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News A team has created a computer program that can accurately predict where radioactive material that has been emitted will land, over 30 hours in advance. This tool enables evacuation plans and other health-protective ...

Videos Cell biology researchers are partnering with nanotechnology experts to fight post-surgery infection by creating implants based on dragonfly wings. It is intended to create new technologies and provide processes to...

News Now, people may have a more advanced way of checking their cough or rash from the comfort of their home. Babylon Health is using artificial intelligence to offer information through a symptom checker app... Staff Au...

News Princeton researchers have developed a new computational method that increases the ability to track the spread of cancer cells from one part of the body to another... Contributed Author: Princeton University Topics:...

News The SOMAVAC 100 is a low-profile, user friendly, wearable medical device that applies sustained vacuum to a closed wound following surgery to remove fluid effectively and reduce the risk of seroma... Contributed Aut...

(Rush University Medical Center) regimen of low-dose aspirin potentially may reduce plaques in the brain, which will reduce Alzheimer's disease pathology and protect memory, according to neurological researchers at Rush ...

(Wiley) Medication-related harm (MRH) is common in older adults following hospital discharge. A new British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology study has examined whether doctors can predict which older patients will experi...

(Washington State University) Stopping long-term opioid treatment does not make chronic, non-cancer-related pain worse and, in some cases, makes it better, Washington State University researchers have found.

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new Tel Aviv University study suggests there is hope of treating certain inborn congenital metabolic diseases -- a hope found in green tea and in red wine.

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) A research team at Mount Sinai has identified two microRNA activity-based biomarkers that can provide insights regarding which patients with p53-like bladder ca...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins researchers say they have developed an experimental drug, similar to compounds used to treat diabetes, that slows the progression of Parkinson's disease itself -- as well as its sym...

(Northwell Health) Research scientists from The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in Hempstead, NY, in conjunction with their colleagues at...

(American Geriatrics Society) In response to a budget blueprint in the US House of Representatives proposing more than $530 billion in cuts to Medicare and more than $1.5 trillion in cuts to federal health programs overa...

(European Association for the Study of the Liver) Last week Clarivate Analytics released the 2018 update of its Journal Citation Reports©, including the much anticipated 2017 impact factor. The Journal of Hepatology ach...

(University of Zurich) Most cells in the human body have a cilium, a slender cell protuberance that picks up signals from the cell's external environment. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now shown that these...

(Mayo Clinic) Damage to DNA is a daily occurrence but one that human cells have evolved to manage. Now, in a new paper published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Mayo researchers have determined how one DNA repa...

(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) A Korean research team led by Professor Jeong Ho Lee at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has recently investigated the molecular mech...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Researchers at Johns Hopkins have added to evidence that rising and chronic inflammation as measured by a biomarker in the blood in middle and late age are linked to visible structural changes in...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Orthostatic hypotension (OH) -- a rapid drop in blood pressure upon standing up from a sitting or lying down position -- is a frequently encountered clinical sign among patients. Cl...

(University of Otago) University of Otago researchers have discovered a novel property of a new anti-tuberculosis drug which may help develop more drugs to treat the top infectious disease killer in the world.

(Northwestern Memorial HealthCare) Dr. Ankit Bharat successfully completes Northwestern Memorial Hospital's first robotic-assisted minimally invasive tracheoplasty using the da Vinci Xi Surgical System to help repair the...

(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) Contrary to common suggestion, women are opting to freeze their eggs not to pursue education or careers but for reasons 'mostly revolving around women's lack of sta...