Medical News

A Canadian couple acquired hookworms after walking barefoot on a beach in the Dominican Republic. Health Canada denied them the necessary medication, so they had to get it in the United States.

Amazon unveiled the newest addition to its Seattle campus today -- three glass and concrete domes filled with a jungle's worth of tropical plants. The Spheres, as they're called, are meant to serve as a place for meeting...

News Researchers report new organ-on-a-chip technology to observe sprouting angiogenesis from a single blood vessel. VEGF stimulated new capillaries from the single vessel by activating NOTCH signaling, recapitulating bi...

News Sarah T. Hawley, professor of internal medicine at Michigan Medicine, and her colleagues from the Cancer Surveillance and Outcomes Research Team at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center developed an...

News While most treatments for Alzheimer's disease focus on improving memory, researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center conducted a study aimed at slowing the decline of problem-solving and. Contribu...

News You may perceive the world the way your friends do, according to a new study finding that friends have similar neural responses to real-world stimuli and these similarities can be used to predict..... Contributed Au...

Videos In this episode of TinkerENG, our hosts are talking about patents ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

Product Announcement 8200 Series Shielded Fan Vents are designed to provide EMI shielding and maximum airflow without degrading the fan output ... Contributed Author: Tech-Etch

News The technology recreates a human blood vessel and shows how new capillaries grow from a single vessel ... Contributed Author: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo

News Video cameras record images in values of red, green and blue. The green channel provides information that makes heart rate estimation possible ... Contributed Author: Utah State University

News For this study, Dimsdale-Zucker used architectural sketching software to build houses in a 3-D virtual environment ... Contributed Author: University of California - Davis Topics: Neurology

The mobile phone-sized device called MinION sequenced a complete human genome ever mapped using a single technology. What are its potential applications in the field of medicine?

Two men were sentenced to prison for possession of heroin and fentanyl, with intent to distribute the drugs. Police seized from them 45 kilograms of fentanyl, which contained over 18 million lethal doses of the powerful ...

The Master Mineral Solution (MMS) is a deadly product that uses industrial-strength bleach to "cure" autism. Are there any safe treatment options for children with autism?

(BBVA Foundation) The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category goes, in this tenth edition, to American immunologist James P. Allison, whose research, says the jury, 'had led to harnessing...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) When doctors prescribe antibiotics for children with common respiratory infections, a more selective approach is better. A study of 30,000 children with earaches, strep throat and ot...

(Oxford University Press USA) A study published in the American Journal of Hypertension indicates that women who breastfeed more children, and for longer periods of time, are less likely to suffer from hypertension after...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Guidelines add ROS1 to list of tests matching lung cancer with targeted treatments, among other updated recommendations.

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Pancreatic cancer is a form of cancer associated with the highest mortality rates in the world. Genetic changes that could explain his aggressiveness and early metastasis had not be...

(Saarland University) A careful review of the currently available medical data shows that there is no proven causal relationship between moderate solarium use and increased melanoma risk. This is the conclusion reached b...

(McGill University Health Centre) French and Canadian scientists discovered a new cause of a rare condition known as cblC, that they named 'epi-cblC,' resulting from a mutation on a single copy of the gene and the silenc...

(University of York) A major study looking into how financial arrangements with dentists affect what goes on in the dentist's chair has found a marked increase in the number of X-rays when dentists receive payment for th...