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Videos A team of engineers has created an electronic skin for the sensory illusion of feeling with a prosthetic hand. When the skin is layered on top of a prosthetic hand, the e-dermis brings back a real sense of touch t...

News Researchers have developed a portable, shareable light sheet microscope -- an engineering feat that shrinks a tabletop-sized technology down to the weight and dimensions of a suitcase liberally packed for a week's v...

News Researchers hope a haptic armband that mimics human touch can be an effective therapeutic tool for people with anxiety or individuals at risk of isolation, such as the elderly. It could also convey directional infor...

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(Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel) Understanding how the retina transforms images into signals that the brain can interpret would not only result in insights into brain computations, but could also...

(American Thoracic Society) Administration of nitric oxide gas during and for 24 hours following heart surgery decreased the risk of patients developing acute and chronic kidney problems, a randomized, controlled trial c...

(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) An LSTM led consortium called DRUM (Drivers of Resistance in Uganda and Malawi) has been awarded £3 million to investigate the way in which human behaviour drives the emergence an...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Men often tolerate stress urinary incontinence for more than two years before seeking medical help -- and one-third put up with it for more than five years, making it important for doctor...

(Bocconi University) New research based on the Italian experience with outbreaks of Chikungunya, a disease borne by the tiger mosquito, in 2007 and 2017, shows that different vector control strategies are needed, dependi...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) In the first 90 days of concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use, the risk of opioid-related overdose increases five-fold compared to opioid-only use among Medica...

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) A broken shuttle protein may hinder learning in people with intellectual disability, schizophrenia, or autism.

(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) A new CAMH and Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences study shows that people with schizophrenia account for more than one in 10 cases of suicide in Ontario, and that young pe...

(University of the Basque Country ) An exercise programme adapted to the capabilities of each person has shown how effective it is in improving the physical as well as mental health of elderly people who live in resident...

(Wiley) Heart failure is almost as common in women as men, but its characteristics vary by sex. A new review summarizes the current state of sex-sensitive issues related to heart failure drugs included in treatment guide...

(University of Oxford) As World Cup fever sets in, increased hooliganism and football related violence are legitimate international concerns. Previous research has linked sports-related hooliganism to 'social maladjustme...

(University of Rochester) Generally, children who experience recurrent destructive conflicts between their parents are at a higher risk of developing mental health problems. However, a new longitudinal study published in...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Influenza A (flu A) hijacks host proteins for viral RNA splicing and blocking these interactions caused replication of the virus to slow, which could point to novel strateg...

(University of Bristol) Correlative light-electron microscopy is being used to increase our knowledge of how platelets are made in the body and the results are challenging previously held understandings.

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Faculty in LSU Health New Orleans schools of Medicine and Public Health and colleagues report that a collaborative effort to build capacity to address behavioral health...

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) A new study provides a platform for predicting how microbial gut communities work and represents a first step toward understanding how to manipulate the properties of the gut ecosystem. ...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Health care insurers including Medicare, Medicaid and major private insurers have not done enough to combat the opioid epidemic, suggests a study led by resear...