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Antibacterial wipes are used to kill 99 percent of germs, such as cold and flu viruses and allergens, such as pollen and pet dander. A new experiment found that instead of killing germs, the disinfecting wipes spread the...

Product Announcement Tech-Etch manufactures precision thin metal parts from specialty stainless steel alloys like MP35N used in implanted medical devices, Elgiloy used in replacement heart valves, as well as 716 and 420 ...

Article While it's true that there is a lower outbreak of certain diseases in North America than in other parts of the world, Business Wire reported that Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes, Inc. (FOTO) found 80 percent of pat...

News A new study from Indiana University suggests that a drug proven safe for use in people may prevent opioid tolerance and physical dependence when used in combination with opioid-based pain medications. Researchers in...

News Different phosphorylation states contribute unequally in the pathology. So understanding the relative contribution of each kinase and phosphatase to phosphorylation of distinct sites is important for searching the p...

Article Medical Design Technology recently conducted on online poll whose results predict a bright future for data-driven medicine. But many doctors have not hopped on this bandwagon yet, according to MDT Managing Editor...

For doctors, looking at a person's birth date doesn't tell them much. Sure, a person might be 75 on paper, but genes, lifestyle and environment all play into health. So it's important to get a good understanding of our h...

Women have raised concerns about the link between depression and different types of hormonal birth control. A new study found that birth control doesn't cause depression and here's everything you need to know.

New Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar has vowed to expand access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid addicts. He also announced that the FDA will issue two new guidances to combat America's opioid ...

A woman from Baltimore spent $19,000 for a kidney transplant to save her 17-year-old cat named Stanley. The surgery, which used up a significant portion of her savings, also allowed her to save another life.

The American Academy of Pediatrics issued guidelines recomming that all kids between 12 and 21 years old undergo depression screening. Pediatricians are urged to talk to their parents alone.

(University of Chicago Medical Center) Using several large datasets describing health care visits, geographic movements and demographics of more than 150 million people over nine years, researchers at the University of C...

(Colorado State University) This symposium will bring together scientists to discuss infectious diseases and immunology research, with a collective interest in studying the metabolism of pathogens and their hosts.

(BBVA Foundation) The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Development Cooperation category goes, in this tenth edition, to the Colombian epidemiologist Nubia Muñoz, whose work was instrumental in establi...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM): Paradigm, Practice, and Policy Advancing Integrative Health announces a new partnership with The Osher Colla...

(University of California - Davis) When we create a memory, a pattern of connections forms between neurons in the brain. New work from UC Davis shows how these connections can be strengthened or weakened at a molecular l...

(University of Liverpool) Scientists at the University of Liverpool have identified a single genetic change in Salmonella that is playing a key role in the devastating epidemic of bloodstream infections currently killing...

(University of Cambridge) A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has discovered that specific genes are linked to individual differences in brain anatomy in autistic children.

(Pensoft Publishers) Scientists used a technology designed for human forensics, to provide the first genetically documented observation of infanticide in brown bears, following the murder of a female and her cubs in Ital...

(Indiana University) A study from Indiana University suggests that a drug proven safe for use in people may prevent opioid tolerance and physical dependence when used with opioid-based pain medications.

(University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center) A $1.75 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a five-year preclinical study on the signaling pathways underlying the developm...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) The American College of Cardiology (ACC) will award K. Lance Gould, M.D., professor of cardiovascular medicine at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas ...