Neuroscience
How to build your own personal robot
More than one million people are hospitalised each year in the EU with a brain injury. Such injuries are often the result of blood clots or accidents, and can occur at any age.
Nov 1, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Families shape learning difficulties research
Young people with learning difficulties and their families have helped to identify key areas of research that could improve their lives.
Sep 12, 2018
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Medications
New wave of complex street drugs puzzles emergency doctors
At a time when drug overdoses are becoming more prevalent and lethal, a new report provides a snapshot of regional illicit drug use and, for the first time, highlights the complexity of detecting and treating patients at ...
Aug 21, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Precision medicine offers a glimmer of hope for Alzheimer's disease
The decadeslong search for effective ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer's disease is littered with failures, leaving 5.7 million Americans already stricken with this form of dementia without a lifeline. The rest of us are ...
Jul 29, 2018
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Cardiology
Osteoporosis drug may benefit heart health
The osteoporosis drug alendronate was linked with a reduced risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke in a Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study of patients with hip fractures. The association was seen for ...
May 11, 2018
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Medical research
Fitness tracker data can enhance biomedical research and personalized health
Wearable sensors are not just useful for personal fitness tracking, but can also be used to gain new insights in several fields of biomedical research. In a research article publishing February 27 in the open access journal ...
Feb 27, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The search for a universal influenza vaccine
The current 2017-18 flu season is a bad one. Hospitalization rates are now higher than in recent years at the same point, and infection rates are still rising. The best line of defense is the seasonal influenza vaccine. But ...
Feb 16, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
New guidelines on clinical trial design for patients with brain metastases
Clinical trials of new anti-cancer therapies have often excluded patients whose disease has spread to the brain or central nervous system (CNS) or, if such patients were allowed on trial, trials have often failed to clearly ...
Dec 30, 2017
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Health
New resources for dietary assessment in health research
The links between diet and health are becoming ever more apparent. A detailed understanding of the amounts and types of food people consume is vital to revealing the impact diet has on our health—such as links between sugar ...
Nov 16, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
With ARDS, doctors should keep ventilator-induced injury in mind
(HealthDay)—When applying evidence-based recommendations for mechanical ventilation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), clinicians should be aware of the mechanisms of ventilator-induced lung injury ...
Nov 1, 2017
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