Medical News

(American Chemical Society) It sometimes can be hard to find toothpastes, soaps and other toiletries without antibiotics. Their popularity has caused an increase in environmental levels of antimicrobial substances, such ...

(Lauren Sciences LLC) Lauren Sciences LLC, the private New York biotechnology company developing transformative V-Smart® Nanomedicines for brain diseases, today announced the award of its third grant from The ALS Associ...

Strawberries are at the top of the Dirty Dozen for the third year in a row. The Dirty Dozen is a list of fruits and vegetables that have the most pesticides.

News Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a miniature, ultra-low power injectable biosensor that could be used for continuous, long-term alcohol monitoring... Contributed Author: University ...

Product Announcement Nexans has developed a new micro-extrusion process that creates the thinnest possible insulating jacket to enable minimally invasive medical cables to be manufactured with diameters of less than 0.1 ...

News In the five years since the Boston Marathon bombing, medical science has made promising advances in amputations and artificial limbs... Contributed Author: Philip Marcelo, AP News Topics: Prosthetics

News For the first time, scientists at Caltech have induced natural sensations in the arm of a paralyzed man by stimulating a certain region of the brain with a tiny array of electrodes... Contributed Author: California ...

News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first contact lens to incorporate an additive that automatically darkens the lens when exposed to bright light. The contact lenses, Acuvue Oasys Contact Lenses ...

WHO and UNICEF today issued new ten-step guidance to increase support for breastfeeding in health facilities that provide maternity and newborn services. Breastfeeding all babies for the first 2 years would save the live...

Product Announcement Natvar's new microextrusion medical tubing can be made from cost-effective thermoplastics and other highly-engineered materials... Contributed Author: Natvar Topics: Surgical

News Six Rice engineering students have designed an iPhone app to help patients overcome a symptom known as "freezing," in which the legs temporarily refuse to follow the brain's command to lift and move forward... Contr...

Keep working out. A new study says staying physically active diminishes one's risk of developing heart disease regardless if they have an elevated genetic risk for such complications.

Women, who regularly smoke marijuana while breastfeeding, could have exposed their babies to THC, a psychoactive ingredient found in cannabis. Scientists have yet to find its effects on the baby's neurological developmen...

WHO is deeply alarmed by reports of the suspected use of toxic chemicals in Douma city, East Ghouta. According to reports from Health Cluster partners, during the shelling of Douma on Saturday, an estimated 500 patients ...

News Columbia Engineering researchers have invented a new Robotic Spine Exoskeleton (RoSE) that may solve most limitations and lead to new treatments for spine deformities... Contributed Author: Columbia University Schoo...

(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) Ludwig Cancer Research released today the full scope of findings to be presented by Ludwig researchers at this year's American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting ...

(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) A Ludwig Cancer Research study has shown that an entirely new type of personalized cancer vaccine induces novel, potent and clinically effective immune responses in patients receivi...

(University of Virginia Health System) The University of Virginia neuroscience lab that discovered that the brain connects directly to the immune system now has found evidence that doctors could load up the brain with cu...

(University of Wyoming) The research identifying a pathway for Huntington's disease helps lay the foundation for developing drug therapies.

(University of Michigan) Researchers at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have determined how satellite DNA, considered to be 'junk DNA,' plays a crucial role in h...

(Alzheimer's Association) The Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018 will be held July 21-26 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. Each year, AAIC convenes the world's leading basic science and c...

(Karger Publishers) Karger Publishers has acquired Health Press Ltd. to strengthen its clinical decision support business.