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Product Announcement The Fischer FreedomTM Series revolutionizes wearable connectivity, as it meets design engineers' urgent needs for designing and connecting portable and body-worn applications quickly and easily, than...

Article A Northwestern University team has developed a new device, called a regenerative bandage, that quickly heals these painful, hard-to-treat sores without using drugs. During head-to-head tests, Northwestern's banda...

News An international team of researchers, led by Harvard University, have developed a refillable, implantable device, which sits directly on the heart and can deliver drugs and other therapies to treat the aftereffects ...

News By screening 250 user reviews and comments for a once popular--but proven inaccurate--blood pressure monitor app, researchers have added to evidence that a high "star rating" doesn't necessarily reflect medical accu...

News Bioengineers have compiled a set of recommendations that could significantly reduce concussions in rugby. They used 3D motion analysis lab trials with rugby players and model-based image-matching techniques to exami...

News A research team is engineering self-assembling human blood vessels that exhibit the symptoms of common cardiac and vascular conditions that may provide a better way for scientists to test the effectiveness of new me...

News Advances in implantable drug delivery systems means targeted treatments to the tumor site are showing promise as a more effective alternative to chemotherapy. Implantable DDSs contain one or more drugs and are place...

News Researchers have developed an end-to-end blood testing device that integrates robotic phlebotomy with downstream sample processing. This platform device performs blood draws and provides diagnostic results in a full...

Product Announcement Molex introduces improvements to its PicoBlade connector that will meet the growing needs in the consumer, healthcare and industrial markets for a secure connection in rugged applications... Contribu...

(American Heart Association) Men with erectile dysfunction are at greater risk for heart attacks, strokes and sudden cardiac death. New study provides strongest link to date between sexual dysfunction and cardiovascular ...

(University of Houston) Of all the groups that try to quit smoking, it seems hardest for those who suffer from anxiety and depression. University of Houston psychology doctoral student Brooke Kauffman is targeting that g...

(Carnegie Mellon University) A new study published in Nature Genetics established a computationally integrated approach to investigate the functional impact of missense mutations.

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) When trauma spills the contents of our cell powerhouses, it can evoke a potentially deadly immune response much like a severe bacterial infection.

(Osaka University) Osaka University researchers demonstrated a reductive alkylation method for the functionalization of substituted amines using hydrogen, which is efficiently catalyzed by innocuous main-group catalysts....

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) In a paper to be published in the Diabetes Care journal, Brigham and Women's Hospital physician Alexander Turchin, M.D., MS, and his colleagues assessed medication reconciliation programs a...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Higher levels of FosB in NAc neurons were associated with more intense behaviors by aggressive mice defending their home cage from an intruder. Overexpressing F...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) A team of ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialists has demonstrated that eating honey after swallowing a button battery has the potential to reduce serious injuries in small children.

(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced that the Structural Heart Disease Summit 2018 will feature three studies which will be presented as Late-Breaking Science on...

(Weber Shandwick Chicago) A new study conducted at the University of California, Davis found that two cups of mangoes a day had beneficial effects on systolic blood pressure among healthy postmenopausal women.

(University of Michigan) Multiple barriers may stop high-risk individuals from accessing an HIV drug that can reduce the subsequent risk of infection, according to a new University of Michigan study.

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) A 'Soviet person' is becoming a phenomenon of the past. Social change is being driven by people who came of age in the 1990s and 2000s. The youngest adult generat...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Mount Sinai researchers have identified a genetic biomarker of asthma that can be tested for using a simple nasal brush and basic follow-up data analysis. This ...