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A study conducted in Washington D.C. showed that states with stricter gun laws have a lower mortality rate among their young adults. The states that did not require a background check had higher rate of gun-related death...

News Outsourcing has been one way of reducing costs in many industries, and this practice will be key in the health care industry the next few years. That's the conclusion of a user survey by Black Book Research that pol...

A with eye cancer was misdiagnosed as having a migraine, due to the misdiagnosis he had to have his right eye and a part of his face removed. The man had a lump next to his eye that went unnoticed before it was too late.

A study has confirmed that the HTLV-1 virus has infected 40 percent of adults in a region in rural Australia. Researchers are trying to determine the cause behind the spread of it.

A new study that was conducted suggests that though teenagers have stop drinking soda, they are still at risk for severe health problems. This is due to the amount of sports drink they consume daily.

During a flight to Cleveland, two doctors came to the rescue of a woman suffering from anaphylactic shock due to peanut allergies. Pilots were forced to land the aircraft for the safety of the passenger.

A new study suggested that people who suffer from type 1 diabetes could follow a low-carb diet. The diet could possibly help improve blood sugar levels and lessen complications that stem from the disorder.

A look into the conditions of a VA hospital in California shows that surgeries had to be canceled and postponed due to insect infestation. Some insect traps were located inside of the operating room.

News Using advanced 3D nanoscale imaging of the mineral in human bone, research teams have shown that the mineral crystals of bone have a hierarchical structure integrated into the larger-scale make-up of the skeleton......

News The Grenoble Alpes University Hospital's technical teams wanted to be able to instrument and control various equipment quickly, inexpensively and without cabling. The Hospital expressed the wish to do this with thei...

News Purdue University researchers are developing an app and wearable technology to enable pregnant women to use a smartphone to detect whether they have or are susceptible to a condition that could lead to serious healt...

Videos Researchers from Ben-Gurion University have created a robotic system that can play Tic Tac Toe with rehabilitation patients to better improve their everyday task performance... Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: H...

News Clinicians at Children's National Health System hypothesized that COstatus monitors could offer a way to directly measure cardiac output among neonates... Contributed Author: Children's National Health System Topics...

Article Blockchain cannot change the medtech industry alone. However, the potential for unquestionable data integrity and effective systems interoperability make it a valuable resource for doing so... Contributed Author:...

The Clinical Oncology Society of Australia are calling for exercise to be prescribed to people with cancer. What are the benefits of including exercise in routine cancer treatment?

Spending more than an hour daily on social media may result in low self-esteem in women. It is, however, possible that insecure women are also drawn to social media, which they use to to make themselves feel better.

(Karger Publishers) Karger Publishers, a globally active medical and scientific publishing company, partners with BenchSci, a life science machine learning startup, to help scientists find biological product data include...

(Hospital for Special Surgery) Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have launched a pilot study to see how a drug that treats several related autoimmune disorders affects the skeleton.

(Critical Path Institute (C-Path)) Critical Path Institute's (C-Path) Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Consortium announces its second clinical outcome assessment (COA) qualification from the US Food and Drug Administratio...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Eye inflammation and uveal effusion develop among patients taking anti-cancer immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.

(The University of Hong Kong) A research team led by scientists at AIDS Institute and Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) invents a universal antibody drug aga...

(Oregon State University) Meadowfoam, a native Pacific Northwest plant cultivated as an oilseed crop, has emerged as a potential new source of protection against the sun's harmful effects on the skin.