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Article Knee replacements, spinal implants, and other orthopedic devices can be brought to market faster and at lower costs through additive manufacturing... Contributed Author: Laura Gilmour, Global Medical Business Dev...

Videos Chemically coated, ceramic implants successfully guided the regrowth of missing bone in lab animals while "steadily dissolving," researchers report. Researchers say their implanted scaffolds were naturally absorbe...

News 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 reconstructive surgery of t...

News Beating cancer is a race against time. Developing radiation therapy plans can take days. Now, engineering researcher Aaron Babier has developed automation software that aims to cut the time down to mere hours... Con...

News Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are using wearable sensor technology to develop an automatic alert system to help people quit smoking... Contributed Author: Case Western Reserve University Topics: Wea...

(IOS Press) Almost two-thirds of non-diabetic patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) may be insulin resistant, despite having normal blood sugar, report scientists in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease. Their findings su...

(IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute)) Inhibiting the Jagged 1 protein in mice prevents the proliferation and growth of colon and rectal tumours. What is more, this approach to the disease permits the remov...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Research led by Rinku Majumder, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found how hypoxia (a low concentration of oxy...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Data from a Chicago-based lung cancer screening program provides evidence that national lung cancer screening guidelines may be insufficient for individuals in underrepresented communi...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A new study using machine learning has identified brain-based dimensions of mental health disorders, an advance towards much-needed biomarkers to more accurately diagnose a...

(Louisiana State University) Mangroves are tropical forests that thrive in salt water and found in a variety of coastal settings worldwide. Mangroves store greater amounts of carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem, ...

(La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) A mother's prior dengue immunity protects her unborn baby from devastating brain effects associated with Zika virus infection. These findings could guide development of mor...

(Joslin Diabetes Center) Studying lab animals and humans, researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center discovered that a protein called JNK helps to drive response to exercise. If JNK is activated during exercise, the researche...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Endocrinologists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have shown for the first time that brown fat can exert control over skeletal muscle function.

(Harvard Medical School) In separate studies published online in Nature on Aug. 1, two independent research teams report the discovery of a new, rare type of cell in the human airway. These cells appear to be the primary...

(University of British Columbia Okanagan campus) Researchers at UBC Okanagan have determined that new mothers exposed to cigarette smoke in their homes, stop breastfeeding sooner than women not exposed to second-hand smo...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) A study by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), recently published in Acta Neuropathologica, investigated lesser-known molecules involved in tauopathies like Alzheimer's. Th...

(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) Researchers have discovered a new nuclear medicine test that could improve care of patients with type 1 diabetes. The new positron emission tomography (PET) imaging met...

(Drexel University) While data shows that the Affordable Care Act helped people across the spectrum, a study shows that those around or below the federal poverty line benefitted most.

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Obesity, which increases influenza disease severity, also extends by about 1.5 days how long influenza A virus is shed from infected adults compared to non-obes...

(University of Chichester) Researchers from the University of Chichester have found that alternative enactment techniques -- such as acting -- can improve patients' perspective memory. Academics involved in the study cla...

(University of Texas at San Antonio) The number of people who died as a result of Hurricane Maria -- which hit Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, 2017 -- may be as high as 1,139, surpassing the official death count of 64, accordin...