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Article A new app called Constant Therapy gives users a mobile cognitive training app that integrates digital speech, language and cognitive exercises, enabling patients to access brain exercises from their phone or tabl...

Vitamin -- the first four letters come from the Latin word for "life." To sustain that, we need these organic compounds in small amounts, but it seems their purpose ends there. New research reaffirms the counterintuitive...

Videos The MAX86141 is an alternative way to optically detect heart rate, oxygen saturation, and muscle oxygen saturation using two photodiode detectors simultaneously instead of several sequentially, which provides a co...

News This study describes the first fully implanted DBS system that uses feedback from the brain itself to fine-tune its signaling. DBS is a method of managing Parkinson's disease symptoms by surgically implanting an ele...

News Imec announced a new wireless eye-tracking technology based on electro-oculography (EOG), an ophthalmology technique used to examine eyes and record eye movement... Contributed Author: Imec Topics: Wearables

News Now engineers at MIT have developed pressure-sensing photonic fibers that they have woven into a typical compression bandage. As the bandage is stretched, the fibers change color... Contributed Author: Jennifer Chu,...

(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) Some human brains are nearly twice the size of others -- but how might that matter? Researcher have discovered that these differences in size are related to the brain's shape and...

(Elsevier) A study in Biological Psychiatry has identified unique genetic changes in the brain's reward circuitry that are associated with cocaine use, including first-time use, withdrawal, and re-exposure to the drug af...

(Salk Institute) Salk scientists uncover potential new targets for antiviral drugs using novel laboratory method.

(Washington University School of Medicine) A new study shows that people who take drugs that suppress the immune system are less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, which is characterized by difficulty with movement.

(Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) has published two new textbooks on the topics of infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship. Both textbooks ...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Compared with other countries, the United States often falls short on many maternal and child health outcomes. A federal program known as Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visit...

(University of Connecticut) No matter which treatment they get, only 20 percent of young people diagnosed with anxiety will stay well, UConn Health researchers report. The study followed 319 young people aged 10 to 25 wh...

(University of Jyväskylä - Jyväskylän yliopisto) A research project performed at the universities of Jyväskylä and Turku (Finland) studied the effects of a specific gut enterobacterium on body fat mass.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) The rates of infection following colonoscopies and upper-GI endoscopies performed at US outpatient specialty centers are far higher than previously believed, according to a Johns Hopkins study pu...

(Karolinska Institutet) Cancer cells can when the blood supply is low use lipid molecules as fuel instead of blood glucose. This has been shown in animal tumour models by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Amgen today announced two multi-year collaboration agreements aimed at accelerating development of a variety of Amg...

(McMaster University) Developing new ways to improve the treatment of patients with bleeding disorders is the priority for the new Bayer Chair for Clinical Epidemiology Research and Bleeding Disorders at McMaster Univers...

(Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Three brain development genes are found only in humans and may have helped drive the rapid expansion of the brain starting roughly three million years ago.

(University of Warwick) Memory, learning and cognitive flexibility depend on a protein 'off-switch' in the brain, according to a breakthrough discovery made by an international research collaboration co-led by the Univer...

(University of Western Ontario) A tiny Egyptian mummy long believed to be that of a hawk is actually a rare example of a near-to-term, severely malformed fetus, says an examination led by mummy expert Andrew Nelson of We...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) A new study shows that it is much more important to exercise than to lose weight for patients with coronary heart disease conditions, such as angina pectoris and heart att...