Medical News

News A new kind of MRI component in the shape of a glove delivers the first clear images of bones, tendons and ligaments moving together, a new study finds. Led by NYU School of Medicine and just published in Nature Biom...

News The second annual LIGHT Forum at Stanford University will convene a broad cross-section of 200 of the most influential decision-makers in healthcare - high-ranking executives, policymakers, and experts from leading ...

News To help monitor salt intake, researchers have developed a flexible and stretchable wireless sensing system designed to be comfortably worn in the mouth to measure the amount of sodium a person consumes. Contributed ...

News Using both ears to hear increases speech recognition and improves sound localization. In essence, it helps you to identify a friend's voice so you can follow her amusing anecdote over the din of a cocktail party. Ru...

Product Announcement Ams has announced the release of a new XYZ "tri-stimulus" color sensor which offers higher sensitivity and a wider choice of conversion times than any other previous device of its type, according to ...

Does your skin tend to tan after basking in the sun? If not, blame it, in part, on your genes. A new study, released Tuesday in Nature Communications, found 10 new pigmentation genes that may determine whether skin ends ...

Infant boy Colton Ferguson fell of a bed and hit his head, suffering a fractured skull and brain damage. Colton's mother, Paige, is now urging parents to take head injuries seriously, as their family faces the grueling o...

A low or high consumption of eggs is found to be safe in generally healthy or diabetic persons. Scientists found that dietary cholesterol in eggs has little effect in the overall bad cholesterol levels in the blood.

Researchers from the University of Illinois found that babies' brains registered the same activity similar to that of adults by using a brain-imaging device. The result suggested that infants possessed at least the basic...

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Everyone is encouraged to have a self-examination for signs of the melanoma, the most dangerous of all skin cancers.

News A scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has created a three-dimensional model of a cancer tumor that he says has the potential to replicate the complex nature and behavior of a real tumor... Con...

Wanted: A million people willing to share their DNA and 10 years of health habits, big and small, for science. On Sunday, the U.S. government will open nationwide enrollment for an ambitious experiment: If they can build...

News A new, low-cost chemical sensing chip brings us one step closer to this technology. The chip could be integrated into a handheld, portable device for detecting drugs in biological samples such as blood, breath, urin...

Cora Weberg is reportedly the only nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital who treated both of the patients who tested positive for hepatitis C. Her license is now suspended.

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) The study was conducted by recent graduate Lindsey Russo and her advisor Brian Whitcomb, associate professor of biostatistics and epidemiology in the School of Public Health and H...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Low-income individuals are often reluctant or too embarrassed to discuss their financial hardships and constraints with caregivers during office visits. As a result, physicians and caregi...

(Regenstrief Institute) In a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, clinician-researchers and implementation scientists from the Regenstrief Institute, Eskenazi Health, and Indiana University ...

(University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management) International aid groups promoting gold-standard anti-malarial treatments subsidize each pharmaceutical companies equally. The goal is to reduce the price consumers ul...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Many Airbnb venues in the United States fail to provide the critical carbon monoxide and fire safety protections that are legally required of hotels and motels...

(American Society for Microbiology) A Plasmodium vivax infection is like an iceberg: It's dangerous, in part, because much of it hides out of view. A new study published this week in mBio shows how researchers are reveal...

(Lawson Health Research Institute) A new study, published in JAMA by researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University, found that coaching patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) to drink more wa...

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) For years, TickReport at UMass Amherst has tracked the incidence and spread of Lyme disease and the introduction of new bacterial and viral tick-borne illnesses such as the Borrel...