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Product Announcement The PF7 adds intuitive, validation-friendly operator interface to reduce the risk of costly filling errors ... Contributed Author: Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group Topics: Medical Diagnostics

Ohio health officials reported that two boys, with ages of one year old and four years old, died from the flu virus. Parents are urged to have flu shots administered to their babies and children.

(Boston University School of Medicine) Pamela Huang, a fourth-year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recently received the ;Best Scientific and Educational Award' at the 2017 PostGraduate As...

News The device is able to measure UV exposure, and sticks to the fingernail ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Wearables

News The wearable system consists of plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gel, mesh electrodes, and applied voltage ... Contributed Author: Shinshu University Topics: Wearables

News The robotic system, described today in Science Robotics, induced cell proliferation and lengthened part of the esophagus in a large animal by about 75 percent ... Contributed Author: Boston Children's Hospital Topic...

News Each patch was grown in a three-dimensional fibrin matrix that was rocked back and forth for a week ... Contributed Author: University of Alabama at Birmingham Topics: Cardiovascular

News Now the dominant diagnostic tool for conditions such as macular degeneration and glaucoma, OCT technology continues to offer potential in areas from fundamental research to clinical applications ... Contributed Auth...

Kyler Baughman, a 21-year-old bodybuilder from Pennsylvania, died of flu complications just days after he started feeling ill. He developed complications as his flu caused a septic shock, which in turn, led to organ fail...

(Care New England ) Women & Infants' Emergency Department partnered with other Care New England facilities and the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) to address the opioid epidemic and has achieved Level 3 Certifi...

(University of Bath) Health research from the University of Bath highlights concerns over transparency and conflicts of interests surrounding pharmaceutical firms operating in Central Europe.

(Northwestern University) Roughly one third of all older patients age 65 and older visiting emergency departments nationwide are admitted to the hospital. But an emergency department program focused on geriatric transiti...

(University of Gothenburg) The impression that foreign-born women in Sweden more often are excluded from gynecological cancer screening needs to be reconsidered. A study from Sahlgrenska Academy, published in the journal...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Karen Cheng, a third-year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received a $3,500 award from the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference (CGIU)...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) A forthcoming book from a University of Illinois at Chicago sociologist provides insight into the minds of today's young adults to uncover the strategies they use to negotiate the unse...

(Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory) New research by MDI Biological Laboratory scientist Sandra Rieger, Ph.D., has demonstrated that an enzyme she had previously identified as playing a role in peripheral neuropat...

(Duke University) Dengue virus slowly takes over the endoplasmic reticulum, the production site for a subset of host proteins, and steers clear of the cytosol, the fluid-filled space where the majority of host cellular p...

(Lincoln Park Zoo) Lincoln Park Zoo in partnership with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Reintroduction Specialist Group (RSG) will host the 2nd International Wildlife Reintroduction Confer...

(Wiley) An analysis of published studies indicates that following the Mediterranean diet may reduce the risk of frailty in older individuals. The findings, which are published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics So...

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today announced that more than 130 organizations across the US -- including associations, hospital and medical systems, u...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Findings could lead to new treatments and early diagnosis.

(Boston University School of Medicine) The ability to quantify the extent of kidney damage and predict the life remaining in the kidney, using an image obtained at the time when a patient visits the hospital for a kidney...