Month: March 2018

Credit: The lab of Amita Sehgal, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - The blood brain barrier ...

Illnesses and injuries associated with working in Illinois mines are substantially underreported to the federal agency tasked with tracking these ...

Credit: @IMDEA Networks Institute Renowned international scientists have presented first-level research results on the intersection of embedded systems and wireless ...

WASHINGTON -- A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies strategies for improving the reliability ...

CHICAGO (March 9, 2018): For many years, people who sustained severe burn injuries often died. But great strides in burn ...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Children with mitochondrial diseases who suffered acute metabolic strokes benefited from rapid intravenous treatment with ...

Dupilumab (trade name: Dupixent) has been approved since September 2017 for the treatment of adult patients with moderate to severe ...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - March 9, 2018 - Mandatory flu vaccines for health care workers improve participation by as ...

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today awarded ...

Doctors caring for severe stroke patients need to take account of their psychological needs and help prepare families for the ...

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have found previously known skin itch receptors in the airways that appear ...

Credit: IEEE ACCESS A study led by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) has uncovered new ways of ...

Credit: MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Cuff devices for blood pressure measurement are inconvenient, and mobile device apps for blood ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method that enables them to use donated brain tissue from people ...

To prevent cardiac death, people with certain cardiac disorders are implanted with electronic devices designed to automatically stimulate the heartbeat ...

A large part of the cells in the human body carry a small antenna on their surface, a so-called cilium, ...

WHAT: A more intensive biomedical research approach is necessary to control and ultimately eliminate tuberculosis (TB), according to a perspective ...

Credit: ANU Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have helped put together the most comprehensive study ever conducted into ...

The larva of the sleeping chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki--a mosquito-like insect that inhabits semi-arid areas of Africa--is well known for being ...

A research team at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology has developed a novel screening method to identify antimicrobial properties ...