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A safer route to ultrasonic therapy
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
Ultrasonic therapy often uses targeted ultrasound waves to create cavitation bubbles - tiny balloons of rapidly oscillating air pockets that stretch nearby cell...
In China's e-commerce boom, it takes a village
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
China's November 11 orgy of e-shopping strikes Saturday, with hundreds of millions of consumers expected to seize on promotional discounts to place up to a bill...
A third of adults in China suffer high blood pressure: study
Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)
Strokes are the leading cause of death in China, accounting for one in five deaths annually, researchers said, with uncontrolled high blood pressure a significa...
Speeding up cancer screening
Oct 24, 2017 (ESA)
"By applying online connectivity to mobile scanning units we have the potential to radically overhaul mobile breast screening in the UK," notes Viv Barrett of D...
Across Asia, liver cancer is linked to herbal remedies: study
Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)
The findings suggest stronger measures are needed to prevent people from consuming chemicals called aristolochic acids (AA), which are derived from the woody vi...
Light-activated nanoparticles can supercharge current antibiotics
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
Multi-drug resistant pathogens, which evolve their defenses faster than new antibiotic treatments can be developed to treat them, cost the United States an esti...
Going under the knife in China's plastic surgery stampede
Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)
Plastic surgery is booming in China, fuelled by rising incomes, growing Western influences, and the imperative of looking good on social media. Some parents are...
Fire ant venom could be used for skin treatments
Sep 11, 2017 (UPI)
Psoriasis is an autoimmune skin disease that is treated with topical sterioids that can cause skin thinning and bruising. Researchers used mouse models of psori...
Honey bees could help scientists create new antibiotics
Sep 07, 2017 (UPI)
Health officials are desperate for new antibiotics as dangerous bacterial strains strengthen their resistance against long-used drugs. Every year in the United ...
Lizard venom could yield blood clot treatment breakthrough
Aug 08, 2017 (UPI)
New research suggests lizard venoms could serve as an untapped source of medicinal compounds. Specifically, scientists at the University of Queensland believe l...
The story of how a worm turned... into a bringer of medical miracles
Jul 31, 2017 (AFP)
But the invertebrates' unappreciated status is about to change. Their blood, say French researchers, has an extraordinary ability to load up with life-giving ox...
On-chip pumps achieve high-speed sorting of large cells
Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)
However, this technique is concerned about sample infections due to aerosols generation. Additionally, a FACS of larger cells requires the samples to be process...
Building the Safe Genes Toolkit
Jul 20, 2017 (SPX)
Today, DARPA announced awards to seven teams that will pursue that mission, led by: The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Harvard Medical School; Massachusett...
China invites foreign cancer experts to treat Liu Xiaobo
Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)
The legal bureau of Shenyang -- the northeastern city where Liu is being treated -- said in a statement Wednesday the invitation was made "at the request" of Li...
EU edges toward agreed policy on hormone disrupting chemicals
Jul 04, 2017 (AFP)
Member states approved a European Commission list of criteria to help identify what are known as endocrine disruptors in products used to protect farm animals a...
Veterans Receive DARPA's LUKE Arm
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
The prosthetic "LUKE" arm system-which stands for "Life Under Kinetic Evolution" but is also a passing reference to Luke Skywalker of Star Wars fame, who was en...
China facing largest diabetes epidemic in the world: study
Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)
The survey, which included 170,287 participants and was conducted in 2013, was analyzed with the assistance of Linhong Wang from the Chinese Center for Disease ...
Ancient prosthesis: Scientists are studying a 3,000-year-old wooden big toe
Jun 21, 2017 (UPI)
The prosthesis is of ancient Egyptian origin. It was recovered from a female burial excavated from the necropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, situated near Luxor on...
China probes academic fraud by cancer researchers
Jun 15, 2017 (AFP)
German publisher Springer announced in April the retraction of 107 articles from Tumor Biology after finding evidence the "peer review process was compromised"....
Texas team debuts battery-less pacemaker
Jun 07, 2017 (SPX)
The pacemaker designed by the Rice lab of electrical and computer engineering professor Aydin Babakhani harvests energy wirelessly from radio frequency radiatio...
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