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The current flu season is shaping to be one of the worst according to the CDC. Brace for more weeks of this fierce epidemic that has spread across 49 states and has affected more than 80,000 people.

News They think it can be used to delivering medicine inside the body ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

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News The showcase will feature the new T3 All-in-One SCARA robot, the Flexion N2 6-Axis robot as well other high precision robots ... Contributed Author: Epson America, Inc.

News Identifying peptides that overcome the blood-brain barrier as a powerful approach to deliver therapeutics to brain cells ... Contributed Author: Wyss Institute

News Q switch lasers are used in a variety of applications, including in surgical procedures ... Contributed Author: Toyohashi University of Technology Topics: Surgical

Parents are trying to cure autism in their children by forcing them to drink Miracle Mineral Solution. The substance, also known as simply MMS, contains sodium chlorite with citric acid powder, which combine to create in...

Swatting mosquitoes away is one way of teaching them to avoid you, a new research suggests. Here are other recommended ways to avoid getting bitten by these disease-carrying bugs.

(Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery) JBJS Clinical Classroom on NEJM Knowledge+ is a state-of-the-art adaptive learning platform that helps users assess the orthopaedic material they know and identify the areas where they...

(Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine) Three national organizations are coming together next week, along with representatives from the federal government, to address opioid misuse in pregnancy.

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Increases in human life expectancy have slowed dramatically across the world since 1950, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Schoo...

(Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine) In a multicenter, randomized controlled trial, researchers demonstrated that tranexamic acid can prevent postpartum hemorrhage in certain vaginal deliveries.

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) For babies diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia, a comprehensive new guideline in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) aims to provide guidance to physicians in dia...

(Frontiers) Listening to motivational music increases risk-taking behavior during sport activities and exercise -- particularly in men and when participants made their own playlist -- but does not improve performance, ne...

(Lawson Health Research Institute) While palliative radiation therapy is used to ease pain in patients with advanced lung cancer, it often has adverse effects on the esophagus which leads to symptoms like heartburn and d...

(University of California - San Diego) Using new technologies developed to extract life history information from bones, researchers at UC San Diego are learning more than ever about populations of green sea turtles livin...

(McGill University) A new study from McGill University looks at the four most-commonly consumed types of milk beverages from plant sources around the world -- almond milk, soy milk, rice milk and coconut milk -- and comp...

(American Osteopathic Association) Dr. Guiney notes that many external factors in the patients' lives contributed to no-show rates; however, ETHC found improvements they could make within their organization. He adds, 'We...

(Columbia University Medical Center) A new study at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) challenges the popular notion that psychiatric medications are overprescribed in children and adolescents in the US. W...

(National University of Science and Technology MISIS) NUST MISIS scientists have developed a new type of membrane test strip for the quantitative immunochromatographic rapid-test that will be able to accurately and quick...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers propose that, contrary to the current thinking, how the intestine repairs itself seems to depend on the type of damage, and they found that triggers that were previously thought t...

(University of Helsinki) A research team from the University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital and Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics in Helsinki, Finland, have identified a new genetic mutation that alters the fu...