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News | Archive (19 April 2008) [Page 3]
UVA Health System part of armed forces multi-million dollar effort to help soldiers
— 20:10 GMT | HealthA procedure currently performed all over the world for cosmetic purposes might also improve wound healing and limb function for soldiers who are severely hurt and scarred during combat. Dr Adam Katz, plastic surgeon and researcher at the University of Virginia Health System, will conduct research in this area under the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine…
Research finds no link between malpractice insurance premiums, tort reform and OB/GYN supply
— 20:09 GMT | HealthConventional wisdom within the medical community suggests that dramatic increases in malpractice premiums cause physicians to relocate or discontinue their practices in high-cost states…
Three patients receive heart valve replacements without surgery
— 20:08 GMT | HealthInterventional cardiologists at Rush University Medical Centre now offer a minimally-invasive transcatheter valve replacement procedure for patients with congenital heart disease that doesn't involve open heart surgery…
Scientists look at cannabinoids, genes, brain scans to find better anxiety treatments
— 20:07 GMT | HealthRight now, about half of all people who take medicine for an anxiety disorder don't get much help from it. And doctors have no definitive way to predict who will, and who won't, benefit from each anti-anxiety prescription they write…
Aerodynamic truck trailer cuts fuel and emissions by up to 15%
— 18:35 GMT | TechnologyCreating an improved aerodynamic shape for truck trailers by mounting sideskirts can lead to a cut in fuel consumption and emissions of up to as much as 15%. Earlier promising predictions, based on mathematical models and wind tunnel tests by TU Delft, have been confirmed during road tests with an adapted trailer…
Researchers deconstruct process of bacterial division
— 18:32 GMT | BiologyDuke University researchers have made a major advance in understanding how bacteria divide. This could lead to new antibiotic treatments that prevent dangerous bacteria from multiplying…
Semipalatinsk offers insights for today's nuclear monitoring
— 18:29 GMT | EnvironmentNewly published data from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, the Soviet Union's primary nuclear weapons testing ground during the Cold War, can help today's atomic detectives fine-tune their monitoring of nuclear explosions around the world, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America…
Will screening for aortic aneurysm be effective?
— 18:26 GMT | HealthPilot screening programmes for abdominal aortic aneurysms in men aged 65 are due to be launched in England this year, but is this move too hasty? Two experts debate the issue in this week's BMJ…
Cetelem signs a 2.8 million technology services agreement with IBM
— 18:24 GMT | TechnologyCetelem, a subsidiary of BNP-Paribas, has invested US$ 2.8 million in information technology (IT) services with IBM (NYSE: IBM). Cetelem provides family-focused, consumer financial services to more than a quarter of a million Argentine clients…
Female mice can identify inbred males by their scent
— 18:21 GMT | BiologyScientists at the University of Liverpool have found that female mice avoid mating with inbred males by 'sensing' the diversity of a protein type in their urine…
Unprecedented 16-year long study tracks stars orbiting Milky Way black hole
New hybrid nanostructures detect nanoscale magnetism