social-skills aid for children with autism spectrum disorder.

(American Geriatrics Society) A team of researchers from Yale University has studied how soon older adults who were experiencing distressing symptoms and disability were admitted to hospice near the end of their lives. T...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Prior to cell division, chromosomes are seemingly a jumbled mess. Researchers have long assumed that genes become "silent" during cell division, not being transcribed into ...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Many patients are treated for prostate cancer unnecessarily. Norwegian researchers are working to reduce overtreatment of prostate cancer while at the same time trying to ...

(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) Researchers from South Africa and Canada have carried out a Cochrane review update to assess the safety and effectiveness of corticosteroids for treating tuberculous pericarditis.

(University of Southern California) Scientific literature in recent years has focused extensively on one genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, the ApoE4 gene variant. A recent study published in PLOS ONE raises fl...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Did you know that routine mammograms can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer? Most American women aren't aware of these risks of breast cancer screening, reports a study in th...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited today announced a multi-year collaboration focused on accelerating the development ...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) Pregnancy-associated breast cancer, which is rare but often aggressive, was detected with MRI in 98% of cases reviewed in a recent article published in the September 2017 edition of the Am...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A growing body of clinical evidence shows that transplantation of a patient's own mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to achieve a cure and prevent recurrent of Crohn's disease...

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) This year Associate Professor Marie Pedersen from the Department of Public Health receives EUR 1.5 million in research funding from the European Resea...

(University of Connecticut) Ultrafast voltage-sensitive dyes developed at UConn Health provide a new tool for drug development and cardiac research.