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Videos Virtual reality technology gives high school students greater insight into what it's like to be Alfred -- a 74-year-old African American man with suspected mild cognitive impairment (MCI), plus age-related vision ...

News There is one major exception that rivals the computational power of the most advanced digital devices: the human brain. By empowering even a rudimentary level of intelligence in wearable electronics and sensors, we ...

News Owen Mumford has announced that it is going to sell and distribute the rapid diagnostic HIV test, Simplitude Pro HIV across Europe. Simplitude Pro HIV is the first rapid diagnostic test with a built-in safety lancet...

Videos The Noras Performance out of Portugal has created a U-Safe lifesaving buoy that automatically drives itself around the water by remote control looking for people in need of saving... Staff Author: Tierney King Top...

News VirtualHealth announced that its founder and CEO, Adam Sabloff, will join other industry thought leaders at the VOICE summit to address the use of voice technology as a patient engagement tool... Contributed Author:...

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) A single course of antibiotics early in childhood may increase risk for Type 1 diabetes. This is the finding of a study in mice led by researchers from NYU Medical School.

(University of Exeter) Two studies at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2018 (AAIC) highlight a significant increase in harmful side effects related to the use of commonly prescribed opioid painkillers...

(University of Bristol) In the first review of its kind, new research has found that depression and the use of antidepressants are each associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). The study led by ...

(Georgia State University) A gene from the deadly Ebola virus that allows the virus to escape from the human immune system has been identified in the genome of a group of bats that is found worldwide, including North Ame...

(Monash University) A multidisciplinary consortium has developed a more accurate way to test new treatments for the most aggressive form of prostate cancer. The team has developed a new way to grow tumors in the lab, der...

(Imperial College London) Researchers have reported the results of the first randomised clinical trial to test a novel strategy involving waking up and then killing the 'sleeping' HIV that is hiding in the body using an ...

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Fitness trackers can be valuable tools for assessing the quality of life and daily functioning of cancer patients during treatment, a new study has found. The trackers, also known as wearabl...

(American Statistical Association) The NGO No Means No Worldwide approached Stanford researchers to assess the impact of its programs. By randomly assigning some schools to training and others to being delayed in receivi...

(Loyola University Health System) Everyone gets hiccups, but some people suffer intractable hiccups that last longer than a month. Intractable hiccups can occur more often than we realize and present to multiple medical ...

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new joint Tel Aviv University and University of California San Francisco study identifies the brain mechanism that accounts for the discrepancy between low decoding skills and ...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) The Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials, or NeuroNEXT, a research program that helps streamline Phase II clinical trials for brain disorder...

(Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health) A team of malaria experts from a large international research collaboration has published results supporting the need for a radical cure strategy to tackle one of the most d...

(Alzheimer's Association) New research presented at the Alzheimer's Association InternationalConference (AAIC) 2018 in Chicago focuses on the recent successes and ongoing challenges of drugand non-drug treatments for the...

(University of Massachusetts Lowell) Something as simple as a dietary supplement could reduce disruptive, even abusive behavior, according to newly released research by a team led by a UMass Lowell criminal justice profe...

(Oxford University Press USA) The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and Oxford University Press are pleased to announce their partnership to publish the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, the society...

(American Society for Microbiology) An international team of researchers recently took a deep dive into the microbiome of blood-sucking medicinal leeches and made a surprising observation: low levels of antibiotics in th...

(Texas Biomedical Research Institute) A group of scientists at Texas Biomedical Research Institute have zeroed in on a new defense against HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. Led by Ruth Ruprecht, M.D., Ph.D., the team us...