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![]() West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 07, 2011 Surgeons of the future might use a system that recognizes hand gestures as commands to control a robotic scrub nurse or tell a computer to display medical images of the patient during an operation. Both the hand-gesture recognition and robotic nurse innovations might help to reduce the length of surgeries and the potential for infection, said Juan Pablo Wachs, an assistant professor of industrial engineering at Purdue University. The "vision-based hand gesture recognition" technology could h ... read more |
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![]() Myanmar set for ex-general as president The next Myanmar president looks set to be another general after the new Parliament elected two former military men as vice presidents. ... more | .. |
![]() 'Tsunami' of obesity worldwide: study A "tsunami of obesity" is unfurling across the world, resulting in a near-doubling of the numbers of dangerously overweight adults since 1980, doctors warned on Friday. ... more | .. |
![]() Spanish doctors unveil promising AIDS vaccine Spanish researchers announced Tuesday they have developed an AIDS vaccine which cuts the viral load by a significant amount in most patients although they cautioned it is still not enough as a treatment. ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Study Finds Common Ground For Ecosystems And Fishing In Northwest Mexico Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have completed a new study on the geography of commercial fisheries in Northwest Mexico and the results could have far-ranging impl ... more | .. |
![]() Southeast Asia facing new 'health crisis' Southeast Asia's 600 million people are facing a raft of new health challenges as the disaster-prone region undergoes some of the world's fastest social change, medical papers published Tuesday said. ... more | .. |
![]() Areva to begin US trial of cancer-fighting isotope A subsidiary of the French nuclear giant Areva said Monday it had received US clearance to begin a clinical trial of an isotope that targets cancer cells. ... more | .. |
![]() ISS Resupply From Four Corners Of Globe A quick succession of international space supply trucks will arrive on the International Space Station's loading docks early in 2011, dropping off more than 11 tons (10,000 kilograms) of food, compu ... more |
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![]() Space crew to simulate Mars walk next month Three men will simulate walking on Mars next month as part of a project that has seen a multinational crew locked up inside a mock Moscow spaceship since June, the head of the project said Friday. ... more | .. |
![]() Two critical with swine flu in Hong Kong Two people were in critical condition in a Hong Kong hospital suffering from swine flu, health officials said Friday, a year and a half after an outbreak killed more than 80 people in the city. ... more | .. |
![]() World Bank aims grant at Haiti's cholera epidemic The World Bank's board of directors on Tuesday approved a $15 million grant to help Haiti fight the cholera epidemic ravaging the impoverished country, the development lender said. ... more | .. |
![]() Steve Jobs surrenders reins as Apple thrives Legendary Apple Inc. chief Steve Jobs stepped aside on a high note as the company he saved from ruin raked in a blockbuster $6-billion profit amid unrelenting demand for iPhones and iPads. ... more |
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![]() Apple's Asian partners and rivals eye Jobs' health As Apple's legendary boss Steve Jobs goes on another medical leave of absence, analysts say his company's myriad Asian partners could suffer - but rivals such as Samsung and Sony might cash in. ... more | .. |
![]() Discovery Mission Specialist Injured But OK STS-133 Mission Specialist Tim Kopra was injured Saturday in a bicycle accident, but he will be OK. However, there could be an impact to his duties for shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission to the Int ... more | .. |
![]() Lake Erie Hypoxic Zone Doesn't Affect All Fish The Same Large hypoxic zones low in oxygen long have been thought to have negative influences on aquatic life, but a Purdue University study shows that while these so-called dead zones have an adverse affect ... more | .. |
![]() Robotic Surgery Of 'Tremendous Benefit' To Patients Robot-assisted surgery dramatically improves outcomes in patients with uterine, endometrial, and cervical cancer, said researchers at the Jewish General Hospital's Lady Davis Institute for Medical R ... more |
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![]() Hundreds hospitalised in Vietnam cold snap Hundreds of children and old people have been hospitalised and thousands of animals killed in a cold snap in north Vietnam, media and officials said Thursday, as temperatures fell to 36-year lows. ... more | .. |
![]() Liquid Pistons Could Drive New Advances In Camera Lenses And Drug Delivery A few unassuming drops of liquid locked in a very precise game of "follow the leader" could one day be found in mobile phone cameras, medical imaging equipment, implantable drug delivery devices, an ... more | .. |
![]() Disease threat for Sri Lanka flood victims The threat of disease loomed Saturday over the million-plus victims of floods in Sri Lanka that have left more than 30 people dead and devastated farmland in the island's rice bowl. ... more | .. |
![]() Disease threat for Sri Lanka flood victims The threat of disease loomed Saturday over the million-plus victims of floods in Sri Lanka that have left nearly 40 people dead and devastated farmland in the island's rice bowl. ... more |
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![]() Canon to spend $12bn on acquisitions by 2015 Canon plans to spend up to one trillion yen ($12 billion) by 2015 on mergers and acquisitions to expand in the areas of medical equipment and robotics, according to an interview published Tuesday. ... more | .. |
![]() More Balkan swine flu deaths recorded Five people have died of swine flu in Croatia and neighbouring Bosnia this season, while hundreds have contracted the virus, the authorities in both countries said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
![]() Time for aid groups to 'step aside' in Haiti: MSF A French-based medical charity said Monday it was time for aid agencies to "step aside" in Haiti to allow the government to take a lead in rebuilding the impoverished nation rocked by a deadly earthquake a year ago. ... more | .. |
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