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Mosquito bites are like a gross form of French kissing -- the insects swap your blood with their saliva, and leave a trail of salivary secretions behind like mosquito cooties. Some of those compounds prevent clotting as ...

You know when you're filling out your medical paperwork and it asks for your emergency contact? Sure, the process might be annoying, but that emergency contact could actually be put to good use by researchers. Since many...

News Machine learning has detected one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke, in brain scans (CT), more accurately than current methods... Contributed Author: Maxine Myers, Imperial College London Topics: Neurol...

Article At the recent LIGHT forum in Palo Alto, leaders in the global healthcare industry addressed questions and concerns about the future of technology integrated within the healthcare field... Staff Author: Tierney Ki...

Videos Known as a "plug-and-play" device, the blocks that make up the device can be assembled with little expertise to test blood glucose levels in diabetic patients or identify viral infections... Staff Author: Tierney ...

(Physicians for a National Health Program) A group of 21 physician leaders published a comprehensive proposal to ensure universal access to safe, innovative, and affordable medications. Published today in the British Med...

(Association for Psychological Science) Introducing a less convenient option for hand sanitizing may actually boost workers' use of hand sanitizer and increase sanitary conditions in the workplace, according to findings ...

(CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) The first line of immune defense against invading pathogens like bacteria are macrophages, immune cells that engulf every foreign object t...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A small study of adults with the most common form of pancreatic cancer adds to evidence that patients with BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations long linked to a high risk of breast cancer have poorer ov...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Recent updates in evidence-based recommendations have led to changes in the use of steroid and hyaluronic acid injection for patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, reports a study in the May 16...

(Vanderbilt University) Bordenstein's team studied Nasonia parasitic wasps, which are about the size of a sesame seed, and they serve as one of the best models to dissect and characterize the evolution of insect genomes.

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Results from an international clinical trial of more than 4880 participants, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that combining clopidogrel...

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) The passage of ions through the cell membrane is controlled by ion channels, which are protein complexes that regulate vital processes, such as the heartbeat, as we...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Among couples being treated for infertility, depression in the male partner was linked to lower pregnancy chances, while depression in...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Prion diseases are slow degenerative brain diseases that occur in people and various other mammals. No vaccines or treatments are available, and these diseases ...

(Elsevier) Increased rates of active travel (e.g., walking or cycling) to school in New Zealand children and youth were associated with shorter distances to school, and neighborhoods with more connected streets, less res...

(Queen Mary University of London) A new study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has discovered 30 new gene locations that determine how the heart responds to and recovers fro...

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) Although the genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is more prevalent in survivors of breast cancer than in other menopausal women, it is commonly undiagnosed and untreate...

(University of Liverpool) An international study led by biochemists at the University of Liverpool has shown that the drug-molecule ebselen can correct many of the toxic characteristics of a protein that causes some case...

(Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research) Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research, and Boston Medical Center have reported that one-third of people 40-59 years have image-based evidence o...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A targeted therapy that has shown its power in fighting ovarian cancer in women including those with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations may also help patients with aggressive pancre...