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Credit: Kessler Foundation Kessler Foundation has received funding from the Derfner Foundation to support applying rehabilitation research to the area...

The effect of night shifts: Gene expression fails to adapt to new sleep patterns

Have you ever considered that working night shifts may, in the long run, have an impact on your health? A...

Precision medicine approvals and rare disease treatment incentives evaluated

WHO: Aaron Kesselheim, MD, MPH, Director, Program On Regulation Therapeutics And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and...

New movement monitoring system helping prevent falls in the elderly

Credit: University of South Florida ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (May 7, 2018)- Technology that allows BMW's assembly lines to run more...

Oilseed crop’s waste product yields compounds that protect skin from the sun

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Meadowfoam, a native Pacific Northwest plant cultivated as an oilseed crop, has emerged as a potential new...

UCalgary scientists discover a new way to battle multiple sclerosis

May 8, 2018

Credit: Cumming School of Medicine Ridiculous. That's how Andrew Caprariello says his colleagues described his theory about multiple sclerosis (MS)...

Women’s preference for masculine faces not linked with hormones

Credit: ©Jones et al Data from almost 600 participants show that women's perceptions of male attractiveness do not vary according...

Ontology-based surgical subtask automation, automating blunt dissection

Credit: World Scientific In a paper to be published in the Journal of Medical Robotics Research, a team of researchers...

Novel techniques for three-dimensional visualization of microscopic structures in the human brain

May 6, 2018

Credit: The University of Hong Kong A team of scientists from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of The...

Placental ALLO levels rise during pregnancy and peak as fetuses approach full term

Credit: Children's National Health System TORONTO-(May 5, 2018)-Just as a runner steadily builds up endurance in order to peak at...

EPO protects preemies’ brains by modifying genes essential for generating new brain cells

Credit: Children's National Health System TORONTO-(May 5, 2018) - Erythropoietin (EPO) helps to protect and repair vulnerable brains though it...

COstatus monitor provides direct measure of neonates’ cardiac output

Credit: Children's National Health System TORONTO-(May 5, 2018)-Clinicians caring for vulnerable babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) need...

Which targeted nutritional approaches can bolster micro-preemies’ brain development?

Credit: Children's National Health System TORONTO-(May 5, 2018)-The volume of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and calories consumed by very vulnerable preemies...

Depression among parents of newborns can persist 6 months after NICU discharge

Credit: Children's National Health System TORONTO-(May 5, 2018)-Young parents who have less education and care for more than one child...

Targeted ‘click-to-release’ chemotherapy gives good results in mice

Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) are relatively new anti-cancer drugs. They consist of an antibody to which a cell-killing molecule (chemotherapy)...

First robotic system plays tic tac toe to improve task performance

Credit: Ben-Gurion University NEW YORK...May 3, 2018 - Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva, Israel have...

How low is too low? Experts debate blood pressure targets in post-SPRINT era

Philadelphia, May 4, 2018 - Following the landmark SPRINT trial, there is a growing body of evidence for reducing systolic...

Study shows minorities widely underrepresented in autism diagnoses

Credit: Jason Travers, Exceptional Children LAWRENCE -- In education circles, it is widely accepted that minorities are overrepresented in special...

Dancer’s brains react quickly to changes in music

(University of Helsinki) According to Hanna Poikonen's doctoral study, professional dancers' brains react more quickly to changes in music than...

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