Health

Tips to avoid dry skin during winter

(HealthDay)—Throughout the winter, excessive hand washing to prevent the spread of germs can leave skin extremely dry and itchy. Drinking coffee and alcoholic beverages can also lead to dehydration and dry skin, experts ...

Medical research

Keeping bone in its place

Heterotopic ossification (HO) is the formation of bone within soft tissue such as muscle, leading to pain and potentially the inability to use a limb. Once thought to be primarily a genetic disease, the cause of most trauma-induced ...

Ophthalmology

Using observatory technology to improve eye surgery

Physicians in the Netherlands have turned to expertise from a planet-hunting telescope to steady their surgical microscope and save the sight of people threatened by blindness.

Medical research

With mini-vessels, mini-brains expand research potential

Scientists have recently made a wondrous variety of mini-brains—3-D cultures of neural cells that model basic properties of living brains—but a new finding could add to the field's growing excitement in an entirely new ...

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