New book examines health challenges for the rapidly urbanizing planet
Toronto – By the year 2100, eight out of ten people in the world will reside in cities – a major change in demographics compared...
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Glowing cancer tool illuminates benign, but dangerous, brain tumors…
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – An experimental imaging tool that uses a targeted fluorescent dye successfully lit up the benign brain tumors of patients during...
New study: Estimated burden of healthcare-associated infections
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the Robert Koch Institute, and the Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and...
Two gifts totaling $150 million add up to bright future for research at Children’s…
Credit: Children's Mercy / BSA Lifestructures Kansas City, Mo. – Jan. 11, 2018 – Two of Kansas City's iconic families today transformed the future of...
World’s first super-microsurgery operation with ‘robot…
Credit: Microsure MAASTRICHT, Oct. 2, 2017 – Plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center have used a robotic device to surgically treat lymphedema in a...
Landmark Alzheimer’s prevention trial to evaluate third drug
Credit: Robert Boston An international team led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has selected a third investigational drug to be tested...
History of incarceration linked to subsequent homelessness, study…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, March 1, 2017 — People who have been incarcerated in Canada are more likely to subsequently experience unstable...
Keychain detector could catch food allergens before it’s too late
Credit: The American Chemical Society For kids and adults with food allergies, a restaurant outing can be a fraught experience. Even when care is taken,...
New termite species condemned to 100 years of solitude with a second chance
Credit: Robin Casalla While the last species of the termite genus Proneotermes has been discovered more than a hundred years ago, now scientists have discovered...
UNIST unveils the genomic mechanism of African clawed frogs
Credit: UNIST Scientists from around the world, including South Korea, Japan, and United States have, for the first time, decoded the complex genetic makeup of...
The human brain recalls visual features in reverse order than it…
Credit: Ning Qian/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK — Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have contributed to solving a paradox of perception, literally upending models of...
Why don’t Americans have a name for the color ‘light…
Credit: Angela Brown COLUMBUS, Ohio – If a Japanese woman were to compliment a friend on her flattering pale-blue blouse, she'd probably employ a word...
New HSS study finds hope in understanding and better treating scleroderma
Credit: HSS Scleroderma is a terribly debilitating disease with no effective treatments and the mortality rates are still upwards of 20%-50%, the highest of any...
Uncovering the early origins of Huntington’s disease
Credit: Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology at The Rockefeller University With new findings, scientists may be poised to break a long impasse...
Pennsylvania hospital neurosurgeons perform first focused ultrasound…
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – John Lukens recently became the first patient in Pennsylvania to receive MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor (ET)....