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(Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary) A research team from Massachusetts Eye and Ear and MIT has shown that immune cells in the eye that developed in response to early exposure to bacteria are a key contributor to progre...

News Engineers and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota have teamed up to create a groundbreaking 3D-printed device that could someday help patients with long-term spinal cord injuries regain some function....

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Article Healthtech vendors should aim to provide customized, intelligent services to all residents of a smart home in this billion-dollar market, according to Frost & Sullivan... Contributed Author: Frost & Sullivan Topi...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Despite promising advances, important scientific questions remain unanswered in the effort to develop a safe and effective Ebola vaccine, according to members o...

(Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine ) New research from a team led by Marshall University scientist W. Christopher Risher, Ph.D., reveals novel molecular insights into how multiple cell types drive th...

(BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) Francisella (F.) tularensis is a highly virulent bacterial pathogen that is resistant to environmental stresses and causes tularemia. This disease affects wild animals, especia...

(Harvard Medical School) Adolescents make up more than a quarter of the population in developing countries, but only 1.6 percent of global development assistance for health from 2003-2016 went to adolescent health.

(University of Eastern Finland) A recent study published in The European Journal of Health Economics finds that the initiation of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) is associated with a higher risk of fracture-sp...

(Children's National Health System) A quality-improvement project to standardize feeding practices for micro preemies helped to boost their weight and nearly quadrupled the frequency of lactation consultations ordered in...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an incurable lung disease of unknown origin with limited treatment options. Research suggests that the...

(University of Melbourne) Adolescent health programs across the developing world receive only a tiny share of international aid, even though young people make up 30 percent of the population of low-income countries.

(American Thoracic Society) More than four in 10 women with asthma may go on to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study conducted in Ontario, Canada, and published online in the Annals ...

(Louisiana State University) A new LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study reveals that a novel biomarker might give us new answers necessary to creating a diagnostic tool for hypoglycemia-associated autonomic fa...

(Durham University) A new type of bed net could prevent millions of cases of malaria, according to new research published in The Lancet today.

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) In a new study published in Clinical Cancer Research, investigators explore whether a blood test can detect higher concentrations of KIM-1 in patients who will go on to develop kidney cance...

(De Gruyter) The study reports on the results of a survey of patients in 18 European countries which shows that those taking OTC products and dietary supplements are not aware of the potential effects on laboratory test ...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A study led by researchers at Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Department of Medicine at the...

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Bacteria -- especially Gram-negative strains -- are becoming increasingly resistant to current antibiotic drugs, and the development of new classes of antibiotics has slowed. Faced ...

(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) A study led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has analysed the mechanical properties and the isotopic composition of plant foo...

(University of Oxford) Men respond to their spouse's illness just as much as women do and as a result are better caregivers in later life than previous research suggests, according to a new Oxford University collaboratio...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Newborn granule cells show high excitability that disappears as the cells mature. Little has been known about the mechanisms that create low excitability in mature cells or how excit...