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Novel ‘black box’ recorder captures surgeons' robotic surgery skills

You may know that your surgeon is using the latest minimally invasive technology for your surgery, but how do you know if they've mastered it? To help answer that question, researchers at Keck Medicine of USC looked to a custom recording tool similar in concept to a flight recorder on an airplane.

13 Dec 2017

Researchers discover how high glucose levels in pregnancy affect baby's heart

Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have discovered how high glucose levels -- whether caused by diabetes or other factors -- keep heart cells from maturing normally.

12 Dec 2017

Experts call for rigorous clinical trials in use of experimental fetal therapy

Citing uncertainties about the risks and benefits of an experimental therapy for fetuses whose kidneys do not develop, bioethicists at Johns Hopkins and a team of medical experts are calling for rigorous clinical trials in the use of a potential treatment, known as amnioinfusion.

12 Dec 2017

Oxford and Berlin create partnership to open up new research initiatives

The partnership will build on existing research links involving the five universities and create an environment for forging new projects in medicine, the sciences, humanities and social sciences among all partners.

12 Dec 2017

Children's Colorado and RxRevu partner to help prescribers better meet needs of pediatric patients

Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) and RxRevu, the leader in prescription-decision support, are collaborating to help prescribers better meet the needs of children by seamlessly incorporating antimicrobial-stewardship best practices into prescribers' decision-making processes.

12 Dec 2017

Self-efficacy in exercise adoption appears to positively influence female veterans with FM symptoms

For female Veterans with fibromyalgia (FM) symptoms, the impact of believing in their ability to begin and sustain a long-term exercise program appears to positively influence their results.

12 Dec 2017

New study explains why one identical twin more at risk for autoimmune diseases

It does not matter if you raise them the same, feed them the same, or dress them the same, any parent with identical twins knows their two children are remarkably different. Identical twins are identical in genes, but they are not identical in gene expressions, a difference due to epigenetics.

12 Dec 2017

Tapeworm drug could provide new hope for patients with Parkinson's disease

Researchers at Cardiff University, in collaboration with the University of Dundee, have identified a drug molecule within a medicine used to treat tapeworm infections which could lead to new treatments for patients with Parkinson's disease.

12 Dec 2017

New findings on brain estrogen may reveal cause of undiagnosed infertility problems

Estrogen produced in the brain is necessary for ovulation in monkeys, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who have upended the traditional understanding of the hormonal cascade that leads to release of an egg from the ovaries.

12 Dec 2017

New research aims to improve medical care and benefits for injured troops

Gunshots crackled as a man dressed in camouflage sat on the ground with a red stream trickling from his ear and a purple splotch marking the skin near his cheekbone. A medic asked what happened.

12 Dec 2017

Single-dose oral vaccine could be effective tool in controlling cholera outbreaks

Each year there are more than three million cases of cholera worldwide, a disease transmitted through contaminated food and water that hits developing countries particularly hard.

12 Dec 2017

Study reveals how the body clock and time of day may influence autoimmune conditions

Insights into how the body clock and time of day influence immune responses are revealed today in a study published in leading international journal Nature Communications.

12 Dec 2017

Study could pave way for new life-saving treatments to be administered in critical first hour of injury

Scientists hope to have paved the way for the development of potentially new life-saving treatments to be administered to seriously injured patients in the critical first hour of injury.

12 Dec 2017

New scientific yardstick released to help early detection of Alzheimer's disease

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre released a new scientific yardstick, in the form of a certified reference material, to help early detection of Alzheimer's disease.

12 Dec 2017

Experts tell Congress how to cut drug prices

The nation's most influential science advisory group will tell Congress today that the U.S. pharmaceutical market is not sustainable and needs to change.

12 Dec 2017

Myriad Genetics announces new data on EndoPredict test at 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

Myriad Genetics, Inc., a leader in molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine, today announced new results from two studies with EndoPredict are being featured at the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in San Antonio, Texas.

12 Dec 2017

Researchers identify promising solution for improving cystic fibrosis treatments

Researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre have identified a promising solution to improving treatments offered to patients with cystic fibrosis.

12 Dec 2017

An overlooked epidemic: Older Americans taking too many unneeded drugs

Consider it America’s other prescription drug epidemic. For decades, experts have warned that older Americans are taking too many unnecessary drugs, often prescribed by multiple doctors, for dubious or unknown reasons.

12 Dec 2017

Newly discovered molecular chaperones may soon be part of therapies for Huntington's disease

Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disease. It is always fatal. The disease is caused by a defect in the Huntingtin gene. To this day, no therapy will put a stop to the insidious disintegration of brain cells.

12 Dec 2017

Parkinson's progression delayed through high-intensity exercise, study says

A new phase 2, multi-site trial conducted at the Northwestern Medicine and University of Colorado School of Medicine suggests that for people with early-stage Parkinson's disease, high-intensity exercise three times a week is safe and can delay the worsening of motor symptoms.

12 Dec 2017

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Novel ‘black box’ recorder captures surgeons' robotic surgery skills

Researchers discover how high glucose levels in pregnancy affect baby's heart

Experts call for rigorous clinical trials in use of experimental fetal therapy

Oxford and Berlin create partnership to open up new research initiatives

Children's Colorado and RxRevu partner to help prescribers better meet needs of pediatric patients

Self-efficacy in exercise adoption appears to positively influence female veterans with FM symptoms

New study explains why one identical twin more at risk for autoimmune diseases

Tapeworm drug could provide new hope for patients with Parkinson's disease

New findings on brain estrogen may reveal cause of undiagnosed infertility problems

New research aims to improve medical care and benefits for injured troops

Single-dose oral vaccine could be effective tool in controlling cholera outbreaks

Study reveals how the body clock and time of day may influence autoimmune conditions

Study could pave way for new life-saving treatments to be administered in critical first hour of injury

New scientific yardstick released to help early detection of Alzheimer's disease

Experts tell Congress how to cut drug prices

Myriad Genetics announces new data on EndoPredict test at 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

Researchers identify promising solution for improving cystic fibrosis treatments

An overlooked epidemic: Older Americans taking too many unneeded drugs

Newly discovered molecular chaperones may soon be part of therapies for Huntington's disease

Parkinson's progression delayed through high-intensity exercise, study says

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