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(University of Virginia Health System) The US Food and Drug Administration has approved an artificial pancreas system -- based on technology from the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology -- that automati...

A Clock Recovery Unit (CRU) option is now available for the BERTWave MP2110A scope that supports trigger clock generation from a 53-Gbaud PAM4 optical signal. When combined with existing oscilloscope functionality, the n...

It's harder than you might think to lose weight through exercise alone.

A new stamped-spring-pin socket addresses high-performance requirements for testing 48-lead Quad flat pack chip packages. The contactor used in the CBT-QFE-3018 socket is a stamped-spring pin with 17-gm actuation force/b...

(JAMA Network) Researchers in this review article discuss occupational reproductive hazards for female surgeons in the operating room, including radiation exposure, surgical smoke, working conditions and physical demands...

(American Society for Horticultural Science) In modern society, stress reduction in the workplace is a pressing issue. While it has been commonly assumed that plant life is soothing to those required to regularly face st...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Immune checkpoints are surface proteins that cancer cells use to evade immune response. These surface proteins are critical for cancer cell growth and drugs targeting these proteins...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and their colleagues have identified the structure of the most lethal toxin produced by certain strains of Clostr...

(Oregon Health & Science University) HIV patients lose immunity to smallpox even though they were vaccinated against the disease as children and have had much of their immune system restored with antiretroviral therapy, ...

(Mayo Clinic) Gender pay equity in the field of medicine remains elusive. Gender-based pay differences have been shown to persist, even when controlling for experience, clinical productivity, academic rank and other fact...

(Mayo Clinic) Heart problems are a common development for people with diabetes. In fact, about 33% of people in the US admitted to the hospital for heart failure also have diabetes. Heart failure may be the result of a c...

(Oregon Health & Science University) New research reveals a key insight into the development of hair bundles, the intricately complex assemblies in the inner ear responsible for hearing. Researchers found that stereocili...

(Boston University School of Medicine) While the average American woman's waist circumference and dress size has increased over the past 20 years, Victoria's Secret fashion models have become more slender, with a decreas...

(University of Gothenburg) Bariatric surgery is associated with a distinct reduction in skin-cancer risk, a study shows. This finding can be described as a key piece of evidence that substantiates the connection between ...

(The Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation) The FH Foundation and World Heart Federation joined together to tackle the global burden of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a vastly under-recognized and poorly managed ...

(Picower Institute at MIT) A review in Science traces neuroscientists' progress in studying the neural substrate for storing memories and raises key future questions for the field.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) People living in predominately Hispanic neighborhoods are less likely to receive CPR from a bystander following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to people living ...

(Lancaster University) Infertility impinges on the human right to have a child, according to new research published today, which also calls for greater healthcare equity and more inclusive reproductive health surveillanc...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Researchers report cases of five epilepsy patients who found better treatments for deleterious neuropsychiatric symptoms like anxiety, depression, psychosis and impaired memory using...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A small minority of Americans surveyed consider the religious affiliation of the hospitals that treat them, but a majority said they didn't want religious doctrine dictati...

(Institute of Cancer Research) Testicular cancer can be prevented from coming back using half the amount of chemotherapy that is currently used, a new clinical trial has shown.The new trial showed that giving men one cyc...

(Society for Neuroscience) Supplementing the body's short chain fatty acids can improve stroke recovery, according to research in mice recently published in JNeurosci. Short chain fatty acid supplementation may be a noni...