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California joins states that would evict veterans who seek aid-in-dying option

California voters passed a law two years ago that allows terminally ill people to take lethal drugs to end their lives, but controversy is growing over a newer rule that effectively bans that option in the state's eight veterans' homes.

13 Feb 2018

Research funded by NIH grant aims to discover crucial role of 'invisible' cells

Neurons are the star of the show in brain science, but they don't work alone to process information. In new research funded by a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, a team at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory aims to discover the likely crucial role of the supporting cast member with a stellar-sounding name: the astrocyte.

9 Feb 2018

Changing the way we look at dementia

In November, six people with Alzheimer's disease and related types of cognitive impairment stood before an audience of 100 in North Haven, Conn.

8 Feb 2018

Nurse calls cops after new mom seeks help for depression. Right call?

Four months after having her second baby, Jessica Porten started feeling really irritable. Little things would annoy her, like her glider chair.

7 Feb 2018

Researchers develop novel antibody-based therapy to treat organ fibrosis

Fibrosis can be triggered by many events- surgery, injury, disease- but regardless of the cause, it's characterized by accumulating masses of collagen-packed scar tissue that can permanently damage compromised organs.

6 Feb 2018

Innovate UK Grant awarded to Unitive Design & Analysis

Unitive Design & Analysis Ltd, a London-based SME, are delighted to announce their success in being awarded a grant by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency.

6 Feb 2018

Study sheds light on key protein involved in memory formation and brain growth

Ask a nonscientist what memories are made of and you'll likely conjure images of childhood birthday parties or wedding days. Charles Hoeffer thinks about proteins.

27 Jan 2018

Big Pharma greets hundreds of ex-federal workers at the ‘revolving door’

Alex Azar's job hop from drugmaker Eli Lilly to the Trump administration reflects ever-deepening ties between the pharmaceutical industry and the federal government.

25 Jan 2018

Augmented reality system allows medical images to be displayed directly on the patient's body

New technology is bringing the power of augmented reality into clinical practice.

25 Jan 2018

Hospitals’ best-laid plans upended by disaster

It was 3:35 a.m. and flames from a massive Northern California wildfire licked at the back of a Santa Rosa hospital.

24 Jan 2018

Scientists methodically identify genes related to blood feeding and non-biting mosquitoes

Researchers have taken the first step on a path that eventually could result in female mosquitoes that no longer bite and spread diseases.

19 Jan 2018

In Wisconsin, hopes rise for production of a lifesaving radioactive isotope

In a cornfield here, past the shuttered General Motors plant and the Janesville Terrace trailer home park, a facility not seen in the United States in three decades could soon rise: a manufacturing plant that will make a vital radioactive isotope used to detect cancer and other potentially fatal maladies in millions of people every year.

16 Jan 2018

When you need a breast screening, should you get a 3-D mammogram?

When I went to the imaging center for my regular mammogram last year, the woman behind the desk asked me if I'd like to get a "3-D" mammogram instead of the standard test I'd had in the past.

16 Jan 2018

Early influenza testing is critical to prevent serious complications

Flu season began early in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York, with already 1,200 laboratory confirmed cases of the flu reported to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health since the start of October, compared with the 300 cases reported last year at this time.

16 Jan 2018