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News Competition Finalists will showcase their inventions and interact with thousands of USPTO patent and trademark examiners, sponsors, media and the public at the Collegiate Inventors Competition Expo ... Contributed A...

(Children's National Health System) A Finnish program transplanted to the United States accomplished its goals of significantly reducing bullying and victimization, but its success hinged on the instructional 'dose' stud...

News Wright Medical Group N.V. announced that it built on its line of limb salvage offerings with the availability of SALVATION Quick Struts ... Contributed Author: Wright Medical Group Topics: Diabetes

News The device measures percent body fat, fat mass and muscle mass so users can see their health improve ... Contributed Author: InBody

News The surgeons used the robotic device to suture vessels of 0.3 to 0.8 millimeter in the arm of the patient ... Contributed Author: Maastricht University Medical Center Topics: Surgical

News The solution: power supply by means of energy produced by body movements ... Contributed Author: Monika Landgraf

An ambitious new strategy to reduce deaths from cholera by 90% by 2030 will be launched tomorrow by the Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC), a diverse network of more than 50 UN and international agencies, acade...

A 30-year-old Australian woman was thought to have lymphoma, a form of cancer. However, doctors discovered that her enlarged lymph nodes were actually caused by the black pigment of a tattoo that she got at her back 15 y...

Dr Tedros, WHO Director-General, announced the senior leadership team.

(University of Oxford) A new study carried out by the University of Oxford has used flat worms to look at the role of migrating stem cells in cancer.Researchers from the Aboobaker lab in the Department of Zoology used th...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) LSU Health New Orleans has been awarded a $1.85 million grant over five years by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study the brain changes that ...

(Rutgers University) Explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events, those notorious warming periods in the Pacific Ocean with dramatic global impacts on the climate, according to a new study.

(Joslin Diabetes Center) Joslin's research involves a wide variety of biologic disciplines ranging from the most basic model systems to studies of pathophysiology in animal models and humans to the evaluation of new ther...

(University of Bristol) Cooling babies deprived of oxygen at birth (perinatal asphyxia) can reduce the number of children who develop epilepsy later in childhood, according to a new study published in the journal Epileps...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Proactive monitoring of blood levels of the therapeutic drug infliximab was associated with improved outcomes including lower risk of surgery and hospitalization.

(NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) A new online resource from the National Institutes of Health is now available to help people recognize and find high quality care for alcohol use disorder, which a...

(Santa Fe Institute) In the Middle Ages, did contracting leprosy necessarily increase a person's chances of dying? Yes, says a new paper. But it's complicated.

(Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience) Dr. David Fitzpatrick, Scientific Director and CEO at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), has been awarded a $2.4 million five-year grant from the Nat...

(North Carolina State University) A neurotransmitter study in mice found that BNP is involved in relaying itching sensations but not pain. A better understanding of pain and itch pathways could help researchers develop t...

(The Hastings Center) The ethics of providing cheaper, less effective treatments in resource-poor countries; physician-assisted death and severe depression; and more in the September-October 2017 issue.

(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) In an article in the latest issue of PLOS Pathogens, INRS professor Simona Stäger and her team show how the parasite Leishmania donovani uses a physiological respo...

(American Institute of Physics) To reduce the burden of anemia, health officials need a better picture of the disease's global impact, an understanding made viable by a portable and affordable way to analyze blood. Resea...