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News Researchers are hoping to bridge the gap between digital information representation and physical material composition. In turn, they want to help democratize 3D printing and allow anyone to print nearly anything... ...

Videos A team led by neuropsychologist Jody Culham has conducted the most extensive analysis and brain mapping to date of a blind patient, to help understand the remarkable vision of a 48-year-old Scottish woman, Milena ...

News Brightree announced the release of a new solution that allows home medical equipment (HME) providers to digitally receive orders from more than 62,000 providers using athenaClinicals... Contributed Author: Brightree...

News A platform that can diagnose several diseases with a high degree of precision using metabolic markers found in patients' blood has been developed by scientists at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil... Co...

News Rutgers researchers have created an automated blood drawing and testing device that provides rapid results, potentially improving the workflow in hospitals and other health-related institutions to allow health care ...

(European League Against Rheumatism) The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) demonstrate significant improvements in adherence and clinical outcomes in gout pat...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) A simple, in-office EEG-based test can help determine if a depressed patient will do better on antidepressants or talk therapy.

(University of Colorado at Boulder) A study of 32,000 women found that those with an early chronotype, or sleep-wake preference, were significantly less likely to develop depression.

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH, has launched a clinical trial of an investigational vaccine designed to protect ...

(Uppsala University) In a new study, researchers from Sweden and Britain have investigated how the endocrine-disrupting substance linuron affects reproduction in the West African clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis. The scie...

(Florida Atlantic University) This latest HRSA grant is the third awarded to FAU's College of Nursing over three consecutive years and totaling $6.4 million. FAU will establish a primary care workforce of students with a...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Could being more knowledgeable about finances help to keep you out of the hospital? Older adults with higher financial literacy are at lower risk of being hospitalized, reports a study in the July...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Could flavored electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) cause bodily harm?There has been a rapid rise in e-cigarette use, partially due to flavoring additives in tobacco products and pe...

(American Cancer Society) A new study authored by scientists from more than 20 medical centers and organizations finds that higher circulating vitamin D concentrations are significantly associated with lower colorectal c...

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) In a recent study, scientists at the Department of Cardiology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have identified an enzyme responsible fo...

(NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) A team of researchers says it has linked sensitivity to an allergen in red meat to the buildup of plaque in the arteries of the heart. While high saturated fat levels in red...

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) Water is transported from the blood into the brain via an ion transporter, a new study on mice conducted at the University of Copenhagen reveals. If t...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A variety of treatment options may be effective for nightmare disorder in adults, according to a position paper from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).

(Northwestern University) Scientists have identified a key enhancer of Sox9 -- a gene critical for male sex development -- and demonstrated that deleting this non-coding DNA results in male-to-female sex reversal.

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) Rachna Shroff, M.D., led a landmark study on the use of targeted drugs called PARP inhibitors in pancreatic cancer patients with BRCA mutations.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Parents of adolescents believed that the potential to prevent certain types of cancer is the best reason for their children to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, wh...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) An international team led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers has conducted what is believed to be the largest detailed published study of people with a poorly understood skin condition known a...