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News Phillips-Medisize, a Molex company, announced the release of its third generation connected health platform, a service offering for its pharma and drug delivery device clients... Contributed Author: Phillips-Medisiz...

When it comes to studying cocaine addiction, one group of researchers has stomach acid on their brains. In a paper published Thursday in PLOS Biology, researchers find that a surgery that diverts some bile acid into the ...

Article In this Q&A session, Brendan Carr addresses how telehealth can play a major role in disaster relief. He discusses the advantages to using telehealth and some of the barriers to widespread implementation... Contri...

News 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... Contributed Author: Cedars-Sinai Topics: Wearables

Videos Engineers from Kyoto's Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute are demonstrating how people can be taught to control a third robotic arm with their brains for better multitasking... Contributed Author: Desi...

News Researchers have tested a sensor to detect early-stage Parkinson's disease from the breath of patients. Diagnosing this at an earlier stage, for example, at a routine doctor's visit, could help these patients begin ...

(Critical Path Institute (C-Path)) The Critical Path Institute's (C-Path) Critical Path for Parkinson's Consortium (CPP), in partnership with Parkinson's UK, announces that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Patients taking opioids for at least three months before spinal fusion surgery in the lower spine are much more likely to continue taking opioids one year after surgery, reports a study in Spine. ...

(Westmead Institute for Medical Research) A new study has shown that genetic variation may increase the risk of severe liver damage in Caucasians with chronic hepatitis B infection.

(American Association for Cancer Research) A panel of 19 microRNAs identified using next-generation sequencing could categorize indeterminate thyroid nodule samples into malignant and benign.

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Mind-body therapies -- biofeedback, mindfulness, yoga, and hypnosis -- provide a promising approach to the very common problem of anxiety in adolescents, according to a review in the March issue o...

(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) New research from several universities in Germany, to be published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, suggests that it may be easier than anticipated to find...

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) along with the US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) have named the 2018-2019 class of FDA ...

(University of Nebraska-Lincoln) University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Iowa State University will lead new institute, announced July 26 by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and the Association of American V...

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) The otic placode gives rise to the inner ear in vertebrates. A new study shows that even when it is transplanted to ectopic positions, the nerve cells that grow out of the trans...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Caregiving resource will bring together decades of ongoing multidisciplinary research.

(Goethe University Frankfurt) Hereditary angioedema is a chronic disorder that can sometimes be life-threatening. Now, a new drug therapy has been successfully tested in an international study headed by the University Ho...

(Lobachevsky University) Lobachevsky University (UNN) researchers focused their attention on ozone therapy as a medical technology that can be successfully applied in the field of physiotherapy of pathological conditions...

(New York University) As adults age, they all experience a natural loss of muscle mass and function. A new study finds that as the loss of muscle and function in the throat occurs it becomes more difficult for efficient ...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers discovered mutations of gene IRF2BPL that are associated with a previously undiagnosed neurological disorder.

(Imperial College London) By combining studies on one species of malaria-carrying mosquito, researchers found that no other animals rely solely on them for food.

(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) A team headed by Manuel Serrano at IRB Barcelona has designed a drug encapsulation system that selectively targets senescent cells.The study paves the way for thera...