Next to a dime for perspective, this small wire device is designed to hold open a surgically created hole in the heart of diastolic heart failure patients.
Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Results presented today at the American...
This is the first study of its kind using medical images and artificial intelligence.
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A computer's ability to predict a patient's lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs is a step closer to becoming...
Unhealthy habits are costing Canadians an estimated six years of life, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine. Researchers found that smoking, poor diet, physical inactivity, and unhealthy alcohol consumption contribute to about 50 percent of deaths in...
The world remains "grossly underprepared" for outbreaks of infectious disease, which are likely to become more frequent in the coming decades, warn a team of international experts in The BMJ.
They reviewed reports on the recent Ebola virus outbreak in...
The nanofibers we produced are about 200 times thinner than cotton fibers. (a) Commercial sanitary napkins with fiber diameter ~30-40 micrometers; (b) Electrospun nanofiber-based prototype with fiber diameter ~ 200 nm. (Source: Yadav, Shital et al, Applied Materials Today,...
New findings are important because they offer a new perspective on the cause of race-based bias.
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Two studies by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto and...
In type 1 diabetes, autoreactive T-cells attack insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas (frame 1). Fiorina and colleagues showed that the network of genetic regulatory factors controlling production of a protein called PD-L1 is altered in blood stem cells...
This study has important implications for the introduction of smoke-free policies, not only in psychiatric hospitals but also in other institutions such as prisons.
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New King's College London research reveals a 39 per cent drop...
Hormone replacement therapies, or medications containing female hormones, may help cancer to spread.
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Hormone replacement therapies, or medications containing female hormones that substitute those no longer produced by the body, often are prescribed to reduce...
One in three cases of dementia could be prevented by addressing nine lifestyle factors, according to a report from the first Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention and Care.
Credit: Keck Medicine of USC
Managing lifestyle factors such as hearing loss, smoking,...
Artist's impression of stars born in winds from supermassive black holes.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Brain size in primates is predicted by diet, an analysis by a team of New York University anthropologists indicates. These results call into question "the social brain...
