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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Medical Procedure News Each year thousands of patients undergo total hip replacement surgery in order to help alleviate pain associated with debilitating hip disease and other related hip problems. |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Devices/Technology Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in hopes of earning a better grade. |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and at UC-San Francisco have succeeded in isolating stem cells from human testes. |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News Australian researchers say the days of the Dengue spreading mozzie could be numbered and the news could not have come at a better time. |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News Another outbreak of deadly bird flu in India has put health authorities on high alert following the deaths of thousands of chickens.This newest affirmed outbreak of the H5N1 virus is the fourth to happen in the eastern West Bengal state in the past year. |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News While health authorities continue to battle to contain an outbreak of Dengue fever in Cairns in north Queensland, further down the coast an outbreak has now been reported in Townsville. |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News Scientists in Beijing say they have discovered a genetic cause for a certain type of premature baldness and they suggest their discovery offers hope in future that those who inherit this infrequent type of baldness will eventually be able to keep their hair. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News Neurologists have observed for decades that Lewy bodies, clumps of aggregated proteins inside cells, appear in the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Healthcare News Everybody is familiar with the stereotypes of medical education from the student perspective: grueling hours, small recognition, and even less glory. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Medical Procedure News Each year thousands of patients undergo total hip replacement surgery in order to help alleviate pain associated with debilitating hip disease and other related hip problems. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News Gluten sensitive enteropathy (GSE) is an autoimmune enteropathy thanks to food gluten intolerance in genetically predisposed people. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News Campylobacters are little Gram-negative spiral rods. Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni), a foodborne organism contracted from untreated water, milk and meat, specially chicken, is one of the most significant causes of bacterial diarrhea worldwide. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News Pre-operative screening of patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may be an effective way to decrease infection rates following otolaryngic surgeries, according to new research published in the January 2009 issue of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck... |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News Administering antibiotics as a preventive measure to patients in intensive care units (ICUs) increases their chances of survival.This has emerged from a study involving almost sixthousand Dutch patients in thirteen hospitals. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News A new study shows that people who are smokers and have a family history of brain aneurysm appear to be significantly more likely to suffer a stroke from a brain aneurysm themselves. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News The secrets of why the 1918 flu pandemic was such a deadly one have been revealed by team of Japanese and American scientists. The team discovered that the reason it was so deadly was since a group of 3 genes allows the virus to invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News As doctors and hospitals in the UK struggle to deal with a flu epidemic, Brits are being warned that the present outbreak is expected to increase in the new year as the potentially fatal Australian strain of influenza spreads across the country. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News According to scientists risk takers and drug abusers behave the way they do thanks to their brains are less able to process dopamine. The scientists from Vanderbilt University say that risk-takers and impetuous people, who make New Year's resolutions face an uphill battle. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News Across the world New Year's Eve revellers are being urged to drink responsibly in bringing in 2009. Ambulance and police officers and clubs and pubs are reminding party-goers to look after themselves tonight as New Year's Eve festivities start. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News The death of a British man waiting to be seen in a public hospital accident and emergency department has sparked an inquest into the way he was treated. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Moderate drinkers frequently have lower risks of Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive loss, according to researchers who reviewed 44 studies. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine recommends at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most days of the week in order to maintain and enhance optimal health. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) marked the destruction of all VX nerve agent munitions at its destruction sites on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News A new study examining the aftereffects of a chlorine gas disaster in a South Carolina town gives larger metropolitan areas meaningful insight into what to expect and how to prepare emergency response systems for an accidental or terrorist release of the potentially deadly gas. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Medical Science News Agricultural crop production relies on composted waste materials and byproducts, like animal manure, municipal solid waste composts, and sewage sludge, as a essential nutrient source. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News By mixing and matching a new flu virus with the "Spanish flu" - a virus that killed between 20 and 50 million people 90 years ago in history's most devastating outbreak of infectious disease - researchers have identified a set of 3 genes that helped underpin the extraordinary... |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News Ipsen has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Complete Response Letter for its Biologics License Application (BLA) for its Botulinum toxin Type A, Dysport. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Shredded extracellular matrix (ECM) is toxic to neurons. Chen et al. disclose a new mechanism for how ECM demolition causes brain damage. The study will appear in the December 29, 2008 issue of The Journal of Cell Biology (www. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Chronic gastrointestinal symptoms are very prevalent in different geographic populations and cause different gastrointestinal symptoms that much inconvenience the lives of those affected. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Joyful or sad smiles expressed after a competition are the same for blind and sighted athletes, says a new study, showing that certain facial expressions are inborn and managed differently depending on the social situation. |
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