Medical News

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Young adults who use electronic cigarettes are more than four times as likely to begin smoking tobacco cigarettes within 18 months as their peers who do not vape,...

Product Announcement Designers can see first-hand the intuitive tablet development app that lets them personalize multi-touch gestures ... Contributed Author: Grayhill, Inc.

News Compared to traditional batteries and other enzymatic fuel cells, microbial fuel cells can be the most suitable power source for wearable electronics ... Contributed Author: Binghamton University Topics: Wearables

News The recent findings on how video game technology can improve physical therapy ... Contributed Author: University of Missouri-Columbia

News The arrangement creates a nanocavity filled with less than a femtoliter of fluid--or about a million times smaller than the smallest raindrops ... Contributed Author: University of Rochester

News Engineers from the University of California San Diego have developed a smart phone case that is able to test blood glucose on the go ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Diabetes

News Engineers from the University of California San Diego have developed a smart phone case that is able to test blood glucose on the go ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Diabetes

(Care New England ) The Memory and Aging Program (MAP) at Butler Hospital enrolled one of the initial participants in an international Alzheimer's disease (AD) prevention study.

(Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) Women exposed to air pollution just prior to conception or during the first month of pregnancy face an increased risk of their children being born with birth defects, such ...

(Northwestern University) A Northwestern Medicine study, published in the journal Cancer Cell, has provided new insights into a mechanism of tumor survival in glioblastoma and demonstrated that inhibiting the process cou...

(Cancer Research UK) Young people are less likely to try cigarettes with the printed health warning 'Smoking kills' on each stick than standard cigarettes, according to a new study by Cancer Research UK published in Nico...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) High-intensity exercise three times a week is safe for individuals with early-stage Parkinson's disease and decreases worsening of motor symptoms, according to a new phase...

(American College of Physicians) In a new position statement on Compensation Equity and Transparency in the Field of Medicine, the American College of Physicians (ACP) asserts that physicians should receive equitable com...

(Washington University in St. Louis) Diabetes is known to increase a person's risk of kidney disease. Now, a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that the converse also is true: K...

(University of California - San Diego) Rare stem-like tumor cells play a critical role in the spread of breast cancer, but a vulnerability in the pathway that powers them offers a strategy to target these cells using exi...

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Smoking during pregnancy is the most significant, preventable risk factor for poor maternal and infant health outcomes. However, clinicians worldwide, including i...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Patients receiving long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain sometimes demonstrate challenging and concerning behaviors, such as using more opioid medication than...

(Marine Biological Laboratory) Two new studies from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) show how cells respond to internal forces when they orient, gain traction, and migrate in a specific direction. The research is p...

(Frontiers) A new study of four South Asian countries argues that early marriage should be considered a major public health issue, due to its complex associations with women's education, health and nutrition -- which may...

(American Cancer Society) The National Lung Cancer Roundtable holds its inaugural meeting on Dec. 11-12, 2017 in Bethesda, Md., the first major meeting for a new nationwide coalition of organizations committed to address...

(Texas Biomedical Research Institute) An alternative animal model that mimics key features of the Zika virus infection, including its lingering presence in bodily fluids, has been developed at Texas Biomedical Research I...

(University of Liverpool) New research published in Schizophrenia Research conducted at the University of Liverpool links brain structure to an individual's likelihood of experiencing hallucinations and to their musical ...