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News It will be used to form optical microscopic images ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News A team of scientists led by Virginia Commonwealth University physicist Jason Reed, Ph.D., have developed new nanomapping technology ... Contributed Author: Phys.org

News In some medical applications, it is better for a medical treatment if a chemical can be applied directly to a certain part of the body and nowhere else ... Contributed Author: Bob Yirka, Phys.org

News Stevie can perform some of its jobs autonomously, for example reminding users to take medication ... Contributed Author: Conor Mcginn, The Conversation

News Nautilus Medical is utilizing the broad technology within Google services to provide a comprehensive image management platform that is used by hundreds of imaging sites today ... Contributed Author: Nautilus Medical...

(Kiel University) For the first time, a research team from the Cell and Developmental Biology (Bosch AG) working group at the Zoological Institute at Kiel University (CAU) has been able to prove that the bacterial coloni...

(Wiley) In a Journal of Advanced Nursing study, female gender and personal burnout were linked with impaired sleep quality among nurses.

(University of Lincoln) Bearded dragons which are incubated in colder environments are better at solving cognitive tasks as adults than incubated in warmer temperatures, according to new research published today. Scienti...

(Wiley) In a Diabetic Medicine study that compared different regions in England, areas that provided 10 key services for diabetes foot care had lower rates of major diabetes-related lower limb amputations.

(Wiley) In an Arthritis Care & Research study of individuals who underwent total knee replacement, those who did not attend college had worse pain and function after two years if they lived in poor communities, but educa...

(Marine Biological Laboratory) Two new studies on the evolutionary origin of teeth and of vertebra further illuminate the human connection to marine organisms that goes back millions of years. Both studies in the little ...

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Minor adverse events (e.g., bad taste in the mouth and dizziness) occur more frequently with intranasal ketamine than with intranasal fentanyl in children with suspected extremit...

(Wiley) In a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society study of community-dwelling individuals aged 70 to 90 years who were participating in the Jerusalem Longitudinal Study, leaving the house daily was linked with a lo...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A study of more than 400 adults with prehypertension, or stage 1 high blood pressure, found that combining a low-salt diet with the heart-healthy DASH diet substantially lowers systolic blood pre...

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Nearly half of all advanced-stage lung cancer patients develop arterial pulmonary hypertension.

(Queensland University of Technology) A global survey of male escort websites finds some countries wherea large percentage of male escorts cater for women and couples although such sites are still outnumbered by sites fo...

(Wiley) A task force from the European Academy of Paediatrics and the European ChildhoodObesity Group has found evidence of a strong link between obesity levels across European countries and childhood media exposure.

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) A new study that included researchers from Norway, the University of Washington, the University of California San Diego and The University of Texas Health Scienc...

(BMJ) Drinking coffee is 'more likely to benefit health than to harm it' for a range of health outcomes, say researchers in The BMJ today.

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) NIAID scientists and collaborators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have detected abnormal prion protein in the skin of several people who ...