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News It could extend sophisticated imaging techniques to rural areas and developing countries ... Contributed Author: University of Houston Topics: Medical Diagnostics

A new study suggested that bipolar depression can be treated with light therapy. Currently, it is used to treat the seasonal affective disorder.

News These patches also secrete enzymes and growth factors that could help recovery of damaged tissue that hasn't yet died ... Contributed Author: Duke University Topics: Cardiovascular

News They have developed a technique using machine learning - a sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) - that will enhance computer-aided diagnosis ... Contributed Author: Florida Atlantic University Topics: Oncology

Product Announcement The miniature diaphragm pump 1014 is used in devices such as hand-held gas detectors and has an impressively diverse range of uses in leak detection and in room monitoring ... Contributed Author: Gar...

News These things are happening at Bell Land General Hospital in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, where they are working with GE to automate data analytics ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that processed dog treats may be deadly to dogs. The FDA has received 68 reports of the product causing harm to a total of 90 dogs, with 15 of them being fatal cases.

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) A decade of data on hundreds of boys and girls who received the HPV vaccine indicates the vaccine is safe and effective long term in protecting against the most virulent...

(American Geriatrics Society) There are no effective drug treatments for dementia or its symptoms, so researchers have been exploring treatment options that don't involve using medication. A team of researchers studied o...

(Kansas State University) The latest work from Raymond 'Bob' Rowland, Kansas State University professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, is helping to eradicate the devastating PRRS virus.

(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) The largest ever genetic study of mosquitoes reveals the movement of insecticide resistance between different regions of Africa and finds several rapidly evolving insecticide resistance ...

(University of Warwick) Mums-to-be living in war zones/areas of armed conflict are at heightened risk of giving birth to low birthweight babies. However the evidence for any impact on the rate of other complications of p...

(Wiley) Low vitamin D levels at birth were associated with an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) at the age of 3 years in a recent Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study.

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Designing new therapeutic DNA aptamers with diverse side chains can improve their ability to interact with targets, and a new study describes characteristics of these sid...

(National Institute of Food and Agriculture ) The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced support for research, education, and extension projects that promo...

(Center for BrainHealth ) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas $2.5 million to examine cannabis use disorders. The five-year brain-imagi...

(AAA) More than 70 percent of senior drivers experience muscle and bone conditions that impact their driving. Inexpensive features like steering wheel covers help lessen the impact of these conditions, yet 90 percent of ...

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Researchers from EPFL have developed a novel series of systems genetics tools to identify new links between genes and phenotypes. The work, a hallmark of EPFL's endeavors into...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) A cross-section of opioid prescribers that typically do not prescribe large volumes of opioids, including primary care physicians, surgeons and non-physician h...

(Bentham Science Publishers) This article is a literature review of the relationship of the determinants affecting GMS mental disorders conducted using the defined strategies

(Vanderbilt University) The first study to actually count the number of cortical neurons in the brains of a number of carnivores, including cats and dogs, has found that dogs possess significantly more of them than cats.

(University of Kentucky) Researchers at the University of Kentucky studied the correlation between communities with strong smoke-free workplace laws and the number of new lung cancer diagnoses. Those communities have 8% ...