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EuroEcho-Imaging 2018
EuroEcho-Imaging is the annual congress of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) of the ESC. Wednesday 05 - Saturday...
PureCircle to present latest updates on stevia in India at IUFoST 2018
October 23, 2018 Mumbai, India - PureCircle (LSE: PURE), the world's leading producer and innovator of great tasting sweeteners for...
Managing high blood pressure in diabetics may prevent life-threatening organ damage
Credit: Rutgers School of Nursing The most effective way to prevent life-threatening complications of extreme hypertension in African-Americans with diabetes...
New kind of compound shows early promise against prostate cancer
A new type of molecule blocks the action of genes that drive the growth of therapy-resistant prostate cancer, a new...
Politics interferes with the ability to assess expertise
Learning about someone's political beliefs interferes with a person's ability to assess expertise, as people judge like-minded peers as being...
Flavored capsule cigarettes pose a threat to smokefree goals
Credit: University of Otago New research from ASPIRE2025, a University of Otago research theme, challenges tobacco companies' claims they are...
Nerve-on-a-chip platform makes neuroprosthetics more effective
Credit: © 2018 EPFL Neuroprosthetics - implants containing multi-contact electrodes that can substitute certain nerve functionalities - have the potential...
Honey, I shrunk the cell culture
Credit: Jason Shear/University of Texas at Austin. From "Fantastic Voyage" to "Despicable Me," shrink rays have been a science-fiction staple...
OU sociologist examines attitudes toward LGT individuals in new study
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma sociologist, Meredith G. F. Worthen, examines how measures of social contact and...
‘Mushrooms’ and ‘brushes’ help cancer-fighting nanoparticles survive in the body
Credit: Drexel University For a number of innovative and life-saving medical treatments, from organ replacements and skin grafts to cancer...
Avoiding the hippocampus during whole-brain radiotherapy prevents cognitive side effects
Whole-brain radiotherapy can be delivered more safely to patients with brain metastases by avoiding the hippocampus according to a randomized...
How to help protect yourself from vaccine administration injury
A study by researchers at the University of Waterloo reiterates the need for health care professionals, including pharmacists, to take...
Study sheds light on differences between male and female fat tissue, and health
Credit: York University News TORONTO, October 23, 2018 - New research from York University on fat tissue is providing an...
New combination treatment flips the switch on melanoma cells
Think of the protein BH3 like a finger that turns off a cancer cell survival switch. The problem is that...