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Sandy as bad as 9/11 for New York hospitals: doctor
Oct 31, 2012 (AFP)
With power outages and emergency evacuations of seriously ill patients in hurricane-strength winds, New York hospitals faced their biggest challenge this week s...
UN pinpoints climate-linked health risks
Oct 29, 2012 (AFP)
Two UN agencies on Monday presented a new tool to map health risks linked to climate change and extreme weather conditions, enabling authorities to give advance...
Next-generation vaccines - eliminating the use of needles
Oct 29, 2012 (SPX)
Lead scientist Professor Simon Cutting, from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, has developed the jabs through the use of probiotic spores. He...
Chinese city to ban plastic surgery for minors
Oct 24, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese city is set to ban minors from having cosmetic surgery under draft rules aimed at tackling the country's growing obsession with going under the knife,...
Japan hopes medical tourists immune to China row
Oct 23, 2012 (AFP)
As relations between Tokyo and Beijing appear increasingly in need of major surgery, officials in the far north of Japan are hoping the infant industry of medic...
Cell Mechanism Findings Could One Day be Used to Engineer Organs
Oct 22, 2012 (SPX)
Biologists have teamed up with mechanical engineers from the The University of Texas at Dallas to conduct cell research that provides information that may one d...
Sanctions affecting 6 million patients in Iran: report
Oct 21, 2012 (AFP)
Some six million patients in Iran are affected by Western economic sanctions as import of medicine is becoming increasingly difficult, a governmental paper repo...
The Future of Cancer Treatment: First-of-its-kind Self-Assembled Nanoparticle for Targeted and Triggered Thermo-Chemotherapy
Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)
Excitement around the potential for targeted nanoparticles (NPs) that can be controlled by stimulus outside of the body for cancer therapy has been growing over...
Cold viruses point the way to new cancer therapies
Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)
Cold viruses generally get a bad rap - which they've certainly earned - but new findings by a team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies su...
India fights to protect its traditional home remedies
Oct 14, 2012 (AFP)
For centuries, Indian housewives have used homemade remedies based on cow's milk to cure constipation -- but in 2009 Swiss giant Nestle applied for a patent to ...
Advanced computer simulator to manage hospital emergencies
Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers of the group High Performance Computing for Efficient Applications and Simulation (HPC4EAS) of the Department of Computer Architecture and Operating...
Filming bacterial life in multicolor as a new diagnostic and antibiotic discovery tool
Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of scientists led by Indiana University chemist Michael S. VanNieuwenhze and biologist Yves Brun has discovered a revolutionary new method...
Thailand to hold long-awaited 3G auction next week
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
After years of delays, Thailand's top three mobile telephone operators will bid next week for licences to provide third-generation (3G) services in the kingdom,...
China warns of 'prejudice' in US telecom report
Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)
Beijing on Monday urged Washington to "set aside prejudices" after a draft Congressional report said Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE were security threats ...
Egyptian toe tests show they're likely to be the world's oldest prosthetics
Oct 05, 2012 (SPX)
The results of scientific tests using replicas of two ancient Egyptian artificial toes, including one that was found on the foot of a mummy, suggest that they'r...
'Tricorder'-like medical device described
Oct 03, 2012 (UPI)
Technology using acoustic waves to sort cells on a chip may create miniature medical analytic devices like Star Trek's tricorder, researchers at Penn State say....
Engineering a better hip implant
Sep 20, 2012 (SPX)
University of Iowa researchers have determined that thigh size in obese people is a reason their hip implants are more likely to fail. In a study, the team simu...
Body heat, fermentation drive new drug-delivery 'micropump'
Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have created a new type of miniature pump activated by body heat that could be used in drug-delivery patches powered by fermentation. The micropump ...
ORNL's newly licensed neutron detector will advance human disease research
Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)
A neutron detector developed for studies focused on life science, drug discovery and materials technology has been licensed by PartTec Ltd. The Indiana-based ma...
Alberta medical scientists first in the world to look at structure of vital molecule
Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)
Molybdenum is an essential metal required in all living beings from bacteria to plants to humans. But as vital as this metal is, no one understood the importanc...
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