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One day, a 70-year-old man woke up speaking a language his wife couldn't understand.

How many breathless older smokers rue the day they first inhaled nicotine and tar? Someday, adolescents sucking tobacco-free Mods and Juuls could face similar regret. Initially hailed as a smoking cessation breakthrough,...

Vitamins and other nutrients that we cannot make for ourselves are called essential. It's a misleading term because "essential" most often means "important," but in the world of dietetics, it denotes that we must obtain ...

Videos Now, in a scientific collaboration led by EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), scientists show that amputees can actually be convinced that the prosthetic hand belongs to their own body... Contribute...

News A research team has succeeded in developing a wearable and implantable device that measures electrophysiological signals and applies electrical and thermal stimulations... Contributed Author: Institute for Basic Sci...

Product Announcement C&K launched its new KSC PF switch, aimed at giving designers a next-generation switch solution that is compact yet resilient to water ingress-and made to be potting friendly... Contributed Author: C...

News A KAIST research team has developed a flexible drug delivery device with controlled release for personalized medicine, blazing the path toward theragnosis... Contributed Author: The Korea Advanced Institute of Scien...

Product Announcement Control Techniques' E300 elevator drives have been selected for a major hospital modernization program in Mexico that will eventually see hundreds of new lifts installed across the country... Contrib...

News Scientists have made remarkable advances into recording the electrical activity that the nervous system uses to control complex skills, leading to insights into how the nervous system directs an animal's behavior......

News A fantastical scenario video game developed for middle schoolers by University of Wisconsin-Madison studies whether video games can boost kids' empathy, and understands how learning such skills can change neural con...

News MIT researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing for glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain ...

Article Wearable technology, smart watches and smartphones are already collecting our health data. They track your distance, speed and heart rate, and some can even note if your heartbeat was irregular... Contributed Aut...

(Baylor University) Adolescents with a strong hand grip -- an indicator of overall muscle strength -- have better odds of being healthy over time, according to a two-year study of 368 elementary school children. The find...

(Cancer Research UK) Scientists have discovered that a marker in the blood could help predict the risk that a person will develop kidney cancer, according to research published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.

(IOS Press) Stroke remains a leading cause of adult disability, and the global burden of stroke continues to grow with devastating consequences for patients, families, and caregivers. In this special issue of NeuroRehabi...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Accelerator Life Science Partners, a leading life science investment and management firm, today announced the launc...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) For the first time, scientists have shown that in certain people living with HIV, a type of antibody called immunoglobulin G3 (IgG3) stops the immune system's B...

(University of Eastern Finland) The use of benzodiazepines and related drugs (Z drugs) is associated with a modestly increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a recent study from the University of Eastern Finla...

(Lobachevsky University) The search for new medicinal molecules with predetermined properties is a rather complex, expensive and time-consuming process, especially in oncology. Modern science allows us to accelerate this...

(University of Sussex) Researchers from Brighton and Sussex Medical School have found an unexpectedly close link between a herpes virus and the occurrence of immune cells damaging cardiovascular tissue.

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) The Departments of Emergency Medicine and Hematology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a $4 million grant from the National Insti...

(Loyola University Health System) Treatment guidelines say patients who undergo minimally invasive aortic heart valve replacements should receive two antiplatelet drugs to reduce the risk of dangerous blood clots. A Loyo...