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(Springer) Doctors who provide pediatric care over the telephone -- known as 'telemedicine' -- face a range of challenges that do not come with traditional face-to-face contact. In a qualitative study led by Motti Haimi ...

Article When it comes to specifying passive components, there is no "one size fits all" solution. It is imperative that specifying engineers give special consideration to the extent of a component's importance in a succe...

News A multi-university research team has demonstrated proof-of-concept for a highly flexible and stretchable sensor that could be integrated with the flow diverter to monitor hemodynamics in a blood vessel without costl...

News The new WebMD Symptom Checker features a revamped user interface designed to provide consumers with a simple experience powered by a professional-grade diagnostic engine used by physicians to support their point-of-...

Videos Osso VR, a virtual reality surgical training technology company, has launched a collaborative training feature that allows multiple surgeons to train together in one VR space... Staff Author: Tierney King

News Unique among mood disorder mHealth technology, KIOS empowers individual users to track symptoms 24/7/365 and receive immediate expert behavioral advice specific to their changing symptoms... Contributed Author: KIOS...

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Age, sex, and specific human genetic variants are the key factors behind differences between immune responses among healthy humans, finds a study of 1,000 individuals carried ...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) In many countries, health care reimbursements for drugs are directly related to their value or net health benefits in treating disease. But a new study by researchers at t...

(Wiley) Among individuals with head and neck cancer (HNC), those who experienced childhood trauma were more likely to have advanced cancer, to have higher alcohol consumption, and to experience symptoms of anxiety and de...

(Virginia Tech) The American Heart Association awarded Patrick Calhoun, a biological sciences graduate student, a predoctoral fellowship to carry out his dissertation research at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Insti...

(Infectious Diseases Society of America) The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) announced today the recipients of its Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence (CoE) designation. The program, launched in...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) In a set of recent studies, University of Illinois animal scientists study the effects of the injectable trace mineral Multimin®90 on...

(Université libre de Bruxelles) Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), researchers showed that while our brain is still able to perceive sounds during sleep, it is unable to group these sounds according to their organisati...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Experiments with rats show that intrauterine protein restriction induces sex hormone imbalance, which appears to favor development of cancer in old age. The rate of...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc today announced a five-year collaboration agreement with a goal of evaluating therapies fo...

(Columbia University) A team of Columbia researchers show that a widely used chemical tracer, combined with a cutting-edge microscope, can track metabolic changes within the living cells of animals.

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) 'Painimations' may assess and monitor pain better than any previously used measures.

(American Heart Association) A new high-sensitivity blood test for heart attacks successfully diagnosed heart attacks faster and more accurately in the emergency room than the existing test.

(Emergency Medicine Foundation (Australia)) A medical program developed by emergency and palliative care clinicians at a large Australian hospital is seeing elderly aged care residents successfully treated at home. The p...

(American Heart Association) Screen time from computers, phones, tablet computers, video games, TV and other screen-based devices is associated with increased sedentary behavior in children and teens. Sedentary behaviors...

(Bentham Science Publishers) Antidepressants have become one of the most commonly prescribed drugs. With the technical advances in analytical instruments, metabolomics is entering into a 'next generation' phase. Dr. Li a...

(Ohio State University) A uniquely designed experimental vaccine against Zika virus has proven powerful in mice, new research has found.