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Patterned hearts
May 02, 2013 (SPX)
A team of bioengineers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is the first to report creating artificial heart tissue that closely mimics the functions of natura...
Zinc: The Perfect Material for Bioabsorbable Stents?
May 02, 2013 (SPX)
In 2012, more than 3 million people had stents inserted in their coronary arteries. These tiny mesh tubes prop open blood vessels healing from procedures like a...
Rising alcohol levels give wine lovers a headache
May 02, 2013 (AFP)
Do those New World Cabernets and Zinfandels make your head spin? Fed up with having to stop drinking after just one glass? Plenty of wine lovers around the worl...
Canada, Uganda test drug to treat brain disease
May 01, 2013 (AFP)
Canada is funding testing in Uganda of a popular off-patent antidepressant drug to fight a fungal brain disease that claims more than half a million lives in su...
Physicists, biologists unite to expose how cancer spreads
Apr 30, 2013 (SPX)
Cancer cells that can break out of a tumor and invade other organs are more aggressive and nimble than nonmalignant cells, according to a new multi-institutiona...
Strip China surgeon of Australian award, academics say
Apr 30, 2013 (AFP)
Australian academics are calling for a Chinese surgeon accused of harvesting organs from prisoners to be stripped of a University of Sydney honorary professorsh...
Hong Kong prescribes new dose of old Chinese medicine
Apr 30, 2013 (AFP)
The young woman pours a pack of brown powder into a glass of hot water, stirs it well and drinks the murky mixture down, hoping the traditional Chinese medicine...
Jawbone buys gadget maker for 'Biggest Loser'
Apr 30, 2013 (AFP)
Fitness wristband maker Jawbone added muscle to its lineup of fitness lifestyle devices Tuesday with a deal to buy the company behind armbands that measure how ...
Johns Hopkins Team Deploys Hundreds of Tiny Untethered Surgical Tools in First Animal Biopsies
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
By using swarms of untethered grippers, each as small as a speck of dust, Johns Hopkins engineers and physicians say they have devised a new way to perform biop...
Latin America threatened with cancer epidemic
Apr 25, 2013 (AFP)
Latin America faces a cancer epidemic, scientists warned Friday as they pressed for urgent action to reduce tobacco use and obesity and allocate more resources ...
US to test handheld scanner for fake malaria drugs
Apr 24, 2013 (AFP)
US regulators announced a plan Wednesday to test a handheld device that can scan drugs and report within seconds whether they are real or fake, in a bid to help...
Quest for Edible Malarial Vaccine Leads to Other Potential Medical Uses for Algae
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
Can scientists rid malaria from the Third World by simply feeding algae genetically engineered with a vaccine? That's the question biologists at UC San Diego so...
20 dead from China bird flu: state media
Apr 21, 2013 (AFP)
The death toll from a new strain of bird flu in China has reached 20, with dozens infected, state media reported Sunday, as experts said there was no evidence s...
Can New Plasma-Based Biomaterials Speed Healing of Injured Tissues?
Apr 18, 2013 (SPX)
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) derived from blood contains growth factors and other bioactive molecules that promote healing at sites of tissue injury. However, it ...
Nanosponges soak up toxins released by bacterial infections and venom
Apr 18, 2013 (SPX)
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a "nanosponge" capable of safely removing a broad class of dangerous toxins from the bloodstr...
Bed of needles
Apr 18, 2013 (SPX)
A parasitic worm may hold the answer to keeping skin grafts firmly in place over wounds, according to a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Can computer-based decision support control health care costs?
Apr 17, 2013 (SPX)
William M. Tierney, M.D. focuses on the potential of electronic medical systems and computer-based decision support to control healthcare costs in "Controlling ...
Energy efficiency could increase infection risks in hospital wards
Apr 17, 2013 (SPX)
The chance of infection in some hospital wards varies dramatically according to whether the nurses leave the windows open. A University of Leeds-led team studie...
Tiny injectable LEDs help neuroscientists study the brain
Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)
A new class of tiny, injectable LEDs is illuminating the deep mysteries of the brain. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washingt...
Neutrons help explain ozone poisoning and links to thousands of premature deaths each year
Apr 15, 2013 (SPX)
A research team from Birkbeck, University of London, Royal Holloway University and Uppsala University in Sweden, have helped explain how ozone causes severe res...
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