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Autism Screening App on iOS by Duke University

With parents' permission, the new app enables a smartphones' front camera to record videos of a child's reactions while watching a movie with the phone place facing them. This is done obtain autism risk behaviors such as attention, emotions and patterns. The recorded response is then sent to the research survey, where behavioral automatic coding software keeps track on the movements on the video and marks on the child's face after which their attention and emotions are measured.
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Smartphone Video Based App for TB

A research team from John Hopkins University School of Medicine created a cost-effective and patient-centric smartphone video-based app, which would substitute the daily in-person visits by a healthcare worker required for TB therapy, known as DOT (Directly Observed Therapy).
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New Male Contraceptive Pill With No Side Effects

At present, condoms and vasectomy are the only birth control methods available for men. Even though many male hormonal drugs target the production of sperm, they also affect the natural hormones in men.
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Clinical Trials contraceptive drugs Researches
Blood Test to Predict Drug Activity Against Breast Cancer

At present, breast cancer patients need to wait for nearly two to three months to find out via a scan whether palbociclib is working. This new test could detect the circulating tumor DNA which enters the bloodstream. By measuring and comparing PIK3CA levels in a blood test before and 15 post palbociclib therapy, one could predict the effectiveness of the drug.
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Therapy Against Progeria

After conducting a clinical trial study at Boston Children’s Hospital, scientists from Brown University recommended that a lonafarnib therapy could increase the survival rate of progeria patients. But the mode of action of lonafarnib is still uncertain.
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progeria rare diseases Researches
How Much is Too Much Caffeine?

Kathleen Miller, an energy-drink specialist from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions said, "Caffeine can be a great thing, at low doses; with the consumption of five 5-hour Energy drinks, however, you move past alert and awake, into the territory of jittery, anxious and heart palpitations." Caffeine doses higher than 5000 mg can lead to seizures, hallucinations and strokes.
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caffiene health tips Researches
Avoid Green Tea with an Iron Rich Diet

The major component named epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) in green tea inhibits myeloperoxidase enzymes released by white blood cells during inflammatory bowel disease outbursts. But when green tea was consumed with iron, EGCG bound with the iron and the ability to inhibit myeloperoxidase was lost.
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Discovery of Natural Blackcurrant Hair Dye

Hair dye poisoning is one of the major causes of self-injury. Chemical hair dye, especially paraphenylene-diamine can lead to edemas, rhabdomyolysis, acute metabolic acidosis and renal failure. Scientists from the University of Leeds have extracted natural dyes from blackcurrant waste, generated throughout Ribena blackcurrant production. This natural black dye with zero side effects could be used in fresh new hair dyeing technologies.
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Invention of Antimicrobial Medical Gloves

Professor James, the lead researcher said, “These gloves will be a game-changer for the healthcare industry, both public and private. I am delighted that my lifetime’s research into bacteria and antibiotic resistance has directly informed the science behind a practical tool that will have a major impact on medical care in the future.”
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medical device products Researches
Data From Grail Shows Early Detection Of Cancer

Three of the company’s prototype genome-sequencing assays were evaluated using samples from lung cancer patients. Early support for the concept was demonstrated with detection rates ranging from 38% to 51% in participants in participants with early-stage lung cancer at 98% specificity.
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cancer cells genome Researches

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