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METTLER TOLEDO offers free e-Learning course and certificate on Routine Balance Testing

Scientists and quality assurance professionals working in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals know that analytical balances are the heart of virtually every quantitative analysis.

From Mettler-Toledo International Inc. 24 Jul 2017

UC's ATS develops new employment model to support people with disabilities

There was a time when not much was expected of Karly Saeks. Saeks is a person with an autism spectrum disorder. In high school, a vocational counselor told her parents to manage their expectations when it came to their daughter's future.

21 Jul 2017

Texas A&M expert explains reasons for having sensitive teeth

An ice cream cone on a hot July day can be a tasty way to beat the heat, but if you're one of the millions of people who have sensitive teeth, then that cold treat can be a real pain.

21 Jul 2017

Researchers identify striking contrasts in how groups of neurons function during decision making

By training mice to perform a sound identification task in a virtual reality maze, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have identified striking contrasts in how groups of neurons in different cortex regions of the brain function during decision making.

19 Jul 2017

Obamacare exchanges in limbo

California's Obamacare exchange scrubbed its annual rate announcement this week, the latest sign of how the ongoing political drama over the Affordable Care Act is roiling insurance markets nationwide.

19 Jul 2017

Developing software for cell and gene therapy supply chain tracking

The first thing is, to always remember that we're dealing with a living drug, cells, which are very sensitive to environmental conditions, such as temperature and humidity etc. All of those things can impact on the viability of the drug and its effectiveness.

18 Jul 2017

Brief bursts of high-intensity, weight-bearing activity linked to better bone health in women

A single minute of exercise each day is linked to better bone health in women, new research shows.

18 Jul 2017

Simple-to-use Scrubit app revolutionizes operating theater set-up process

Anyone who works in a hospital will tell you some workplace practices have not kept up with modern technological advances. Australian nurse and mother-of-two Beth Wozniak’s new Scrubit app is revolutionizing the surgical theater and giving patients peace of mind that their surgeon will be equipped with the tools needed to do their job.

17 Jul 2017

University of Warwick receives multi-million pound grant to improve healthcare in slums

The University of Warwick is to receive more than £5 million to find better ways of delivering healthcare to some of the world's poorest people.

14 Jul 2017

Opposition to GOP repeal bill inches up, intensifies

Public opposition to the Republican effort to replace the Affordable Care Act grew stronger this month, but a core group of Republicans remained in support, according to a poll released Friday.

14 Jul 2017

Computational analysis of open-access data points to new ways of using drugs

A research team led by scientists at UC San Francisco has developed a computational method to systematically probe massive amounts of open-access data to discover new ways to use drugs, including some that have already been approved for other uses.

12 Jul 2017

Internet-connected smart hearing aid: a life changing solution?

Oticon Opn is a hearing aid that allows connection to a smartphone and supports all the internet-enabled connectivity that you have on the internet that smart devices support. We have specifically chosen a web-based community called “If This Then That” (IFTTT) because it is a relatively very easy to use third party service that is supported by a lot of the large global device manufacturers.

12 Jul 2017

Double-booked: When surgeons operate on two patients at once

The controversial practice has been standard in many teaching hospitals for decades, its safety and ethics largely unquestioned and its existence unknown to those most affected: people undergoing surgery.

12 Jul 2017

Anti-gravity treadmill can help reduce fears, increase self-belief in patients after knee surgery

Patients recovering from knee operations are being helped back to sport and exercise through expert rehabilitation at the University of Kent.

6 Jul 2017

Reducing DVT and leg ulcers through personalized compression socks

Professor Charles McCollum, who heads up the vascular studies unit, is a research vascular surgeon, and he developed four-layer bandaging technique, which is the gold standard treatment for healing up leg ulcers by compression.

5 Jul 2017

New, improved microcontact printing technology offers big hope for disease detection

OIST researchers develop a simple printing method to create effective disease detection tools.The field of medicine is always on the lookout for better disease diagnostic tools—simpler, faster, and cheaper technologies to enhance patient treatment and outcomes.

30 Jun 2017

Perceived side effects to Tamoxifen making many quit breast cancer drug

According to a new study by a team of researchers led by the Queen Mary University of London, women who have been prescribed Tamoxifen as a cancer preventive are failing to take the medicine owing to perceived side effects from the drug. Some of the symptoms that they report as distressing are caused naturally by the disease condition rather than the drug explain researchers.

29 Jun 2017

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METTLER TOLEDO offers free e-Learning course and certificate on Routine Balance Testing

UC's ATS develops new employment model to support people with disabilities

Texas A&M expert explains reasons for having sensitive teeth

Researchers identify striking contrasts in how groups of neurons function during decision making

Obamacare exchanges in limbo

Developing software for cell and gene therapy supply chain tracking

Brief bursts of high-intensity, weight-bearing activity linked to better bone health in women

Simple-to-use Scrubit app revolutionizes operating theater set-up process

University of Warwick receives multi-million pound grant to improve healthcare in slums

Opposition to GOP repeal bill inches up, intensifies

Computational analysis of open-access data points to new ways of using drugs

Internet-connected smart hearing aid: a life changing solution?

Double-booked: When surgeons operate on two patients at once

Anti-gravity treadmill can help reduce fears, increase self-belief in patients after knee surgery

Reducing DVT and leg ulcers through personalized compression socks

New, improved microcontact printing technology offers big hope for disease detection

Perceived side effects to Tamoxifen making many quit breast cancer drug

Scientists use supercomputers to test new techniques for early cancer detection

Research presents crystal structure of enzyme implicated in cancer, neurodegenerative diseases

UA researchers explain exercise-brain connection from evolutionary perspective

Event guide: 4th Extra-Hepatic Lipid-Based Nanoparticles Delivery Summit eBook

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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