Roughly one in five adults in northern Europe is believed to suffer from contact allergy to one or more chemicals. The most common is nickel allergy, but many…
Hollow gold nanospheres equipped with a targeting peptide find melanoma cells, penetrate them deeply, and then cook the tumor when bathed with near-infrared…
When a first hip replacement fails, patients may be concerned that their options for a durable hip replacement are limited and that the prognosis is poor….
Where did the problem start? Can it be contained? Is the sickness likely to spread?Iowa State University researchers have developed a technique for testing for…
Human adenovirus type-3 is known as the “uncommon cold” because the infection’s symptoms—runny nose, sore throat, cough and fever—are eerily similar to those…
That's the finding of a University of Delaware study published in the February issue of Arthritis Care & Research. The authors include Lynn Snyder-Mackler,…
“And here is the pollen forecast for tomorrow: Low levels of alder and hazel…” – we are all familiar with such reports from the radio and the television, but…
Aphasia affects the ability to understand and use spoken language, and the ability to read and write.Persons with aphasia were trained in the use of…
A simple test to swallow three ounces of water can help determine whether a child has the swallowing disorder oropharyngeal dysphagia, establishing for the…
While chronic inflammation is widely believed to be a predisposing factor for colon cancer, the exact mechanisms linking these conditions have remained…
They believe the finding could have implications for conditions such as stroke, heart attack and cancer. Sensitivity to low oxygen helps determine how damaging…
But the same new research that infers this also suggests that the use of commonly prescribed blood pressure medicines might slow the development of those…
The technique, which is based on the density of cells seen on a microscope slide, may eventually lead to better ways for surgeons to determine if they have…
Published online in Human Reproduction, Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal, the study found that women who had higher levels of perfluorooctanoate…
Described in the February issue of the journal Human Gene Therapy the findings stem from a study of two patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis conducted in…
This is in short the Custom-Fit idea: geometrical characteristics are captured using 3D scans, then these data are used to adapt product shape with specialized…
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