Medical News

(Elsevier) A international team of medical students has won the first ClinicalKey Global Challenge. The four-person team composed of medical students from the UK, South Africa, Spain and Singapore prevailed in several ch...

(University of Southern California) Women in their 70s and 80s who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution experienced greater declines in memory and more Alzheimer's-like brain atrophy than their counterparts who...

In a small area without critical accuracy requirements, the old school approach of a stretched string with a chalk line and a bubble level can provide adequate measurements. For larger, more critical situations, laser te...

Flex Power Modules announces the PKM7500W and PKM7100W, two new series of quarter-brick modules for powering railway rolling stock equipment. The 50W PKM7500W offers an extremely wide input voltage range of 12V to 160V, ...

OmniVision Technologies, Inc. announced the OC0SA -- the latest member of its growing family of CameraCubeChip wafer-level camera modules for medical applications. This new module offers a resolution of 800×800 with the...

A new BGA socket design uses high-performance elastomer capable of handling 75 GHz, low-inductance and wide temperature applications. The GT-BGA-2127 socket is designed for a 40×40-mm package size and operates at bandwi...

(Van Andel Research Institute) A runaway, inflammatory immune response may be responsible for triggering severe depression during and after pregnancy, according to a new study published in the journal Brain, Behavior and...

(LaVoieHealthScience) Results from Brainstorm Cell Therapeutic's NurOwn randomized Phase 2 clinical trial were published in Neurology. The study demonstrated a single transplantation of MSC-NTF cells (NurOwn®) in ALS cl...

(University of California - Davis) Previous exposure to the pollutant DDT may contribute to the risk of diabetes among Asian Indian immigrants to the United States, according to a UC Davis study.

(Virginia Institute of Marine Science) The 2019 'dead-zone' report card for Chesapeake Bay indicates that the volume of low-oxygen, 'hypoxic' water was on the high end of the normal range, a finding that scientists consi...

(Radiological Society of North America) Ensembles created using models submitted to the RSNA Pediatric Bone Age Machine Learning Challenge convincingly outperformed single-model prediction of bone age, according to a stu...

(Scripps Research Institute) An experimental HIV vaccine developed by scientists at Scripps Research and the nonprofit vaccine research organization IAVI has reached an important milestone by eliciting antibodies that ca...

(Swansea University) Pregnant women and new mothers who experience depression need improved healthcare say academics.

(International & American Associations for Dental Research) The latest issue of Advances in Dental Research, an e-Supplement to the Journal of Dental Research (JDR), 'IADR's Women Pioneers: Celebrating a Century of Achie...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Dairy producers frequently add clay as a feed supplement to reduce the symptoms of aflatoxin and subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) in l...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA, professor of medicine in the section of cardiovascular medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and professor of epidemiology...

(DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) Inflammation drives the progression of neurodegenerative brain diseases and plays a major role in the accumulation of tau proteins within neurons. An international re...

(U.S. Army Research Laboratory) Military working dogs played a vital role in the recent raid and death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; however, temporary and permanent hearing loss due to high-decibel noise in train...

(University of Exeter) Leadership during cooperation runs in the family for tiny fish called Trinidadian guppies, new research shows.

(Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) Consuming beans, lentils, peas, and other legumes reduces the risk for cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, and high blood pressure, according to a review publis...

(Scripps Research Institute) With unexpected findings about a protein that's highly expressed in fat tissue, scientists at Scripps Research have opened the door to critical new understandings about obesity and metabolism...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Among Asian/Pacific Islander women living in the United States, those who reside in ethnic enclaves--areas with a high concentration o...