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Article Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the realm for patient care, and this was definitely a hot topic at the recent MDM East's session titled "AI Is Moving The Needle." One expert said AI has the capability to...

News Senseonics Holdings, Inc. announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its Pre-market Approval application to market the company's Eversense Continuous Glucose Monitoring System to people with diabet...

News An international team of researchers have developed a low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic that can be used to diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions, such as surgical complications or neu...

News Thanks to an unorthodox approach being proposed by EPFL researchers, patients may soon be able to track their illness simply by drinking a solution containing millions of tiny electronic sensors disguised as bacteri...

Videos EksoVest, created by Ford and Ekso Bionics, wanted to ease an automotive assembly worker's strain by creating an exoskeleton to alleviate the constant weight and pressure on their body... Staff Author: Tierney Kin...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Children with known skin, food and respiratory allergies should be screened for an emerging, chronic food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a painful inflammation of the...

(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) For the first time, the transmission of cholera has been tracked at the household level across Dhaka, Bangladesh, a city with a 'hyper-endemic' level of the disease. Researchers from the...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) A new study to be published online June 25 in JAMA Internal Medicine reports that hospital at home (HaH) care provides a shorter length of stay; reductions in h...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Rates of C. difficile infections have decreased 36 percent in hospitals across Canada, although the virulent NAP1 strain associated with severe illness and deaths is the most common...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A new study reveals gaps in whether older Americans get help for hearing loss -- gaps that vary greatly with age, race, education and income. In all, just over a third of thos...

(University of the Witwatersrand) A cranium of a four-million-year-old fossil, that, in 1995 was described as the oldest evidence of human evolution in South Africa, has shown similarities to that of our own, when scanne...

(Linköping University) An error in one of the most widely used methods in epigenetics, DIP-seq, can cause misleading results. This may have major significance in the research field, where 'big data' and advanced methods...

(RAND Corporation) Approval of a new drug for the treatment of opioid abuse sharply increased the number of Medicaid recipients receiving medication-assisted therapy for opioid abuse disorders. But as the use of recommen...

(Swansea University) A devastating and fast-spreading infection killing olive trees and grapevines around the world can now be detected from the air, long before symptoms are visible to the human eye.

(Imperial College London) Chemical compounds produced by the bacteria in our gut could be used to spot the early stages of liver disease, according to new research.

(University of Gothenburg) Seven out of ten female preschool teachers suffer from sound-induced auditory fatigue, one out of two has difficulty understanding speech and four out of ten become hypersensitive to sound. Thi...

(University of California - San Francisco) In a new study published online June 25, 2018 in Nature Medicine, UC San Francisco researchers have identified a key biological pathway in human cancer patients that appears to ...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Of 38 melanoma patients treated with immunotherapy and radiosurgery between 2012 and 2017, median overall survival was not reached.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (BKI) released a study investigating the use of combination checkpoint immunother...

(Oregon State University) Lower leg pain and injuries have long been a problem for runners, but research at Oregon State University-Cascades has shown maximal running shoes may increase such risks for some runners.

(Durham University) Men's testosterone levels are largely determined by their environment during childhood, according to new research.

(Michigan State University) While cholera rages across many regions of the world, a team of microbiologists and plant scientists has pinpointed a genetic weakness in the pandemic's armor, which could lead to future treat...