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Article A group of researchers from various institutions in Germany has developed a new type of cochlear implant that is based on light, according to Medical Xpress. This new implant uses a concept that has been around f...

Videos PEGASI Smart Sleep Glasses II is an eyewear device that uses physical light therapy to help improve sleep. The technology uses a timed light exposure, which NASA used to help astronaut's improve their sleep qualit...

News Researchers have made a breakthrough in more precisely targeting drugs to cancers. Using ultrasound and lipid drug carriers, a multi-disciplinary team has developed a new way to improve the targeting of cancer drugs...

Industry Brief The global robotic medical imaging systems market 2018-2022 is expected to register a CAGR of around 15% during the forecast period, according to the latest market research report by Technavio... Contribut...

Product Announcement TRACO POWER has announced the release of their THM 15 family of medical 15 Watt DC/DC converters with a wide 2:1 input range in a 1.0 x 1.6 x 0.40" footprint... Contributed Author: TRACO POWER

News FitMi has improved the mobility of thousands of stroke survivors by enabling them to perform over 30 million reps of therapeutic exercises from the comfort of their own home. To date, survivors are averaging a colle...

Product Announcement ZEISS introduced a new X-ray imaging instrument, ZEISS Xradia Context microCT, a large field-of-view, non-destructive 3D X-ray microcomputed tomography system... Contributed Author: ZEISS

News A wide range of fetal genetic abnormalities could soon be detected in early pregnancy thanks to a world-first study led by University of South Australia researchers using lab-on-a-chip, non-invasive technology... Co...

News Instead of black and white X-ray images, doctors now have access to color photos that further identify a tissue being scanned. Researchers have scanned a human body using a breakthrough color medical scanner based o...

(American Association for Cancer Research) Among patients with cutaneous melanoma who had brain metastases (MBM), first-line treatment with a checkpoint inhibitor was associated with a 1.4-fold increase in median overall...

(Westmead Institute for Medical Research) A new study has shown that people who regularly eat oranges are less likely to develop macular degeneration than people who do not eat oranges.Researchers at the Westmead Institu...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Among Medicaid recipients taking prescription opioids, high opioid doses and concurrent treatment with benzodiazepine sedatives are among the key, potentially modifiable risk factors for fatal ove...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Findings from an animal study suggest that a non-invasive imaging technique could, with further development, become a tool to assess immune system recovery in p...

(American Society of Hematology) Today, the American Society of Hematology (ASH) will convene laboratory investigators, clinical researchers, regulators, patient advocates, and industry leaders in Washington, D.C., for t...

(Université libre de Bruxelles) Researchers show that mice lacking the Maged1 gene are unable to acquire cocaine addiction. This gene serves as a promising new entry point into the analysis of the mechanisms underlying ...

(University of Manchester) A new commentary by scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Edinburgh on a study by Taiwanese epidemiologists supports the viability of a potential way to reduce the risk of Alzheimer'...

(University of Delaware) Soccer players who head the ball may be more likely to experience short-term balance problems, suggesting that repetitive head impacts could have the potential to cause subtle neurological defici...

(Oregon State University) Genetic research at has shed new light on how isolated populations of the same species evolve toward reproductive incompatibility and thus become separate species.

(Lobachevsky University) Bacterial systems are some of the simplest and most effective platforms for the expression of recombinant proteins. They are more cost-effective compared to other methods, therefore they are of g...

(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Initial results of a new national clinical trial show that the majority of women with breast cancer who have two to three sites of disease in a single breast at the time of diagnosis ...

(Queen Mary University of London) A national online survey was launched today to give members of the public the opportunity to set the research priorities in the field of ethnic inequalities and severe mental illness.

(Purdue University) A startup created by Purdue University professors is developing a sensor that can detect dangerous mosquito-borne tropical diseases faster and at a lower cost than current methods, giving health offic...