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(Children's National Health System) The multidisciplinary team at Children's National Health System has consulted on 90 dyads (mothers and their Zika-affected fetuses/infants). The lessons learned about when and how thes...

Cancerous tumor cells get addicted to the very drugs meant to eradicate them. It's an ironic twist in the field of cancer treatment. A small percentage of tumor cells can possess a resistance to cancer-fighting drugs, al...

News Our health isn't something we should be playing around with, but that doesn't mean it cannot be powered by a game ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News The smart pump would be able to deliver air specifically to the gas sensors, which would reduce the reaction time from several minutes to just two seconds ... Contributed Author: Phys.org

News A promising alternative is magnesium, a safely biodegradable metal and cofactor for many enzymes in DNA repair that also promotes bone health ... Contributed Author: NYU Tandon School of Engineering Topics: Implanta...

News The device only requires a few drops of blood for analysis ... Contributed Author: American Institute of Physics Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News An optical fiber in the catheter sends short laser pulses into surrounding tissue, which fluoresces with tiny flashes of light in return ... Contributed Author: University of California - Davis Topics: Surgical

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration, as it looks to make the abortion pill more accessible to women. According to the ACLU, the FDA imposes 'onerous and medically u...

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) Preliminary findings presented at this year's American Society of Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting suggest a genetic test for HPV16 in the blood could be useful to help asses...

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) Researchers report in JAMA Dermatology that surgical treatment delays - defined as surgery that occurred more than six weeks after diagnosis - were common. Medicaid patients w...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Timely treatment for cancer is important and a new article published by JAMA Dermatology examines how delays of surgery for melanoma vary by insurance type.

(The JAMA Network Journals) To what degree does childhood exposure to bullying contribute to mental health difficulties and do the direct contributions of exposure to bullying persist over time?

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) UCLA researchers have demonstrated for the first time that black tea may promote weight loss and other health benefits by changing bacteria in the gut.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A new generation DNA-based Zika vaccine is the first to demonstrate both safety and the ability to elicit an immune response against Zika in humans, according to new resear...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) UAlberta researchers have created two new imaging agents that could help physicians visualize the formation of tumour-associated blood vessels, keep track of tumour...

(American Association for Cancer Research) A health care professional's recommendation was the most important factor driving decisions by women at high risk for breast cancer on whether to take selective estrogen recepto...

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Topics range from pancreatic cancer to the configurations of crisis in the arts / Approximately €15 million for first funding period.

(Wiley) Exercise is known to be beneficial to bone health but there is reluctance to use high intensity programs in older women with low bone mass because of the risk of fracture or other injury.

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) LSU Health New Orleans' Precision Medicine team will participate in the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program. All of Us, which seeks to gather inf...

(Wiley) Lower meat consumption by women during pregnancy was linked with an increased risk of substance misuse by their children during adolescence.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT professor Kieran Setiya's book 'Midlife' aims to smooth out the rocky road of middle age.

(Montana State University) The National Cancer Institute and National Institute of General Medical Sciences have awarded $1.643 million to Seth Walk for a five-year study of gut microbiome-arsenic interactions. The World...