Medical News

(Elsevier) According to a new study appearing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, the rate of health insurance coverage and access to affordable acute and preventive care services impro...

News Comcast is launching a new streaming service called Flex, which aggregates a variety of free content, along with paid subscriptions and will be available to Xfinity Internet customers next week for an extra $5 per m...

Parkinson's disease stinks. Figuratively. But according to new research, it literally stinks too -- to those who have a heightened sense of smell. Thanks to the help of one of these "super-smellers," a team of scientists...

Childhood cancers rob kids of their youth. The treatment often saves lives but steals their opportunity to have kids of their own. About 30 percent of childhood cancer survivors become permanently infertile thanks to che...

News Lockheed Martin announced a new generation of space technology launching this year that will allow satellites to change their missions in orbit. Satellites that launched one, ten or even fifteen years ago largely ha...

News Oceanographers studying the physics of the global ocean have long found themselves facing a conundrum: Fluid dynamical balances can vary greatly from point to point, rendering it difficult to make global generalizat...

News Wind energy is considered a vastly untapped source that, if properly harvested, can transform the energy market in the U.S., according to Jerome Hajjar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeas...

News A deadly meningitis outbreak linked to a Massachusetts pharmaceutical lab has drawn new interest to the way drugs are made in the United States and the training for those who work in pharmacies... Contributed Author...

News Imricor announced that it signed its first commercialization contract in the Netherlands with the Amsterdam University Medical Center, location VUmc, for the Advantage-MR EP Recorder/Stimulator System... Contributed...

News Researchers have discovered the parameters that govern the encapsulation of drugs. This gives more control over the slow and steady release of drugs in patients. Moreover, designing encapsulations for new drugs will...

News Optimus Ride, a self-driving vehicle technology company, announced plans to deploy its self-driving systems at two sites: the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 300-acre modern industrial park and Paradise Valley Estates... Cont...

Videos As technology makes its way into almost every product, bike helmets are not behind. Trek has recently announced its WaveCel line of helmets, and said the protective gear is 48 times more effective than foam for pr...

News The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUCE) is prepping to study Jupiter, along with its three largest moons--Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa, all of which are thought to contain internal oceans beneath their surfaces... S...

News Only months old, the Army Artificial Intelligence Task Force has already started pilot projects to find ways to speed up security clearances and analyze imagery for military activity... Contributed Author: Sean Kimm...

News Researchers have created an ultrathin flexible film that can act as a sensor for innovative technologies. Integrated within a glove, the new sensory film can communicate the current position of the wearer's hand and...

News Severely impaired stroke survivors are regaining function in their arms after sometimes decades of immobility, thanks to a new video game-led training device invented by Northwestern Medicine scientists... Contribut...

Product Announcement A full line of ergonomic wire cutters and pliers that feature ESD safe handles and come in a wide variety of styles designed for performing specific tasks is available from Xuron Corp. of Saco, Maine...

Videos In the blockbuster Terminator movie franchise, an evil robot morphs into different human forms and objects and oozes through narrow openings, thanks to its "liquid-metal" composition. Although current robots... Co...

News Imagine a device that could stand up to even the most intense fires so that it could automatically signal others when a firefighter is immobilized on the job. UCLA researchers and colleagues at two other universitie...

News Fourth and fifth graders from Smith Elementary School demonstrated their creativity and technical know-how during the First Lego League competition, March 18. The annual competition encourages students... Contribute...

News In a little more than seven minutes in the early afternoon of Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 rover will execute about 27,000 actions and calculations as it speeds through the hazardous transition from the edge... C...

News An inflatable space antenna designed by University of Arizona students is one of 16 small research satellites from 10 states NASA has selected to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard space missions planned to launch... ...