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Product Announcement Osram Opto Semiconductors has now succeeded in reducing the typical forward voltages by around 600 mV drastically... Contributed Author: Osram

News The selection of the Reno-based drone operator Flirtey and its local partners aimed at increasing the use of unmanned aircraft for the delivery of emergency medical supplies in the region... Contributed Author: AP N...

News A significant spike in product recalls rocked the healthcare industry in the first quarter of 2018 as both pharmaceutical and medical device companies experienced an unusually high number of problems... Contributed ...

News Imec described a new concept for direct identification of single DNA bases. The technique has the potential to detect the genetic code, as well as epigenetic variations in DNA... Contributed Author: imec Topics: STE...

News By adapting pattern recognition techniques used to assess satellite images, scientists have devised a novel way to diagnose blinding eye diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration... Contributed Author: Debo...

(Harvard Medical School) Research conducted in vitro shows two human antibodies made in response to vaccination against one hemorrhagic fever virus can disarm a related virus, for which there is currently no vaccine.The ...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Although proponents suggest that direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising is educational and motivating, a new analysis finds that the potential educational value of such a...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Co-management of patients by more than one primary care clinician is among new models of care designed to meet the demand for high quality patient care. A new co-management model l...

(Boston Medical Center) For the first time on a large scale, researchers have investigated what patients and caregivers want from providers during a care transition. A new study from Boston Medical Center (BMC) found car...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Research has shown that frequent users of health care services tend to have higher levels of psychological distress. A new study finds that case management reduces psychological di...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) The Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance has enabled a large number of research teams to conduct meaningful scholarship with a fraction of the usual ti...

(University of Sussex) Researchers at Brighton and Sussex Medical School are asking governments in the developing world to adopt a low-cost, community-based approach to prevent acute attacks that occur in patients with a...

(Penn State) Typhoid Mary may have infected a hundred or more people, but asymptomatic carriers of malaria infect far more people every year. An international team of researchers is working toward a way to identify malar...

(Florida State University) While clinicians caring for patients with coronary artery disease may not always prioritize depression screening, an early diagnosis could be a matter of life and death.

(PCR) EuroPCR 2018, the annual Course of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), will take place in the Palais des Congrès in Paris, Fra...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) In July 2015, all children under six years of age gained free access to daytime and out-of-hours general practice services in the Republic of Ireland, resulting in a 25 percent inc...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) If Canada's Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (GNA) is overturned by a challenge from the Province of Quebec, it will open the doors to genetic discrimination, argue authors in a comme...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Gout, a painful inflammatory arthritis, is not associated with an increased risk of fracture, according to a large study led by Keele University, and published in CMAJ (Canadian Med...

(Hospital for Special Surgery) Training local clinicians with regional anesthesia techniques has helped the Vietnamese medical community improve their approach to anesthesia care, results of a survey conducted by the Glo...

(University of Edinburgh) Global experts are gathering in Edinburgh to tackle health disadvantages associated with migration, ethnicity and race. Around 700 experts from 50 countries are meeting to examine a wide range o...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) For veterans undergoing surgery in the VA healthcare system, homelessness is an important risk factor for unplanned hospital readmission, reports a study in the June issue of Medical Care, publish...