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The soft contact lens ACUVUE OASYS with Transitions comes with a light-adaptive technology that can provide protection for the eye against damaging UV radiation. Should you replace your sunglasses with this contact lens?

It's easy to tell what color someone's hair is, but figuring out the genetics behind how it got that way is anything but simple. A new study from a team of international researchers analyzing 300,000 people of European d...

News A group of scientists have developed a new, high-speed microscopy platform that can measure a cancer cell's resistance to drugs up to 10 times faster than existing technology, potentially informing more effective tr...

Videos A novel use of 3-D imaging might help explain Bell's palsy, a puzzling facial paralysis... Contributed Author: Tufts University Topics: Neurology

Product Announcement Norman Noble will use the 3D printing technology for a variety of customer needs including shape-setting fixtures for nitinol-based rapid prototypes, prototype-to-production manufacturing for next-ge...

News Researchers have now developed a streamlined approach to developing such drugs. With aid of computer algorithm, researchers develop peptides more powerful than those found in nature... Contributed Author: Anne Traft...

News A technologist snapped a photo of a wound with a smartphone and uploaded it to an app. This new Photo Assistant App is an integral component of GE Healthcare's most advanced radiology ultrasound system, the LOGIQ E1...

The CDC continued to warn consumers against eating chopped romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona that may be tainted with E.coli O157: H7. What makes this e.coli strain particularly dangerous?

Barbara Bush said she attributed her long life to the continued medical care and several operations she had undergone in the past. Despite her failing health, she remained active in her foundation that supports literacy ...

A study revealed that anesthetic Ketamine, which is used as a recreational drug, can also be used to treat depression. The Ketamine appeared to act much faster than other anti-depressants in the treatment of symptoms inc...

More people could be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease once a new research framework is put into practice. Scientists propose that Alzheimer's diagnosis should be based solely on brain tests and not on behavior.

The Food and Drugs Administration announced the recall of more than 200 million eggs. The recalled products could be contaminated with Salmonella Braenderup after 22 illnesses linked to the consumption of the eggs had be...

(Experimental Biology 2018) Dr. Charles N. Serhan is the 2018 recipient of the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Rous-Whipple Award.

(Wiley) New editorials published in the British Journal of Pharmacology provide guidance for authors of papers submitted to the journal, with guidance on how to design and conduct experiments as well as what key informat...

(Indiana University) Chemists at Indiana University have published research findings on their discovery of a new and relatively unknown flame retardant in the environment. Their study is the first to detect the potential...

(University of California - San Diego) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded a five-year, $15 million grant to the San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) at UC San Diego, renewing suppo...

(University of Southern California) The prevention of chronic diseases associated with increased risk of dementia will not reduce the number of Americans with dementia in the coming decades, but developing a treatment th...

(Experimental Biology 2018) Dr. Janardan K. Reddy, Professor Emeritus of Pathology at Northwestern University, is this year's recipient of the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Gold-Headed Cane Award. T...

(Critical Path Institute (C-Path)) The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded Critical Path Institute (C-Path) a grant to support a Crohn's disease biomarker pre-consortium. The pre-consortium will i...

(Lund University) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe they have found a method that in the future could help people suffering from epilepsy so severe that all current treatment is ineffective.

(Bentham Science Publishers) Epigenetic programming following early life stress likely results from a dual-activation of the stress system and the sensory systems. Further research is warranted.

(American Geriatrics Society) A new supplement to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society finds field leaders in dementia and mental health research weighing in on the science, public policy, and professional educ...