Medical News

Experts talk about what it means to be infected without being sick, and how that seems to be making the novel coronavirus very easy to spread.

Here’s a quick review of some basic instrumentation common to most engineering work benches. Ammeter The ammeter is the basis for many other electrical measuring instruments. Whether you are measuring volts or ohms, es...

NASA has announced it will pause work on the James Webb Space Telescope because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The launch is still currently on the books for 2021, but there are questions about whether that date will ...

A new range of precision programmable linear ac power sources include over 20 different models ranging in power from 500 VA to 30,000 VA. Compared to more commonplace PWM switching ac power sources, the LMX Series uses l...

With COVID-19 making its way around the United States, people are emptying stores of toilet paper. Archaeology throws a light on other bouts of odd consumer behavior.

The R&S IQW100 brings signals from the real world into the laboratory to simulate real-world test environments, used in combination with selected midrange R&S signal analyzers and generators. The R&S IQW100 supports reco...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Study shows CPT1A may help ovarian cancer cells spread, also resist chemo. Group moves toward clinical trial of CPT1A inhibitor, etomoxir, in chemo-resistant ovarian cance...

(Flinders University) People say life gets better with age. Now research suggests this may be because older people have the wisdom and time to use mindfulness as a means to improve wellbeing. Healthy ageing researchers a...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Thomas Cheng, a first-year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), is the recipient of the 2020 Student Research Fellowship award from the Society of Vascula...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Assessing adverse childhood experiences and current anxiety and depression symptoms may help ease cognitive distress in women who have undergone a surgical menopause for c...

(Children's National Hospital) An experimental model of severe Duchenne muscular dystrophy that experiences a large spike in TGFβ activity after muscle injury shows that high TGFβ activity suppresses muscle regeneratio...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Researchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use of tiny structures, called nanoparticles, can best deliver drug therapy to tumors passively -- allowing the nanoparticles to di...

(Scripps Research Institute) The US Food and Drug Administration has approved ozanimod, an immune-modulating therapy invented at Scripps Research, for the treatment of adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. T...

(The Endocrine Society) Guardian US environment reporter Emily Holden received the Endocrine Society's annual Award for Excellence in Science and Medical Journalism, the Society announced today.

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Studying mice and fruitflies, researchers found that the enzyme intestinal alkaline phosphotase helped prevent intestinal permeability and gut-derived systemic inflammation, resulting in ...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) The Kids & COVID-19 site brings together resources for practices, parents, and other caregivers. The site has protocols, top research papers and other important resources.

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) A species of a lipid that naturally helps skin injuries heal appears to also aid repair of common corneal injuries, even when other conditions, like diabetes, make heali...

(American Chemical Society) As scientists scramble to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, two recent studies of the virus' genome reached controversial conclusions: namely, that snakes are intermediate hosts of ...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center are trying to identify alternative strategies to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In a new article published online in Sci...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) In a series of four studies published today in Gastroenterology, a journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, Mount Sinai inflammatory bowel disea...

(National University of Ireland Galway) An international collaborative study led by researchers from the NUI Galway provides findings on the neural basis of intelligence, otherwise known as general cognitive ability (IQ)...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine are launching a pair of studies to answer critical questions regarding the roles COVID-19 may play in breast mil...