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US agency DARPA created the Biostasis program to prolong the time that is crucial for an injured soldier on the battlefield to get treatment. It has been inspired by the microscopic organism tardigrade to develop the pro...

Toxic compounds found in those who smoke traditional tobacco cigarettes were also found in teens who just used e-cigarettes. The same chemicals were also detected in teens who used flavored e-cigarettes without nicotine.

News A new study has shown how the body's immune system responds to the new shingles vaccine, Shingrix, making it more than 90% effective at protecting against ... Contributed Author: Westmead Institute for Medical Resea...

News Researchers found alterations of the gene thousand and one amino-acid kinase 2, known as TAOK2, plays a direct role in neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism. This is the first comprehensive study that ... C...

News Simply changing cardiac referral processes to opt-out rather than opt-in significantly increased referral rates, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's NCDR Annual Conference (NCDR.18...

News Circuits in the brain act as an internal clock to tell us it is time to sleep and to control how long we then stay asleep. A new study in flies suggests a part of that clock ... Contributed Author: NIH/National Inst...

Legend has it that coffee was discovered by a goat herder around 850 AD in what is now Ethiopia. It soon spread around the globe and is currently consumed by billions of people every day. But as the drink gained in popul...

On this International Women's Day, we imagine a world where every woman and girl has access to quality and affordable health care, a world in which women and girls can freely exercise their sexual and reproductive health...

News W. L. Gore & Associates has announced a joint development agreement and cash investment with digital health startup Kenzen and the Gore Innovation Center in Silicon Valley. Gore engineers and scientists will work .....

Videos Welcome to the latest installment of TinkerENG, the online, reality-based video series that follows product ideas from original concept to completion. This week's episode features another creator, Tryggvi Emilsson...

News Medical researchers have identified novel biomarkers of risk for future dementia ... Contributed Author: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Topics: Medical Diagnostics

Tattoos are kept permanent by stubborn little cells in the immune systems that refuse to let go of ink pigments. Targeting these cells called macrophages might lead to better removal methods.

Testing for three variants of BRCA gene mutation can now be made at home using a simple test kit. All it takes is spitting into a collection tube, without needles and other painful processes involved.

(Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health) Therapy animals are used in the treatment of both mental and physical health issues, however this important form of therapy is not regulated, which leave...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) University of Alberta researchers have found the Ebola polymerase (enzyme), which may lead to more effective research and better treatments for the often fatal infe...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) Scientists with the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio have discovered a surprising connection between a breast cancer protein...

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) Anxiety is one of the most common mental health disorders, and it's more likely to affect women, especially middle-aged women. Although anxiety can be caused by many factors,...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) Graduate students are more than six times as likely to experience depression and anxiety as compared to the general population, according to a comprehensive surv...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Medicare's experimental mandatory bundled payment model for knee and hip replacements is more likely to yield cost savings when the surgeries are performed in larger hospit...

(University of South Florida (USF Health)) Heart failure is more common, develops earlier and results in higher rates of illness and death in African Americans than in whites. Now, the first genetic study of its kind to ...

(University of British Columbia) Although tobacco use is still one of the strongest risk factors associated with mouth cancers, precancerous lesions in the mouths of non-smokers are more likely to progress to cancer than...

(Northeastern University) A Northeastern University professor has developed a new personalized method to discover genes implicated in complex diseases. One of the ultimate goals of the research is to create personalized ...