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Days after she decided to undergo microblading procedure, a woman got a potentially life-threatening infection. The woman began to see little lumps and was later diagnosed with cellulitis.

A study that was conducted in Finland showed that people who frequently use a sauna are less-likely to get a stroke. This study was done on 1,628 people who were around the age of 63 and had never had a stroke in their l...

News A simple retinal prosthesis is being developed in collaboration between Tel Aviv University in Israel and Linköping University in Sweden. Fabricated using cheap and widely-available organic pigments used in printin...

New York schools have decided to put in smoke detectors to help catch students using vaporizing pens during school hours. Once vape smoke is detected an alarm goes off that alerts school officials.

In the UK, up to 270 women may have succumbed to breast cancer due to a screening error that cause them to miss a second check-up. Health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, publicly apologized.

A nurse at the MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Washington, may have infected 2,600 patients with hepatitis C. The nurse no longer works there, and the hospital is offering free tests to potentially infecte...

News UC Berkeley neuroscientists are building the equipment that uses holographic projection into the brain to activate or suppress dozens and ultimately thousands of neurons at once, copying real patterns of brain activ...

Article Design engineers face many challenges, some of which are specific to the medical device industry. Luckily, there have been major advances in solvent technology and more environmentally friendly products exist tod...

Videos Team Si-Low students have created a low-cost procedure that will give doctors a method of treating infants whose abdominal wall is not fully closed and some of the intestines remain outside the body at birth. The ...

Product Announcement Recent regulatory and market drivers, including cost pressures, are generating a material choice debate about polyvinyl chloride (PVC), thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) and rubber materials... Contribut...

The CDC reported that vector-borne diseases from mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas have more than tripled since 2004. Experts are investigating the role of climate change in the spread of these diseases.

(University of Minnesota Medical School) The University of Minnesota is the first institution in the state to participate in the phase III clinical trial for CardiAmp Therapy. Previous clinical studies of this therapy ha...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Among the 1,025 HCV-exposed infants, 31 percent received well-child services in the same health system, and among these, only 30 percent were screened for HCV.

(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) Almost 40 percent of people previously diagnosed with HIV do not disclose their HIV status during diagnosis campaigns, leading to unnecessary retesting. In addition to w...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing and the department of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have reported a promising drug strategy th...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern researchers today published in Nature atomic-scale blueprints of the most abundant class of brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. A structural understanding of the prot...

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) Having breast cancer placed a significantly greater financial strain on black women than white women, according to study at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Compreh...

(Public Relations Pacific LLC) NeuroVision Imaging Inc. has announced a Series C financing round of $15 million with an initial close of $11.2 million. The round is led by Wildcat Capital Management with funding from sev...

(University of California - Irvine) UCI biophysicist Todd Holmes receives $2.1 million R35 award to examine how insect phototransduction can be used to design better light-based insect control strategies. Understanding h...

(University of Adelaide) A new research study by scientists in Australia and the US provides an explanation for why clinical trials of drugs reducing proteins in the brain that were thought to cause dementia and Alzheime...

(Linköping University) A simple retinal prosthesis is being developed in collaboration between Tel Aviv University in Israel and Linköping University in Sweden. Fabricated using cheap and widely-available organic pigme...

(Rapamycin Press) This study evaluated the expression of PD-L1 and markers of immune mediated resistance in human medulloblastoma, the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor.