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Apple Month

You Like Apples? Great! It’s National Apple Month

Move over, Shark Week, now there’s something fruitier – and longer. October is National Apple Month, a celebration of America’s favorite pie-filling (not to mention, catalyst in gravity’s origin story). This is the month...
Water Consumption

Study: Increased Water Consumption Can Improve Your Diet

Want to cut calories and reduce your intake of saturated fat, sugar, sodium and cholesterol? Drink more water. That’s the conclusion reached by University of Illinois Kinesiology and Community Health Professor Ruopeng An, PhD. in a...
3D Printer

Scientists Invent 3D Printer Capable of Creating Human-Scale Body Parts and Tissues

There’s been a leap forward in medicine at Wake Forest University, as researchers at the school’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine have developed a 3D printer capable of creating human-scale tissues that can survive transplants...
new kidney transplant procedure

New Kidney Transplant Procedure Allows for Any Donor

The stark reality for many people waiting to receive an organ transplant is that they just might die before a compatible donor is found. But a new procedure for kidney transplants recently detailed in The...
Opioid Epidemic

New York Senate Combating Heroin and Opioid Epidemic

Heroin use has more than doubled among young adults since 2006. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 90% of heroin users abuse other drugs, and among those addicted to heroin,...
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Bionic Fingertip Restores Feeling to Missing Limbs

Dennis Aabo Sorensen became the first person to consistently recognize the texture of a surface without ever touching or seeing it. What’s more astounding is that Sorensen is an amputee, and he recognized the...

“Concussion” Depicts Struggles of a Pathologist Against NFL

The Holidays are usually a time for family, gifts and general celebration. In 2015, it was a time for “Concussion.” Will Smith stars as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian-born forensic pathologist whose autopsy of former Pittsburgh...
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Top 10 Health Technologies for 2014 Reference Guide Released

ECRI Institute, a nonprofit organization that focuses on finding the best ways to improve patient care, has created a resource to help hospitals and healthcare executives find the latest and greatest healthcare technologies for...
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New Hampshire Patient Died of Rare Brain Disease, More Exposed

Medical Equipment Possibly to Blame Health officials across several states continue to monitor at least 13 cases of possible Creutzfeldt-Jakob exposure after one patient in New Hampshire died of the rare disease in August. Rented...