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Article A study from IMEC concluded that contrary to popular belief, not everyone is interesting is using a wearable device or app to monitor their health -- in fact, only 32 percent of those surveyed use such tools to k...

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News Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City have found that incorporating underused, but available, imaging technologies more precisely predicts who's at risk for heart attacks ...

News Research published by the scientific journal CELL describes a new microscopy technique known as SUSHI designed to improve the imaging of cells in living brain tissue ... Contributed Author: UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE ...

From genetics to being overweight, and eating too much salty food, there are plenty of risk factors that are the underlying cause of high blood pressure. Here are six ways to lower high blood pressure.

1. We, the Heads of the International Narcotics Control Board, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Health Organization are committed to support our Member States to effectively address and counter ...

News Scientists have just discovered why babies need to move in the womb to develop strong bones and joints. It turns out there are some key molecular interactions that are stimulated by movement and which guide the cell...

News LABORIE Medical Technologies, a global developer and manufacturer of medical diagnostics and devices in the pelvic health and gastroenterology market, has agreed to acquire Cogentix Medical Inc. in a stock transacti...

(McMaster University) The study enrolled 1,754 patients in 19 countries, 51 percent of whom were male, with an average age of 70 years. After an average follow-up of 16 months, 11 percent of patients treated with dabigat...

(American College of Cardiology) Patients with foot ulcers or gangrene who received the experimental drug JVS-100 did not show evidence of faster wound healing, compared with those receiving a placebo, in a study present...

(Penn State) Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting the cells through a sieve, according to an international team of researchers who used mouse autologou...

(Chapman University) Many women in science are raising concerns over the fact that parents with young children are often excluded from fully participating in academic conference activities.

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) African-American men successfully lowered their high blood pressure to healthy levels when aided by a pharmacist and their local barber, according to a new study from the Smidt Heart Institu...

(Children's Hospital Colorado) When a bariatric surgeon and an endocrinologist specializing in diabetes examined the effectiveness of medical versus surgical management of type 2 diabetes in adolescents, the results of t...

(Cornell University) Can one seedling, or one female bird, be so superior to the rest that it will inevitably become the 'lucky' one to grow to the sky, or help perpetuate the species? The short answer: No.

(Kazan Federal University) Researchers from an international collaboration including Oleg Gusev of the RIKEN Innovation Center and collaborators from NARO, Kazan Federal University (Russia) and Skoltech University (Russi...

(Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health) Researchers from Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence for Youth Mental Health; the University of Melbourne; Port Phillip Prison and University Hospi...

(University of Virginia Health System) The largest genetic study of stroke so far has identified 22 new genetic risk factors, tripling the number of gene regions known to affect stroke risk.

(Pensoft Publishers) The young of two new species and a genus of frog found to inhabit Sumatra's rainforests have developed a unique ability to latch onto rocks in the fast-flowing rivers, using bellies crafted by evolut...

(American College of Cardiology) A pill combining low doses of three blood pressure-lowering medications significantly increased the number of patients reaching blood pressure targets compared with usual care, researcher...

(American College of Cardiology) African-American men who received medical intervention aimed at controlling their high blood pressure while at the barber saw a marked drop in blood pressure in just six months, according...

(University of Vermont) Caroline Beer has spent her career researching comparative data between Latin American countries and the United States that often debunks false stereotypes. Her latest study showing Mexico as more...