Medical News

A recent study suggested that people who have never been married have a higher chance of getting dementia. Widowed people also have a relatively increased risk of developing the mental affliction.

Scientists have taken another step towards putting two additional letters in the dictionary of life to work. Researchers at the Scripps Institute have engineered cells to successfully transcribe a brand new artificial DN...

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News The sensor can be measured using a relatively new, non-invasive imaging method known as optoacoustics ... Contributed Author: Technical University of Munich (TUM)

News Using a wireless mobile brain-body imaging system, the work relied upon a 64-channel skullcap to track the brain activity of 10 able-bodied volunteers ... Contributed Author: University of Houston Topics: Prosthetic...

News These minute capsules can navigate the bloodstream, and, when hit with a quick pulse of laser light, change shape to release their contents ... Contributed Author: University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Compu...

News Compared to larger forms of aquatic motion, nanoswimming hinges on an understanding of the Reynolds number ... Contributed Author: American Institute of Physics

Article Connected Healthcare and Data-Driven Healthcare were dominant themes at MEDICA + COMPAMED, where 123,500 attendees and 5,100 exhibitors representing all sectors of the global medical care industry who came to tak...

During sex, the heart races, blood pressure rises and the breath quickens, sometimes to a pant. Muscles tense and euphoric feelings flood the brain. This is not a time to be thinking, "I hope my heart doesn't stop." But ...

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News Using off-the-shelf DVD components, the Bristol team supercharged their atomic force microscope (AFM) to enable it to physically map the lengths of individual DNA molecules ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: M...

News The new flexible impedance sensor brings several of these advances together in one device ... Contributed Author: Rebecca Copeland, Phys.org Topics: Surgical

News The microscope is optimized to perform studies using optogenetic techniques ... Contributed Author: The Optical Society Topics: Neurology

Prehistoric women were doing all sorts of laborious farm work during their time. That's why their bones were much stronger than most athletes at present, including a modern rower's.

More than 50 percent of teens and children in the United States will be obese by their 35th birthday. What are the factors that contribute to obesity epidemic and how can parents prevent weight problems in kids?

(Hokkaido University) Mathematical models have proven the risk of the on-going pneumonic plague epidemic in Madagascar spreading elsewhere in the world is limited, with the estimated number of exported cases staying belo...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) A team of LSU Health New Orleans scientists discovered that a component of fish oil not only protects cells critical to vision from potentially lethal initial insults, ...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Daily marijuana use has been on the rise over the past decade. Now, a new study found that cigarette smokers are 10 times more likely to use marijuana on a daily ba...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Cancer therapies including radiation and chemotherapy seek to treat the disease by killing tumor cells. Now a team including researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BID...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The National Institutes of Health and partners have launched a large clinical trial to assess whether an experimental HIV vaccine regimen is safe and able to pr...

(eLife ) A molecule that controls intestinal cell growth plays a dual role maintaining gut health and promoting diseases such as cancer, says a study in eLife.

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The first large-scale clinical trial of a long-acting injectable medication for HIV prevention in sexually active women has begun. The study in southern and eas...