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A 35-year-old man was able to regain some consciousness after researchers in France implanted in him a device that stimulated his vagus nerve. He showed increased signs of brain activity and was able to follow basic comm...

News To help differentiate patient triage levels, Levin and a team in the Department of Emergency Medicine developed an electronic triage tool ... Contributed Author: Johns Hopkins Medicine

News A catheter by Arkis Bioscience has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for their CerebroFlo external ventricular drainage catheter ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Surgical

News The scientists use a chip with a specially coated surface made up of tiny dots with a specific striped pattern ... Contributed Author: Eth Zurich

News The new patch is unlike other single-purpose patches in the market, which either reduce the scarring or improve healing, but not both ... Contributed Author: Nanyang Technological University Topics: Regenerative Med...

News By having study participants stand on a balance board and move a cursor to a specific target on a monitor, the researchers can study how brain activity ... Contributed Author: Tim Doty Topics: Neurology

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A new study from MIT reveals that flu viruses' rapid evolution relies in part on hijacking some of the cellular machinery of the infected host cell -- a group of proteins called ch...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Julie Palmer, Sc.D., associate director of Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center, professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, and associate direc...

(Washington University in St. Louis) The overuse of antibiotics has left some doctors questioning whether to give such drugs to children diagnosed with uncomplicated Staphylococcus aureus (staph) infections. Now, researc...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) In the hunt for novel treatments against an aggressive form of breast cancer, researchers combined a new protein inhibitor with a chemotherapy drug to create a powerful combin...

(University of Basel) For some medical complaints, open-label placebos work just as well as deceptive ones. As psychologists from the University of Basel and Harvard Medical School report in the journal Pain, the accompa...

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Gender, racial, and ethnic disparities, with regard to academic rank and compensation, continue to exist among academic emergency medicine physicians in spite of a move by leadin...

(University of Huddersfield) Cancer is on the rise and the need to be empathetic when giving a patient their diagnosis and throughout treatment is imperative. Now, a collaborative study, with a Huddersfield professor, ha...

(American College of Rheumatology) Physician and healthcare professional advocates from the American College of Rheumatology are joined by rheumatology patients on Capitol Hill this week to urge lawmakers to address the ...

(Deutsches Aerzteblatt International) People who in the course of their work put long-term physical strain on their bodies have an increased risk of developing osteoarthritis of the hip. This is especially the case for l...

(Harvard Medical School) In a paper published Sept. 21 in Cell, Harvard Medical School genetics professor Olivier Pourquié -- whose lab discovered the segmentation clock 20 years ago -- and colleagues report that they u...

(Frontiers) Researchers characterize the combined influence of cesarean delivery, antibiotic treatment, and formula feeding on the development of gut microbiota in infants.

(American College of Physicians) The ACP today said that it is relieved that the Graham-Cassidy-Johnson-Heller (GCJH) proposal will not be considered on the floor of the Senate this week because of a lack of support for ...

(University of Bristol) The first global review to quantify the impact of needle syringe programmes (NSP) and opioid substitution treatment (OST) in reducing the risk of becoming infected with the hepatitis C virus is pu...

(Mayo Clinic) Opioid prescriptions from the emergency department (ED) are written for a shorter duration and smaller dose than those written elsewhere, shows new research led by Mayo Clinic. The study, published today in...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) today announced that, since its launch earlier this year, 125 health professions schools and programs ...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) Elderly, chronically ill people experience frequent changes in health status that require transitions among health care providers and settings. Significant attention has bee...