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CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health awarded $2.4 M NIH grant
The National Institutes for Health (NIH) has awarded Dr. Christian Grov and his colleagues $2.4 Million to launch a 2-year...
Douglas W. Brown, MD, inducted into AOSSM Hall of Fame
Credit: AOSSM TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA - Douglas W. Brown will be inducted into the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's...
New harmless radiopaque glue to seal bleeding and guide surgery
Credit: IBS As open surgery has gradually been replaced by minimally-invasive and image-guided procedures, tissue adhesives are taking the place...
Innovative nanosensor for disease diagnosis
Credit: KAIST Breath pattern recognition is a futuristic diagnostic platform. Simple characterizing target gas concentrations of human exhaled breath will...
GW Cancer Center receives $100,000 from Avon Foundation for Patient Navigator
WASHINGTON (July 19, 2017) -- The George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center received a $100,000 check from the Avon Foundation...
Shark scavenging helps reveal clues about human remains
Credit: Florida Museum/George Burgess GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Shark feeding habits are helping scientists identify marks on human bones found in...
Despite lack of efficacy data, surprising consensus in pediatric anti-epilepsy med scripts
Credit: Children's National Health System The number of available anti-seizure medications has exploded in the past two decades, going from...
AOSSM presents prestigious research awards and grants during annual meeting
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA - In order to recognize and encourage cutting-edge research in key areas of orthopaedic sports medicine, the...
Silk ‘micrococoons’ could be used in biotechnology and medicine
Credit: Credit: 2017 Oxford Silk Group Microscopic versions of the cocoons spun by silkworms have been manufactured by a team...
Birds avoid crossing roads to prevent predation
Roads can be dangerous to wildlife. Animals making the perilous journey against the traffic run the risk of meeting an...
Rosalind Franklin University awarded NIH grant for research on neurological repair
Credit: Rosalind Franklin University A $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help researchers at Rosalind...
Supramolecular materials with a time switch
Credit: Boekhoven Lab / TUM Materials that assemble themselves and then simply disappear at the end of their lifetime are...
IPM receives multi-year award from UK government to advance technologies for women’s HIV
SILVER SPRING, Md. (July 20, 2017) -- The nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) announced today that it has received...
Study finds obese patients don’t need to lose weight before total joint replacement
Credit: Bryan Goodchild, UMass Medical School There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips...
Sea cave preserves 5,000-year snapshot of tsunamis
Credit: Earth Observatory of Singapore An international team of scientists digging in a sea cave in Indonesia has discovered the...
Stem cell clinics and businesses are registering for-profit, pay-to-participate
The Future Science Group (FSG) journal Regenerative Medicine, today announces the publication of a new Perspective article, in which Leigh...
Not under the skin, but on it: Living together brings couples’ microbiomes together
Washington, DC - July 25, 2017 - Couples who live together share many things: Bedrooms, bathrooms, food, and even bacteria....
Aging power plants provide Trump administration with risks and opportunities
When it comes to the current plans to retire U.S. power plants, Carnegie Mellon University researchers believe we are "running...
In mice, acting male depends on estrogen receptors
Credit: Tollkuhn Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have opened a black...
Why some women are more likely to feel depressed
CLEVELAND, Ohio (July 19, 2017) It's no secret that the risk of depression increases for women when their hormones are...
