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(Boston University School of Medicine) Reena Bastin and Faizah Shareef, first-year medical students from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), are joining 48 other medical students from across the country to learn...

News Spectratech Inc. has developed new equipment for brain mapping ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Neurology

The Director-General of WHO has outlined his vision for a Madagascar free of plague epidemics during a three-day visit to the island nation that started on 7 January 2018. "Madagascar can make plague epidemics a thing of...

News Hycor Biomedical announced that it has applied the CE mark to its allergy testing system ... Contributed Author: Hycor Biomedical Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new digital pill capable of monitoring whether individuals are taking a prescribed medication ... Contributed Author: Colin Poitras - UConn Communications

News Improved scanners are now being trialed in various countries, but because they operate in the same way as regular MRI scanners ... Contributed Author: University of York Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News The Agilis Steerable Introducer Sheath's hemostatic valve, which prevents blood from flowing back through the valve, may fail due to an improper seal of the sheath hub ... Contributed Author: FDA Topics: Cardiovascu...

Staying hydrated is important, leading to questions on how much water people should drink each day. The popular answer is eight glasses, but the recommended amount of daily water intake is not as simple as that.

Whether you go for the Mediterranean or DASH diet, it's a win-win situation if you follow these top diets to lose weight. There are no right or wrong ways to diet. Just eat clean and be healthy.

Salt Lake County health officials warned that up to 2,000 customers of a certain 7-Eleven branch may have been exposed to hepatitis A. Here are the details surrounding the incident, and what you should do if you may be i...

(American Association for Cancer Research) Night shift work was associated with women having an increased risk of breast, skin, and gastrointestinal cancer, according to a meta-analysis.

(University at Buffalo) Until now, many scientists believed that a single protein -- TRPM5 -- acted as a gatekeeper for tasting sweet, bitter and savory foods. Remove TRPM5 from a person's taste cells, and they would no ...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) January/February 2018 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet.

(American Heart Association) A risk score based on multiple genetic differences, or polygenic test, predicted significantly more cases of early heart disease than standard tests for single genetic defects. The polygenic ...

(University of Zurich) Researchers at the University of Zurich have identified biomarkers in the blood that make it possible to predict whether cancer patients will respond positively to immunotherapy. Pa-tients for whom...

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) A study investigated sports- and recreation-related eye injuries during a 23-year period and found a slight decrease in eye injuries overall; however, the rate of eye injury associated wi...

(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) Researchers at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, have demonstrated that a new radiotracer, 2-18F-fluorodeoxysorbitol (18F-FDS), can identify and track bacterial i...

(Fleishman-Hillard, Inc.) A report about high-quality carbohydrates and physical performance was recently released in the peer-reviewed journal Nutrition Today. The report focuses on commentary that took place during an ...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Exercise can reverse damage to sedentary, aging hearts and help prevent risk of future heart failure -- if it's enough exercise, and if it's begun in time, according to a new study by car...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Repeated vaccination for influenza in older adults reduced the severity of the virus and reduced hospital admissions, found new research published in CMAJ.

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital oncologists have discovered the cell type that gives rise to rhabdomyosarcoma, the most prevalent soft tissue cancer in children. Previously, ...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins scientists have used a form of artificial intelligence to create a map that compares types of cellular receptors, the chemical "antennas" on the surface of immune system T-cells. Th...