UnitedHealthcare, the largest medical insurer in the United States, has announced plans to phase out most of its health care reform and patient protection program benefits by 2017, known as Obamacare. Whereas previously the insurer reported its withdrawal from Obamacare in the states of Arkansas, Georgia and Michigan, ...

American scientists have created the most powerful artificial heart in the world from soft materials. Foamy and highly elastic silicone allows you to pump more fluid than other devices. The researchers were inspired by the projects of soft robots and artificial muscles that can work inside the human body and without conflict ...

  A team of researchers at Stanford University said they have found a solution that can repair damaged cells due to heart attacks. The solution is a protein patch that will help in cell regeneration. The study's senior author, Dr Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford University, said that ...

American scientists have developed special implants that can attract cancer cells circulating in the body. They hope that such products will help doctors detect the spread of the tumor in the early stages. As stated in the work published in the journal Nature, most of the patients suffering from diseases such as ...

For the first time in 12 years, American doctors are faced with a case of death of a patient from measles, Interfax reports. The cause of death of the American woman was pneumonia, which was provoked by measles. The doctors were unable to diagnose the disease immediately, since the woman did not show typical signs of measles. The virus was discovered ...