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News Researchers at the University of South Florida in Tampa have created a mobile version of the "Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay" (ELISA), the gold standard technique used to detect the presence of an antibody or ant...

News A new device worn like a visor can detect emergent large-vessel occlusion in patients with suspected stroke with 92 percent accuracy, report clinical investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC),...

A new study finds that children with autism and their younger siblings are less likely to be vaccinated. This puts these children at an increased risk to get diseases preventable by vaccines.

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News Researchers have developed an endoscope as thin as a human hair that can image the activity of neurons in the brains of living mice. Because it is so thin, the endoscope can reach deep into the brain, giving researc...

News SetPoint Medical, a clinical-stage biomedical technology company developing a bioelectronic therapy for chronic inflammatory diseases, today announced it has launched a pilot trial for patients with drug refractory ...

Excess weight is now the cause of 6.3 percent of all cancer cases in the United Kingdom in which the number increased by 5.5 percent from 2011. Here are other preventable causes of cancer.

The Windjammer Restaurant and the Upper Deck Pub spent two full days sanitizing everything inside the restaurants following reports of a norovirus outbreak. Now, the sites have reopened.

Another study showed promising results on the benefits of marijuana in curbing relapse symptoms of alcohol and cocaine addiction. Experiments were conducted in rats that are injected with CBD-containing gel for three day...

ABC7 reporter Karl Schmid admitted publicly that he has been HIV positive for the last 10 years. In a Facebook post, Schmid said he held off the announcement because his peers told him that it would ruin his reputation.

(Saint Louis University) Saint Louis University researchers describe their success in an animal model in turning off the excruciating pain that often accompanies a colorectal cancer drug.

(University of Plymouth) Scientists at the University of Plymouth, working in partnership with AstraZeneca, have developed a new method which could help assess the effects of chemicals on digestive systems.

(University of Manchester) An anti-inflammatory drug given to patients in the early stages of a stroke has been shown by researchers at The University of Manchester and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust to reduce harmfu...

(Anglia Ruskin University) Around half of vision impairment in Western Europe is preventable, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Between 30 and 40 percent of human breast cancers express a defective (mutant) form of p53, a protein that helps cancer cells proliferate and grow. Researchers at the University of Misso...

(IOS Press) A Vancouver-based research team led by Canada's most cited neuroscientist, Dr. Patrick McGeer, has successfully carried out studies suggesting that, if started early enough, a daily regimen of the non-prescri...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Michigan and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed investigational 'machine learning' models, specifica...

(University of Virginia Health System) In the culmination of decades of research at the University of Virginia Health System, doctors have begun human testing of a drug they hope will one day save many lives among lung-t...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) The acute viral bronchiolitis is the worldwide leading cause of hospitalization during this period. A study crosses data from patients' genetic variations with the ...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A new approach to analyzing prostate gland tissue may help address a major challenge in treating prostate cancer - determining which tumors are unlikely to progress and which could be lif...

(D'Or Institute for Research and Education) For at least 150 years, we know that traumatic brain injury can change several domains of behavior, impairing social behavior or memory, for instance, depending on which brain ...

(University of Johannesburg) A new family of potential silver-based anti-cancer drugs has been discovered by researchers in South Africa. The most promising complex among these has been successfully tested in rats and in...