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(Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications) The new journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published the first issue of Volume 3. This is a special issue on adult congenital heart disease w...

About 23,000 Americans die each year due to a bacterial infection resistant to antibiotics. Since 2010, the number of children who have become resistant has increased sevenfold. In recent years, the misuse and overuse of...

Product Announcement OKW's EVOTEC table-top electronic enclosures are now available in a new smaller 100 size - increasing the range to four plan sizes. Applications include measurement and control engineering, IT, medic...

Videos Welcome to the latest episode of TinkerENG, where the team goes over manufacturing steps for Tryggvi Emilsson's fire alarm concept... Contributed Author: TinkerENG

News Researchers report on results of a preclinical study in which an oral agent was administered in rats to deliver a substance that could temporarily coat the intestine to prevent nutrient contact with the lining in th...

News Rice University's Caleb Bashor never planned to be an inventor or do-it-yourselfer, but there was no other way to do the microbiology experiments he envisioned. Researchers created eVOLVER, a system that combines th...

Article The R&D 100 Awards--now in its 56th year--is best known for its annual recognition of 100 of the most exceptional innovations in research and development from the past year. R&D 100 Awardees fall under five gener...

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) Dyslexic children learning both a language that is pronounced as written --like Spanish -- and a second language in which the same letter can have several sounds --...

(University of California - San Francisco) People with severe mental illness are more than twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes, with even higher risks among patients who are African American or Hispanic, according to...

(Queen Mary University of London) A new clinical trial testing a disease-modifying drug for multiple sclerosis (MS) will be the first in the world to recognise the importance of wheelchair users retaining the use of thei...

(SAGE) The first peer-reviewed study into autism and homelessness has been published, in the journal Autism. The researchers* found evidence suggesting that autistic adults are over-represented among the homeless populat...

(North Carolina State University) Researchers have pinpointed a particular neuropeptide associated with transmitting itch signals in mice with atopic dermatitis. The work sheds further light on the pathways involved in t...

(Cleveland Clinic) The American Heart Association (AHA) has awarded Cleveland Clinic a $3.7 million grant for atrial fibrillation research. The four-year, competitive award will support three synergistic projects aimed a...

(California Institute of Technology) Researchers have revealed how the human nuclear pore complex is involved in the flow of genetic information.

(American Heart Association) Wearable devices combined with financial incentives and personalized goal-setting significantly increased physical activity among ischemic heart patients.

(BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) Within the scope of the BfR MEAL Study, the first total diet study in Germany, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) o...

(University of Guelph) Replacing potatoes or rice with pulses can lower your blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent, according to a first-ever University of Guelph study.Researchers found that swapping out half of...

(University of Edinburgh) Fresh insights into a potentially life-threatening lung disease that causes persistent coughing could pave the way for new therapies. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have discovered ho...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Researchers at Houston Methodist Research Institute and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a prescription drug, Calcitriol, approved by the Foo...

(Mayo Clinic) Genetically engineered bacteria are showing promise as a new treatment for constipation, researchers at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine have discovered in a mouse study. The finding is si...

(Purdue University) Adopting a Mediterranean-style eating pattern improves heart health, with or without reducing red meat intake, if the red meat consumed is lean and unprocessed, according to a Purdue University nutrit...

(DKC) A new report from Medscape finds that more than one in 10 female physicians and 16 percent of female residents have experienced sexual harassment within the past three years. Overall, 7 percent of physicians (12 pe...