Medical News
Quantifying Drug Use With Sewage and Cell Phones
Discover - 22 Sep 2017 21:01
Obtaining information about illegal drug use isn't a simple task. The illicit nature of the subject makes gathering information on the who and the what of drug consumption problematic. Self-reported surveys, a common too...
Aved Electro-mechanical Box Build Assembly Service
Medical Design Technology - 22 Sep 2017 17:22
Product Announcement Aved Electro-mechanical Box Build Assemblies are fully optimized for design and manufacturability (DFM) to provide a complete connectorized solution ... Contributed Author: Aved Electronics, Inc.
Photo of the Day: Medical Assistant Alexa
Medical Design Technology - 22 Sep 2017 17:20
News Users can ask Amazon Alexa for medical information through a program set up by the Mayo Clinic ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Home Healthcare
Rapid Imaging of Granular Matter
Medical Design Technology - 22 Sep 2017 16:57
News Scientists have reintroduced a technology into physics research that, nowadays, is mainly used in medicine: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ... Contributed Author: Oliver Morsch
Football Helmet Smartfoam Signals Potential Concussions in Real Time, Study Suggests
Medical Design Technology - 22 Sep 2017 16:54
News The foam measures the impact of a hit via electrical signals ... Contributed Author: Brigham Young University Topics: Neurology
Atoms Building Molecules, Literally
Medical Design Technology - 22 Sep 2017 16:51
News These tiny robots are a millionth of a millimeter in size, and use a tiny robotic arm to build and move molecular cargo ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler
Hardworking Babies: Infants Can Learn Persistence From Adults
Tech Times - 22 Sep 2017 15:48
Is persistence learned or innate? A new study shows how 15-month-old infants can exhibit the value of persistence and hard work if they see an adult do the same.
HSE scholars measure prestige of fashion models
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Beginning models should choose independent magazines in order to be successful in the fashion industry, but they should also keep in mind that the fashion busines...
Leopoldina Annual Assembly focuses on genome editing issues
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(Leopoldina) The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina today opened its 2017 Annual Assembly in Halle (Saale), with this year's theme being "Genome Editing - Challenges for the Future". The two-day event sees di...
Multi-gene test predicts Alzheimer's better than APOE E4 alone
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of California - San Francisco) A new test that combines the effects of more than two dozen genetic variants, most associated by themselves with only a small risk of Alzheimer's disease, does a better job of p...
Our weight tells how we assess food
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) A new study demonstrated that people of normal weight tend to associate natural foods such as apples with their sensory characteristics. On the other hand, processed fo...
Party discipline for jumping genes
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) Jumping genes, transposons, are part of the genome of most organisms, aggregated into families and can damage the genome by jumping. How hosts suppress the jumping is well in...
Rainbow colors reveal cell history
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(Technische Universität Dresden) Dr. Nikolay Ninov, group leader at the DFG research center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Cluster of Excellence at the TU Dresden, and Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, and his gro...
Residents: Frontline defenders against antibiotic resistance?
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(Children's National Health System) Residents often decide which antibiotics to start a patient on so they could become the first line of defense against antibiotic resistance, says Geovanny F. Perez, M.D., a pulmonologi...
Russian scientists have studied the genes that allow cancer cells to resist drugs
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(RUDN University) Researchers from the People's Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) have studied the mechanism of drug resistance for ovarian and breast cancer cells. They discovered that these cancer cells...
Stimuli fading away en route to consciousness
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Bonn) Whether or not we consciously perceive the stimuli projected onto our retina is decided in our brain. A recent study by the University of Bonn shows how some signals dissipate along the processing pa...
Study: Strategy might prevent infections in patients with spinal cord injuries
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(MediaSource) A new study at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center investigates how to reduce the number of infections in patients with spinal cord injuries without using antibiotics.
Tackling air pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Portsmouth) The University of Portsmouth is helping to tackle air pollution and its harmful effects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Two Group A Streptococcus genes linked to 'flesh-eating' bacterial infections
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Maryland) Group A Streptococcus bacteria cause illnesses ranging from mild nuisances like strep throat to life-threatening conditions such as flesh-eating disease, also known as necrotizing fasciitis. Life...
UCI scientists identify important aspect of the brain's navigational system
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of California - Irvine) The ability to successfully navigate in the environment is essential both for animals searching for food or escaping predators, as well as for human urban dwellers. It is something we ...
UMass Amherst environmental scientist Laura Vandenberg honored as Pioneer in Public Health
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Collaborative on Health and the Environment, a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to educating people on the ways in which the environment affects human health and well-being...
USDA announces funding for nutrition incentive programs
EurekAlert! - 22 Sep 2017 06:00
(National Institute of Food and Agriculture ) The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $21 million to help Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNA...