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A meta-analysis of reports on more than 4,000 patients suggests that almost one in three people discharged from hospital intensive ...

A new study, published in The Journal of Pain, shows that transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) administered to the scalp can ...

The Distraction in Action app offers parents tips about how to help their child through a medical procedure. Image by ...

Image courtesy of AARP. Family caregiving has its challenges: emotional overload, time constraints, anxiety, burnout, missed work, adult sibling conflicts, ...

Key findings from a study of out-of-pocket costs for hospitalization. Image courtesy of the University of Michigan. Even if you ...

Image courtesy of Laurent Qy Photography. In a recent TEDx Talk in Paris, Jothy Rosenberg, a two-time cancer survivor, amputee, ...

Zuniga displays various versions of the Cyborg Beast 3D-printed prosthetic hand. Photograph courtesy of Jorge Zuniga. A study published in ...

A study in the June issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery concluded there is minimal risk for ...

On May 5, in a dramatic show of physician support for deeper health reform-and for making a decisive break with ...

Safety-net clinics are likely to continue to play a critical role in meeting the needs of insured minority and low-income ...

Military veterans return to the United States with multiple types of trauma and suffer from one of the highest rates ...

For decades, researchers have tried to duplicate the function of beta cells, the tiny insulin-producing entities that don't work properly ...

Neuroscientists at Duke Health, Durham, North Carolina, have developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) that allows primates to use only their ...

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the EDI Institute are partnering to provide a new mobile imaging technique for cancer patients, family ...

High-deductible health plans are sold as a way for consumers to take greater control over managing their medical costs, but ...

Photograph of the robotic gripper by Alain Herzog, courtesy of EPFL. Scientists at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne ...

Image courtesy of UCLA. In a study published in Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, an unobtrusive patch on the ...

A new study conducted by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found that the financial toxicity resulting ...

AARP recently announced the winners of a contest that encouraged filmmakers to tell the story of family caregiving through short ...

An analysis of medical literature to determine whether spinal cord stimulation (SCS) decreases lower-limb amputation found that SCS, rather than ...

Researchers at Kyoto University, Japan, have regenerated functional joints in frogs by activating a newly discovered reintegration mechanism. Further understanding ...

Image courtesy of T. Segura et al, UCLA. Some skin wounds, such as diabetic ulcers, are chronic and may never ...

A brain region controlling whether we feel happy or sad, as well as addiction, is remodeled by chronic pain, reports ...

Feeling high levels of distress, fear, and hostility prior to undergoing an angioplasty or other interventional radiology procedure may lead ...

Lerouge and Lapointe examine the cancer-fighting biogel they have developed. Image courtesy of CRCHUM. A new injectable "biogel" is effective ...

Acupuncture, tai chi, qigong, therapeutic massage, and five elements musical intervention were among the approaches evaluated in a new analysis ...

Electrical Current Kills 99.99 Percent of Bugs Washington State University (WSU) researchers have discovered how electrical stimulation works for the ...

A new study published in Nature Immunology suggests a potential metabolic pathway for cancer treatment. When cancer cells compete with ...

November is National Family Caregivers Month, and AARP is launching a national campaign to bring awareness to the important role ...

Patients with diabetes are at considerably increased risk for developing surgical site infections (SSIs), compared to patients without diabetes, according ...

Nearly four in ten older adults say that managing their healthcare needs is difficult for them or their families, that ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a material with the consistency of memory foam that could allow air or liquid ...

The majority of patients who undergo routine, uncomplicated operations prefer online postoperative consultations to in-person visits, according to a new ...

New software that can be incorporated into powered, lower-lower limb prosthetic devices to automatically tune the amount of power a ...

Nine U.S. researchers sent a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that said they ...

At a time when cancer drug prices are rising rapidly, an innovative new study provides the framework for establishing value-based ...

More than half of chronic pain patients in a managed care setting reported using chiropractic care, acupuncture, or both, but ...

Some depressed patients may be hoping for answers from their therapists, but a new study suggests questions may be the ...

Plots that relate the neural patterns from each experimental instance show how the plans for gripping either of two objects ...

Brain-controlled prostheses sample a few hundred neurons to estimate motor commands that involve millions of neurons, so tiny sampling errors ...

A group of 118 of the nation's leading cancer experts have drafted a prescription for reducing the high cost of ...

Healing times for bedsores and skin ulcers, including those related to diabetes, can be reduced by a third with the ...

A "look back" study of Medicare fee-for-service claims for more than 1.2 million patients over age 65 has directly affirmed ...

More than 100 drugs have been approved to treat cancer, but predicting which ones will help a particular patient is ...

The OPAF Dale Yasukawa Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications from full-time students enrolled in the Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center ...

Losing as little as 30 minutes of sleep per day on weekdays can have long-term consequences for body weight and ...

New Study Finds that High-Cocoa Chocolate Accelerates Weight Loss Can you indulge your sweet tooth and lose weight at the ...

A comprehensive study examining clinical trials of more than 95,000 patients has found that some glucose- or sugar-lowering medications prescribed ...

Having a high sense of purpose in life may lower your risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a ...

Seven-year-old Foster's fingertips are so calloused from pricking them that he now draws blood from the sides of his fingers ...