A new study shows that coronary artery calcium (CAC) screening, an assessment tool that is not currently recommended for people considered at low risk, should play a more prominent role in helping determine a person's risk for heart attack ...
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information, products and solutions announces the launch of open access journal, Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management. Neurosurgery ...
U.S. and Australian researchers say the cause of aging in mammals may be reversible and the key is the chemical NAD that facilitates cell communication. Senior author David Sinclair of the Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues ...
The feared Cryptolocker ransom Trojan has infected at least a quarter of a million PCs worldwide, a success rate probably generating somewhere in the low millions of dollars in ransom payments, a new analysis by Dell SecureWorks has ...
Prescribing both a stimulant and an antipsychotic drug to children with physical aggression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), along with teaching parents to use behavior management techniques, reduces aggressive and ...
Antibiotics for children that are covered by private insurance cost five times more in the United States than in the United Kingdom, where costs are covered by a government universal health plan. That's the finding of researchers who ...
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments: Teens Opting for Real Pot While U.S. teens are staying away from synthetic marijuana, they're smoking more of the natural version, a new survey of more than 40,000 ...
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Bendable materials are changing how we think of and use substrates. R&D announcements are made nearly daily on new scientific research that will help enable flexible electronics (electronic products that are bendable or those that can be ...
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Engineers at Microsoft Research are taking on the world of weight management with a bra designed to measure heart and skin activity to gauge stress levels. When the device detects high stress levels, it offers advice via a smartphone app to ...
Completely banning tobacco use inside the home -- or an entire city -- boosts the odds of smokers cutting back or quitting tobacco, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Wael K. Al-Delaimy, professor and chief of the Division of Global Health in the ...
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Fifteen years after the $246 billion tobacco legal settlements were reached most states are not spending much on tobacco cessation, U.S. researchers say. Tobacco use is the top cause of preventable U.S. death, killing more than 400,000 ...
Smoking alters several genes associated with health problems for smokers, such as increased risk for cancer and diabetes, researchers in Sweden say. A study, published in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, identified a large number of ...
Although the Affordable Care Act has been blamed for increased health insurance premiums, little is attributed to healthcare reform, U.S. researchers say. The analysis for the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation supporting independent ...
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African-American women may need to eat fewer calories or burn more than their Caucasian counterparts to lose a comparable amount of weight, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a study published ...
American vehicle manufacturer General Motors (GM) has renewed its five-year agreement with its research partner Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh (CMU) for the development of new technologies for production of automatic driving ...
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