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Functional safety compliance is often a time-consuming and expensive process. That, in turn, underscores the role of documentation in efficiently implementing the functional safety guidelines. So, designers need full doc...

The need for high efficiency is pushing industrial power supplies toward synchronous topologies that minimize the use of external heat sinking and cooling. Anthony "Thong" Huynh, Maxim Integrated Buildings, factories, an...

Vaccines developed, but never used, against SARS could offer hope in the search for treatments for the new coronavirus.

(US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) Army scientists working with partners from industry and academia have developed an experimental treatment that protects animals from Sudan virus, which is close...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have discovered a fundamental mechanism that regulates gene activity in cells. The newly discove...

(University of Pittsburgh) A marker for heart disease risk considerably worsens as women transition through menopause, according to a new analysis from the largest and longest running study of women's health in midlife. ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) With a new focus on quality of care and outcomes achieved, healthcare organizations are challenged to make the transition to value-based care. A model called the Value Transformation Framework (VT...

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Using an experimental piglet model, researchers defined the safest laparoscopic technique for removing the ovary in young girls that also results in the best quality...

(Penn State) A plant-based diet may be key to lowering risk for heart disease. Penn State researchers determined that diets with reduced sulfur amino acids -- which occur in protein-rich foods, such as meats, dairy, nuts...

(Burness) People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) appear to suffer malfunctions in a cell that produces a special coating around nerve fibers that facilitates efficient electrical communication across the brain. And c...

(Scripps Research Institute) Calibr, the drug discovery and development division of Scripps Research, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration has given clearance to the Investigational New Drug (IND) app...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Study suggests that adaptation of smartphone technology is a scalable option that significantly improves clinical outcomes.

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have deve...

(Washington State University) English proficiency shouldn't be a barrier to health care. But a patient who needs language services would have to navigate through one to four web pages in English to find information on su...

(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) A research team from IDIBELL identifies C3BP (beta-) as a potential treatment for lupidic nephritis in an animal model.

(Santa Fe Institute) A new paper puts an evolutionary twist on a classic question. Instead of asking why we get cancer, researchers at Osnabrück University and the Santa Fe Institute use signaling theory to explore how ...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Canada must invest in social spending and recognize that our health care system is not 'universal' if Canadians living in low-income neighborhoods are to have the same chance of goo...

(Murdoch Childrens Research Institute) Children diagnosed with ADHD inconsistently take their prescribed medication, going without treatment 40 per cent of the time, a new study has found.

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) People with chronic kidney disease have a higher risk for heart disease and heart-disease death. Now, for the first time in humans, researchers have identified a pathological change ...

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) A review of recent clinical trials paints a sobering picture of the usefulness of first-line psychotherapies in treating active duty military personnel and veterans with Post...

(University of California - San Diego) In the first national study of its size, researchers at UC San Diego have found that nurses are at higher risk of suicide than the general population. Results were published in the ...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Using results of a survey of more than 2,700 self-reported users of the herbal supplement kratom, sold online and in smoke shops around the U.S., Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conclude that ...