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Videos An app developed by UCLA researchers can notify deaf parents when their baby or child is crying and even differentiate the meaning of the cry, according to UCLA Newsroom... Staff Author: Tierney King Topics: Home ...

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Videos A new prototype for a portable instrument capable early-stage malaria detection has been developed by a team of researchers. The portable optical diagnostics system prototype detects a byproduct generated by all s...

News The Department of Neurosurgery at the Mount Sinai Health System is one of the first hospitals in the country to use Modus V, a hands-free, robotically controlled digital microscope that provides advanced visualizati...

News Virtual follow-up visits for patients with hypertension appeared to be just as effective as in-person office visits in helping maintain blood pressure control. In a study conducted among patients... Contributed Auth...

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) In the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center report that for a particular subset of lung cancer tumors, there is a hig...

(Queensland University of Technology) A QUT legal academic says abortion can be decriminalised without society and governments making a moral judgement.

(European Society for Medical Oncology) At the 71st World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland, ESMO, the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, delivered two statements positioning cancer as a p...

(Elsevier) Because of a known association between elevated lactate levels and increased mortality, sepsis guidelines mandate that lactate levels should be tested soon after the onset of sepsis. A new study in the journal...

(Umea University) Two genes play important roles for the formation of malignant cancer in the brain. One gene prevents the formation of the tumour, while another gene promotes the tumour. This is shown in a new dissertat...

(University of Bristol) A UK-wide trial into Parkinson's disease led by Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Bristol is set to go ahead, thanks to a £2.1 million grant from the National...

(Arizona State University) In the journal Temperature, researchers outline how quickly hot cars become deadly for children.

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that if a car is parked in the sun on a summer day, the interior temperatur...

(Kaiser Permanente) Combining data from electronic health records with results from standardized depression questionnaires better predicts suicide risk in the 90 days following either mental health specialty or primary c...

(Kessler Foundation) Kessler Foundation researchers compared two neuropsychological tests for assessing learning in individuals with multiple sclerosis. 'Comparing the Open Trial - Selective Reminding Test results with t...

(Florida Atlantic University) A new study has quantified, for the first time, the relationship between lack of paid sick leave and poverty in the US. The data indicates that, even when controlling for education, race, se...

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) The Life Sciences - Life Writing Research Training Group at Mainz University will receive financial support to the tune of EUR 2.2 million over the next four and a half years to lo...

(Loyola University Health System) A Loyola Medicine survey has found that 15.8 percent of adult burn patients screened positive for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

(Montana State University) Beth Rink has won a five-year, $3.12 million grant for a sexual and reproductive health program for American Indian youth on the Fort Peck Reservation. Rink also has been named a Fulbright Arct...

(University of Hawaii at Manoa) A recently published study, led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, identified areas in the Hawaiian Islands that would provide the greatest increase in coastal fishery s...

(Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) While health care access and quality have improved generally over the past several years, advancements in many countries have been slow or nonexistent as compared to the prev...

(PLOS) Data from the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak at two Sierra Leone facilities reveal daily usage rates for disinfectant and personal protective equipment, informing future outbreaks, according to a study published May 24...