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News ClearCare, whose technology platform helps run the businesses of providing in-home services like bathing, medication reminders and meal preparation, announced a new technology to connect agencies with insurance comp...

News The team of scientists wanted to see if they could find out more about the body's inflammation response, usually an indicator of an infection or injury, by reading signals on the vagus nerves of lab mice... Staff Au...

News Machine learning using real-time symptom reports can accurately detect lymphedema, a distressing side effect of breast cancer treatment that is more easily treated when identified early. This tool may improve lymphe...

Videos Scientists at the Australian National University have created tiny optical sensors that may pave the way to a wearable device that allows doctors to diagnose patient's health in real time. The sensors are 50 times...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) By screening 250 user reviews and comments for a once popular -- but proven inaccurate -- mobile app claiming to change your iPhone into a blood pressure monitor, Johns Hopkins researchers have a...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Thirteen years after the first successful face transplant, US trauma surgeons should be aware of the current role of facial transplantation for patients with severe facial disfigurement -- includi...

(University of Iowa) A new study from the University of Iowa and published by the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more than twice as likely to suffe...

(Tufts University, Health Sciences Campus) A new study led by public health researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine reports significant food insecurity for adults on probation in Rhode Island. Nearly three-qua...

(University of Miami) UM neurorehabilitation expert Dr. David S. Kushner, who helps modern patients recover from brain surgery, chronicles the remarkable skill of ancient Peru's cranial surgeons.

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Moffitt Cancer Center has partnered with 69 other National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers, as well as the American Cancer Society, American Associatio...

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) A research team led by Prof. ZHENG Hairong from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. LIU Bin fro...

(AKSON Russian Science Communication Association) A team of researchers form Russia discovered that an increase in the concentration of several substances in oral fluid can serve as the indication of caries development. ...

(George Mason University) College students seriously underestimate the effects of drinking a new class of beverages being marketed across the country, according to a new George Mason University study. 'Supersized alcopop...

(Kaiser Permanente) A Kaiser Permanente study of nearly 2,500 patients who used high doses of opioids for at least six months showed that reducing their opioid use did not lower their satisfaction with care. The study, '...

(Queen Mary University of London) Over 3,000 primary school children in polluted areas of London and Luton will have their lung health monitored over a four-year period in a new international study led by Queen Mary Univ...

(Temple University Health System) Reversing memory deficits and impairments in spatial learning is a major goal in dementia research. A lack of knowledge about cellular pathways critical to the development of dementia ha...

(California Institute of Technology) A new technique creates maps of the folded structures of DNA, RNA, and proteins within the cellular nucleus, revealing elegant 'hubs' of organization.

(Goethe University Frankfurt) The hippocampus is a critical region in the brain for learning and memory. For the first time, scientists have observed how stimulation causes the spines on its neuronal dendrites to enlarge...

(University of Exeter) Milk in parts of Ukraine has radioactivity levels up to five times over the country's official safe limit, new research shows.

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) A research team at Wayne State University hopes to give clinicians tools for identifying the early signs of impending disease by measuring subtle devia...

(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) An international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has analyzed two 3,800-year-old Y. pestis genomes that suggest...

(Monash University) Researchers have discovered a unique set of 'super' receptors on immune cells capable of killing HIV across genetically diverse populations, making them a potential candidate for immunotherapy treatme...