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(Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs) Increasing taxes on alcohol is one of the most cost-effective methods of reducing the harms caused by alcohol consumption, according to research in the new issue of the Journal o...

If you're over 60 and, by BMI standards, overweight, it might not be such a bad thing. But there's a catch. If you also have a fat belly, you're at risk for not only metabolic health issues, but also cognitive problems. ...

Article Invoy Technologies uses rapid injection molding to produce reusable and disposable parts in a handheld breath analyzer that measures fat burning. The solution combines the breath analyzer and a data-driven coachi...

News Aging can be accompanied by cognitive deterioration that may affect life quality and possibly safety. EU research has developed a range of ICT solutions to support seniors with cognitive impairment who prefer to liv...

Product Announcement In collaboration with the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research at the University of California San Diego, ZEISS released a Focal Charge Compensation module for block face imaging with ...

Videos 3D printers can make just about anything these days, from a pair of running shoes to chocolate, wood, and aircraft parts. And it turns out -- even complex scientific gadgets used in cancer research... Contributed ...

News A technology designed to treat injured warfighters on the battlefield is proving its worth to civilian emergency-response teams. The sensor-laden Wireless Vital Signs Monitor tracks critical health information like ...

News MIT chemical engineers have developed a new sensor that lets them see inside cancer cells and determine whether the cells are responding to a particular type of chemotherapy drug... Contributed Author: MIT News Topi...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) When it comes to diet in the Western world of overconsumption where cheap convenience food rules, the age-old adage 'everything in moderation' has been put to the te...

(University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Immunologists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg have demonstrated that ILC2, a group of rare lymphoid cells, play a key role in the development of inflammatory arth...

(Brown University) Though rates of insurance since the Affordable Care Act's implementation are similar, LGB individuals avoid or delay medical treatment more frequently than their straight peers due to cost.

(Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation) In a study led by Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Tim Griffin, Ph.D., researchers found that the carbohydrate composition of diets increased the risk of osteoarthriti...

(American College of Rheumatology) The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today expressed its extreme disappointment with a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decision to allow Medicare Advantage (M...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Kenneth Tyler, M.D., the Louise Baum Endowed Chair in Neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, is author of a review article about acute viral encephali...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Older kidney disease patients who are sick enough to require the blood-filtering treatment known as dialysis are at high risk of dementia, including Alzheimer'...

(Scripps Research Institute) A one-two punch of powerful antibodies may be the best way to stop Ebola virus, reports an international team of scientists in the journal Cell.

(Rice University) Biological markers responsible for extreme exhaustion in patients with cancer have now been linked to fatigue in those with Parkinson's disease, according to new research from Rice University.

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Congestive heart failure is a terminal disease that affects nearly 6 million Americans. Yet its management is limited to symptomatic treatments because the causal mechanisms of conge...

(American Physiological Society) Estrogen may protect against heart failure-related depression by preventing the production of inflammation-causing chemicals in the brain. The study is published ahead of print in the Ame...

(University of Maryland Medical Center) In the first such clinical trial in the United States, physician-scientists with the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) are investigating the use of MRI-guided focus...

(Henry Ford Health System) Lamont R. Jones, M.D., MBA, vice chair for the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Health System, received a five-year, $895,814 grant from the National Institute...

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) A fantastical scenario involving a space-exploring robot crashing on a distant planet is the premise of a video game developed for middle schoolers by University of Wisconsin-Madison res...