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Product Announcement The 250B includes a built-in zero backlash locking/brake design that delivers twice the nominal torque without increasing the CRD footprint ... Contributed Author: Nexen Group Inc.

News Balloon Buddies is designed to level the playing field by allowing healthy participants to support the less abled player ... Contributed Author: Imperial College London

News Chemists have used such carefully crafted light beams, called coherent control, to regulate chemical reactions, but this study is the first demonstration of using them to control function in a living cell ... Contri...

News This type of testing could help doctors predict drug responses based on measurements of cancer cell growth rates after drug exposure ... Contributed Author: Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topics...

Videos Researchers from Wyss Institute at Harvard University have developed a soft robotic glove for those who have lost their ability to grasp objects due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and other injures ... St...

Despite a warning from the Food and Drug Administration about the safety risks of codeine, a new study found that 1 in 20 children was still getting the medication after undergoing tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.

Weight gain and obesity are linked to the excess consumption of sugar. Eating fat does not make a person fat, a professor of medicine recently stated in his new book.

There's an easy way to decrease the risk of stillbirth, according to a new study. Apparently, women must sleep on their side instead of their backs to avoid increased risks of stillbirth.

(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) Cerveau Technologies, Inc. and Enigma Biomedical Group, Inc., today announced an agreement with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Ontario to support mu...

(University of Tampere) Scientists at the University of Tampere (Finland) and the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) have demonstrated that an enterovirus vaccine can protect against virus-induced diabetes in a mouse model f...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Five faculty members from the University of Missouri have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The MU faculty members elected as fellows ...

(American Geriatrics Society) A team of researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm examined the factors that put older adults at higher risk for developing physical limitations as they age. Findings pub...

(Cell Press) In your bloodstream, there are immune cells called neutrophils that, when faced with a pathogenic threat, will expel their DNA like a net to contain it. These DNA snares are called neutrophil extracellular t...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Oocyte cryopreservation is on the rise, and whether a woman freezes her eggs before undergoing medical treatment that could leave her infertile or undergoes an elective p...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Although most older Americans prefer to actively participate in making health care decisions, those with four or more chronic conditions are less likely to prefer active decision m...

(Wiley) A recent study showed approximately one-fifth of patients with cancer experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) several months after diagnosis, and many of these patients continued to live with PTSD years...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) BWH investigators report on the results from a pilot study of 15 individuals who received a prescription to take oxycodone digital pills as needed following treatment for acute fractures. T...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Motorcycle accidents are costly in terms of lives and health care costs. Compared with car accidents, motorcycle accidents cause three times the injuries, six times the medical cost...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) A national cooperative group trial is making a handful of the country's experts in a rare leukemia available around the clock, with the goal of cutting by more than half...

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Contrast has an impact on the optokinetic reflex, which enables us to clearly perceive the landscape from a moving train. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) ...

(Emory Health Sciences) Chemists have developed another catalyst that can selectively activate a carbon-hydrogen bond, part of an ongoing strategy to revolutionize the field of organic synthesis and open up new chemical ...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Researchers have developed a new framework for reporting and designing models of care for multimorbidity.