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Videos A group of swimmers near the beach at Spain's port of Sagunto found themselves plunging deeper into sea. They signaled a lifeguard for help, and an onsite Auxdron Lifeguard Drone flew out to perform the rescue... ...

Day turning to dusk in the span of minutes, sunsets all around, a jewel-bright ring in the sky where the sun once stood -- an eclipse is an otherworldly experience. But, if there's one thing we like to do with amazing ex...

News Investigating inside the human body often requires cutting open a patient or swallowing long tubes with built-in cameras. A new method can now pinpoint the location of ingestible implants inside the body using low-p...

Article Each year in the U.S., at least 23,000 people die from infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria. Using computer modeling, researchers are helping to develop the means to prevent some of those deaths... ...

News Adam Spence and Biocoat, Inc. have entered into a strategic partnership that will allow Adam Spence to offer complete reinforced catheter shafts with hydrophilic coatings resulting in a streamlined approach to the m...

News Electronic Health Records are intended to streamline and improve access to information, but a new study shows they also leave both doctors and patients unsatisfied, even after full implementation... Contributed Auth...

Videos A "floating" backpack may make hiking a tad easier on your back. The HoverGlide is a backpack that bounces up and down as you walk with the help of a sliding rail and pulley suspension system... Staff Author: Tier...

News Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is pushing more into the health field, acquiring a company that provides emergency response devices for the aging... Contributed Author: AP News Topics: Home Healthcare

News A new system for monitoring fetal movements in the womb, developed by Imperial researchers, could make keeping an eye on high-risk pregnancies easier... Contributed Author: Bridie Kennerley, Imperial College London ...

Article Scientists are working on algorithms that can analyze video from a phone's camera, detect blood pulsing just beneath the skin and offer blood pressure reading... Contributed Author: Kristin Kloberdanz, GE Reports...

Article Natural Cycles, a mobile fertility app, this month became the first ever digital contraceptive device to win FDA marketing approval... Contributed Author: Kelvin Chan, AP News Topics: Home Healthcare

(University of Southern California) USC scientists show an association between concerns over public displays of discrimination and behavioral health problems among teens from communities of color or disadvantaged homes.

(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ) More than half of the severe listeriosis cases in the European Union belong to clusters, many of which are not being picked up fast enough by the current surve...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Less than half of the 201 randomly chosen stores always refused the underage tobacco purchase attempts, and more than one-fourth sold tobacco to the minors two or more tim...

(NIH/National Cancer Institute) In a new study, researchers developed a gene expression predictor that can indicate whether melanoma in a specific patient is likely to respond to treatment with immune checkpoint inhibito...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Daily antiretroviral therapy (ART) that suppresses HIV to levels undetectable by standard blood tests is lifesaving for individuals living with HIV and prevents...

(Elsevier) A report in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics describes a new assay, anchored multiplex PCR (AMP)-based targeted next-generation-sequencing (NGS), with superior diagnostic utility compared to conventional t...

(University of Helsinki) A new doctoral thesis gives information on the neural basis of the sense of touch. According to the results, magnetic stimulation of prefrontal cortex affected the subjects' performance in tactil...

(American Osteopathic Association) Fourteen years after one-year fellowship programs were created to give primary care physicians the clinical skills to better manage diabetes and its complications, new research in the J...

(RCSI) Researchers at RCSI and Trinity College Dublin have revealed insights into how the body clock controls the inflammatory response, which may open up new therapeutic options to treat excess inflammation in condition...

(New York Genome Center) Researchers at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and Columbia University have uncovered a molecular mechanism behind one of biology's long-standing mysteries: why individuals carrying identical g...

(American Gastroenterological Association) The Crohn's & Colitis Congress®, the premier meeting for clinical and research professionals in the IBD space, has opened registration for the 2019 meeting. A partnership of th...