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Electrocardiogram recording by patients boosts atrial fibrillation…
Credit: ESC Congress 2017/ ESC © Barcelona, Spain – 29 Aug 2017: Electrocardiogram (ECG) recording by patients with remote analysis...
Research offers new hope for understanding deadly infections
LOS ANGELES — Research published today in the journal, Nature Communications, provides new insights into the evolution of Mucorales fungi,...
New handheld spectral analyzer uses power of smartphone to detect…
Credit: Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology...
Liver cancer patients can start with lower dose of chemotherapy and…
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – Patients with the most common type of liver cancer who are taking the chemotherapy drug...
Hospital design and innovative cleaning can protect patients from resistant bacteria
Hospitals should design premises and adapt their infection control routines to a society that no longer has effective antibiotics, and...
Protein patterns — a new tool for studying sepsis
IMAGE: This is a graph from the study: Tissue-specific protein in blood plasma. Credit: Research team/Study Researchers from Lund University...
Low screening rates for adolescents diagnosed with PID in the…
Credit: Children's National Health System CHICAGO–The nation's emergency departments had low rates of complying with recommended HIV and syphilis screening...
Astronauts experience decrease in blood vessel function during…
Credit: NASA MANHATTAN, KANSAS — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have decreased physical fitness because of a decrease in...
Medicaid expansion states saw ER visits go up, uninsured ER visits go…
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON — States that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act (the ACA)...
Research discredits theory that e-cigarettes make tobacco use socially acceptable
Credit: Centre for Substance Use Research Centre for Substance Use and Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 20 December 2016 – A...
Tennessee’s Tyson Raper named 2018 Outstanding Young Cotton Physiologist
Credit: Ginger Rowsey, courtesy UTIA. JACKSON, Tenn. – Tyson Raper, assistant professor with the University of Tennessee Department of Plant...
$8.9 million collaborative grant to understand how dangerous virus ‘hides’ to attack…
Credit: Jason Ryder The University of Arizona's Felicia Goodrum, PhD, and some of the nation's most prominent human cytomegalovirus researchers...
Grant enables study of mosquito virus as a genetic lab tool, malaria biocontrol
Credit: Jason Rasgon lab A virus that infects a species of malaria-transmitting mosquito could help scientists gain a better understanding...
Enzyme with surprising dual function
Credit: © Foto: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn Scientists at the University of Bonn have clarified a surprising dual function of ceramide...
Scientists surprised to discover lymphatic ‘scavenger’…
Credit: UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience The brain has its own inbuilt processes for mopping up damaging cellular waste —...
Over 10,000 Canadian women per year can stop taking blood thinners for unexplained clots
Credit: The Ottawa Hospital A Canadian-led research group has developed and validated a rule that could let half of women...
Alcohol use affects levels of cholesterol regulator through…
In an analysis of the epigenomes of people and mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the National Institutes of...
Routine hospital tool found to predict poor outcomes after liver transplantation
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (Aug. 10, 2017) — A routinely used hospital tool can predict which liver transplant recipients are...
Troubling inconsistency found in dialysis testing methods — with patient care implications
Credit: Josh Barney | University of Virginia Health System A blood test used to determine the health and well-being of...
Coagulation Sciences selects Enercon as its contract manufacturer
Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — Coagulation Sciences LLC, a medical device startup that is being incubated at...
