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Microbes are all around us and in us and especially on us. Our skin can be both a barrier between our bodies and the microbes in our environment and a way in. Once microbes find their way onto our hands, they're a step c...

News Researchers have developed a small device - the Point-of-Care Test (POCT)--that analyses the level of proteins in a single drop of blood to diagnose the possibility of a mild traumatic brain injury... Contributed Au...

News Future hearing aid users will be able to target their listening more accurately thanks to new Danish technology. A researcher uses machine learning to teach a computer program how to remove unwanted noise and enhanc...

Article Over the next several decades, the most significant trend in elder care will likely be a growing emphasis on "aging in place," an approach that allows the elderly to remain in their homes while maintaining their ...

Article Advanced software gives medical professions new insights into product design and functioning of bodily systems... Contributed Author: Annie Keller Topics: Surgical

Videos WorkingNation's mini-documentary hones in on the need for Orthotic and Prosthetic professionals. Century College is training students interested in the prosthetics field, a field that is growing in the healthcare ...

(Carnegie Mellon University) Published in Cell Reports, the researchers report on three years of behavioral and brain imaging tests on a nearly seven year-old boy -- 'UD' -- who had a third of the right hemisphere of his...

(Northwestern University) In the largest study of its kind to report differences in physical activity and obesity by sex and sexual orientation, obesity was more likely among lesbian, bisexual and questioning female yout...

(European Society of Cardiology) Covering a wide range of topics, from nutrition to late breaking clinical trials that will change practice, ESC Congress 2018 has a hot story for everyone.

(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Second leading cause of death by parasitic infection, visceral leishmaniasis takes advantage of a mechanism to sustain the infection. Professor Simona Stäger and h...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) For patients with Poland syndrome -- a rare congenital condition affecting the chest muscle -- computer-aided design (CAD) techniques can be used to create custom-made silicone implants for recons...

(McMaster University) Just two weeks without much activity can have a dramatic impact on health from which it is difficult to recover, according to researchers who studied overweight older adults at risk of developing Ty...

(Cell Press) The boy suffered his first epileptic seizure at four. Doctors tried medication and other treatments to control the seizures -- the result of a low-grade brain tumor -- but nothing worked. As a last resort, s...

(Kessler Foundation) Glenn Wylie, D.Phil, and Jorge Serrador, Ph.D., have won an award from the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI). The grant funds a collaborative study between the Department of Pharmacology, Physiolo...

(University of Minnesota Medical School) The first-ever statewide survey of Minnesota food-shelf users uncovered important information about a population whose voices are rarely represented in research.

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) A new study argues that humans recognize what they are looking at by combining current sensory stimuli with comparisons to images stored in memory.

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Three-dimensional image simulation is popular among women planning breast augmentation surgery. But while this evolving technology may enhance communication, it doesn't improve patient satisfactio...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Garret FitzGerald, MD, FRS, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and an ...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A team of researchers led by cardiologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center has developed a new online tool to more accurately predict who among those ages 40-65 is at the highest risk o...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A new drug-delivery technology which uses red blood cells to shuttle nano-scale drug carriers, called RBC-hitchhiking, has been found in animal models to dramatically incre...

(University of Exeter) Pioneering new research into the way in which cells communicate with each other could hold the key to unlocking new, improved treatment for life-threatening diseases, including cancer.

(University of Hawaii at Manoa) A recent study by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa researchers revealed that Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is widespread in the Hawaiian Islands and its distribution may ex...