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News Researchers from the University of Oxford have completed the first successful trial of robot-assisted retinal surgery. Using the robot, the surgeon was able to perform the procedure with equal or better efficacy tha...

News A study conducted revealed that 3D printing can directly create 'clinical trial ready' devices, doing away the need for expensive tooling of computer numerically controlled (CNC) and computer-aided manufacturing (CA...

Videos Needles and shots are not something children are exceptionally excited to receive. In fact, needle phobia is one of the most common fears of children, but now a pediatrician has come up with an innovative distract...

Blog Recently, I attended the MDM East Expo, and to my surprise they hosted a fashion show of health wearables. Although they did not necessarily have a runway, they did present different health monitoring devices that c...

There's a significant gap between the information that real-world forensics teams can glean from a crime scene and what turns up in glamorized tv shows such as "CSI." Today, however, that gap gets a little smaller: Resea...

(Wiley) With increasing organ demand, living kidney donation from older donors has become more common.

(Wiley) For more than a decade, Southeast Asia has faced annual haze due to a combination of human activity, natural fires, and climatic factors.

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) Chromosomes occupy different territories in the nucleus; their arrangement and communication with each other is still poorly understood. Scientis...

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Most emergency department patients want to be involved in some aspects of medical decision-making, but they need to be invited.

(American Physiological Society) Forgetting names, skills or information learned in class is often thought of as purely negative. However unintuitive it may seem, research suggests that forgetting plays a positive role i...

(Wiley) It is important that patients with diabetes be involved in decisions concerning the management of their condition while they are hospitalized.

(Wiley) The evidence that circulating levels of markers of bone turnover correlate with hip fracture risk among postmenopausal women is limited.

(Wiley) Young persons who use alcohol and/or marijuana experience heightened likelihood of condomless sex, according to a new study published in The American Journal on Addictions.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) In an effort to improve stroke recognition and reduce life-threatening pre-hospital delays worldwide, researchers at Penn Medicine created a universal stroke awareness prog...

(University of Gothenburg) The majority of people with severe obesity have a lonely and prolonged struggle with their weight. In one study spanning more than 10 years, 83 percent report that they constantly strive to los...

(University of Guelph) University of Guelph researchers found residues of the insecticides in the livers of wild turkeys, providing evidence that this common agrochemical is being ingested by free-ranging animals.

(GCI Health NY) Implementing a nutrition care program for malnourished surgical patients showed a nearly 50 percent reduction in readmission rates, according to new data from Advocate Health Care and Abbott. New guidelin...

(City University London) An international team of scientists have developed a new way to screen for age-related cognitive decline at home using a test which asks people to detect sounds and flashes on their laptop or pho...

(Elsevier) A study published in European Psychiatry reports on factors underlying the current rise in radical conversions among European youth. Compared to previous groups such as Al-Qaïda, ETA, or Hamas, today's radica...

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) A team of researchers at EMBL have expanded Alan Turing's seminal theory on how patterns are created in biological systems. This work, which was partly done at the Centre for Genom...

(University of Liege) Researchers have revealed that malignant melanoma can reprogram their protein synthesis machinery and become addicted to a new family of enzymes that modify transfer RNAs during acquired resistance....