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News SenTiva includes a detect-and-respond mode, designed to prevent seizures before they start and automatically deliver extra therapy to stop them ... Contributed Author: LivaNova PLC

Raising the price of sugary drinks in Jamie's Italian restaurants causes sales to drop by 11 percent, a new experiment reveals. As a result, the increase in price of those beverages has led to the decrease in sugary drin...

News According to medGadget, the market for wearables is only going to increase from here ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Wearables

Product Announcement The FPGA has an interface to a single DDR4 memory channel (64-bit wide with ECC) which allows for large buffer sizes to be stored during processing ... Contributed Author: VadaTech

News The materials operate by charge transfer reactions between the organic conductive polymers and the surrounding environment ... Contributed Author: University of Arizona College of Engineering

News The low-cost, portable, smartphone-integrated system provides a promising solution to address the challenges of infectious disease diagnostics ... Contributed Author: University of Illinois College of Engineering To...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Following a successful clinical trial involving Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital, the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for adult cancers was...

(University of Liverpool) A novel contact lens device developed by University of Liverpool engineers to improve the treatment of glaucoma has been found to reliably track pressure changes in the eye and be wearable by pe...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Easier access to concealed firearms is associated with significantly higher rates of handgun-related homicide, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public H...

(American College of Cardiology) Patients with a history of heart attack were more likely to use emotion-focused coping strategies for stress such as eating more or drinking alcohol, while patients without a history of h...

(University of Helsinki) It found that complementary and alternative medicine is being used in connection with various health problems, particularly in situations where help provided by conventional medicine is considere...

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) Infants of mothers with diabetes have a three- to five-fold increased risk of congenital heart defects. Such developmental defects are likely caused by a combination of genetic and enviro...

(Babraham Institute) A collaboration between Babraham Institute scientists and AstraZeneca provides new insights into the role of PTEN, a major cancer gene, in controlling cell growth and behaviour. PTEN is the second mo...

(University of Freiburg) Freiburg scientists explain assembly and transport function of 'old' calcium pumps by 'new' partner proteins.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A new animal study shows how insulin controls the movement and storage of fat molecules in the liver and how a breakdown in this system could lead to non-alcoholic fatty li...

(Georgia Institute of Technology) A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the US by non-U...

(Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine) National medical organizations jointly issue new recommendations regarding Hepatitis C in pregnancy.

(Yale University) Glucose levels are reduced in the brains of individuals with obesity and type 2 diabetes compared to lean individuals, according to a new Yale study. The finding might explain disordered eating behavior...

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin is participating as a research partner in the Human Cell Atlas (HCA). The Chan Zu...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Research has shown that a mother's diet during pregnancy, particularly one that is high-fat, may program her baby for future risk of c...

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Complete elimination of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) presents a challenge due to latent viral reservoirs within the body that can help re-establish infection. In a p...

(Weill Cornell Medicine) It was first thought that the brain was separate from other organs and functions in the body, but more and more we are seeing research revealing a connection between our brains and the rest of ou...