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(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Brazilian scientists investigate tumoral development caused by benzo[a]pyrene, a hydrocarbon present in cigarette smoke, automotive exhaust, burnt wood fumes and ba...

Scientists have recently found that dyslexia could potentially be linked to the shape of spots in the eye. This causes the inability to read, write or spell correctly.

News According to studies, personalizing the interaction between humans and robots may increase their use ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

News As the surgical education community grapples with the challenge of needing to teach more surgery content in less time to surgical trainees, the Virtual Residency Program fills the gap with a mobile ... Contributed A...

News The Hill-Rom NaviCare Patient Safety System integrates technology, services, clinical programs and clinical expertise to specifically prevent and reduce the risk of fall ... Contributed Author: Hill-Rom Holdings, In...

News Doctors at the National University Hospital (NUH) came up with a mobile app that allows pregnant women with gestational diabetes to track their weight and blood glucose levels ... Contributed Author: National Univer...

News The researchers plan to conduct further studies to reduce the size of the device so that it can operate at much higher frequencies ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Medical Diagnostics

Georgia lawmaker Betty Price has come under fire for asking whether there is legal basis for the quarantine of people infected with HIV. She has now spoken out amid the controversy, claiming her comments were taken out o...

Erin and Abby Delaney, former conjoined twins who were connected at the head, are recovering well from the 11-hour surgery that separated them in June. The sisters will be back home to celebrate Thanksgiving with their p...

(Graz University of Technology) Illnesses such as cancer and multiple sclerosis may also be associated with lipids. Disorders are difficult to assess due to the diversity of lipids. Austrian scientists from Graz present ...

(American College of Chest Physicians) In a report presented at CHEST 2017, researchers from the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, sought to determine if a clinician's own religious beliefs could influence the care...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Figuring out how accurate replication works at the level of individual molecules and atoms is one of the great achievements of modern science. The journey of investigators is not yet done,...

(University of Groningen) Birds will sometimes care for the offspring of other birds of their own species if they anticipate future benefits. Being tolerated in another bird's territory and the chance to inherit that ter...

(American Association for Cancer Research) The UT Health San Antonio Cancer Center, the American Association for Cancer Research, and Baylor College of Medicine will be hosting the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposiu...

(RAND Corporation) Biosimilar drugs have been touted as one strategy to help curb the runaway costs of biologics that have advanced the treatment of illness such as rheumatoid arthritis and many cancers. A new study find...

(American Heart Association) Individuals with higher levels of thyroid hormone (free thyroxine or FT4) circulating in the blood were more likely than individuals with lower levels to develop irregular heartbeat, even whe...

(Technische Universität Dresden) Dr. Michell M. Reimer, group leader at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Cluster of Excellence at the TU Dresden, and his team introduce a novel, easy-to-use, and hig...

(Emory Health Sciences) An Emory/Yonsei team developed a new method for generating endothelial cells, which make up the lining of blood vessels, from human iPSCs. When endothelial cells are surrounded by a supportive gel...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics finds a genetic change called ALK-fusion in a patient sample of a...

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT neuroscientists propose that the existence of 'silent engrams'suggests current theories of memory formation need to revised.

(American College of Chest Physicians) In a new study presented at CHEST 2017, researchers from Columbia University Medical Center in New York aimed to determine if the associations between combustion-related air polluta...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) New research from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests that the lung microbiome plays a significant role in asthma severity and response to treatment.