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Chemotherapy patients often develop hemorrhagic cystitis, a painful bladder disease that can lead to death. Existing treatments are limited but scientists recently discovered an alternative derived from a parasitic worm.

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News SCI Solutions (SCI), a patient access and care coordination software company, has acquired DatStat, a leading provider of patient engagement and digital health tools. The combination of SCI's market-leading patient ...

News Researchers at USC and Harvard have developed a new approach to repair cells deep inside the ear -- a potential remedy that could restore hearing for millions of elderly people and others who suffer hearing loss... ...

News Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a surgical camera inspired by the eye of the morpho butterfly. The camera, connected to the goggles...

Pasta can now be moved into the category of a weight loss food due to a new study. Various recent diets have made carbohydrates the enemy, but this could change opinions on the food.

CDC has released a new report detailing the spread of a nightmare bacteria that is antibiotic resistant. There have been more than 200 cases reported across the U.S.

News Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers have created patient-specific bladder cancer organoids that mimic many of the characteristics of actual tumors. The use of organ...

The body of a CDC scientist that has been missing since February has been found in a river in Atlanta. He vanished under mysterious circumstances --including that he was reported to be a whistleblower and that he passed ...

A 'sterilization breach' in a Denver hospital has placed an unknown number of surgical patients at risk of HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C infection. There was apparently 'a gap in the pre-cleaning process' that lasted...

Government officials and healthcare workers worked double time to prevent the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. These superbugs will cost the country billions of dollars in hospitalization and medications with no ...

On 7 April, World Health Day, the World Health Organization marks its 70th anniversary. Over the past 7 decades, WHO has spearheaded efforts to rid the world of killer diseases like smallpox and to fight against deadly h...

(The Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University) Columbia University researchers have developed a computational tool that shines a light on the genome's most hard-to-translate segments. With this tool in hand, scientists...

(Wiley) Contrary to generally accepted belief, a recent review and analysis of published studies did not reveal a consistent association between the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or acetaminophen a...

(Children's National Health System) More sensitive cultivation methods and precise 16S rRNA gene sequencing techniques have revealed that the human bladder hosts a significant microbiome and those diverse bacteria inside...

(Wiley) Anti-tumor necrosis factor medications (anti-TNFs) are effective in controlling chronic inflammatory diseases, but some physicians recommend that their patients discontinue them during pregnancy.

(Allina Health ) How to treat patients who have microinvasive breast cancer - tumors that are 1 mm or less in size (the thickness of a dime) -- is somewhat controversial. Can these tiny tumors affect the lymph nodes and ...

(Picower Institute at MIT) When working memory load exceeds capacity, a new study finds, feedback coupling of the prefrontal cortex with other involved regions shuts down.

(International Osteoporosis Foundation) Experts from the International Osteoporosis Foundation and the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases regre...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) A researcher at UT Health San Antonio (The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) has invented a unique method to generate, in mice, pancreati...

(Duke-NUS Medical School) Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School have now identified how the stem cell neighbourhood, known as a niche, keeps stem cells in the gut alive. Their results provide new insights into the struc...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) A test of machine-learning algorithms shows promise for computer-aided prognosis of acute spinal cord injury, according to a study to be presented at the ARRS 2018 Annual Meeting, set for ...