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My doctor recently declared me deficient in vitamin D and prescribed a weekly pill. Because I take care to eat a healthy and diverse diet, I was a bit annoyed. She said it was no big deal and actually very common, the me...

Cancer survivors often go through hell to earn the prize of simply returning to a somewhat normal life -- none more so than children. But even after the cancer is gone, many young patients are still at risk for another k...

News Scientists have formed the innovative startup iBrain, a unique play structure for post-stroke patients rehabilitation. The leading specialists in the sphere of AI augmented physical exercise for restoring motor func...

Videos Now, a robot coach can help employees, who sit or stand at a desk all day, make healthier changes in posture and help eliminate ongoing back pain. Giiro is a personal posture coach that can sit on a desk to ensure...

News Biotricity is now focused on sales growth and developing its future product portfolio, including the next generation of Bioflux, which will incorporate cloud-based Artificial Intelligence, improving diagnostic accur...

News Researchers at Linköping University have for the first time been able to use information from computer tomography images to simulate the heart function of an individual patient... Contributed Author: Linköping Uni...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Barbara Kahn, M.D., Vice Chair for Research Strategy in the Department of Medicine at BIDMC, receives the FASEB Excellence in Science Award.

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Only about one-third of young children in the US receive recommended screenings or surveillance designed to catch developmental delays.

(Picower Institute at MIT) Study finds that six brain regions shared more responsibility than thought for how the brain moves from raw perception to determining the categorical meaning of what's seen.

(American Academy of Family Physicians) According to family physician Norbert Donner-Banzhoff, building an effective relationship with a patient and making a diagnosis are not separate skills. Rather, diagnosing a patien...

(Forsyth Institute) A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, a global leader in oral health research, in collaboration with the NIH-funded Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS), has published the results of a n...

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) The Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is coordinating one of the 14 projects that the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding ...

(San Francisco State University) California has one of the world's most progressive cap-and-trade designed to reduce greenhouse gases. Yet in disadvantaged communities, emissions of those pollutants has actually gone up.

(Salk Institute) Research led by a Salk Institute professor along with collaborators from Yale, Appalachian State University and other institutions found that a protein called ATM (short for ataxia-telangiectasia mutated...

(Trinity College Dublin) Specific immune danger signals are highly efficient in triggering immune responses in infants and newborns, whose immune systems function very differently to those of adults. The scientists belie...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Results of a 10-year study find that, for adults age 50 and older, risks of developing multimorbidity are positively associated with age and are higher for those with low socioecon...

(Binghamton University) Living at higher latitudes, where there is also less sunlight, could result in a higher prevalence rate of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), according to new research from Binghamton University...

(The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research) The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research announced today an $11.7 million award to the University of Cambridge to create The Mark Foundation Institute for Integrated Cancer Medici...

(eLife ) Researchers have developed a 3D map of the gene interactions that play a key role in cardiovascular disease, a study in eLife reports.

(University of Pittsburgh) The American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science & Technology featured research by Carla Ng, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Pitt's Swanson School of En...

(Pensoft Publishers) Six new species of unique land snails whose shells are covered with what look like scales are described from the biodiversity hotspot of Malaysian Borneo in the open-access journal ZooKeys. The snail...

(Wild Hive) A recent randomized controlled trial, published in the Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, provides insights on the promising outcomes of short-term improvements in blood vessel function among healthy ma...