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Product Announcement AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer and supplier of advanced electronic components and interconnect, sensor, control, and antenna solutions, has released the new T4Z Medical Series HRC4000 medica...

News Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California (USC) have demonstrated the successful implementation of a prosthetic system that uses a person's own memory patterns to fac...

Humans might have a new organ, and the press is all over it--again. In brief: It's called the interstitium, or a layer of fluid-filled pockets hemmed in by collagen and it can be found all over our bodies, from skin to m...

News During his keynote speech at the NVIDIA GPU Developers Conference, CEO Jensen Huang, offered a tantalizing vision of how he intends to use company's deep learning and image processing technologies to improve the too...

News Yuebing Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, is working toward developing "nanotweezers"--a new tool for handling nanoparticles using light that could create opp...

News If you think doctors are turning a blind eye to the growing problem of opioid abuse, think again. In a Business Wire story, a survey of 501 physicians conducted by InCrowd and McLean Hospital concluded that the opio...

News Convexity Scientific unveiled its FLYP™ nebulizer, a game-changing handheld nebulizer at Medtrade Spring. The device purportedly changes how physicians treat pulmonary conditions such as asthma and COPD ... Staff ...

4,000 frozen eggs and embryos were destroyed after the alarm system of a storage tank in a Cleveland fertility clinic malfunctioned. Further investigation reveals a history of problems with the storage units.

Product Announcement PEM® FHX™ self-clinching flush-head studs from PennEngineering® uniquely feature an X-Press™ thread profile enabling quick mating with push-on plastic nuts, wire tie products, or other plastic ...

The rate of antibiotic use increased 39 percent from 2000 to 2015. Researchers said that the dramatic rise in global antibiotic use is driven by consumption in countries such as India, China, and Pakistan.

The flu season in the United States has peaked, but parents should not yet let their guard down. According to the CDC, a second wave of the flu is incoming, and it may be more severe for younger children.

The FDA now faced a lawsuit for the extended deadlines given to e-cigarette and cigar manufacturers seeking approval for their products. What are the potential impacts of delaying reviews on public health?

A 15-year-old girl from Mississippi, diagnosed with the rare Prader-Willi Syndrome, has won the Miss Amazing crown. PWS is an incurable genetic disease that leads to insatiable hunger and chronic obesity.

(University of Liverpool) Researchers from the University of Liverpool and Alder Hey children's NHS Foundation Trust will join a UK-wide effort, including colleagues from five other universities, to drive the development...

(Wiley) A new study indicates that patients with alcohol-related liver cancer often do not live as long as patients with liver cancer that is not associated with alcohol consumption, mainly due to diagnoses at later stag...

(Case Western Reserve University) Women of childbearing age who suffer from Rheumatic Heart Disease in low- to moderate-income countries like Uganda face a double danger: Increased risk of complications during pregnancy ...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) An international research group studying 520,000 people from around the world has identified 22 new genetic risk factors for stroke, tripling the number of gene regions known t...

(US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) Scientists have identified potential biomarkers in nonhuman primates exposed to Ebola virus (EBOV) that appeared up to four days before the onset of fever, acco...

(Einstein Healthcare Network/MossRehab) Leadership from Jefferson and Einstein Healthcare Network announced today the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to merge, potentially bringing together two historical...

(University of Washington) A project spanning countries, years and institutions has attempted to reconstruct what the southern end of the world looked like during the Triassic period, 252 to 199 million years ago.

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Researchers from the University of Missouri have found in a nationwide survey that members of the public are more willing to pay for improved water quality than other ecosystem services ...

(University of Gothenburg) Individuals who have undergone bariatric surgery have a higher probability of getting married, separating from their partner or getting divorced, according to a Swedish study published in JAMA ...