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A new study conducted by The Lancet found that poor diet and health prior to conceiving can lead to detrimental effects in the child's health. One of the common diseases that can affect children is obesity in either pare...

There is no five-second rule in New York City if anything comes in contact with mice droppings it can be contaminated. A new study finds that one in four mice carry drug-resistant bacteria.

News 3D medical imaging is enabling healthcare professionals to more accurately diagnose ailments and disorders, and this technology continues to steadily grow, according to a new report by Allied Market Research... Staf...

Product Announcement First Sensor presents its new piezoresistive low differential pressure sensors of the HTD series with measuring ranges from 1 mbar to 7 bar... Contributed Author: First Sensor

News By coupling a machine learning model with a patient's pulse data, researchers are able to measure a key risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and arterial stiffness, using just a smart phone... Contributed Author:...

News The Zfib team of Rice senior bioengineering students created an add-on for automated external defibrillators - aka AEDs - that literally punches through the skin to help deliver a jolt to a person in cardiac arrest....

Article That's when the lightbulb went on, and my peers and I identified an opportunity to improve safety and quality of patient care. We started the process of creating a therapy "car" that would better prepare patients...

The updated guideline has categorized more people as hypertensive even if there were no prior diagnosis. Those with a blood pressure of at least 130/80 are classified as stage 1 hypertensive.

A national survey found lingering signs that gender gap and stigma on pregnancy still exist in the medical field. These factors had even resulted in female surgeons being underrepresented despite constituting significant...

Immunotherapy, a form of treatment that boosts the body's immune system, was proven to give lung cancer patients extra years of life. The immunotherapy drug Keytruda, when administered alongside chemotherapy, cut the ris...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A study analyzed the traditional model of education versus the flipped classroom model -- where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in-per...

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) In a preliminary study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018 in Chicago, researchers from the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Cente...

(University of Virginia Health System) Cruelly, the gene is sex specific: men with the same variation of the gene have a much less heightened diabetes risk.

(eLife ) A new mathematical model can predict the effectiveness of microbiome therapies that manipulate the immune system through live bacteria and could help doctors choose the most appropriate treatment for people with...

(University of California - San Diego) Roughly one in 10 women in the United States will experience depression, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The consequences, however, may extend to their ...

(Lobachevsky University) A team of researchers from Lobachevsky University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) headed by Professor Alexei Fedorov, Chair of the Organic Chemistry Department, is working to create a new generation of...

(Rapamycin Press) OncoDNA treatment recommendation followed in 60% of cases. 93% of treatment decisions were made based on a holistic approach combining next generation sequencing (NGS) and multiple biomarker analysis pr...

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) A 2014 federal change that limited the dispensing of hydrocodone products may be indirectly contributing to the illegal use of some of those drugs, a study by University ...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, along with the Institute for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Kaiser Perma...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Can medical marijuana help to fight the opioid epidemic? Many believe that it can. But a new study finds that people who use medical marijuana actually have higher rates of medical and non-medical...

(Future Science Group) Future Science Group today announced that its journal Personalized Medicine has been selected for coverage by MEDLINE, allowing enhanced discoverability of articles in this important area of resear...

(eLife ) Researchers have provided new insight into how a gene associated with autoimmunity contributes to disease in humans.